the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

i wonder why the big capture card company is called elgato

did the founder just like cats?

i still want to see a flying-fox/bat-eared-fox gryphon

flying foxes are like birds but not, and bat-eared foxes are like cats but not

TCP connections are initiated by the sending and receiving servers basically saying "hey i need you to open a connection" "i'm ready to open the connection" "okay open the connection"; these three messages are known as a "handshake". UDP doesn't do this, in UDP the sender just hurls packets at the receiver without bothering to check whether the receiver a) is capable of receiving at the rate it wants to send, b) is ready to receive, c) knows the sender exists, or d) exists itself.

i'd like to see some kind of full list of these, because I bet a lot of them are pretty great

just happened to catch this by chance pausing a speedrun video

the sprites you get mid-pokeball-exiting in gen 1 are really something

why is everyone so cute?

Engineering, n.

Occupation concerned with the transition between two states, those being "it's not working and I have no idea why" and "it's working and I have no idea why", usually from the former to the latter.

another game to maybe stream at some point: AM2R

what actual advantages are there to using directx 12 instead of dx11

(ys iv is a weird situation okay)

no way are we playing all of the series, it has eight games in it, one of them twice

I think the Ys series, or at least its first two games, might be our next thing after finishing Boktai

a first-pass list is:

Long games (multiple streams):
- Wild ARMs 3
- Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
- Suikoden 2
- Tales of Eternia
- Boktai 2
- Boktai 3
- Terranigma

Short games (one or two streams):
- Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished: Omen
- Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished: The Final Chapter

I'm kinda focusing on comparatively little-known games here, since people already know the big names like final fantasy and pokemon and stuff

talking to @connie on their stream got me thinking about what other games I want to stream in the future

great, got a refill of our medication and it's from a different manufacturer and now it's *exactly* the same shape and size as a different medication we take on a different schedule

why's it called h.264 anyway? why 264?

how exactly does a 1080p usb 2.0 capture card work anyway

simple math suggests that it has to have an on-board video encoder, as 60 Hz 1080p 24bpp video would require just shy of 3 Gb/s, over six times what USB 2.0 can handle

oh, dissociation time, okay

you ever hear something about a video game, think it sounds interesting, go to check its price on steam, and then discover that you've apparently owned it since september of last year?

playing civilization vi

just made a trade deal with (honestly actually just acceded to the demands of) russia, playing as scythia

got a notification saying that my delegate in russia learned that russia is trading with scythia

i think we knew that already, delegate person