AlolanYoda

joined 2 years ago
[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's divergent evolution, there's convergent evolution, and then there's these guys who went through both, taking the scenic route but getting to the same place anyway

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There are a lot of games tied to popular IPs stuck on J2ME! Usually of questionable quality, though. There are half a million Sonic games, including a version of Sonic Unleashed that if I recall correctly played something like Sonic Rush, a Ratchet and Clank sidescroller (is it called Going Mobile maybe?), I also remember Tomb Raider games there. I would love to look at an overview of the most interesting games in this platform. It is extremely nostalgic to me.

I also have no clue how they were distributed? I remember putting them on my phone using less than legal means, but have no idea how you'd get them officially. Was it through one of those sketchy services where you could also get wallpapers and ringtones by texting a specific number?

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

I don't know you, but there's a chance that someone else had this exact realization after seeing you

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

... Wait. I assumed it was my extension cord keeping me up at night. I just learned to use it as white noise.

I swear my therapist says she sees no reason for me to be diagnosed as autistic

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Out of all the ways I've ever been told I may have autism, this is certainly the most unexpected! At a certain point I should probably get a diagnosis.

In my family's defense, they did believe me as soon as they tested my hearing (after trying to trip me up several times, without success), so I never felt gaslit, I just felt proud of my hearing hahaha.

Yeah, I didn't mention this in my previous post but it was annoying, for sure. I would listen to this annoying noise, nobody would hear it, and I'd eventually discovered that somebody had left the TV on.

That phenomenon is also something I saw, but never really gave it much thought, I just assumed it was just something our eyes did

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 125 points 1 month ago (34 children)

I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway. So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

I'm a summer kind of person, but it's not like I hate winter or anything. There's just fierce competition.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 19 points 2 months ago

Can you explain this a bit better?

I've seen many journals with this "open access" option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.

I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Genuinely appreciate your and the other commenters' inputs, I really did only focus on his image outside of France. Thank you for all these examples!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

I didn't play any Star Trek game... Except for Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Final Unity, which I found at a local flea market a few years ago. So it's that one by default!

It's an ok point and click adventure, I don't think it's even the best Star Trek point and click adventure available. I've never been too much into these sorts of games but I confess it was extremely nostalgic even though I had never played it before!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It did not. You never played Quake or Unreal Tournament and made your own skins. You never dabbled in map making for any of these games or games in the Doom engine. Nobody ever made skins for minecraft Java. Your life is a lie.

So is mine!

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