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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • Nintendo wasn’t always like that. Every Nintendo console before the GameCube was the most powerful console of its generation. The GameCube was second most powerful behind Xbox but ahead of PS2. But like the N64, Nintendo made the GameCube with a fatal flaw that caused a severe limitation that was completely unnecessary: the game storage media.

    For the N64, it was the choice to not use disks and thus were limited to only 64MB at most of game filesize, but the GameCube had disks. Except they were those stupid tiny ones that only held like 1.5GB instead of a normal sized disks at the time which held up to 8GB.

    Then they made the Wii, which was just the GameCube 1.5, used nearly the same parts except it used normal disks finally and it sold like crazy. Unfortunately, Nintendo learned the wrong lesson and instead of saying “make normal consoles” they now learned to “make weak, cheap consoles.” And now we are at where we are.

  • (Free) Most: Super Mecha Champions, which was a free battle royale game on Steam that was a port of a mobile game. Best FREE.99 I ever spent, was such a fun game until servers closed.

    (Paid) Most: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Literally peak game. It got me into modding and software development, and I still play it to this day. Best $59.99 I ever spent ($59.99 brand new for the 1.0 gold cart in 1998)

    Worst: Need for Speed Unbound. Worst $4.99 I ever spent, I turned the game off after the characters in the game couldn’t stop yapping in my ear about “police and politicans oppressing street racers.” Also the driving physics suck because of course they do, Criterion made it.

  • Heat isn’t free because heat is essentially energy transfer, and energy cannot be destroyed or created, thus it always has a cost.

    You might be able to try to somehow “recycle” it by piggybacking off of some heat generator such as nuclear power plant cooling water (which is not likely to be hot enough for any level of efficiency (30-40C only, usually), and also unsure of the ramifications it could have with reduced water flow and increases to flow back pressure), but it is much less likely you will find enough sustainable heat that is a byproduct of something else like that compared to just building a heat generator specifically for that. At that point, why not continue to use the technology already in place?

    Not to mention building something to house that can damage the local environment, in the same way data centers do. Resources funneled to it, water diversions, noise pollution, etc. Would the pollution cost of this kind of facility be worth the pay off? Would it be less than the already pretty efficient refrigerators already in use with at least equal performance?

    In reality, human existence is pollution. It is not possible for humans to live without some level of environment pollution, because humans don’t really provide anything back to the environment it wasn’t already getting from somewhere else. Humans are perhaps the only creature on Earth that could be deleted and there would not likely be any negative effects of the environment. Earth can take care of itself pretty well without human intervention.