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TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate
  • Hitting a locked 1000 Hz and nitpicking the frame-pacing is not the point of high refresh rates. It makes exact framerate irrelevant. Even for mundane double-digit framerates - this would work the same as FreeSync. Frames would appear the instant they are ready. There is no difference between 60 FPS and 59 FPS.

    You can limit an efficient game to 240, and if it doesn't hit that, who gives a shit.

  • Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons
  • There's cases where I will play devil's advocate for such asshats. Some comic-book events feature a black Superman, and that raises questions about whether Kryptonians coincidentally match every ethnic group on Earth, or if they've got some skin colors that aren't an option for humans, or if there's some imprinting transformation wiggle-room when they show up as babies on rocketships. Remember that Supes works with a dude from Mars - cosmically our next-door neighbors - and his ass is green.

    And for the constant murmur of Idris Elba maybe playing James Bond, I have to point out the sliding window of ambiguous canon. From Dr. No until Die Another Day, the previous film was definitely the same guy, probably, and beyond that ehhh don't worry about it. It was completely unreasonable that Pierce Brosnan during the handover of Hong Kong could be the same man as Sean Connery during the Cuban missile crisis - but there was no hard cutoff. You could suspend disbelief, movie by movie, and never really think about it. Did a character change? Did some details shift? Retcons happen, why worry. Don't ask what movie Bruce Wayne and his parents were seeing. For forty years, 007 was played by 6'1" commonwealth blokes with light skin and dark hair, and the unspoken through-line is that audiences can be convinced all white actors look alike. Casting anyone else would require acknowledging that the codename can be transferred - or starting a new continuity. (Admittedly less of an issue since the Daniel Craig films pretty solidly cover a new continuity with yet another 6'1" commonwealth bloke with light skin and blond hair.)

    But... Doctor fucking Who? They're shapeshifters. Every single Gallifreyan gets a dozen chances (or a dozen ish, evidently) to completely scrobble their appearance while maintaining a continuous personality. Even their fucking accents can change. Any losers sincerely whining about this are being bigots about an aggressively queer and accepting production. Even the original run started with an educational bent and tried to be progressive for the betterment of its audience.

    The people this article mocks might as well kvetch about Star Trek being kind of preachy.

  • Anon wants to ride a zeppelin
  • The Hindenburg was just a high-visibility hint that airships were not working out. Lighter-than-air craft, like jetpacks and flying cars, fall under the category of technically feasible inventions that are terrible for a wide variety of reasons we'd desperately like to ignore.

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    Legendary adventure game gets brand new fan made remaster mod
  • AI upscales the original Grim Fandango assets

    Ehhhhhh.

    It looks nice enough, overall, but the process ate some details. Didn't the remaster itself already bodge that on some assets? Like naive upscaling and smoothing mangled the text on a label.

    It is a crying shame they couldn't find the original Lightwave files, because modern computers could knock them out in 8K in like five minutes.

  • The reality of modern tech
  • Weather apps being able to use GPS data is great. Weather apps shitting the bed if you don't give it permissions, when it fucking knows it has to ask for permissions, are failed products.

    I will give it a location. It can tell me the weather there.

  • "I think Gangle should try to kill Jax. It'd be good for her." [UncannyVilla]

    Source: https://twitter.com/UncannyVilla/status/1787588151726202971/photo/1

    Via: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2811576-the-amazing-digital-circus

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    mv *.jpg is complete bullshit.

    'Well it's only passing mv a list of--' yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that's why I'm calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

    StackOverflow's full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

    This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god's sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

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    Windows96 - One Hundred Mornings

    Pleasant warbling synths forever.

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    death's dynamic shroud.wmv - 失われた時REGRET

    You're gonna have a bad time.

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    Luxury Elite - World Class

    Instrumental grooves with just a little bit of Del Shannon.

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