the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

we don't know his last name, do we?
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what if bill from pokemon is just that universe's bill nye
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@ziphi iwrc there are green rubies too
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last wednesday's xkcd is just us https://xkcd.com/2621/

like all the famous people we do know, we know for weird reasons

like, apparently steward copeland was part of a really popular musical group but we know him as the guy who composed spyro's soundtrack

and one of the examples in the comic itself--we know david bowie as the guy from labyrinth, but i know he was a really popular musician too
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@BatElite @heatherhorns well she is just a lil creacher, just a gremlin type of creacher
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@LexYeen i don't look forward to when we *do* need a new phone when something breaks that can't be replaced, because no one makes them with replaceable batteries anymore
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@LexYeen we've replaced the batteries in our phone twice, and if it hadn't had replaceable batteries we'd have had to just get a new one

stop making things non-replaceable
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@Kyresti Identity is squishy.
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@Kyresti pretty unrelated to the actual topic here but we didn't know you were ever part avian! we met you as a dragon i think
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@noiob even considering the extra cost of the reader hardware to put in the systems?
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@noiob as much as we like cartridges, disks had a lot of advantages

now that there's cheap flash memory cartridges make more sense again (hence their continued use for portable stuff) but disks made more sense basically from the 90s until the 2010s

i think now we just keep using disks in stuff like the ps4 and xbox one out of habit and customer expectation
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@noiob hardware codecs did exist at the time and it would have been possible to put one on the cartridge at the time but it would have been way more expensive than would be worth it

if several manufacturers agreed on a standard they might have been able to do something that went in the expansion port or something and contained a hardware codec so you wouldn't need one in each cartridge, but there wasn't any incentive to do that when they could just release on psx or saturn
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@noiob hence my distinction between doing it now and doing it at the time, it's kind of cheating to use modern hardware
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@noiob yeah that's what i meant by putting a hardware codec on the cartridge, you can get those pretty inexpensively now
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@noiob actually even doing it with modern stuff might require trickery like a codec on the cartridge or something
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@noiob you could probably do it with modern tech, but at the time yeah definitely not, that makes sense
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@noiob oh yeah, fmvs were big at the time yeah, forgot about that

yeah i guess it'd be hard to port a game with lots of fmvs to the n64
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@noiob hm, makes sense

not sure why cartridges couldn't have had a game like ffvii on them though? unless you mean just storage limitations, which yeah i guess so
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@codl i would be surprised if it's not "most"
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jrpgs were still really big in that time period, the psx and ps2 had a ton, so it's not just a lack of games

did nintendo have policies at the time that limited them somehow? i know tthey were not on good terms with squaresoft at the time
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