hakase

Minion boomer meme vibes.

"Framerules" in Super Mario Bros. speedrunning on NES is probably the most memed analogy for a (very slightly) more complicated concept I know of.

The game can only send you to a new level every 21 frames (about .3 seconds), so there are tons of levels where timesaves don't lead to any benefit, because you have to save a full .3 seconds in order to see any benefit.

In the community, this has been explained with the same analogy so many times that "Imagine there's a bus" has become a well-known meme.

So, imagine there's a bus that only leaves the station every .3 seconds (21 frames). Because the bus only leaves at the times on its schedule, arriving early for the bus doesn't get you to your destination any faster, because you still have to wait for the time the bus will leave. For this reason, any new time saves in SMB1 must reach a new "framerule" (get there early enough to catch the previous bus) for there to be any real timesave.

... you yeet them off a cliff in your "documentary"?

Dune. While there's no way to perfectly capture the magic of the intricate machinations of (Frank) Herbert's universe, the movie gets about as close as anyone could, I think. The only thing in its league is Jackson's LOTR trilogy, and I think Dune is at least as good if not slightly better. Can't wait for the second (and hopefully third!) one!

Alakazam

I lol'd at はい、上手です, and it just got funnier from there.

It's a Lemmy thing, not just on jerboa. I just sort by "top day" to see the top posts from the past 24 hours. Once I've seen most of those, I switch to new all, which keeps a decent amount of new content coming through.

The platform is still young, so it's a combo of a) not enough content yet and b) early sorting algorithms that paradoxically haven't caught up with the influx of users yet.

You can just search here for communities https://browse.feddit.de/

Though I also browse /all/ to find new communities I might not think to search for.

I just finished blazing through Life of Pi in a single day today. I thought it would be obnoxious and tryhard, but it turned out to be a surprisingly interesting read and a hell of a page-turner. Gets a bit... weird... toward the end, but definitely a book I'd recommend, and one which I'll probably be thinking about for the next few weeks.

Onward to rereading Children of Dune!

Oh man, I'm so jealous at you getting to read the Dune books for the first time. I'm about to start Children on my third reread, and every time I read the series I'm just as enthralled as the first time. Dune + Children is probably my second favorite novel ever written, though God Emperor is close behind them.

Nice, thick, heavy hardcover, thick, textured pages, no jacket.

Grandia is one of my favorite games of all time. It captures the pure joy and excitement of adventure better than any game ever made.

Also one of my favorite battle systems. A great expansion of the early Game Arts system seen in the (also amazing) Lunar games.