rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026its like ppl think this kind of thing always existed or something. and didnt just instantly accelerate from possibility to mass production over the past 5 years. like every other technology will continue to do for the time we have left lol 020
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026usually those are also the exact kinds of people who "hate mayo" 111
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 25/07/2026had a clear green corn straw and drink lid at mcd in hawaii yesterday... maybe corn has been simply biding its time for a reboot 120
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026i was also raised in a completely musicless environment and thats why i became obsessed with vgm... i think it ultimately worked out. but i wonder what proportion of the country actually doesnt care about music at all. i bet its like 70% 110
Reposted by rogerclarkwrangel 🏝️ @wrangel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026in 2010 we had the loud Sun Chips bag. now we have no Loud, No Sun, and No Bag. 2152
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 13/06/2026If I see one more shortform video involving restaurant staff scraping melted cheese off one of those long bars of cheese and onto the customer's dish, maybe a plate of pasta, bread, or meat, tableside, with a sort of entertainment flair, while the diner is agog, I'm going to absolutely lose my shit. 290
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 04/06/2026As long as they're consistent between "Mario" and "Wario". That's the only thing that matters right now. 120
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I would extremely disagree. The parkour system adds so much complexity that it's like comparing 5-key to 7-key beatmania. Or some kind of similar analogy. Don't listen to the haters... 010
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 31/05/2026DK is eminently skippable. I'd almost call it slop if the production value wasn't so high. I'm maybe 300 hours into MKW. Extremely deep game with a gigantic competitive scene, if you have any interest in getting obsessed with yet another complicated game played in high-stress 2-3min slices. 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026That one is forgivable, at least. It follows most patterns of English pronunciation, and Mario is a "foreign" name. However, you can be sure that they also do the "war" thing in combination with that pronunciation, despite Wario obviously being based on Mario, with whom they are assuredly familiar. 000
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I don't understand how we got here as a society. There are countless people -- fans, even -- that say "Mario" correctly but pronounce the beginning of "Wario" like the word "war" instead of like "Mario". It's been happening since I was a child and has only gotten worse. This is not sustainable. 2200
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 19/05/2026At some future point in time, the pain of shrinkflation may start to overcome the enjoyment I derive from limited-time flavors of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day hand soap. 180
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 03/03/2026If you really really hate something, that's a sure signal that it will become incredibly popular or widespread. If you really really don't want something to happen, it will definitely happen, and soon. If you don't feel strongly about something at all, it probably doesn't matter and isn't important. 270
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 27/02/2026its so funny to see this when my entire life revolves around talking about all day every day with 100 other people who only talk about this one thing 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 27/01/2026That's why great chefs cook with stainless. So that steel wool is effective in removing all of those rich flavors 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Lifting all that beautiful fond off the bottom of my pan with steel wool and Dawn in the sink 2160
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 20/01/2026im trying to make every decision from now on based on how how much Excess is involved (more is good) 010
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025That's where you have to start. Ultimately I don't think the consumer stuff is even that relevant. It doesn't matter what ChatGPT or Suno or image generators are doing. It's more about the universal panopticon and impending economic irrelevance of real people. That's what we need to concentrate on. 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 04/12/2025It's like trying to resize a very very small image into a large image. You can see what it is, but it's going to look like shit. That said, there is new AI-based audio super-resolution which can do a decent job interpolating / making up data. It'll take a while to make it into consumer products. 100
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 04/12/2025It would indeed sound bad, or at least worse. Audio data is simply a series of single values describing the position of the wave. The content is the loudness. When something is quiet, that means that the numbers are all small. Making it louder just means multiplying those numbers, "inventing" detail 010
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Just finished The Magus (1965) by John Fowles. Mindblowing. Masterful prose, page-turning suspense, sensuality, layered meta-narratives, predictive commentary on world culture... Then I tried "There Is No Antimemetics Division" (2025) by "qntm" and it was a bunch of stupid numbers and shit. Lol 1120
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 22/11/2025it's a hardware issue with every single one. basically they just didn't make it correctly. they said they're going to recall all of them and ship new machines in like a year lol 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 15/11/2025to be clear I'm saying it was good before and now it is wack, specifically because of the business pressure that causes devs to choose modern text rendering. back in the day, there was no choice but to do it the hard way, and also for many old games it was just English and Japanese so also a factor 120
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 15/11/2025making a retro RPG with text rendering verisimilitude would make it so much harder to build and localize. so then you get retro gameplay view with immaculately rendered high res menus. which is incredibly stupid. we all know that OG FFT's text and menus were god tier and 70% of why it was good 120
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 15/11/2025localization demands and text rendering create a kind of pressure that detracts from aesthetic coherence, especially with retro stuff. it's hard to argue against using modern font tech due to its ease contrasted with the unbelievable complexity of doing it from scratch. and in a text-heavy game... 140
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 12/11/2025i actually played it again the other day and got this lol 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 08/11/2025it doesnt do that. you just know more stuff and you can talk about why you like it 100
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Beautiful.... this reality where Monster is a post-workout drink. 030
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 02/11/2025hard to access Kroger in this area.. will see what i can do 110
rogerclark @rogerclark.bsky.social · 02/11/2025not gonna lie i started posting like that because it seemed like everybody, even the most sauceless douchebags ever, had all adopted the chill millennial typing thing. And typing like this seems like the only way to stand out anymore. 010
Reposted by rogerclarktelp @telp.gg · 02/11/2025it's BMS season, so I've been writing a SP-to-DP chart randomizer for BMS and testing it on BOF21 entries that don't have 14k. it's coming along surprisingly well (and also, I get to play all the songs I want now, which is great) sample play of a couple SP sl5s www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2L_...youtube.comFourteenizer v0.2.91YouTube video by Telperion 1122
