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i guess all optical fiber is either that or a long cylinder of flexible glass but this is like. Almost rubbery plastic, you're not going to break it from bending it too sharply like high-performance optical fiber

it doesn't even use a laser diode for a transmitter, it's just a plain old LED that can't even turn on and off all that fast compared to modern optical communications systems

it's literally just like. A long cylinder of flexible transparent plastic

its purpose could easily be filled by a copper cable but optical fiber is Cool™er

it's not very good optical fiber which means it's cheap, too

i like toslink because its entire reason for existing is "hey optical fiber is cool, let's use it for this thing even though it's the 90s and we don't have the technology to do it well yet"

on the topic of things that are never gonna happen, how about Belius as an assist trophy too

while we're talking about quadrupedal characters, why not throw Repede in there too. Repede is good.

I do have other characters we'd love to see, but none that have to our knowledge been on a nintendo console, which is a prerequisite for being in smash as far as we can tell

Virginia Maxwell (Wild Arms 3) or Ryou (Suikoden II) would be fantastic characters to mix things up but they've never been on a nintendo system

ooh, Amaterasu would be a neat one to see too

plus it'd mean you get to play as two gods in smash

I guess half of these are just more sword fighters though so I can see there might be a problem

in the case of the ToS characters yeah that's pretty true

But I would also counter that by saying: Isaac and Felix have pretty unique magic at their disposal

And then Django and Sabata would of *course* get their gun del sol and gun del hell respectively

as for spyro: hey, he's just a dragon. breathes fire and all that.

somehow i've gotten into watching super smash bros youtube videos

and now it has me thinking about characters i really hope get added

- Lloyd and/or Kratos from Tales of Symphonia (they play differently in the source game but I could see kratos as a lloyd echo fighter)
- Isaac and/or Felix from Golden Sun (definitely could be echo fighters)
- Django from the Boktai series (hey, Sabata could be an echo fighter here too!)
- A pretty unique one: Spyro?

Velo City

so uh, I just found out that this flash drive we bought for $40 a while ago is now going for $25, now supports USB 3.1, and it's *128 GB in size*. which is completely absurd at that price point.

We remember when $25 netted you a nice 256 MB usb 2.0 flash drive

AMD and nvidia seem to have always been pretty neck-and-neck in terms of GPU performance, with the deciding difference often being that AMD's drivers are often less stable and prone to crashing

which is a shame because AMD is absolutely the best big tech company out there right now morals-wise. fortunately they're currently also beating the hell out of Intel in every regard except mobile processors and something about memory controllers? though still trailing behind nvidia gpu-wise

nvidia and amd follow completely different naming schemes. The AMD RX 580 came out in 2017 and is roughly equivalent in power to nvidia's contemporary GTX 1060. nvidia's GTX 580 came out at the end of 2010 and its AMD competitor at the time was the Radeon HD 6970 which had a similar price point and very similar performance

looks like AMD makes a better 580 than nvidia by far

amateurgramming

there are probably other examples it just really amuses me to have a narrow category that includes both suikoden 2 and kirby

Video games where the protagonist and antagonist are friends

- Kirby series
- Suikoden 2
- that's it, that's the whole list