I have two.

A 1981 JVC 5" radio TV, and a Sylvania 27" from like, 1998 with a builtin VHS+DVD combo unit.

I think its just you, IMO.

Personally, I think this could lead to altered voting habits where people see a name and always up/down vote based on where that name appears in the last, instead of voting based on the actual content.

For example, if UserX appears in the top 10 most downvoted accounts, then a user might be inclined to automatically downvote every comment they see from UserX because “I always downvote this user.” But this could be bad if UserX makes a post that should be receiving upvotes based on the content (for example, a helpful answer to a question that leads to better discussion), because now it will be getting what I would call “artificial” downvotes.

I dont look at accounts when I up/down vote content. I just look at the content. I dont need an app or platform to track what accounts and how many times I up/down vote on their content because in the end it shouldn’t matter: I up/down vote based on the content whether it matches my opinion or not, not the account, and that leads to better comment spread and essentially self-moderation, where good and helpful content is at the top and useless content is at the bottom, it doesn’t matter who writes it.

Nintendo didn’t change anything, because JoyCon Drift isn’t real, remember?

Including Nintendo. Especially Nintendo.

Everything was direct download on Myrient. It was also pretty fast for a free site.

The only thing that could have happened really is the yoke could have become misaligned if the tape that holds it to the tube was not holding very well. The convergence rings have lockrings on them that usually wouldn’t be effected by a hit or drop, but if they were loose they could shift as well.

The potential damage could range from slightly misaligned colors (convergence) to geometry warping (caused by yoke misalignment). To fix either of these you would likely need to open the TV to service it manually, which you should do anyways to adjust the focus potentiometer and the H/V Width potentiometers to reduce overscan. Only do this if you are comfortable with line voltage and have insulated electricians tools + gloves, as the TV must be plugged in and on top make adjustments. If you arent comfortable or cant be safe, you will just have to live with whatever you cannot fix with the service manual alone.

Most likely, nothing really changed. Unless it was hard enough to crack the plastic shell, it probably didnt do much of anything to the internals, unless it had a built in VJS or DVD player, as those can be more sensitive to kinetic shock.

Its size in the show fluctuates. The city of Macross (including the large arena for the Miss Macross pageant) fitting in one leg doesn’t really fit with the size of the SDF-1 while it was on the actual island in episode 1, being only a few city blocks.

The Zentraedi ships also fluctuate in size. The SDF-1 is only considered a medium sized vessel, and some Zentraedi vessels are shown to be larger. Consider also the size of Zentraedi on board the SDF-1 compared to the size of humans on board the Zentraedi vessels. Essentially, they are as big or small as the plot dictated at that moment.

Than also consider that the SDF-1 was massively upsized from its tv show size in Macross: Do You Remember Love?.

Not 100% sure, but it looks like Mike Stoklasa who founded Red Letter Media.

EDIT: The other person is obviously George Lucas.

“Things”

As a lifelong Star Wars fan, 7 was decent. I walked away thinking it was really just a repeat of 4, but it was also Disney’s first try at it so I gave it a little slack. It was a little sloppy in some places and had problems, but not something so tragic.

Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars. It was his lifelong goal, he said it on video. He got what he wanted. 8 was so monumentally bad that I can’t even be mad at 9. Half of 8 didn’t even matter and could have been a deleted scene. It didn’t even leave any loose ends for 9 to wrap up.

Then 9 comes out and while it was bad, it was still better than 8. I have to give JJ Abrams credit, I dont know how he even managed to write a follow up to 8.

I think my biggest gripe is how Disney squandered the opportunity they had to have the original cast together on screen at the same time for one last celebratory film. Well that and their fundamental misunderstanding of Star Wars.

Thankfully with Kathleen gone, maybe Favreau can have more breathing room to invite George for his direct opinion more. Favreau isn’t great either, but at least he has done better than what Kathleen oversaw, more or less.

Well, the R36S can technically run Dreamcast. Some Dreamcast games. At like, 50% resolution scale and with some frameskip probably. I was able to get it to run Phantasy Star Online pretty decently. But other games were unplayable.

Depending on where you live, legally speaking if you sold the carts you would have to delete the ROMs as well.

Personally I would just hold onto them. Plausible deniability aside, its nice to have them if the digital backup ever gets lost or accidentally deleted or corrupted.

Should turn on VSYNC to fix that horrendous screen tearing

/s

The Republic was not always under the control of Sheev though. The Republic existed before Sheev, and it more or less tried to do what it claimed to do. Palpatine saw an opportunity to control the entire galaxy by making a pointless war, and maybe he wasnt the first to see it or try, but he was the first to be successful.

I mean… they’re not wrong. The Republic was corrupted by Palpatine. That was literally a major plot element of the prequels. History is written by the winners of war, not the losers, after all.

“We still talk about you…”

Japanese games primarily designed for use with NEC PC-88 and PC-98 computers that came on floppy disks had an even worse problem:

In order to save your game, you have to write to the floppy disk, usually wash disk needed to write somesort of data. Unfortunately, this means that the disk cannot be read-only protected. You probably see where this is going, but this sadly led to some players having uncompletable copies of games because they wrote to the wrong disk and accidentally ended up overwriting game data with save data.

Some games came with manuals that warned of this, and some games spent the cost of disk space to store actual in-game warning screens to try to prevent this.

EDIT: It has come to my attention that most people reading this probably don’t know this because they are too young, but these games that came on more than one floppy disk usually required you to insert at least 2 disks at the same time, one into both of the available drive slots. Then you would swap one or both out, depending on where in the game you were and if you needed to save or not. Each drive only appeared as a letter to save (usually A: and B:, which is why computer harddrives often start at C:, fun fact), and sometimes it didn’t prompt you to make sure after you selected one of the drive letters from the ingame menu that showed you nothing but the letter of the drive. So if you selected the wrong one, that sucks for you because they sometimes didn’t bother to check if there was already data on that disk or not before writing, which could cause data corruption, usually towards the end of the game.

There were a very small number of grey carts with 1.0 on them but most 1.0 carts at least in America are gold. Most grey carts are 1.2, but some have 1.1 as well. 1.1 is a general bugfixed version but also rare, while 1.2 is where all the censorship came in. Unfortunately for Europeans, all PAL versions are based on the censored 1.2 build. Due to this, grey carts are generally safe to assume are 1.2, because it is the most abundantly available build of the game, having been manufactured and sold the longest.

There are some reports of 1.1 having partial censorship as well, though these may be due to someone swapping the physical carts shell from a different version of the game.

I currently use an HP EliteDesk SFF (the middle size one) and use a DAC for DisplayPort to RCA.

DACs generally add less than 1 frame of lag. Youre thinking of scalers. If the adapter applies any sort of processing other than simply converting from digital to analog, then it adds more lag. But simply converting will usually have nearly imperceptible levels of lag. I can try to measure it when I use it next and see, but I can say that I don’t notice any “awful lag.” I am not a fighting game player, but timings in Shenmue for QTEs and Legend of Dragoon for combat don’t feel off or bad.

If you wanted, the EliteDesk Mini has a proprietary expansion slot in the rear for modular video output, and one of the available modules is VGA. VGA to RCA is just a cable adaption (analog to analog) and intoduces zero extra lag, so that could be an option if you for whatever reason feel like DAC conversion introduces too much lag.

Personally, I skip SSB64 entirely and go directly to the best Smash version on the GameCube. SSB64 on the N64 is fun, but it isn’t Melee.