towerful

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[–] towerful 2 points 3 months ago

I find it super convenient.
Also, it doesn't have a limit. Pretty sure I bought my last car with contactless on my phone, but that was years ago.

[–] towerful 5 points 3 months ago

I also carry a wallet? Cause, yknow, ID and stuff.

Phone is just way more convenient. Especially since I don't have a limit on its contactless amount. Whereas with my card, I would have to chip&pin for anything over £40

[–] towerful 35 points 3 months ago (34 children)

The only reason I stopped using grapheneOS was because Google contactless payment didn't work.
Loved everything else about graphene tho

[–] towerful 4 points 3 months ago

Just graft some skin from her ass over the top.
Better to not be able to sit down and to look like Frankensteins monster than walk around with that tattoo

[–] towerful 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought T568B at each end was standard practice these days

[–] towerful 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We tried that. It's called Australia. They are a sovereign state now, and I'm pretty sure they are cooler than us.
So...

[–] towerful 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've played it fine on steam proton on arch

[–] towerful 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gotta research dividends!

Edit:
Maybe Boeing made a simple mistake and invested in Relaxation & Dividends, instead of Research & Development.

[–] towerful 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure cargo dragon is just a stripped down crew dragon to make more space for cargo.
Or maybe, crew dragon is a cargo dragon fitted for passengers... Seeing as cargo dragon flew with cargo and docked to the ISS in 2012 (crew dragon was 2020).

Pretty sure crew dragon has all the auto/remote to fully launch and then dock to the ISS.
Cargo dragon is auto/remote docked. Doesn't even need canadarm. So would make sense that crew dragon is as well

[–] towerful 3 points 3 months ago

Intervenous Farts.

But seriously, In Vitro Fertilization.

From Google:

In vitro fertilisation is one of several techniques available to help people with fertility problems have a baby. During IVF, an egg is removed from the woman's ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. The fertilised egg, called an embryo, is then returned to the woman's womb to grow and develop.

[–] towerful 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

"I cast remove curse." The DM dumps 6 pages of story on the floor and looks sad.

Edit: wait, this is instantaneous?
So like in a fight the BBEG sword is nasty, likely cursed. Cast Remove Curse on the sword. It removes the attunement to the sword. BBEG has a not-so-good weapon now, and likely loses some cool mechanics. Is that right?

[–] towerful 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Older games for specific older console hardware were specifically designed.
It leveraged specific features of that hardware.
They literally hacked the consoles they were releasing on to get their desired results.
And because it's consumer gaming hardware/software neither backwards compatible nor forward compatibility for all the stuff the pulled were ever built in. So a game would have to target multiple platforms to actually release on multiple platforms .
It's like why so many games don't run Mac OSX. "Why don't they just release windows software for free on Mac OSX?". Because it needs to be redesigned to work on OSX, which costs money.

Everything up to, what, PS4? is probably specifically tailored to that specific hardware. Games that released on PS3 and xbox-whatever would have some core software dev team, then hardware specific developers. It would be targeted for the target hardware.
At some point, things like Unity and Unreal Engine took over, with generic code and targeted compiling. Pretty much (not quite) allowing developers to "just hit compile", and release to multiple architectures.

Any official re-release of Nintendo games have generally been on an emulated system. Where they have developed that emulation to work with the original software.
There are some re-releases, where the game has essentially been rebuilt from the ground up, using original assets but to work with modern (and flexible) game engines.
Both of these have a lot of work, so not free. Worth $60 or whatever Nintendo charges? Meh, that's competing with real games.

If you own (or buy) a nes/snes/N64 cart, you can rip it. There are plenty of ways.
It's not the source, but it's what it compiles to. And you can reverse engineer the source, then adapt it to modern game engines. There are a few open source projects that do this. Their quality varies.
Or you can build an emulator to run that software, as if it was the original hardware - an emulator.
Nintendo can skip the rip, decompile and reverse engineering steps. They likely have access to the source code, and the actual design specs for the hardware (not just what they tell developers - who then hack the hardware anyway) All of this requires a LOT of work. So a sellable product from someone like Nintendo requires a lot of investment.

Emulators are good. Any used for speedrun leaderboards on equal footing to actual hardware (ie times are similar, even if they are different categories) will be good enough that you wouldn't know.

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