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breakbread commented on The Game Genie Generation tedium.co/2025/07/21/the-... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

grepfru_it · a month ago

The game genie did not give you a menu, you inputed codes which would persistently modify the memory map of the cartridge allowing for things like 99 lives or max Hp. The “menu” you describe was a booklet containing every game and a list of code changes.

Of course you could write in your own codes and make your own hacks but a lot of the time you ended up with garbled graphics or an unbootable game. They did keep this developer documentation to a minimum and this was before the internet. Although my local BBS had an ascii document detailing game genie’s internals and how to write your own codes, it was far from the reach of most 10 year olds

The game genie knockoff clone (I forget the name but remember the ads lol) had all of the codes in memory and as such gave you a menu to choose from

breakbread · a month ago

>The game genie knockoff clone

GameShark!

breakbread commented on Shared DNA in Music pudding.cool/2025/04/musi... · Posted by u/ksampath02

jl6 · 5 months ago

What this mostly seems to demonstrate is that hip-pop is endlessly derivative. That might be a consequence of their data source:

> To build this project, we used the dataset of hundreds of thousands of songs on Genius.com accessible through their API, over 200,000 of which were “connected” in some way by sample, interpolation, cover, or remix.

Genres where sampling is openly and explicitly acknowledged are going to be massively over-represented. It would be cool build a relationship network using feature extraction on the actual audio.

breakbread · 5 months ago

There's also https://www.whosampled.com/

breakbread commented on Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

vanderZwan · 6 months ago

The cultural impact on childhood memory is interesting, but I have to say that the first paragraph was a bit off-putting, like it was written by someone who should pay a bit more attention to the actual experience of their child in order to support them through these formative years instead of projecting their own adult frustrations on them:

> Life must be great as a baby: to be fed and clothed and carried places in soft pouches, to be waved and smiled at by adoring strangers, to have the temerity to scream because food hasn’t arrived quickly enough, and then to throw it on the ground when it is displeasing. It’s a shame none of us recalls exactly how good we once had it.

Babies are also almost completely unable to move around by themselves and are constantly frustrated by their lack of agency. They are extremely vulnerable and utterly dependent on the kindness of their parents and other older humans in their environment. They lack language so have no other way of communicating than screaming, which is often also a cause of great distress because of an inability to communicate a basic need (and on that note, even knowing what those needs are half of the time, given that the ability to make sense of ones own senses is still being developed).

All of this while life is a nonstop series of first experiences, meaning that even the most mundane thing can (and often is) surprising, confusing and overwhelming, leading to a high need for reassurance, because being scared and wanting to make sure that you're really safe is honestly a very sensible reaction to have when you add all of those things up.

I'm not saying life sucks for babies and toddlers, but as a parent of a two-year old myself it's pretty obvious to me that it's no walk in the park for them either.

breakbread · 6 months ago

I remember listening to some NPR segment where a doctor/researcher said the first couple years is like a long acid trip. He was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it resonated with me.

breakbread commented on The Costco of Housing is Costco? The retailer's plan to use CA housing laws urbanproxima.com/p/the-co... · Posted by u/vwoolf

throwup238 · a year ago

Nothing bulk gummy multivitamins and semaglutide can't solve.

Costco even sells an MCT supplement that doubles as the best massage oil and lube I’ve ever used.

breakbread · a year ago

Now I’m imagining a Costco acropolis. One membership for literally all your needs. Never leave Costco

breakbread commented on Inside the Steam Deck's APU boilingsteam.com/an-in-de... · Posted by u/ekianjo

awesomepeter · 2 years ago

I’ve had the OG Steam Deck and now have the OLED.

Genuinely curious, what do you consider low build quality on them?

breakbread · 2 years ago

Not OP, but the buttons are a bit mushy, the shell a bit creaky and, worst of all, the the Steam and Quick Access buttons feel terrible. It's all much more apparent when I pick up my Switch Lite, which itself isn't something I'd consider high build quality. That said, I'm ok with the compromises considering the price point.

breakbread commented on NERV Disaster Prevention nerv.app/en/... · Posted by u/spike021

earthboundkid · 2 years ago

Eva is on some level a parody of Gundam used to explore adult themes of depression, isolation, loneliness, parental conflict, and figuring out your sexual identity. It's more like Akira or Ghost in the Shell than it is like Pokemon or One Piece. For an American analogy, it's like Watchmen vs. Superman. Watchmen is a case of taking the kids entertainment of superhero comics and using it to explore more adult topics.

breakbread · 2 years ago

Or put another way, they’re both deconstructing a genre

breakbread commented on Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design cnu.org/publicsquare/2023... · Posted by u/jseliger

seanmcdirmid · 2 years ago

I only experienced that in Sylvania Ohio (a suburb of Toledo). In Vicksburg MS, where I was living in the county...it was a real neighborhood (not the sticks) but we had no parks, well it was the deep south. In outside of Bothell Washington it was the same thing, but I could drive by then so whatever.

I guess I romanticized the big city as a kid, leading me to prefer urban over suburban living for my own kid. Maybe this will backlash and he will choose suburbia for his own kid(s).

breakbread · 2 years ago

I grew up in Madison/Ridgeland, Ms, where I did experience this. To some extent, at least. I had neighborhood friends. We rode bikes, crossed the tracks to go to the comic book store, etc.

Still, I’ve always romanticized the big city. Never lived it, though, so maybe it’s a grass-is-greener thing, but maybe I’ll be able to give it a whirl someday.

breakbread commented on Southern Gumbo Trail (2006) southernfoodways.org/oral... · Posted by u/Kye

greenie_beans · 2 years ago

whoa, SFA on the front page of HN. two worlds of mine colliding.

this organization is part of the center for the study of southern culture. a humanities-based academic discipline that a lot of tech folks might think is worthless.

breakbread · 2 years ago

I was recently back in Oxford and wound up chatting over beers with someone who worked with SFA. Despite living there for 8 years, I’d never heard of it before.

breakbread commented on Cormac McCarthy has died nytimes.com/2023/06/13/bo... · Posted by u/benbreen

stubybubs · 2 years ago

I would hope any good director would have the sense to know that it probably isn't for them. I can't imagine Spielberg picking this up. Gangs of New York is about as close as Scorsese could get but still too Hollywood. The Cohens did a great job of No Country but don't seem like a fit for Blood Meridian.

And hopefully nobody would offer it to somebody second rate.

breakbread · 2 years ago

Paul Thomas Anderson?