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[methylatedspirit]

If VLC doesn't play it, is it even real media?

Hell yeah, MQA isn't real media! It's not fully decodable by VLC, so it won't qualify. The FFmpeg people are trying to reverse-engineer it, so it might become real media some day.

It only takes one project to reverse-engineer it, and the whole game just falls apart after that. Only a matter of time. Such is the folly of DRM and proprietary formats.

[methylatedspirit]

In tech, the thing you normally put on the front of the box it comes in is either the product itself or the name of the product.

If something has anything other than that, assume it's terrible. It's so terrible they couldn't bear to look at it or its name. If the front of the box shows someone attractive using it, it's even more crap. In that case, it's so bad, they had to distract you with a pretty lady to convince you to buy it.

[Bumber]

Our tongues resemble sea slugs.

[ArchimedesWojak]

To the window, To the wall

To the sweat drop down my balls

All you bitches crawl

To all skee skee motherfucker

All skee skee goddamn

[methylatedspirit]

Here's a thing I plotted. This is the transfer curve of the primitive compander I spoke of months ago, that only now I've gotten around to actually plotting.



I'm surprised it doesn't look like total nonsense, considering I had a headache trying to parse the documentation for this effect back then. I didn't even know what the hell I was doing.

[MrRoboto75]

Cthulu smokes 1d6 packs per round.

[dragdeler]

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[Frumple]

I'm not gon' lie, I've started to wonder if that's actually turning into some kind of mating ritual or other sort of social interaction. It'd explain a lot if some bird species are turning roadkill olympics into some sort of bird sport.

[dragdeler]

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[EuchreJack]

Sounds like a lot of humans I know...

[methylatedspirit]

I had a bit of an odd experience when I was walking when I put my head at around a 45° angle downwards, I swear the world around me just became a Mode 7 thing for a brief moment. Like, you have the pivot centered on my head, and the world rotates 'round my head as I turn.

I now posit that because I suck at processing motion, the existing motion processors operate in 2 modes when I'm moving. There's top-down mode, where I just process what I'm seeing as a scrolling top-down thing (which happens when I look down), and then there 'Mode 7' mode (enabled when looking straight), where I decide what parts of my vision are "floor", and I just rotate that image of the floor around a vertical axis centered on my center of rotation as I turn/look around. The parts that are "wall" are basically just painted onto the floor.

It's what I'd call, "an approximation". I can't process true 3D, so I have to settle on pseudo-3D with 2D movement space. Almost all spaces are designed with this in mind, so it works out. You don't walk on the walls, you walk up the stairs, and that's functionally identical to just walking normally, but now the map of where you can move changes. The Z-level changes, but you haven't pitched up/down (at least not to the point that you're horizontal to the ground!) or rolled left/right.

[TheSteppeWolf]

Thankfully I didn't hit any birds with my car yet, but:

1. While I was driving, some kids, were playing football (soccer) near the road on a lawn and they accidentally kicked the heavy leather ball they used into the windshield and it cracked into a spiderweb, got it fixed with insurance.

2. Driving to another town, huge butterfly hit windshield, had to pull over and peel it off.

[methylatedspirit]

Vanilla Markdown does not support centering of any kind. Images will not be centered, and cannot be centered without using HTML + CSS tags. My way of getting around this is by making images so wide that the only choice the Markdown parser has is to center it by downscaling, no HTML needed.

[TamerVirus]

Jeff Bezos is launching himself into space
I wonder how much humanity would benefit if he stays there

[Kagus]

The movie Shrek, having been released twenty years ago, is legally old enough to feature in pornography.