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Feb. 6th, 2013
Interesting Links for 06-02-2013
Feb. 6th, 2013 11:00 am- Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity
- The Lib-Dems just tried to kill secret courts, but were blocked by the DUP supporting the Conservatives
- Diet, parental behavior and preschool can boost children's IQ
- What living on benefits really means
- The cutest puppy photo I've seen in a while.
- What Orbital bombardments look like from EVE online into Dust 514, recorded at the same time.
- A missing scene from Groundhog Day resurfaces.
- Bacon Roses!!!!!
- Some really, really stinky cheese jokes.
- How the perfection of modern actors looks out of place in period productions
- Quentin Tarantino Applauds ‘The Hobbit’s’ Gratuitous Use of N-Word
- Husbands who do more traditionally female housework have less sex
- Disney CEO says we're getting Star Wars spinoff films on top of the new trilogy
- Opinion poll indicates NI voters would reject Irish unity
- GSK to publish clinical trial data for drugs - fantastic news!
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So it looks like we're going to see announcements in the next while from both Sony and Microsoft about the next gen Playstation and XBox.
And I'm wondering what they can announce that will make them seem better than the current generation.
There's no point raising the resolution above 1080p, because (a)TVs don't support higher resolution than that and (b)the vast majority of people don't have a big enough TV to see a higher resolution than that*.
So, I'd hope that they'd be able to manage a solid 60FPS. And presumably we'll see more physics-based animation to pretty things up**. And I don't see pullany reason why they can't support 3D out of the box.
But I can't see any of that exerting the same pull that there was from the PS2 to the PS3, let alone from the PS1 to the PS2. Take a look at this video, which shows the difference between PS1, PS2, and PS3 games. The difference from PS1 to PS2 is very marked. The difference from PS2 to PS3 is definitely there, but it's nowhere near the same leap. Detail seems to be exponentially more expensive to produce, so each generation of consoles makes less of a difference than the last.
Though I haven't tried it myself, the Wii U's asymmetric gameplay - where one person plays on the tablet and has a different experience to the people playing on the TV (thus allowing them to either assist or work against the other players, depending on the game) strikes me as at least an interesting way forward.
Any thoughts about what the next generation of consoles might be able to do that the current generation can't?
*See: http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/ which tells me that unless you have a 50" TV you sit within 5 feet of, your 20:20 vision aint getting anything out of ultra-high-resolution screens.
**See: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/30/nvidia-uses-hawken-to-show-off-physx-clevers/ for an example of this.
And I'm wondering what they can announce that will make them seem better than the current generation.
There's no point raising the resolution above 1080p, because (a)TVs don't support higher resolution than that and (b)the vast majority of people don't have a big enough TV to see a higher resolution than that*.
So, I'd hope that they'd be able to manage a solid 60FPS. And presumably we'll see more physics-based animation to pretty things up**. And I don't see pullany reason why they can't support 3D out of the box.
But I can't see any of that exerting the same pull that there was from the PS2 to the PS3, let alone from the PS1 to the PS2. Take a look at this video, which shows the difference between PS1, PS2, and PS3 games. The difference from PS1 to PS2 is very marked. The difference from PS2 to PS3 is definitely there, but it's nowhere near the same leap. Detail seems to be exponentially more expensive to produce, so each generation of consoles makes less of a difference than the last.
Though I haven't tried it myself, the Wii U's asymmetric gameplay - where one person plays on the tablet and has a different experience to the people playing on the TV (thus allowing them to either assist or work against the other players, depending on the game) strikes me as at least an interesting way forward.
Any thoughts about what the next generation of consoles might be able to do that the current generation can't?
*See: http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/ which tells me that unless you have a 50" TV you sit within 5 feet of, your 20:20 vision aint getting anything out of ultra-high-resolution screens.
**See: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/30/nvidia-uses-hawken-to-show-off-physx-clevers/ for an example of this.
Also: still sick
Feb. 6th, 2013 12:21 pmHead still spinning this morning. Wife watched me struggling into work clothes and asked me what on earth I was thinking, which was good, as I spent most of the morning shivering, my stomach is completely shut down, and both ears are blocked. I hate being off work when there's lots to do.
If there's anything entertaining you can throw my way, leave a comment :->
If there's anything entertaining you can throw my way, leave a comment :->
There is a spam Twitter account called Horse_ebooks that you can read about here. Like many spam related things it mixes sales messages with random text, to confuse anti-spam detectors.
This is an odd artefact of the modern world all by itself.
Add to this: Online Dating sites. To wit, OK Cupid. Wherein someone takes it upon themselves to set up an account and then get dates _using only the randomish text from said Twitter account_.
And then wrap it up in a Tumblr that displays the results:![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
okcebooks
Truly, we live in a golden age of random nonsense. It's like living in a Jerry Cornelius novel.
This is an odd artefact of the modern world all by itself.
Add to this: Online Dating sites. To wit, OK Cupid. Wherein someone takes it upon themselves to set up an account and then get dates _using only the randomish text from said Twitter account_.
And then wrap it up in a Tumblr that displays the results:
Truly, we live in a golden age of random nonsense. It's like living in a Jerry Cornelius novel.