I often muse “since criticism is subjective, how do we confidently asses a thing? Who decided what makes something ‘good’?”. hbomberguy’s “RWBY is Disappointing” video is making me do just that.

Going in I expected him to reveal things I overlooked, as I can be pretty bad at noticing inconsistencies in media. But to the contrary, in the first half of the video, he focuses on talking about aspects of the show I don’t care about, or even find endearing. The latter half(ish) focuses more on how the writers drop the ball in trying to tackle the subject of racism. In the rest of these scattered thoughts I am not referring to that- largely because I didn’t watch it all at once, and much of my thoughts happened following my first intermission.

These are all things that have been said to me over the years. I didn’t necessarily have the reply ready to go at the time, but I never stopped thinking about how I should have answered. Yes, this is a rehearsed shower argument presented in writing.
Jokes aside, this is an area of intense curiosity for me and I’m always eager to demystify it for whoever asks. I am by no means an expert on the subject and here I will only be addressing some core concepts in a casual manner. If you want to gain a deeper understanding of what I discuss here, the blurbusters blog is an excellent resource: https://blurbusters.com/category/area51-display-research/. Additionally, this old page from Microsoft’s hardware developer documentation is a good read https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/design/dn642112(v=vs.85) (heads up, they use the word ‘stutter’ as a catchall term referring to many things, including what is today more properly known as 'judder’).

Keep in mind, vision is a complicated process that is constructed by your brain. We do not operate like cameras. A decent sample of the complexity of vision can be found here https://www.pcgamer.com/how-many-frames-per-second-can-the-human-eye-really-see/.

Despite the “statement/response” structure I’ve chosen, this is meant to be read in its entirety. I attempted to keep answers somewhat brief, and to have later answers build upon concepts discussed in previous answers.

I think it would be helpful to clearly delineate what science is, and what it is not.

What is preposterous to me is that atheists spend so much time, passion and mental energy on “disproving” something….

Why is it easier to believe that a non-personal “process” over long periods time?

A list of Android apps I keep on my phone. This list primarily exists for me to share with friends, and is otherwise pointless. Note that F-Droid apps do not have ads, and are open source. F-Droid is therefore devoid of bloat or spyware or other useless things that plague the Google Play store, and F-Droid is the repo I first search when looking for apps.

I recently found this by accident: . It’s a new feature for Windows 10, where your personal files are made read-only to all programs not in the allow list. The intent is primarily to fight cryptoviruses: the virus may be on your machine, but it can’t encrypt read-only files.

Behold: the conventional setup on most Windows devices.

Overview

I firmly believe that good game design necessitates communicating to the player what actions they can and can’t take at a given moment. I’m no professional, but I would think this is a fundamental concept in all UI design. Let’s take a look at how your computer might relay information to you in a window.

Today I revised one of my older, more poorly written reviews. It occurs to me that “posts” on the internet are legitimately a form of historical record- they represent a past me, writing in a past context. Under certain circumstances, revising history could be seen as dishonest; going into a historical record to change things I have said is, in a sense, falsifying said historical record.

I recently discovered Project Gutenberg, which has inspired me to dust off my Nook Simple Touch Glowlight and load it up with reading material. Once I downloaded every title I recognized, I turned my attention to comics and manga. Many e-readers do not support cbz, unfortunately, which has given rise to a number of projects that convert your manga into epub (or whatever Amazon’s proprietary format is).

I’ve been searching for a long time, and I finally figured out how to generate a libnotify event from a udev rule without hardcoding the username into the rule or script. The answer is actually pretty simple, and I’m very surprised I couldn’t find the answer on any wiki or forum.