Recent content by AnalogOzerik

I did NOT know any of that, good lord what a disaster. I engage with games for the sake of their art and design much more than for the challenge. God-mode and a pensive stroll through a chaotic level with explosions everywhere is a lot more fun to me than -- good grief -- a pair of incompetent...

Huh. We all have rose-colored glasses with older games. The lackluster ones just fade away, while new games we love or hate afresh How about Daikatana? Never played the game, but I vividly remember the offputting publicity campaign

uOpt mentioned surplus Soviet antipersonnel mines which....... I grew up in the Pervian jungle where *I suppose* it was fairly common to put a shotgun shell into a bit of pipe and rig up a trip wire/firing pin arrangement to blast whatever game was wandering by into bushmeat. My friend who grew...

The biggest danger for me is that my hobby (which pays quite a few of my bills) is designing and building modular synthesizer circuits. It's so satisfying. But a game like Factorio or Satisfactory or Astroneer will SUCK ME AWAY FROM MY SYNTH DESIGN because games like that scratch the exact same...

I thought I was old @ 52 -- my first computer game had to be Parsec (side-scroller space shooter) on the TI99. Used cartridges for games and other programs, with peripherals including an audio cassette recorder for data storage wow

Fill empty $$$product$$$ containers with sand or water? Pissing off your thieves might lead to more aggressive reprisals though... My sympathies!

I feel like this thread is a goof, but I do find it amazing that we still encounter problems with text entry speeds in the year of our lord twenty twenty four. I was typing on a Kaypro suitcase-style computer back in the '80s, and it was better than some of my experiences with Google Docs etc...

I bet you DID hear that it has a depth camera, but that's probably marketing-speak for an ultrasonic or laser type rangefinder. I'm guessing they put it in for precise focus, but the depth info can turn images into two different images! I can't find the forum where I read about this, but it...

heh, like when I put my phone on my laptop and the video glitches. Yup :P

Well, my USB-only Brother keeps chugging along, and shows no signs of wearing out. Helps that a lot of the wear-parts get replaced every time the toner runs out *genius*

sure sure haha but they're too close for 3D parallax. One's wide, one's telephoto, one's for low-light?? I know there's an ultrasonic or LIDAR rangefinder in there somewhere? Anyway, 3D video from (effectively) one camera is just bonkers cool and smart

Yeah, the print server doesn't seem like it's gonna work. The driver lets me select between WinXP and Win2000 LOL My printer is an old Brother, which IS built like a tank, and I DO have a basement full of generic toner cartridges, so I'll stick with it :P My router does have a tempting USB...

Sometimes an aesthetically designed PCB is actually functionally better, but sometimes not. With analog electronics, trace length and resistor placement and grounding are all VERY important, and sometimes a nice straight symmetrical layout works within those constraints, sometimes not. Digital...

oops, kicked a hornet's nest LOL -- I want to participate in FS/FT boards because I wanna buy good used hardware at reasonable prices from knowledgeable people :P Luckily, I "profile messaged" (whatever that is) a user with something I wanted and they PM'd *me* and I just got the stuff and it...

Windows made it very difficult nigh impossible to share a printer connected to a Win10 box, so I bought a very cheap Netgear WGPS606 54Mbps print server. It won't connect to my modern wifi network, although it can *see* the wifi, and additionally it can communicate okay on the wired network but...