the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

this whole github renaming master to main thing... can we do that across the rest of electrical and computer engineering?

no more MOSI and MISO, go with SDI and SDO

replace the master/slave terminology for communications and control buses with something like controller/device

oop, forgot that i'd have to accept some monsterpit follows too! Done that now

i feel like we've made this exact post before....

wait wait

Uematsu wrote the theme for Super Smash Bros Brawl?

that explains why it's so different

visual novels are so weird

you can pause while there's a text box up

you can *save* while there's a text box up

why can you be overwhelmed or underwhelmed but you can't be a middling amount of whelmed

YPbPr is a good standard but it's a bit annoying to work with

at a hardware level stuff always tends to work in RGB. YPbPr is just a rotation of RGB, which means it's able to represent exactly the same amount of detail

the advantage of YPbPr is the same as that of composite video: if you have a black and white TV, you can still get a black and white image by just plugging in the Y (luminance) cable and ignoring the chrominance altogether.

In composite video, the chrominance is superimposed on top of the luminance, modulated at a high frequency, but in S-video, the chrominance is separated out into its own signal, and in component, it's separated into two signals for the blue and red components--the green, of course, can be determined from knowing those and the total luminance.

Since S-video has to cram two chroma components into the same bandwidth as YPbPr's single chroma component per cable, it has a slightly worse video. But both are better than composite, which crams both chroma components into a very tiny bandwidth, since you always want as much bandwidth as you can spare going to your luminance.

Component gets around the whole thing by giving the full bandwidth to all three and using three communication channels, which is the ideal situation and allows for your chrominance to be equal in resolution to luminance.

specifically, we got an SNES SCART cable wired up for a north american SNES's RGB output (you can only get these aftermarket for obvious reasons--nothing in north america uses SCART) along with an RGB->YPbPr transcoder

this is needed because the SNES natively supports only composite video, S-video, and RGB, and composite video has chroma bleed, our tv doesn't support S-video (and it also has smaller amounts of artifacting), and our TV doesn't support RGB (nor do most TVs)

finally got some video hardware we ordered a while ago and now we can finally play SNES games on original hardware in high definition*!

*high definition here means with no chroma bleed like you get with composite video--it's still 240p, obviously

anyone know what happened to @Dex? haven't seen them in a while but they apparently are still around since i just saw someone post a commission they'd done for them

rrrgh

i do this thing, way too much, where i try to help when people didn't ask for help (which is a problem) and i don't realize I'm doing it until the person gets upset or brushes me off and then i feel really bad for doing it but i don't know how to apologize

like, i really shouldn't have tried to help because this is absolutely not something i know more about than the person asking for help, why did i try to help

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a 120-cell is the four-dimensional analog of a dodecahedron. like how a dodecahedron is made of twelve pentagons, a 120-cell is made of 120 dodecahedra

3D mario games are one dimension higher than 2D mario games like super mario world

thus, go one dimension higher than a dodecahedron and add the extra h from the speedrunner's moniker and you get 120chell

random weird thought

there's a super mario world speedrunner who goes by the name dodechehedron

he should go by 120chell when running 3d mario games

in case you don't know, Apicius is an ancient roman person who wrote what i'm pretty sure is generally regarded as the world's first cookbook

you ever just randomly want to try making some of the recipes from apicius, despite not being good at cooking and not having the stuff needed

bip

I'm surprised how many "what's a moon pie?"s we've gotten already