#nerd ass shit

[proteusolm]

the older i get the more i like the kinds of video games that dads play on the family PC.

[pearwaldorf]

Hey nerds, if you want a little bit of epic background to your day, the Almeida Theatre is, in partnership with the British Museum, presenting a live reading of The Iliad. Yes, the entire thing. You can watch the livestream here.

[god-coward]

Having this emulator working is v v important for the channel and people are probably like “emulate it on your pc idiot” but there are reasons to do it this way. Ima get into some nitty gritty about creating videos and hardware performance so I’ll put it under the cut because this will probably be long.

So emulating anything on PC leaves software prone to errors. Emulating on stable hardware leads to stable performance. Another reason is aspect ration, resolution and visual consistency. The aspect ration while emulating through the Wii maintains the original ratio of the SNES perfectly. Same goes for the resolution and visual fidelity. All of it will look, run and feel as authentic as possible while recording. Some games also naturally have display errors while emulating on PC. SNES displays it’s sprites and objects in layers. Much like a photoshop project. Sometimes while emulating on PC, some layers and sprites will have trouble displaying. And sometimes there can be a SERIOUS flicker problem with objects and sprites through PC emulation. Sometimes text doesn't display properly too That’s a huge problem. Sprite flicker can also be a serious problem for people with epilepsy. 

Another onus is capturing our video directly via component. As opposed to screen capture. Capturing ANY video directly from your desktop is a HUUUUGE system hog. You WILL lose frames, and put needless stress on your PC. This cam lead to a horrible capture. Yes, emulating an SNES on your PC is not a system hog. Capturing any kind of video (via FRAPs or a similar application) while running ANY sort of other application is stressful on your CPU. It’s simply not ideal. You need a beast of a PC to be able to capture thing directly. Thousands of dollars worth of hardware. 

Another bonus is simply pliability and viability for you and your cohort (in this case, Jon). Sitting and playing at a TV is the optimal and most comfortable way to play. Especially with a friend. crowding around a monitor or laptop together, with some USB controllers or keyboard controls SUCKS. I've done it before for LPs. It sucks. And anybody who has had to do this for an LP will tell you it sucks. Another huge bonus is playing SNES and NES games with with an actual Nintendo button layout (I won two classic controllers). That’s good, that’s the way to play these games. With the wacky layout and responsive dpad.

[pearwaldorf]

The thing that never sits quite right with post scarcity economics, though, at least the very little that I’ve read, is that it’s always sort of an all or nothing affair: you either don’t have enough of anything or you have enough of everything. Thinking of this as a mental exercise is kind of fun, I think, but in reality it seems to me that getting from point A — a scarcity economy — to point B — post scarcity — is going to be a long, complicated journey as some things become more abundant in some places, while other things are still scarce.

What is needed is some sort of interim-, or proto-post scarcity economics.

A very detailed, very enthusiastic, very nerdy discussion of Star Trek as a transitionary post-scarcity economy. It brought me great joy to read, and not just because it's more or less advocating for basic income and a decoupling of labor and necessity.

(thanks to cosmictuesdays for bringing this to my attention)