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[methylatedspirit]

What is the least powerful hardware that has gotten a demo (in the demoscene sense) made for it? A very strong contender would be the ATtiny15, with only 1kB of flash, 32 bytes of RAM, and a clock speed of 1.6MHz which got Bit Banger (seizure warning, especially towards the end) by lft written for it. It's less powerful than an Atari 2600, for reference, and there's no helper chips for anything. It's doing every single thing manually.

If there's anything even less powerful than that that someone's managed to do audio and video on, I'd be surprised.

[methylatedspirit]

Double post, sorry.
I felt the need to create a visual to represent all (technically only the ones definable in terms of male and female) the genders because my sister was confused on the whole nonbinary genders thing when I explained to her that I'm NB now (she's fine with it, thankfully). So I came up with this thing:

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I'm quite proud of it. I wrote my first Python code just to make it. Heavy copy-pasting, yes, but it works. (Major props to the Coding thread. Their help was instrumental in even coming up with how to represent and manipulate the RGB values.)

I think it's fairly easy to understand. x-axis is male, y-axis is female, and each point in between is the sum of those axes at that point.

Then I wanted to place some points for reference. I put in the most common genders (or at least the ones that are well-defined), and I get this:

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*For Genderfluid, that line is one of many possible trajectories. Of course it's longer than that. I just can't draw a ludicrously-long curve and not have it take up the entire chart.

Is this correct? Of course, I'm not representing every gender possible with these points, but I'm hoping to hit at the major ones. Of the ones represented, have I made any errors? I'm hoping to show this to my sister, and I don't want her understanding to be wrong.

[delphonso]

Why do people mash elevator buttons?

[wierd]

Impulsive behavior

(rats do the same thing when they think there will be a reward)


Basically, the elevator door is not closing fast enough for their satisfaction, so they press it a bazillion times. (and or, the elevelator is not being summoned fast enough)

[Egan_BW]

Pressing buttons is fun.

[scriver]

Impulsive behavior

(rats do the same thing when they think there will be a reward)


Basically, the elevator door is not closing fast enough for their satisfaction, so they press it a bazillion times. (and or, the elevelator is not being summoned fast enough)

It's logical. The door takes X amount of time to close. The more you press the button, the more of X has passed and less time remains before the door closes. Therefore if you mash the button there is less time between the last press of the button and the closing, which means that the door closes faster.

[Arx]

I feel like this might be a bit of a big one, rather than a small random question.

Why did antiquity contain so many large, contiguous empires? The ones that come to mind are the Romans, Persians, Macedonian (And subsequent states), Maurya...

Obviously to an extent it's because it was a long time period so there was plenty of time, but I can't recall many empires of that size existing after that until Europe went all "Invade the world" and they weren't all that contiguous, and those empires tended to be more restricted to the Middle East (And China, but they've been doing this for millenia).

Newer balance patches made older strategies less oppressive and more factions gained access to them.

The basic condition for empire building is a large army that can actually project force. The reason most iconic empires are from the Mediterranean and middle eastern regions is that their climate is well suited to growing wheat/other cereals -- an energy-dense food source that allows a soldier to carry enough food to fight on with them, or in a baggage train. Rice fills the same role in Asia.

As the world became more stable post-antiquity it became more possible for more societies to sustain a similar high-energy foodstuff (relationship not necessarily in this order), which allowed for general development of culture as well as standing armies since you could feed more than one person per person, as it were. I'd guess that made it easier for smaller societies to glob together in a way that made them harder to roll over by sheer force.

That said, people just don't talk about a surprising number of empires. Like my personal favourite, the Axumite Empire which was a power on par with Rome in the classical era. But there are also things like the Carolingian Empire ~900AD, which controlled pretty much all of mainland Europe except Spain, to the Balkans. And the 1st French Empire which did the same thing but probably a bit bigger, and that was Napoleon. And if we try hard enough, we can probably call the USSR an empire as well

They're just not as exciting.

[TD1]

Carolingians also didn't get up into Denmark. Emmm, I think. They did get the Frisians tho.

[Arx]

No, you're right, I think Denmark is what I was thinking of when I said "pretty much". But most of my history from the kind of period is a few thousand kilometres further south, so I'm hardly an expert.

[scriver]

I don't want to fret on the Carolingian empire but you guys seem to forget that the majority of mainland Europe is in Eastern Europe.

Speaking of which, how's Russia for a late but pre-modern Empire? Fairly stable too.

[Arx]

I don't want to fret on the Carolingian empire but you guys seem to forget that the majority of mainland Europe is in Eastern Europe.

This is a fair point and I thought it ran further east than it actually did. Around the east of Greece is where I start mentally quibbling about "far west Asia", but it didn't get to Greece at all.

Russia confuses me because I always feel like it was geographically large but not populous, but I see looking at a map that it was pretty decent. Wikipedia actually has a list of empires at the bottom of every Empire page, it seems, which is handy.

[Naturegirl1999]

In what area would a communal Bay12 religion builder be in? Like if we collectively made up deities and origin stories and myths and such, but it takes place in this world?

[Eschar]

Question: what is this?

[Naturegirl1999]

IDK but Jake and Elizabeth sound like broken programs, maybe the presumed humans in the story are actually personifications of very broken code, hence why their conversations are often error results

[MrRoboto75]

In what area would a communal Bay12 religion builder be in? Like if we collectively made up deities and origin stories and myths and such, but it takes place in this world?

I guess "Creative Projects", since its essentially a shared fictional universe.