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Nazis making shit up and moderation failing to silence them is not a question of eloquence. Fuck off with that.

Again: you are replying to the wrong person.

I am not the one who said the things you’re ranting about.

Check usernames, dingus.

Guy named Bird, guy names Jones.

You can’t argue with results, but you can talk behind their back.

“Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance…”

Unfortunately this compression can be very noticeable with constant smooth motion. Low-contrast areas don’t hit the threshold at the same rate as high-contrast areas - so a trivial whole-frame slide to the left can be littered with jerky elements that lag behind.

Wrong person. Scroll up.

I ask you again: does this rationale apply to other physical traits? No more “mute button,” no more “window blinds?” You could argue those are the accepted terms for certain handicaps, but said it doesn’t matter what term we consider acceptable.

… yes. Especially if it’s some cutesy diminutive in a romance language.

Would you have us remove all commercial uses of the word “giant?”

The IPA market is dumb enough that I could not rule out being literal.

This has been a weird case for the euphemism treadmill. The word is not meaningfully distinct from “dwarf” in tone, context, or common use. This push might be even sillier than people trying to taboo the word “crazy,” as if the suggested alternatives won’t go the exact same way, for the exact same reasons.

… is there a right amount, besides none?

“You got a license for that uncle?”

The industry was so different back then, Unreal Tournament 2004 still shipped with a software renderer.

The industry was so different back then, Michael Abrash documented that renderer’s development in Dr. Dobbs, an actual ink-on-paper journal.

Here’s one thing that hasn’t changed: Intel. This renderer, Pixomatic, was all hand-optimized assembly, from the guy John Carmack hired to outclass him. At one point he realized one instruction in a very tight loop was redundant. Removing it made the loop slower. Which is, in technical terms, some bullshit. Doing less should not take more time. It wasn’t from alignment or cache or pipelines or any sensible cause. Abrash called in favors so he could study the actual traces of the Pentium 4, because he just had to know what the fuck was happening under the hood - and Intel made him sign a stack of NDAs, so we the public will never find out.

Language barrier.

Also, glass barrier.

That’s not disproof they did things differently - or well. Any multiplayer-only game without players is a dead game, even if the gameplay it would have is mindblowing.

Cats run windows all the time.

Missed opportunity for gen 1/2, because this would perfectly match the Ancient Mew foil effect.