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tombert 11 hours ago [-]
When the apocalypse happens, I am sure of two things:
1) I will be able to play DOOM on something.
2) I will be able to watch Bad Apple on something.
I suppose there are worse fates.
a012 7 hours ago [-]
You can also watch Star War on terminal
Wowfunhappy 7 hours ago [-]
Well, the first several minutes, anyway.
Some future civilization which recovers only ASCII Star Wars will be unaware how the story ends. It will be a subject of great debate among scholars.
dylan604 6 hours ago [-]
That's so sad. They'll never know the classic line "Soy tu padre mijo"
bigyabai 11 hours ago [-]
It'll be like that episode of The Twilight Zone with the guy's glasses when you find a CD with Crysis on it but only have a Voodoo 5 installed.
ColdStream 5 hours ago [-]
That would be wild but very funny. They are rare now but in the bizarro land, Nvidia never exists!
argee 11 hours ago [-]
I had similar situations in my youth, I have fond memories of hacking games up so they'd work without the 3D models. You haven't lived until you've played Mafia only being able to see the player's shadow beating up the target's shadow with a bat.
w-ll 8 hours ago [-]
Please elaborate, were the worlds not 3d? I guess shadows where gradient sprits on the the ground, but im curios to what you did?
argee 8 hours ago [-]
Yes, anything that was statically lit was fine. The game had absurdly low graphics requirements for modern standards, but even so I didn't have a GPU, just integrated graphics. So hacking the game to not render dynamically lit items was enough to make it playable (also needed some tweaks that would let it even launch in the first place). I obviously can't say exactly what I did though, this was a very, very long time ago (24 years).
Horses can be bad too... though for different reasons, I suspect.
traceroute -m 60 bad.horse
BobbyTables2 6 hours ago [-]
Wow, never considered the possibility of a “flood” mode for traceroute. This is hilarious !
pimlottc 6 hours ago [-]
Impressive, but for full points it should work on the public internet!
fragmede 2 hours ago [-]
ssh to funky.nondeterministic.computer for some similar fun.
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thebouridentity 5 hours ago [-]
So 8000001 bits? Not byte.
mikesoylu 11 hours ago [-]
This is art
kstrauser 6 hours ago [-]
I LOLed. Amazing. Bravo!
kogasa240p 6 hours ago [-]
Holy shit touhou
brcmthrowaway 11 hours ago [-]
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stavros 10 hours ago [-]
We're all grownups here, we've seen sex before.
chrystalkey 11 hours ago [-]
You do need to get that stick up your colon surgically removed I think
akoboldfrying 6 hours ago [-]
Incredible concept and execution!
Long, axe-grindy aside: I wish people had collectively decided on some other mostly-black-and-white video to use for this kind of thing than Bad Apple. As a stereotypically nerdy-looking socially awkward male in a world where that is often enough all by itself to be viewed as "a creep", I feel pressured to distance myself from anything that others might interpret as confirmation of that -- like, for example, watching anime featuring young girls dancing in an ambiguously sexual way on a computer screen. (To avoid pointless angry replies: the clip plainly can be interpreted in this way, and that suffices.) Should I have to do this? Of course not, but others' perceptions of me are what they are, and they have serious implications for my quality of life, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. All that, and I don't even like anime! And so I long for the day when BA just... goes away.
Maybe some black people feel the same way about ordering fried chicken at a restaurant, etc.
XYen0n 6 hours ago [-]
We should eliminate prejudice and discrimination, rather than comply with them.
applfanboysbgon 4 minutes ago [-]
> the clip plainly can be interpreted in this way, and that suffices.
I have literally never seen someone interpret it this way in the 17 years the video has been making the rounds to tens of millions of people on the internet. There is nothing in the video that could possibly be construed as sexual by any rational human being. It would take some insanely misogynistic mental gymnastics like "girl + dancing = sexual" to reach that conclusion. If someone did interpret it this way and raise a fuss, the correct response would be to ignore them for being a completely unhinged Twitter weirdo. Pre-emptively avoiding things you enjoy because of how they might be interpreted by unhinged Twitter weirdos is itself unhinged.
sublinear 2 hours ago [-]
You're not wrong. Until the 2010s, a Playboy centerfold[1] was the most popular test image. Around the same time that got canceled, Bad Apple was popularized for video tests.
> And so I long for the day when BA just... goes away.
I honestly thought it had gone away. Every time I see Bad Apple, I assume a millennial weeb from the past is behind the demo and I check if the upload date is from before 2020. It usually is, and the project is now unmaintained.
Anyway, unlike Lenna, I don't think I've ever seen Bad Apple used for anything important. It's much easier to ignore. Your annoyance is valid, but only in the same sense as thinking graffiti is tacky. People don't look at it and think "Oh shit! JJ wuz here?! Watch out!".
1) I will be able to play DOOM on something.
2) I will be able to watch Bad Apple on something.
I suppose there are worse fates.
Some future civilization which recovers only ASCII Star Wars will be unaware how the story ends. It will be a subject of great debate among scholars.
https://youtu.be/AJ2Q12vYojY
traceroute -m 60 bad.horse
Long, axe-grindy aside: I wish people had collectively decided on some other mostly-black-and-white video to use for this kind of thing than Bad Apple. As a stereotypically nerdy-looking socially awkward male in a world where that is often enough all by itself to be viewed as "a creep", I feel pressured to distance myself from anything that others might interpret as confirmation of that -- like, for example, watching anime featuring young girls dancing in an ambiguously sexual way on a computer screen. (To avoid pointless angry replies: the clip plainly can be interpreted in this way, and that suffices.) Should I have to do this? Of course not, but others' perceptions of me are what they are, and they have serious implications for my quality of life, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. All that, and I don't even like anime! And so I long for the day when BA just... goes away.
Maybe some black people feel the same way about ordering fried chicken at a restaurant, etc.
I have literally never seen someone interpret it this way in the 17 years the video has been making the rounds to tens of millions of people on the internet. There is nothing in the video that could possibly be construed as sexual by any rational human being. It would take some insanely misogynistic mental gymnastics like "girl + dancing = sexual" to reach that conclusion. If someone did interpret it this way and raise a fuss, the correct response would be to ignore them for being a completely unhinged Twitter weirdo. Pre-emptively avoiding things you enjoy because of how they might be interpreted by unhinged Twitter weirdos is itself unhinged.
> And so I long for the day when BA just... goes away.
I honestly thought it had gone away. Every time I see Bad Apple, I assume a millennial weeb from the past is behind the demo and I check if the upload date is from before 2020. It usually is, and the project is now unmaintained.
Anyway, unlike Lenna, I don't think I've ever seen Bad Apple used for anything important. It's much easier to ignore. Your annoyance is valid, but only in the same sense as thinking graffiti is tacky. People don't look at it and think "Oh shit! JJ wuz here?! Watch out!".
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna