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I’ve always considered the six switch variant more iconic, but my six switch one is also the one I’ve got that doesn’t work. So there’s that.

From squinting at it, all the blocks appear to be 8x8.

I already have it, and the source code. It’s too late for Nintendo.

This port scales the graphics down to the GB’s resolution. I imagine it takes a lot of CPU cycles just to rearrange the graphics data into the Game Boy’s 8x8 tile structure in display RAM. Either that, or it’s precomputed and the ROM is huge.

What would make anyone think they’re downscaling graphics in real time on the Gameboy of all things? The graphics have been flat out redrawn to better fit the Gameboy’s lower screen resolution.

For anyone wondering, here’s the first little bit of what 1-1 looks like:

Look at that doofy goomba.

INB4 “But Mario Bros. DX already exists.”

I dig how the graphics have been reworked and tile size reduced to provide roughly the same field of view as on the NES.

I once heard it also involves a miserable little pile of secrets.

…And emissions valves, vacuum hoses, evap canisters, fuel cap/seals, possibly a valve cover gasket, serpentine belt, tensioner, and idlers, fuel filter, possibly the fuel pump. 500,000 kilometers is 310,685 miles for all the Yanks and Brits in the audience, and if you manage to drive a combustion car that far without needing all of those things, let alone any selection of them, I will eat my distributor cap.

Uh.

Does anyone currently know James May’s whereabouts now that Andy Wilman is presumably no longer keeping tabs on him?

If your site did not call visitors a flak monkey at least once I will be sorely disappointed.

If the case were that it weren’t, Path of Exile just to throw one example out there would have been piledrivered into dust by Blizzard for wholesale copying the UI layout for Diablo 2. Or better, Binding of Isaac for making an incredibly superficially Zelda-looking screen layout and despite being hugely popular, conspicuously not drawing the ire of the single most litigious batch of motherfuckers in the entire video game industry.

So, no, I’m pretty sure nobody can sue you for making a UI that looks similar to another UI.

Or a very badly made wall…

Tofu dreg construction, perhaps.

One can surmise it’s actually a life-sized model kit tank made out of cheap plastic, akin to how it works in Ground Defense Force! Mao-Chan.

The general consensus of the internet seems to be no, although this surely varies to some degree based on the laws in whichever country you’re in.

Before anyone tries the other avenue of attack, titles to things generally cannot be copyrighted, either. Content of a work can be, but the name of it cannot.

This weird geometrically square way of demarcating properties has created yet another headache-inducing clusterfuck, and has led to much scuttlebutt about the curious concept of “corner hopping” or “corner crossing” and its legal status. I.e., consider properties laid out in the following arrangement:

A│B
─┼─
C│D

You are legally standing on property A and know the land owner of of property D who has given you permission to hunt on his land, or whatever. The owners of properties B and C have told you in no uncertain terms that they don’t want you on their land even for one single nanosecond, not even violating its airspace – let’s say for no less plausible of a reason than your ancestors fucked them over by unilaterally deciding that they get to cut up and give away their land.

The property lines terminate in two fences joining in a cross. Is it legal for you to hop the fence from property A to D, or if you did so does it count as trespassing on properties B and C?

In a legal sense, can a person move like a bishop, conceptually infinitely thin provided you have no intent to access the land on either side of you, mathematically bisecting a point? Or do you actually move like a knight, unavoidably albeit temporarily occupying either of those squares for an infinitesimal but legally nontrivial amount of time?

I think this one can be summed up as the old, “The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.” I don’t think it’s really any deeper than that.

Behave or exhibit yourself in a way that people don’t get, and the response from some is to just get irrationally angry and/or stupid about it. Logic does not apply.

This is one of those things that sounds simple and intuitive on paper (“just” take all these communities of the same name from disparate instances, smash them together so they all display on the same page) but once you start thinking about the details it becomes clear that it’d be a logistical nightmare and a clusterfuck to actually implement.

For a start, moderation would become diabolically complex.

• If multiple communities across instances are merged, each has its own moderators. Who can moderate which content? Everyone? Only the moderators for the instance in which the content originated?
• If it’s the former, what’s to stop a rogue moderator from a bad instance from merging their community and then deleting content/banning users who aren’t theirs?
• What happens if a user gets banned from one instance, but other instances have merged content in this community under which that user is not banned?
• Who decides what community and instancewide rules apply to the merged instance of that community, which will inherently include users from outside their instance?
• Who sets what the banner and sidebar look like, considering that nobody from any given instance can “own” the entire supercommunity?
• Etc.

I think the only way this could possibly work at present is if were client-side, i.e. you can create your own supercommunity by merging content into a single page on your own device, but purely for display and in a read-only fashion. This would not provide the implicit benefit I think you’re angling for, though, which would be solving the Fediverse fragmentation problem.

Malicious actors are getting USB drives to autorun somehow. If they’re not using built in Windows capabilities, they’re engaging in shenanigans emulating HID inputs over USB or something.

All I know from personal experience is that modern Windows will not autorun a CD anymore, even though up until XP it would.

95, and they disabled it circa Vista because it was obviously a stupid idea.

Ironically, this was originally only for drives that reported themselves as optical media (CD/DVD), but now modern versions of Windows actually won’t autoplay an immutable commercially pressed CD, even if it has the correct autoplay.inf file on its root directory structure, but somehow it will autorun things on a flash drive which is a medium explicitly capable of being fucked with by a malicious actor.

Because that makes sense.

I have no idea what you’re talking about, says the chump who has a series of precisely 103 formulaic knife reviews posted here.

Bob.