ummm hi do u remember me? we were two bacterias in the acidic springs of ethiopia and we were friends
Month: February 2023
I’ve been using this backpack I got from working on this game in 2007 and now I desperately need to find a smartphone small enough to fit in that little pocket on the strap.
The book of Job gets a little phlegmy.
I’m sorry but this is slander!
I love a good CRT filter as much as the next nerd, but I think that as retro game fans at some point we’ve got to admit that a lot of NES-era games were not, in fact, designed with any particular respect for the limitations of contemporary home televisions. The fuzz of a low-scan-rate CRT doesn’t lend them subtlety and depth, it just makes them look like blurry garbage. It wasn’t until the Super Nintendo era that console developers had consistently figured out how to work with pixel fuzz to their advantage, and some never really did – I can think of any number of PSX RPGs where the text is practically indecipherable when viewed on the kind of TV that most actual players would have had at home at the time of their publication.
This, 100%, but I’m a bit biased because I am very much on the side of “pixel perfect is the best.” It’s not a very popular opinion, hah.
I played a game from as far ahead as PS1 recently and the rendered text was so bad, even in pixel perfect emulation. Sometimes they really just let stuff like legibility fall by the wayside.
Dr. Allemann House
Unterwasser, Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann, Switzerland; 1968-69Rudolf Olgiati
via “Die Architektur von Rudolf Olgiati: Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1977”, Thomas Boga; Birkhäuser Verlag (2009)
When I post a lot just know that I left the house and am very excited to be out in the world again.
