Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire & foil for water. Each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled so I can set up another scene.
J'ai étudié le nombre de jours passés à Matignon par tous les Premiers Ministres de Macron, et je peux vous affirmer que le prochain gouvernement durera très exactement 2 jours, 11 heures et 27 minutes
In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the staff credits text is always loaded into RAM despite not being needed until the ending. While horribly inefficient, this is inadvertently heartwarming as the games appear to honor their creators by keeping them in memory at all times.
The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,
all this with * WD-40/contact cleaner * new capacitors (paper and electrolytic) * replaced a burnt resistor * the right tubes (2 of them were the wrong type, 1 not quite right)
not bad for something that was a wreck. shows it was built to last.
my suspicion was confirmed: the seller sent this as part of a batch of orders and gave me the wrong tracking number. the right one was only two letters off.
that's also why we run into all those timing issues
shoddy code with race conditions would get caught and fixed on PC, but on those platforms, if it runs, it runs... and so they ship code that works "by chance"
but it can be a headache to perfectly replicate the original timings that lead to this
fun related fact: some games replicate GX FIFO DMA in software, with a different block size, and their own FIFO IRQ wait.
SM64DS does that too, but it omits the IRQ wait entirely! and never checks the FIFO status either. so in practice it's just blindly blasting shit at the FIFO.
