In Japan a bit of arse cleavage won't stop them selling the game to younger players. In the West it will result in a higher ESRB rating and sexual content warning (blame the prudes who require Disney movies to warn you about "mild peril"). By making some minor edits they can get a lower rating and higher sales.
Hollywood is exactly the same. Movies are edited to get a lower rating all the time, or sometimes have the odd swear word added just to get a higher one.
PC's are more hassle to keep up to date and deal with compatibility issues, plus you often need to tweak the game's settings to get the best experience on your machine.
Although the West gets some sexy Japanese games like the DOA series, there are actually a lot more that never get exported. Even in DOA, in the original some of the female characters are under 18 (changed in the Western releases), and it's actually fairly common.
With the Olympics coming next year they are worried that visitors will notice this and it will damage Japan's reputation. Plus the industry in general is moving towards better portrayals of women in games, with most of the major franchises now doing significantly better than a decade ago, so there is a risk of being left behind. With the PS5 on the horizon now and 2020 being a big year for Sony to push their brand globally, they must figure now is the time to act.
This is an impressive hack. The effect being enhanced is actually a hack on the SNES. Mode 7 only does rotation and scaling, to get the ground plane effect you have to adjust the parameters on a scanline by scanline basis using CPU interrupts.
So for the emulator to do this it must be more than just hacking the mode 7 code. It must interpolate the parameters between scanlines too.
Giving someone a platform is not an endorsement. I've explained that twice already, this is the third time. As I said, he often does it just to contrast their even more outlandish nonsense to make himself look more reasonable, i.e. the opposite of endorsing them.
That's one of his major gimmicks. Pretend to be rational and questioning when peddling basically the same crap.
The majority of Slashdot posts never get any moderation at all. They sit at their default score forever.
Those that get moderation are either pure crap like APK/GNAA spam, or they are worthy of consideration. Worthy even if only to note that someone with an agenda modded them up for some reason.
Sigh. I just said that it wasn't endorsement, kind of the opposite in fact. Why do you just ignore what I'm telling you and carry on arguing with the imaginary SJW version?
If you really are open to having your mind changed then why do you ignore anything I saw which contradicts your assumptions?
I'm happy to discuss with you, if you address the actual points I made. With the possible exception of puppet-master Mashiki I do try to give everyone a fair shake if they engage.
Kids can look at tits and arse, just as long as it's not commercial, or if it is commercial it's not more than 33.3% of the site content.
I predict xHamster will implement a 2:1 ratio of lolcat and the other kind of pussy videos for UK viewers. Or how about changing the typical porn music to the British national anthem and covering half the screen with a Union Jack? Then the porn is surely less than 1/3rd of the content.
Just say you were wanking over your hot friend on Facebook or over something posted to DeviantArt. Those sites are all exempted because they contain less than 30% porn content.
It will be interesting to see how they determine the porn content of a site, or even what content is porn. Will Victoria's Secret get blocked for using models? Is it 30% of the site content by the byte, by the page, or by how much a 13 year old could wank over?
8 bit is still huge and very well paid if you have real skills (not Arduino), because it's still unbeatable for some applications (low power being a big one).
ARM is often using an RTOS and the peripheral libraries so it's opened up to many more developers who can't handle hitting the hardware directly. Often ARM is selected because it makes the developers cheaper, and facilitates the use of contractors to write individual tasks.
The vast majority of the kids I see going to private schools come from right wing families.
Right, the ones who can afford it are just anti-free-education, and push the anti-intellectual angle to get the ones who can't afford it to be the same.
I dunno, I get the impression that most flat earthers just enjoy arguing and being contrarian. If everyone agrees with them it's no fun any more, so relevant for them is someone they can have a discussion with.
Slashdot and Reddit could both be vastly improved by making 1 up-vote cancel out 5 down-votes.
You see a lot of comments both here and on Reddit with huge numbers of both up and down votes. Slashdot is particularly prone to the Insightful Troll mod.
Of course it will result in some actual troll posts being modded up by other trolls, but it's worth putting up with to give useful but somewhat unpopular posts a better chance.
You can verify either with a credit card, or buy going to a shop and buying a porn pass in person (and presumably with an age check same as for buying alcohol), or other unspecified methods that sites may choose to implement.
If Rogan was completely even-handed and gave everyone a platform (clearly impossible) you might have a point. But he doesn't, by necessity he selects guests deliberately. I see nothing wrong with criticising his choices.
One troubling aspect of your ideology is that you make the assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is an SJW and is arguing using SJW logic. Your whole post is based on the assumption that I think adults need to be treated like children, which is not the case and not the basis of my argument here.
That makes is very difficult to have a discussion with you, because you are arguing with some imaginary SJW version of me and we end up talking past each other.
He isn't giving anyone a platform, he is interviewing them. Do you acknowledge that there is a difference between interviewing and endorsing ideas?
Hmm, seems that you don't understand what "giving someone a platform" means. It doesn't mean endorsing their views, it means giving them an opportunity to reach an audience, in this case Rogan's audience. Obviously the reason he does it is because his audience likes his brand of conspiracy theory nonsense, and many of his guests offer similar but more extreme content.
It's a clever move because it makes him look reasonable and rational in relation to their far out ideas, while also providing a soft introduction and helping to normalize them a little.
Presenting a reasonable overview of views and conversations is a very difficult nut to crack. How do you select posts that are representative, in a way that can't be gamed?
If you do somehow manage to do it you will be accused of bias anyway, because people think that their fringe view is actually way more popular than it is.
If Apple adds a better screen, better camera, better CPU/GPU, and more RAM, why should that cause Qualcomm to get more money for one of the chips?
Because their expensive luxury phone wouldn't be an expensive luxury phone if it didn't have a top spec Qualcomm chip in it. The fact that they tried to get away with giving Qualcomm trade secrets to Intel so they could improve their modems tells you how important that chip is to the iPhone.
Also note that Apple clearly doesn't think a percentage is unfair, given that it takes 30% on all sales on its platforms.
Intel were never leaders in any of those markets though, just also-rans who were able to leverage their existing relationships.
Intel GPUs have always, and probably will always be shit. They are okay for basic integrated graphics but they will never be competitive on performance or low power.
Intel CPUs and chipsets were only "low power" back in the early 2000s when the Pentium Mobile was impressive, nowadays they are not in the same league as ARM and their ecosystem.
Intel tried, and Intel failed. All they are good at is performance products, and lately even those have been looking unimpressive now that AMD have got their act together.
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In Japan a bit of arse cleavage won't stop them selling the game to younger players. In the West it will result in a higher ESRB rating and sexual content warning (blame the prudes who require Disney movies to warn you about "mild peril"). By making some minor edits they can get a lower rating and higher sales.
Hollywood is exactly the same. Movies are edited to get a lower rating all the time, or sometimes have the odd swear word added just to get a higher one.
PC's are more hassle to keep up to date and deal with compatibility issues, plus you often need to tweak the game's settings to get the best experience on your machine.
PS4 you just insert the disc and play.
It's not aimed at children, it's aimed at adults.
Although the West gets some sexy Japanese games like the DOA series, there are actually a lot more that never get exported. Even in DOA, in the original some of the female characters are under 18 (changed in the Western releases), and it's actually fairly common.
With the Olympics coming next year they are worried that visitors will notice this and it will damage Japan's reputation. Plus the industry in general is moving towards better portrayals of women in games, with most of the major franchises now doing significantly better than a decade ago, so there is a risk of being left behind. With the PS5 on the horizon now and 2020 being a big year for Sony to push their brand globally, they must figure now is the time to act.
Would be easier if clothing manufacturers just gave us bigger pockets.
Can confirm the fake CRT effect looks good on 4k.
This is an impressive hack. The effect being enhanced is actually a hack on the SNES. Mode 7 only does rotation and scaling, to get the ground plane effect you have to adjust the parameters on a scanline by scanline basis using CPU interrupts.
So for the emulator to do this it must be more than just hacking the mode 7 code. It must interpolate the parameters between scanlines too.
Interesting. I'm surprised your teeth didn't stain very quickly though.
Giving someone a platform is not an endorsement. I've explained that twice already, this is the third time. As I said, he often does it just to contrast their even more outlandish nonsense to make himself look more reasonable, i.e. the opposite of endorsing them.
That's one of his major gimmicks. Pretend to be rational and questioning when peddling basically the same crap.
The majority of Slashdot posts never get any moderation at all. They sit at their default score forever.
Those that get moderation are either pure crap like APK/GNAA spam, or they are worthy of consideration. Worthy even if only to note that someone with an agenda modded them up for some reason.
Some authoritarian prude got trolled by this??
Sigh. I just said that it wasn't endorsement, kind of the opposite in fact. Why do you just ignore what I'm telling you and carry on arguing with the imaginary SJW version?
If you really are open to having your mind changed then why do you ignore anything I saw which contradicts your assumptions?
I'm happy to discuss with you, if you address the actual points I made. With the possible exception of puppet-master Mashiki I do try to give everyone a fair shake if they engage.
Kids can look at tits and arse, just as long as it's not commercial, or if it is commercial it's not more than 33.3% of the site content.
I predict xHamster will implement a 2:1 ratio of lolcat and the other kind of pussy videos for UK viewers. Or how about changing the typical porn music to the British national anthem and covering half the screen with a Union Jack? Then the porn is surely less than 1/3rd of the content.
Just say you were wanking over your hot friend on Facebook or over something posted to DeviantArt. Those sites are all exempted because they contain less than 30% porn content.
It will be interesting to see how they determine the porn content of a site, or even what content is porn. Will Victoria's Secret get blocked for using models? Is it 30% of the site content by the byte, by the page, or by how much a 13 year old could wank over?
8 bit is still huge and very well paid if you have real skills (not Arduino), because it's still unbeatable for some applications (low power being a big one).
ARM is often using an RTOS and the peripheral libraries so it's opened up to many more developers who can't handle hitting the hardware directly. Often ARM is selected because it makes the developers cheaper, and facilitates the use of contractors to write individual tasks.
The vast majority of the kids I see going to private schools come from right wing families.
Right, the ones who can afford it are just anti-free-education, and push the anti-intellectual angle to get the ones who can't afford it to be the same.
I dunno, I get the impression that most flat earthers just enjoy arguing and being contrarian. If everyone agrees with them it's no fun any more, so relevant for them is someone they can have a discussion with.
Slashdot and Reddit could both be vastly improved by making 1 up-vote cancel out 5 down-votes.
You see a lot of comments both here and on Reddit with huge numbers of both up and down votes. Slashdot is particularly prone to the Insightful Troll mod.
Of course it will result in some actual troll posts being modded up by other trolls, but it's worth putting up with to give useful but somewhat unpopular posts a better chance.
You can verify either with a credit card, or buy going to a shop and buying a porn pass in person (and presumably with an age check same as for buying alcohol), or other unspecified methods that sites may choose to implement.
If Rogan was completely even-handed and gave everyone a platform (clearly impossible) you might have a point. But he doesn't, by necessity he selects guests deliberately. I see nothing wrong with criticising his choices.
One troubling aspect of your ideology is that you make the assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is an SJW and is arguing using SJW logic. Your whole post is based on the assumption that I think adults need to be treated like children, which is not the case and not the basis of my argument here.
That makes is very difficult to have a discussion with you, because you are arguing with some imaginary SJW version of me and we end up talking past each other.
It would be blocked immediately due to the high level of child porn, terrorist murder videos and magnet links.
He isn't giving anyone a platform, he is interviewing them. Do you acknowledge that there is a difference between interviewing and endorsing ideas?
Hmm, seems that you don't understand what "giving someone a platform" means. It doesn't mean endorsing their views, it means giving them an opportunity to reach an audience, in this case Rogan's audience. Obviously the reason he does it is because his audience likes his brand of conspiracy theory nonsense, and many of his guests offer similar but more extreme content.
It's a clever move because it makes him look reasonable and rational in relation to their far out ideas, while also providing a soft introduction and helping to normalize them a little.
Presenting a reasonable overview of views and conversations is a very difficult nut to crack. How do you select posts that are representative, in a way that can't be gamed?
If you do somehow manage to do it you will be accused of bias anyway, because people think that their fringe view is actually way more popular than it is.
At some point it will become an important question people ask when looking for an apartment: "does it have car charging?"
When you think about it, Intel has never really been that competitive. That's why they cheat so much.
It's been that way since the 286 at least.
If Apple adds a better screen, better camera, better CPU/GPU, and more RAM, why should that cause Qualcomm to get more money for one of the chips?
Because their expensive luxury phone wouldn't be an expensive luxury phone if it didn't have a top spec Qualcomm chip in it. The fact that they tried to get away with giving Qualcomm trade secrets to Intel so they could improve their modems tells you how important that chip is to the iPhone.
Also note that Apple clearly doesn't think a percentage is unfair, given that it takes 30% on all sales on its platforms.
Intel were never leaders in any of those markets though, just also-rans who were able to leverage their existing relationships.
Intel GPUs have always, and probably will always be shit. They are okay for basic integrated graphics but they will never be competitive on performance or low power.
Intel CPUs and chipsets were only "low power" back in the early 2000s when the Pentium Mobile was impressive, nowadays they are not in the same league as ARM and their ecosystem.
Intel tried, and Intel failed. All they are good at is performance products, and lately even those have been looking unimpressive now that AMD have got their act together.