Earlier this year, a cat named Burp arrived at NAWS Humane Society. He’d been living on the streets as a stray when a Good Samaritan noticed he looked really beat up and brought him into the shelter. When Burp first got to the humane society, he was in rough shape. He was in pain from his injuries and acted completely …
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Aaron Rodgers Still Hates His New Helmet Just Weeks Ahead of Season Opener
Aaron Rodgers continues to struggle with his new helmet. During Steelers training camp, the 41-year-old quarterback has made it known that he sincerely dislikes the Schutt Air XP Pro VTD II, which he has been wearing throughout training camp. Rodgers used the Schutt Air XP Pro Q11 LTD last season, but it has now been banned for failing to meet …
Read More »A veteran Final Fantasy programmer hates how indie games deliberately recreate PS1 visual bugs he made ‘many futile efforts’ to fix: ‘I just don’t get what’s so interesting about trying to replicate that’
First reported by Automaton, veteran programmer Koji Sugimoto (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 10) criticized modern games’ emulation of retro visual glitches, specifically the affine texture warping of the original PlayStation, a frequent feature of lo-fi, throwback indie games. On August 5, Sugimoto responded to a tweet from Unity Japan about a new tool in the engine to let devs …
Read More »Final Fantasy dev kinda hates the PS1 graphics nostalgia
Video game visuals have come a long way since the ’90s. The jump between pixel art and polygons was a massive one, but players still had to rely on a bit of imagination to fully see the things game developers were trying to depict at the time. Now that we have graphics that could be mistaken for reality, we’ve also …
Read More »Everyone Hates Credit Card Disputes. This Fintech Is Using AI To Fix That.
New York startup Casap has raised $25 million in new funding to help banks tackle the thorny problem of credit and debit card disputes, aiming to make the process smoother for honest customers and tougher for fraudsters. If you’ve ever had to dispute a charge on your credit or debit card, there’s a good chance you walked away disgruntled. Americans …
Read More »The Real Reason Silicon Valley Hates Lina Khan
You’d think venture capitalists and startups would support an antitrust crackdown on Big Tech. These behemoths regularly squash promising young startups, using their unrivaled power over users, data, and various digital markets. But when antitrust regulators gave enforcing regulation a real shot in recent years, the VC industry’s howls of displeasure became very loud. The apotheosis of this arrived last …
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