The Off Topic Topic

[Josephus]

When the whole meat of your news article is what people are complaining about on Twitter/X...I think you need rethink your credentials as a journalist.  It is no better than random "man on the street" interviews.

100 per cent agreed.Nothing I hate more than reading a news story that begins " So-and-so took Twitter by storm yesterday..." or "Twitter is outraged that so and so..."

[Sheilbh]

Yeah especially with, say, the BBC or similar outlets. It's not good. But it is cheap.

[crazy canuck]

When the whole meat of your news article is what people are complaining about on Twitter/X...I think you need rethink your credentials as a journalist.  It is no better than random "man on the street" interviews.

100 per cent agreed.Nothing I hate more than reading a news story that begins " So-and-so took Twitter by storm yesterday..." or "Twitter is outraged that so and so..."

You may remember back in the time before time when news broadcasts had reporters go out in the street to interview people about their views.

[garbon]

I just looked at users by country and checked a few % (US/UK/JP/Brazil/Turkey/India - all with significant # of millions of users). With the exception of Japan where it looks like half of the country has a twitter account, we are looking at 25% or less of the population by country.

When will journalists stop reporting on just their bubble?

[Tamas]

I just looked at users by country and checked a few % (US/UK/JP/Brazil/Turkey/India - all with significant # of millions of users). With the exception of Japan where it looks like half of the country has a twitter account, we are looking at 25% or less of the population by country.

When will journalists stop reporting on just their bubble?

I mean, that's like, more effort just to receive less attention.

[Syt]

Apparently the Game Boy Advance has a known quirk that when a game crashes it GBA plays a "death song" that's unique for each game.

Apparently it's the GBA playing the entire ROM as audio, and a guy has figured out a method to turn the sound data back into a ROM:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/game-boy-advance-games-can-be-recreated-from-the-sound-they-make-when-they-die-modder-demonstrates

Reminds me of the 80s when a computer show in Germany would broadcast an software as an audio signal viewers could record on audio tape and then plop into their datasette.

There's a German language article on the topic. Apparently the method was used in e.g. Poland and Yugoslavia to share bootleg software.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000072781698/die-wilden-80er-als-radiosender-raubkopien-von-spielen-ausstrahlten


Video of the GBA modder. Pleasantly retro by using on screen text instead of spoken word. Remember tutorial videos without audio where people would type their text into Notepad, because nobody was using microphones for their videos?

[Sophie Scholl]

Should we invite Russell Crowe to Languish? Or at least give him Tim's address so they can be penpals? 

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[celedhring]

Apparently the Game Boy Advance has a known quirk that when a game crashes it GBA plays a "death song" that's unique for each game.

Apparently it's the GBA playing the entire ROM as audio, and a guy has figured out a method to turn the sound data back into a ROM:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/game-boy-advance-games-can-be-recreated-from-the-sound-they-make-when-they-die-modder-demonstrates

Reminds me of the 80s when a computer show in Germany would broadcast an software as an audio signal viewers could record on audio tape and then plop into their datasette.

There's a German language article on the topic. Apparently the method was used in e.g. Poland and Yugoslavia to share bootleg software.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000072781698/die-wilden-80er-als-radiosender-raubkopien-von-spielen-ausstrahlten


Video of the GBA modder. Pleasantly retro by using on screen text instead of spoken word. Remember tutorial videos without audio where people would type their text into Notepad, because nobody was using microphones for their videos?

Thanks, I love geek channels with weird pointless hacks like that.

I'm impressed by how sophisticated the Chinese counterfeit game card turned out to be.

[Syt]

Yeah, that was unexpected. "Let's use cheaper and easier to use hardware ... great, now we need to trick the game into believing it's running on an original ROM ...."

[garbon]

Should we invite Russell Crowe to Languish? Or at least give him Tim's address so they can be penpals? 

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[FunkMonk]

Are you not entertained?

[FunkMonk]

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[Tamas]

Another pompous middle class scourge: using Woodburners when you don't have to: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/26/domestic-wood-burners-having-a-deadly-impact-in-outside-areas

Check the comments how many writes "I like my open fire why should I change?"

[Jacob]

I understand your annoyance at people being attached to something you don't care about, especially when there's a Guardian article telling you it's bad... but what exactly makes it pompous?

[Josquius]

The "I like it so who cares about it being terrible" attitude is pretty symptomatic of our world being shit.