zoeysmithe (u/zoeysmithe)

zoeysmithe commented on Super Mario 64 for the PS1 github.com/malucard/sm64-... · Posted by u/LaserDiscMan

here's another video that showed good gameplay shots that I happened to see last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscCFfXecTI

zoeysmithe · 4 days ago

Its incredible to how compltely unwatchable modern youtube norms are, to me at least. I feel like youtubers now aim almost exclusively for the 12-18 demographic. I mean, this person is doing some kind of character or affectation instead of using a normal voice. Everything is some kind of grift or character or PR or persona now it seems. I understand they do this to get viewers, but its just depressing how much more content I'd enjoy if the PR gimmicks and lowest-common-denominator tricks were stopped.

I just saw techtips Linus interview Linus Torvalds and the constant manboying and bad jokes was just embarrassing and badly hurt the interview. I really wish people like this would turn it way, way down. I think we all love some levity and whimsy, but now those gimmicks are bigger and louder than the actual content.

zoeysmithe commented on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux heise.de/en/news/Valve-HD... · Posted by u/OsrsNeedsf2P

0l · 4 days ago

Uh, the HDMI forum is non-profit

zoeysmithe · 4 days ago

Profit/non-profit isn't a big difference. Many non-profits are essentially businesses in practice (money spent/managed, the non-profit just a conduit to the for-profit companies that defacto own it), but just don't issue stock. A non-profit can act like this, and DOES. Non-profits exist in a capitalist context and inherit those norms. Again, this is why we aim for open standards.

Also a non-profit is just that, its not a charity. A charity is an entirely other classification and even those are regularly used and abused like this.

zoeysmithe commented on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux heise.de/en/news/Valve-HD... · Posted by u/OsrsNeedsf2P

cedws · 4 days ago

Why on earth is a connector standard secret?

zoeysmithe · 4 days ago

Why not? Its not an open standard. This is the rent-seeking behavior you get under for-profit capitalist implementations. This is why we push so hard for open standards.

zoeysmithe commented on When a video codec wins an Emmy blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

KronisLV · 4 days ago

> AV1 fixed a structural problem in the ecosystem at the time, but the work isn’t finished. Video demand keeps rising, and the next generation of open codecs must remain competitive.

> AOMedia is working on the upcoming release of AV2. It will feature meaningfully better compression than AV1, much higher efficiency for screen/graphical content, alpha channel support, and more.

That's all nice and good, but please make AV1 as widespread as H264, so that I can just import it in every editing program as well instead of having Adobe Premiere Pro complain about not knowing what that format is (well, I personally prefer DaVinci Resolve, but my editor is on Adobe). But yeah, I think that AV1 is great but would like support for it across the board, on every device (hardware decoding and encoding) as well as Kdenlive and Resolve and all the other editors and everything on the software side.

zoeysmithe · 4 days ago

tbf AOMedia doesnt really make this call. The steam deck for example doesn't do AV1 natively. It could, but Valve has so far decided not to implement it. I dont know how many other devices and systems that could do AV1 but don't do it exist, but to get this level of support, we really need to pressure these companies.

zoeysmithe commented on The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn segasaturnshiro.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tosh

wffurr · 5 days ago

They really didn't cover at all why this game is better specifically on Saturn than PS1 or any modern remake / emulator.

zoeysmithe · 5 days ago

Shrug, if I blog about the joys of driving down route 66 in a '57 Chevy, I really dont have any obligation to give equal time to what its like in a '57 Packard. Its a Saturn fan site, so its just going to be Saturn-centric.

zoeysmithe commented on Damn Small Linux damnsmalllinux.org/... · Posted by u/grubbs

vel0city · 6 days ago

I agree with this take. Win95's 4MB minimum/8MB recommended memory requirement and a 20MHz processor is seen as the acceptable place to draw the line but there were graphical desktops on the market before that on systems with 128K of RAM and 8MHz processors. Why aren't we considering Win95's requirements as ridiculously bloated?

zoeysmithe · 5 days ago

Yep, at the time the Amiga crowd was laughing at the bloat. But now its suddenly the gold standard on efficiency? I think a lot of people like to be argumentative because they refuse to understand they are engaging in mere nostalgia and not actually anything factual or logical.

zoeysmithe commented on Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban politico.com/news/2025/12... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

zoeysmithe · 5 days ago

Remember this guy was chased out of chicago for trying to cover up the murder of Laquan McDonald by the CPD. Then, previously was famous for being Clinton's fixer in the Gennifer Flowers case. The fact that this man has any political career at all is an incredible indictment of our system.

zoeysmithe commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting

nutjob2 · 6 days ago

I think it gives Netflix an advantage. When it comes up in front of a judge he'll note the obvious conflict of interest and Trump's idiotic pronouncements, like the fact that he said he will be personally involved, and rule for Netflix.

zoeysmithe · 6 days ago

This will go to SCOTUS, which typically gives the administration preferential treatment. The US's current level of corruption is way too high to assume your scenario.