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jonhohle

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jonhohle
·5 godzin temu·discuss
I’m pretty sure the PPV feature the back in 1992 said it was real, and if not that, one of the documentaries on the Laserdiscs or DVDs. Nearly everything, besides the T-1000 morphing was practical. They blew up the front face of a building, jumped a motorcycles (with rigging), jumped through candy glass, and much more.
jonhohle
·5 godzin temu·discuss
Believe it or not, there is 6 minutes of onscreen CGI in T2 and only 6 minutes of onscreen CGI in Jurassic Park. The 80s and 90s were magical with practical effects. So many things were difficult to imagine how they were pulled off.

In the last 20 years, everything’s just CGI. Movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Fall Guy are few and far between.
jonhohle
·przedwczoraj·discuss
I’ve wanted this for a long time and it seems to reemerge during RAM boom cycles and then disappear during busts.

I have 32GB of DDR3 that would be great for scratch space or cache of i could throw it on a card.
jonhohle
·4 dni temu·discuss
I was referring to the Microsoft acquisition. That’s Blizzard canceled a bunch of their esports work.

There’s definitely some Blizzard DNA in the characters and lore. I like to think it’s as close to what StarCraft Ghost could have even been.
jonhohle
·4 dni temu·discuss
As a Blizzard and Overwatch fan, the acquisition has not been ideal. Activision nearly ended competitive professional Overwatch and significantly scaled back their big esports events to look more profitable. Lately, they seem to be chasing Marvel Rivals for no good reason, but at least in the younger competitive leagues, Rivals is picking up steam and Overwatch no longer looks like a contender, despite being significantly more balanced competitive play.

It’s possible stadium sized esports wasn’t directly profitable or was break-even, but seems like it could have had the potential to catapult the idea into the mainstream when there are 7 figure prize pots, and the games are accurate to anyone with equipment.
jonhohle
·4 dni temu·discuss
But… there was a commercial port of Doom to the Jaguar.
jonhohle
·6 dni temu·discuss
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
I’m in violent agreement that not all information should be disclosed to all people.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
Can you buy a gun, a car, heroin? Why have restrictions on anything for anyone? Certainly everyone is a rational actor who chooses the best thing for society and would never take advantage of ignorant youth. Especially in a place like a library where they have unrestricted access to the ideals developing in a child’s mind. /sarc
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
No one is saying it’s one or the other. It’s both. There are certain children who need protection from bad parenting and certain parents that need protection for their neurodivergent children.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
One of my children reads, no joke, 150-200 books a year (not including graphic novels). Does that mean every book ever written is developmentally appropriate (or even ethically appropriate) for him? Of course not.

We’ve seen this play out dozens of times. School boards will say no book should be banned and then a parent tries to read a book from their child’s school library during open comment and their mic is shut off while the board shrieks in horror.

That’s OK! Children are not adults. They haven’t developed the executive function or mental guards to deal with all content. As adults we protect them from things. Information is no different.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
The idea that free access to all information should be available to all people is absolutism. I agree that’s daft.

At least I gave some options.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
In this case probably ignorant.

If you ever talked to a parents with children in elementary schools, you will quickly learn that nearly every one of them had been given an online porn, gambling, gaming, social media device by their school. This is not hypothetical.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
Tell me you don’t have children without telling me you don’t have children.

What happens when your child’s school or library doesn’t restrict the devices they give your child when outside of your home? What happens when predators infest children’s games and platforms you expected to be safe? What happens when your idea of safety doesn’t align with the platform holder?
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
I didn’t say anything about an age gate. I’m just pointing out the absurdity of saying all that all information should be absolutely accessible to all people. No one believes that in the absolute. If you do, please share your social security number, bank account information, PIN numbers, and mother’s maiden name.

By having a discussion about privacy we’re already saying some information _must_ be kept confidential.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
> Free access to information is non negotiable.

For adults.

There is information and images that are developmentally harmful to children. As the author says, this is no different from drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or gambling.

If you can’t understand that, you either don’t have children, have a screw loose, or are a child predator.
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
Years ago I did a podcast[0] on physical media and hypothesized UHD would be the last physical movie format (and was shocked that it was even a thing).

The next two years are probably going to be a mess as collectors snatch everything up annd inventory gets cleared out.

0 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cherry-bombs-the-under...
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
How do you purchase or download a game without a server or account?
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
10 years ago I was working on this problem at Amazon. We were developing methods to normalize all the crap listings and methods 3ᴿᴰ party sellers used to get unique listings when consolidating them was known to drive down prices, which was the original goal.

I had some interesting insights (vendors want to be unique, but need to keep products visible in search, so they typically use a common transformation within their own listings to satisfy both properties), but left before implementation rolled out. Based on current search results, either they failed or the project was abandoned.

I’m shocked at how some categories just contain junk from random brands with unpronounceable names. Want a music player by Sony or even RCA? Those brands have left that market completely for B2B products or are a licensed name on top of some garbage. Now you can get a Zaqe, Picxiul, Lwyinp, Globluum, or Swofy!
jonhohle
·10 dni temu·discuss
But then how could you skim off the top of other people’s work?