Thankfully, my family understands that stuff on the internet is “someone else’s computer”, so it’s easy to explain why something is down - “It’s their fault”

I frankly don’t remember whether the dialpads had letters in Brazil, possibly didn’t; but I do remember that no number ever advertised like that mix, it was always the whole number

Which I found amazing, and always wondered how they had that information in the era before Gamefaqs.

What game was that, by the way? Because I immediately think every hotline worked the same: company makes one or two parts stupidly difficult to get through just so a few will end up calling. Sierra On-line’s adventure games were notorious for their pants-on-head logic and hidden shit.

Not as good an edit, but I think the text boxes are important 😁

Gotta remember that home computers weren’t “popular” back then either (it was easier for a household to have no computer than to have any), so anything on the internet would be the equivalent of browsing freenet, gemini or i2p today

I also went with magazines or small “cheats only” booklets, since they cost about 3 minutes of a hotline call, hoping it’d have the cheats for the games I wanted. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn’t. Then there were the cheats that just didn’t work

One of the reasons I was always confused was because of that, with old cell phones, typing “S” for an SMS would be the equivalent of 7777. With that logic, TIPS would become 8 444 7 7777, a whole ass phone number in length

When each letter is in a different number, I can understand, but what about “TIPS”, both P and S are on 7, so it’d be 8477?

That kind of thing was never used in Brazil, though part of that could be explained by telephones being state controlled up until 1990 or so, people could wait years to get a line.

Does it have a HDMI port to connect to a TV? Since it’s Android, I suppose pairing a new controller would be easy, so stuff you emulate from home consoles can be played with 2-4 people

Probably World of Warcraft. That’s a couple thousand hours in total as I played on and off on private servers throughout the years from 2006-2012, plus a brief stint with BfA.

Actually, no, I’d rather not forget how I saw the game evolve, even if my experience wasn’t the ideal one.

PCs are becoming consoles

The Amiga dream is finally coming true

Yes. Kinda. Some games from the X1 era aren’t available on PC, like Halo 5. X360 games that are backwards compatible but weren’t actually released for PC, like Red Dead Redemption, won’t be available either.

Copilot on PS5, somehow

There’s also GhostScript, which feels like advanced tooling for dealing with PDFs. I used it to scale down the images in some game PDFs I have and save as a copy, so that my old phones could actually open them. The Warcrow free PDF from Corvus Belli went from a whopping 623MB to around 111MB. Still way too fucking large for my phones. The PDF for Mantic Firefight went from 65MB to ~20MB.

Important to note, the current chip fabrication process of 5nm is very close to limits imposed by the laws of physics. Unless a wholly different chip making process is invented that can go even smaller, we might be looking at the actual limit of the tech.

It can’t be worse than whatever the fuck UE5 does by default

I suspect they might get proud of that, “we made english american!”

I know, no wonder the perception that 'muricans don’t know geography is just as old

“But we have our load balacing with 3 different AWS buckets!!!”

'murica did send a president who made a toast to “the people of Bolivia”. During a dinner with the Brazilian president. In Brasilia. So, yeah, there’s precedent for their ignorance.