Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ThanosReXXX
Well, i cannot type a Check mark here, so i used V instead. 😅

@Anti-Matter There are emojis of it. ✅ ✔️ ☑️

Vacation's almost over, but I had a great time with the marvelous world of Danganronpa on my Vita. And I also slept a lot. So it was pretty great. I regret eating so much Mcdonalds though...

@Anti-Matter Aha, that's another thing entirely: not being able to type it (although you could copy/paste a check mark symbol from Microsoft Office Word: ✔ ), but you said that V is for good, which it isn't.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/insert-a-check-mark-...
But you could of course also use a capital O for yes, or instead of V for yes and X for no, simply use Y and N for yes and no. Anyway, we know what you mean now, so I guess it's okay if you keep using V...

@JackEatsSparrows Great idea!

Never played Bomber Man on the GBA. My list of games if I remember (friend has borrowed them) are:
Minish Cap
Mortal Kombat Advance
Need for Speed
Ghost Rider
A Link To The Past
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Castlevania Circle of the Moon

@ReaderRagfihs
Interesting... thanks for the info!

So why for discussing resolution of images and games did we name the standard resolutions based on the pixel count of the horizontal axis, namely 240p, 480p, 720p and 1080p, but the second we hit "4k" it's not 2160p, but "4k".

Why did we change the axis used? Why is resolution suddenly named for the vertical axis?

Imagine displaying the resolution increases on a graph. You'd have all the points labelled 240p, 480p etc. showing the increase in pixels on the Y axis, but the point labelled "4k" would only show a jump to 2000 pixels or so.

It just drives me nuts that the standard convention was broken for the sake of marketing.

Then again, anything to sell you on something being better than it is.

"THIS TV IS 4k!!!"

And an idiot consumer would expect 4k in the same way they got 1080p. But its not in the direction they'd expect.

Not that they'd know. Consumers get told they want something and buy it.

Hey, the site was finally fixed while I slept! I went to shower last night, then came back and found that the CSS/styling was all borked. I thought it was something with Firefox on my laptop until I got the same results on my phone.

@Blitzenexx Same thing I thought this morning. Went to take the dog out before bed last night, and my phone decided to show me 90's formatting. Le Sigh, all is normal.

@Knuckles-Fajita You already nailed it. Pure marketing. It's like this package of popcorn I saw in the store the other day that said "GLUTEN FREE" in huge letters.... Popcorn never had gluten.

I kept Ark and still nabbed Lego HP Collection on the eShop. Played a few levels yesterday evening and forgot how much fun I had with those particular entries. Now I want to watch the movies while I play in handheld X'D

So.... Did the site die yesterday or was that a post theme park fever dream?

@Delibheel It did. That's what happens when you leave the forums in the hands of @Joeynator3000.

Darn it, I should’ve locked the control room door.

Sanya walked over the keyboard, and it all went down.

Ah, so reassuring to read that I wasn't the only one being confronted with this:

@Knuckles-Fajita @JackEatsSparrows Well, it's part marketing, and part actual truth, believe it or not.
The marketing part is simply that '"twenty-one sixty p" just doesn't sound as snappy and roll as easy off the tongue as 1080p, and the reality of it is that it actually IS 4x the pixel count, and if you look at a diagram of it, then you'll see that 1080p fits 4x into a 4K display, hence also the new, flashy moniker:

For the casually or sincerely interested, the picture comes from this page, that also explains all of it in detail:
https://www.cnet.com/news/tv-resolution-confusion-1080p-2k-uh...

Oh, and screw "Janu-hairy". Yeah, sadly enough, that's actually a thing this month. Yegh!

@Knuckles-Fajita

P.S.

And 1080p IS the vertical axis, not the horizontal one. That's 1920p...

@ThanosReXXX I don’t care about your accurate and fancy explanation.
GLUTEN. FREE. POPCORN.

....sighs -.-
Sanya was sleeping the entire night. lol

@Joeynator3000 Of course she was. I bet she was worn out after working on a script and then setting up Windows' convoluted task scheduler rules.

....Why does everyone have to pick on my kitty? TwT