Dr. Forrest Greenwood

SysAdmin specializing in enterprise storage, Indiana University. PhD in communication and culture. Game-studies researcher. He/him.
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[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@IanColdwater @unfard I think at this point I have pretty much all the standard onion and bell pepper codes memorized. It's super efficient, but a little weird when I step back and think about it.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@tybritten @TegmaTV @BriannaWu This is what I was going to say. The idea that dropping the bombs was unnecessary is reasonably well-supported within academic discourse, and it's more than a little disingenuous to casually dismiss it as "brainrot."

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@kobunheat @DigitalEclipse Finally, I'll have some long-awaited context for all the hours I spent at the public library playing Karateka on one of their Apple IIes. Very excited for this, especially after Atari 50.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@AnimeStudies Maybe there's hope after all for "The Sisyphean Struggles of Gold Ship: Reading Uma Musume Pretty Derby through the Lens of Camus".

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@BenKuchera We stan. Jarnathan didn't deserve to be done like that twice.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@gameism @BenKuchera In retrospect, we probably peaked with Usenet.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@maxledaron @BriannaWu My understanding is that it's complicated and nuanced, and that a large part of it is how municipal governments have handled property zoning. The US housing situation will likely remain inflexible until zoning ordinances change.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@BriannaWu @maxledaron What happens to those people under the status quo? Single family housing under the market paradigm isn't working out for most people, either.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@wosewoes @btownmoose Flashlight crew unite

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@ethanhein Although it looks like footnote 4's URL is truncated in at least two places, so even that won't work very well.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@ethanhein Honestly, I'm feeling pretty similarly about my own volunteer academic obligations. Since I'm alt-ac, my employer definitely will NOT let me take time away from my day job to do journal work, so it all has to happen during my vanishing free time. Not a fan.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@textfiles Great news! Didn't hear about this until today, so just kicked over a little for those other expenses.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@The_Katbot Whereas text adventures were comparatively open-ended and relied on text parsers for their interfaces, visual novels were able to simplify that interaction into decision trees that could be easily navigated with a game controller.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@The_Katbot I feel like you could make a somewhat similar argument for the divergence between early visual novels and classic text adventures.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

Always a little surreal seeing super famous streamers using the exact same hardware that's in your daily rig. (Minus the anime standee, at least; my rig may have RGB, but it's otherwise Strictly Business.)

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@ethanhein That's right; I forgot that time and frequency are correlated. I suppose there are only very few fields (biology, perhaps) where folks might have a legitimate need for recording material > 20 kHz, as a way to analyze the soundscape even if we humans can't hear it.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@ethanhein I somewhat doubt it, and I certainly wouldn't muddy an undergraduate lesson by bringing this up, but it seems an interesting question nonetheless.

[Dr. Forrest Greenwood @ForrestGreenMan]

@ethanhein It does make me wonder, though, if there are possible edge cases out there where this might make a difference, where something could conceivably happen in the fraction of a second between samples that can't be reliably recreated by a DAC.