How’s this for an “I’m getting old” moment: sonic 1 was released on the Genesis in 1991. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was released on the GameCube in 2001. Sonic has been on Nintendo consoles for over twice the time he’s been a Sega exclusive.
If you haven’t already done so, check out !worldbuilding@lemmy.world. I enjoy conlanging and worldbuilding for similar reasons. One thing I miss from Reddit is the worldbuilding sub. It was orders of magnitude more active so there was always something to dig into.
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and strong conlanging-3D inexpensive-DOG
And conlanging is really cheap
I don’t think you would melt, considering your own mouth is full of saliva and does fine. You would be at huge risk of infection though.
Shmups are fun and should be revived as a genre. I’ve been saying for years that Nintendo should make Star Fox into a 2D scrolling shooter.
Though playing Megabonk earlier today made me realize that it and other clones of Vampire Survivors are like shmups in many ways. You gain powerups that you lose when you die, you have little to do other than move, and maneuvering around the level is a big part of the gameplay.
This is going to get buried, but I miss Bill Cosby, or rather my mental model of him before all that nastiness came out.
I blame Minecraft for the lack of tutorials in survival games. Notch never added one before the game got popular enough to generate clones.
Lemmy is ephemeral in part because the redditlike format is designed to be ephemeral. You have a topic, you discuss it for a few days, then it drops off the front page never to be seen again.
Then you layer on all the issues listed in the OP and they combine to make something very impermanent indeed. Server flakiness in particular is something I don’t see ever going away. It’s part and parcel of the fediverse. The folks hosting the server aren’t a big company, they’re a small group of volunteers running off donations. They don’t have the means to guarantee five nines of uptime in the same way a big corporation can.
None of this may be relevant, but I’m curious what your use case is. I use TTS very extensively to consume media and have my preferences. None of them are open source, but as far as I know all operate locally, though they’re baked into other programs like screen readers and ebook readers.
I prefer older more robotic voices because they remain intelligible at high speed. Eloquence is a favorite, as are the older Apple voices like Fred and Ralph. I think it has gone by other names but TruVoice (spacing and capitalization may vary) is also up there. It was semi popular during the surreal meme era. Another memetic synth that’s a little before my time but I quite enjoy is DECTalk (AKA the Moonbase Alpha voice). I believe Vocalizer was responsible for the OG Siri voice Samantha and that one’s a more human voice that’s still serviceable at high speeds.
I saw it when it first aired. Like Spielberg’s other cartoons a lot of the humor went over my head as a kid and isn’t quite my preferred style of humor as an adult, but I nevertheless remember it fondly simply for the childhood nostalgia.
How much traffic before the sales team comes knocking?
Because I’ll never keep it up to date. I’ll be in a hurry or something and just measure it without recording.
Advent wreathes are a thing in the US, but mostly a religious thing. Traditionally the 3rd candle is supposed to be pink and the others purple
“I used to be ‘with it’, then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me”
—Abe Simpson
I’ve always been an old soul, and unfortunately an old body as well. I had shingles when I was 10, developed cataracts at 30 and arthritis at 35.
EDIT:
I think it was 12 not 10 that I had shingles. I also had shingles again a few years ago.
Perhaps related, but when communicating over the radio (including via digital printing modes like RTTY) you have to declare that you’re done transmitting and yield the frequency to the other party. This is because your signal may fade, appearing to the other person like you stopped transmitting. This is the purpose of the ubiquitous “over” seen in movies and TV, though in ham circles you use the more casual “go ahead” or “back to you”.
I imagine a period sends the same message, but because you don’t have to manage turn-taking with texts the way you do on the radio the period can be seen as redundant because they already know you’re done speaking. So sending a period may seem like you’re emphasizing the finality of your message.
In radio, you signal the end of a contact (QSO) with “out”, but again, in ham circles you just say “73”.
Is any of this relevant? I have no idea I’ve been up since 1 AM this morning.
It won a Grammy.
IIRC it was the first song from a video game to do so.
Depending on who you ask, Tron: Legacy.
The movie was OK, but I vastly prefer the original. It has a certain 80s “Gee whiz aren’t these newfangled computers the greatest” feeling that you just can’t recapture.
Plok (SNES) The boss theme in particular.
I forget the guy’s name but he did both OSTs for the above two games and he has a reputation for giving bad games amazing soundtracks.
Mechanicus Not a bad game by any means but the music and sound design punch way above their weight for a game of this scope.
Tunic (Also very good but probably very niche)
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Void War Probably not bad but self-admittedly very derivative of both its inspirations (FTL and Warhammer 40K)
Now I just need to figure out what I want to try next.
I’ve tried homelabbing, ham radio, fountain pens, DIY electronics, Python…
Some stuff is more expensive then others. amateur radio is stupidly expensive in every conceivable way. It starts out with a cheap RTL-SDR dongle. You set it up and start scanning around VHF and UHF to see what’s out there. Some stuff catches your attention and soon enough you want to transmit as well as receive. You buy the license manual and get your ticket (honestly not hard if you’ve passed high school science class) and you buy a cheap questionably legal Baofeng walkie-talkie. So far the 'feng, the SDR dongle, and the license manual and FCC testing fee set you back maybe $80 all in. Not bad for a few weeks or months of entertainment.
Then you look at what a “real” rig costs, thinking that the absolute pinnacle must be maybe $2000, like a good gaming PC. Nope, turns out the cheapest radio you can buy that’s considered ‘good enough’, the venerable Icom IC 7300, is $1000, and it swiftly climbs from there. Then you need an antenna. Surely an inert hunk of aluminum is cheap? Nope, also hundreds of dollars. If you want to cut your own you’ll need an SWR meter, and those are also hundreds of dollars. Now you need coax to connect that antenna to the radio, a way to get that coax from the inside of your house to the outside, etc. It’s all $$$.
That’s not getting into the non monetary expenses like space for your shack and antennas and time to actually use the radio when the ionosphere is cooperating and people are actually on the air.
Compare that to my other major pastime, conlanging and worldbuilding. You already have everything you need, just something to write with and time to daydream. Maybe that’s why this is the one thing I’ve stuck with for 25 years now.
You might find LXD more straightforward. I think docker was first and foremost a development platform, not meant for deploying production appliances. That’s why there’s this nonsense about persistent volumes. If it were designed from the ground up to be a turnkey appliance platform you wouldn’t need to mess around with that stuff because of course you want your filesystem to be persistent between reboots in a production environment.
I’m fairly confident espeak is all you’re going to get that’s FOSS, local, and with any non English support. Yes every espeak language sounds like a Brittish guy badly pronouncing that language, and this includes the American English voice as well.