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  1. ElPoco

    Absurdism corner

    Did a Nexus-6 write this?
  2. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    It's been increasingly bad since the release of ChatGPT-4. Now for many searches the top results will be LLM-written bullshit "SEO" articles. Internet search is becoming useless.
  3. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/
  4. ElPoco

    Absurdism corner

    The US government doesn't borrow money: it issues it. All that talk of "borrowing money" or "spending more than we have" is mostly a way to justify budget cuts. The US government could repay all this debt by entering some numbers in a spreadsheet.
  5. ElPoco

    Absurdism corner

    I don't see how it's absurd for a government to spend 6 times more on non-army stuff vs army stuff. If anything, the defense spending of the US is the absurdity. As for the amounts, it has to be compared with the GDP growth. It'd be absurd not to spend more when your economy generates more. For...
  6. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    Sounds like something out of Jet Set Radio.
  7. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    There's a lot of padding in the Mass Effects. If I remember correctly it's a bit less obvious in the sequels and the better combat makes it a bit less boring. Anyway, Mass Effect is still a pretty generic Sci-Fi action-RPG. It's generally decent with a few good moments here and there. Where it...
  8. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    I had a similar experience with Alice: Madness Returns. I was ready to try an "unofficial patch" to remove the activation/copy protection when it finally started working correctly.
  9. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    So the cost of "colossal scale piracy" for Nintendo is $2.4M? They got it better than Gary Bowser Anyway, another case of "Felony contempt of business model", but it shows some interesting points: Nintendo didn't attack on the TPM/DRM circumventing only but also used the facts that the...
  10. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    https://play.half.earth : At the head of the planification of an international socialist government, try to solve the polycrisis. Even though it's dressed up as a socialist initiative, it still offers some approaches that I wouldn't call "socialist". In any case, it's an interesting way to learn...
  11. ElPoco

    dreamcast.

    The PS2 had a very special architecture with many processors and units working in parallel, so it's more complex to emulate than the Dreamcast. It's also more powerful than the Dreamcast. The Gamecube architecture was simpler and closer to the Dreamcast but the hardware was far more powerful.
  12. ElPoco

    dreamcast.

    I wanted to vote Bangai-O but it didn't let me :(
  13. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    I got KeeperFX to run on the Pandora with Box86 + wine. It was playable, maybe not full speed but good enough for early levels. The base game is fun but from the "tactical" point of view it's pretty basic except for a few missions. There are a few secret levels with interesting twists and I...
  14. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    I've never been able to go very far into Majora's Mask because of this.
  15. ElPoco

    Help me making a to play list

    For some older games, I recommend looking for patches on romhacking.net, they can make the experience better and less frustrating (Zelda 1 is great but isn't made any better by having you spend a lot of time trying to bomb every wall and burn every tree to find the secrets). Series: - Mario -...
  16. ElPoco

    Release Fallout 1 / 2 Community Edition

    I could give it a try, but I don't know when I'll have time to do so.
  17. ElPoco

    Release Fallout 1 / 2 Community Edition

    Oooh, do you think you could port it to the Pandora?
  18. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    If I remember correctly, the number of birds killed by cats is a very rough estimate (something like taking the number of cats in the country, estimating the percentage that goes outside and multiplying this by an estimate of how many birds a single cat kills in average). The real problem with...
  19. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    First of all, the number of Turkish parents in Germany is far lower than the number of German parents so even if there's a slightly higher average of number of children per women, it's negligible in the big picture. Second, these children will be raised in a mixed culture. Most of them will go...
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    Perfect Dark finally gets the full-featured PC port it deserves

    Could be a nice port to the Pandora. :)
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