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I just created my own stream so I can see your status!

If anyone needs me I'll be in the bathroom,  creating my own stream.

If only we all could be as good at driving as Walter Rohrl. 

It is a weird sport.  It's like they TRIED to invent a racing sport that included a way to create controversy.  I think that every 4 years when the Olympics rolls around.

Congrats!

if you're having fun save states don't matter, if they ruin the fun, then they're a problem

Wait until you see the final stage. No rings lol. Metropolis Zone has some awesome music, though. You're making me want to play this game again! Drop dash on Switch Sonic 1 and 2 is amazing, by the way. After Mania, I keep forgetting that drop dash didn't exist aside from in the Sonic 3 beta before it got cut, and I am very glad that they put it in Sonic 1 and 2 on Switch.

Oh, so those chimes and flashing Sonics were extra continues? I had no idea. I first thought they were extra lives, and was rather confused when I didn’t end up with any. I shall try to acquire as much of them as possible on my next attempt, thanks for the tip. 

The 1up sound is a loud fanfare, the continue sound is a chime.

 

I've only gotten as far as the final boss, and then, only once.

You know how the game's physics engine works? If you don't, take a look into it, as the way it works is really cool. Sonic's gameplay, in Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3&K, and Mania, is extremely heavily reliant on the physics engine, which was something perhaps revolutionary at the time in a home console game. Sonic is defined by slopes, and these are the most important parts of the level design, as they are what affect your jump height to a massive degree. With enough speed, which you get from practice, and an upwards slope, you can jump insanely high and far. This is how you master Sonic. Speed is your reward for being good, not something that is or should be given to the player without earning it, and this is why the 2D games have a relatively high skill ceiling for platformers.

I played with it as well a while back.  Fun game, but the time it would take to really figure it out was just more than I have available.

 

Then I turned it into, "build the least spaceworthy ship possible and see how long your Kerbals last."  The goal isn't to necessarily have it just blow up, but to fail in novel ways and with as great a casualty count as possible.  Bonus points if it actually makes it into space for a time.

Building spaceplanes now. I’ve managed to reach orbit then drop back down, but I don’t have fuel to go any further. Plane is heavy enough as is. I have no idea how people build interplanetary planes. 
 

In response to your challenge, I built a satellite covered in an ungodly amount of small solid fuel boosters and put it in orbit. I made a rocket with a crew of about 10 kerbals and put it in orbit, making sure the two have intersecting orbits. I sped the game up until the two finally collided. It took way too much time and effort, but I think it’s a pretty spectacular way to kill a dozen kerbies. 

Happy Birthday SlidellMan!

Thank you very much, it means a lot. Oh, I happen to be around 6'3", so the GTA-R is rather cramped.

@SlidellMan: Happy birthday!

 

Seeing that makes me regret ever selling my 1973 GTV.

Super jealous. I miss having 4~6 feet of snow on the ground in October. It only snows like once every 2 years in Tokyo, sadly.

I wish it would snow here!  Almost nothing's really added up this year!  We could use it badly...

I feel you guys, having lived in Southern California for 2 1/2 years. Very nice to see actual snow piling up on the streets for once. 

Once when I hosted a retro gaming expo, we had a for-fun Tetris competition (SNES). Out of the blue arrived a professional Tetris player from Israel who happened to be in the country, to show off his skills.

 

Also I read last week about that AI which had broken Tetris on NES or something like that.

I’ve seen the YouTube video. Tetris froze at 700 something thousand points iirc. 
 

Never played SNES Tetris actually, I should try it; see if I’m any good at it. 

Looks like in Korea,  Every car is white.

@GoldLeader My car is white as well Johnny. I would blend easy with the rest. 

They really aren’t kidding when they say every car in Korea is black, gray, silver, or black. Apart from taxis, Hyundai N line cars, and the occasional person who actually cares, everyone just buys grayscale cars cause they’re worth more in the used market.  

I've been sick lately and I got a COVID test today too.  I guess I'll have  a few days off while I wait for results.

They send a text to everyone who got the test on the following morning at 8AM showing the results. If I’m lucky I might make it to school tomorrow. 

Tested negative, went to school. 

I get the feeling that before long CAPTCHAs will have become countereffective.

Yeah, there’s even a video on YouTube of a robot completing a CAPTCHA (which I assume is totally a setup anyways). 
 

I was getting a CAPTCHA whenever accessing Atariage, but it appears that it’s gone now. 

Hmmm.   Never got one here.

 

 

(They know I'm a robot.)

There was some talk a few years ago about adding them as consoles in MAME, but I don't believe that it ever really went anywhere.  From what I remember of the (relatively brief) discussion, obstacles included:

 

• Obtaining the units, which were mostly on lease to the airlines and maintained under contract by the manufacturer
• Some may have worked on a VDI / thin client model, so could be relatively hardware-intensive to emulate
• Software would have to be extracted from units that weren't taken back by the manufacturer, which would make it as difficult to find in the wild as the hardware
• Potential for whole-disk encryption, security keys / dongles, etc.

 

It wasn't so much that there was any opposition to the idea or that they were considered unreasonable to emulate, but that the practicalities of obtaining a working setup to reverse-engineer and emulate were very significant.

Semi-related: What I would really love is some emulator of those 3D non-textured driving simulators that driving schools have been using for decades. I googled like crazy, but I had no luck. I remember being hypnotized by those machines as a kid. Computerized visual tests are interesting too.

 

It's sad that some programs/games/books are lost forever. And let's not talk about songs created thousands of years ago, as we only have the instruments for those.

Most symptoms with the initial 2 shots of Pfizer are mild. No one I know had much of any symptoms on the 1st shot, and if they had symptoms on the 2nd shot it was only mild achy, headache, fatigue symptoms. Nothing lasted more than 12 to 24 hours.

I've had three shots of Moderna now, relatively mild symptoms for all three.  The second one was probably the worst on this front, but even then it wasn't terrible.

Here in Norway I got my (my age-groups) second vaccine 17th Sept. (older and more sickly got it earlier).

 

I didn’t really bother about concerns as to vaccine side-effects… but, you know… got this phobia to blood… blood-talk… and some associated parapharnelia…

 

And she asked… ‘Do you use blood-thinning midications…’

 

And … on and on…

 

Then the shot… with all the blood n’ needle phobia in my mind…

 

I almost blacked out + puked.

 

But got through it.

 

As for worries concerning the vaccine-content and possible side-effects …  just wasn’t there at all.

 

Hope we can get at those offshot-Covid-variants spreading.

 

Anyway… we - Humanity - should take some lesson as to what we directly or indirectly ‘import’ into our societies, into our crowds. It’s hardly a secret it came from one certain province on the face of the planet. Why not be a little more careful about what agents of nature we interact or meddle with…?   And why shouldn’t anyone concerned with such issues be alert to the dangers of such things?  In any run-of-the-mill YouTube video about bats, or about virus-research, its inherent in the content that such things pose an actual danger…

 

Those were a neat looking car,...Wish they were RWD.

Quick question which side of the road do they drive on in Korea?

I think these were perfectly fine as nimble, lightweight, front wheel drive sports cars. If you wanted something with more oomph and more whee you got the GTO.

 

We drive on the same side as the US here, that is, opposite from UK and Japan. 

Embed is still not working right but at least the video should work. 

It appears that embedded videos require you to press it, press the right arrow button next to it, the click “view”, at least on iPhone. Dunno about other devices. 

IMG_1729.mov ?

Thanks for letting me know. I tried on a bunch of devices and it only seems to work on my iPhone. I’ll upload that video to YouTube and post another status update later. 

Premium Crabs (name of the seafood restaurant) is selling king crabs and lobsters at wholesale prices. Salad bar is not included. (Suggests that they are having to charge extra for the salad bar because they’re selling the seafood for less.)

That was a somewhat crabby... I mean crappy translation from their side.

@carlsson,

 

You ain't seen nothing' yet...

Here's a story;  Once I thought I saw a face in the urinal...I didn't want to be pissed off,  so I made sure it was (ahem) pissed on 

My grandfather still had his encyclopedia set on his top shelf of his (admittedly small) bookshelf. I should take a peek sometime  

They're kinda like the internet, but with no porn...Careful now, ya might learn something.