mrblarg

At first I thought my premium lapsed, then I came here and thought it was a joke

Fuck Ryan Davis (❤️)

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Goddamn. I once got a single line reply from Ryan in 2010 and I still think about it. I love the current bomb crew, but Jesus. There will never be another Ryan Davis.

I just so happened to be watching this video essay about OS bloat and it reminded me of what Jeff was saying about cartridges vs storage cards and I have an answer:

1. Cards run on an OS
2. Cartridges are an OS

That is to say that cartridges run in native mode and have direct access to the hardware (probably going through some libraries supplied by the hardware manufacturer). Systems with an OS give a generic black-box for the software to use and intentionally hide all of the hardware.

Obviously, systems like the Gamecube up until maybe the Wii-U did not use carts (ignoring the Super GBA thing you could plug into the GCN). The high random-access speeds of some kind of ROM (including Flash EEPROM which is obviously not ROM at all) is the other key that Jeff locked onto. But the OS is the difference between the DS and Switch.

Long time ago I was on a site and we had a saying: “You still have to jack off a horse.”

Still true with hamsters, I guess.

They had a sad bastard cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit in Black Widow and it was especially dumb.

Also I feel Neil Cicireaga is the Millennial Wierd Al. It’s not the same thing, but they share similar roots.

@lemonator: Exactly! There is but one Thursday meme.

@noblenerf: word.

I came in late and saw the basketball guy with the airpods and was like "he is totally 3d rendered". Rewatching it and Brad mentioned that people in chat were saying the same thing. Is it just weird video? Did they really do it? What the hell am I looking at?

Posting post-Endgame. If, in 2011, you had said to me "Thor will be a fun character and a Guardian of the Galaxy" I would have acted like I understood and then found a way to leave and tell a grownup.