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I would say film restoration is what allows old movies to be enjoyed the way they were made.
Re:We Need to Die on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:18PM (#46210794)
Guillermo del Toro's "Pinnochio" actually impressed the dread feeling much more, personally. It's interesting how similar these two movies are, considering the target audience is quite different.
Roller mice are great. I also set up my keyboard such that I can hold down a key and use WASD to move my mouse, with J being left click and K being right. That's been a game changer for me, too.
This looks incredible, I was hoping when I clicked that it would be ortholinear, pleasantly surprised it is! Probably about four years ago I bought a ZSA Moonlander, and started learning Vim keybindings right at the same time. My words per minute dropped to 20 or something before climbing back and passing what it was before. I couldn't ever go back.
Re:Ask HN: What inspires you about computing? on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:28PM (#43017940)
If you're doing self promotion, I would disclose at least that you're doing so.
Every time you like/dislike/watchlist a movie you're posting data. When you're watching a movie your progress is constantly updated, posting data. Simple stuff but there's possibly hundreds of thousands of concurrent users doing that at any given moment.
Re:The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:31PM (#39179198)
> I think if you ask the question, how do you make a compelling narrative when there's one camera, it can move anywhere on set, and it's sentient?

There's live theater too. Could be an interesting way to experience front-row tickets for a play. But what could AVP provide that a live play couldn't? Maybe putting the viewer in the middle of the stage, but it would be a pain to keep rotating to witness the action.

Re:The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps on Monday January 29, 2024 @12:23PM (#39179088)
If I'm watching a movie with my romantic partner, I'd like to be in the same room as them lol. Not really interested in a VR Chat relationship.
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019) on Thursday December 14, 2023 @05:50PM (#38648486)
What's funny is that after demonstrating the loop you still have to give a concrete number of times that you repeat it. You can't deal infinite damage, but you sure can do a googolplex damage.
Re:Advent of Code 2023 is nigh on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:18PM (#38490198)
If it had shown "eightwo" as the last part of a string, then people with overlap would fail the example because they'd be finding "eight" where "two" would be correct. Having it at the beginning means it was overlooked, at least for me.

Though, I have no problem with the "spec". This a code puzzle game, so figuring that out was part of the fun, in my opinion

Re:Steam Deck OLED on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:04PM (#38212019)
For me, if there's some good way to gate kids from participating then gambling with loot boxes should be perfectly accepted. Not that it's good game design, but adults can vote with their attention/money
Re:The Casino in Your Pocket on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:26PM (#37664608)
Especially bad when trying to pick a lock ten times in a row haha
Re:The Casino in Your Pocket on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:50PM (#37662116)
At least on PC, you can click a couple times to avoid the animation. I tend to when the outcome is pretty likely (trying to roll above 10 with a +8 modifier for example) but the anticipation is exciting to my monkey brain if it's a tougher roll.