he is also using development boards wired together rather than a custom pcb. there's a good chance the choice of passive components, removal of unneeded components, and better optimized power converters can improve the design.

3D printing would be good at making figurines and such, but you can't easily replicate the Lego system's modularity without their high tolerances.

That being said, it should be feasible to make something that allows easily programming Arduino and raspberry pi to interact with legos, similar to how their Mindstorms line worked. That would be the best of both worlds.

Looks like it has an IMU built in, so if it has wireless it could easily integrate with some kind of software system like those. Seems like right now it's just so your space ship can make vroom sounds

The Looker is quite possibly the greatest parody ever executed in a video game. It creates the same kind of "ahah" moment that games like The Witness do, but in a way that really pokes fun at the level of pretentiousness those games tend to indulge themselves in.

It's the gaming version of Galaxy Quest: a parody that is not only great when it stands by itself, but is satirical in a way that shows they are genuinely big fans of the source material.

(Though perhaps unsurprisingly, Blow has only once mentioned The Looker, saying he hates how it devalues his art, and now refuses to talk about it ever.)

> Blow has only once mentioned The Looker, saying he hates how it devalues his art, and now refuses to talk about it ever

This is so fascinating to me, because when I really get a piece of creative art, like I thought I did with both Braid and The Witness, I usually feel like I get some insight and empathy with the person who created it. Yet every time I read or hear from Jonathan Blow ... I do not feel that. So, I guess I've been challenged by art again, hooray!

I've heard The Looker described as "If you liked The Witness, you'll like The Looker. If you hated The Witness, you'll love The Looker."

I never found The Witness to be pretentious, but I still think The Looker is a great parody.

Siri can answer questions just fine. It's the "doing stuff" that introduces complications

it's running joke that Valve will announce something as "coming soon" only to release months or years later

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

This kind of thing is what makes me trust Valve.

>"Coming Soon" (January 10, 2017) | December 20, 2024 | 7th Issue of Team Fortress Comics: The Days Have Worn Away

Out of all the IPs Valve owns, somehow it's TF2 that got a story conclusion and it couldn't have been more perfect.

Did someone say half life 3?

Every time someone says "Half-Life 3" it's delayed another day from announcement. That's why everyone right now is talking about this "HLX" thing...

Would be annoying, but I suppose you could also recalibrate your display to turn down the greens?

VLC has a lot of image manipulation options.

It's simple enough that a person can easily visualize the intended result, but weird enough that generative AI struggles with it

He seemed to test it on a bunch of computer monitors, and not a standard 480i consumer television set? The different shadow masks phosphor patterns change how things look

The C= 1084S he uses is a more a (very good) PAL TV than a computer monitor, even if it was sold as a monitor. So "576i" in your terminology. (It was also sometimes sold with a TV tuner, or at least the earlier 1084 (same picture tube AFAIK) was.)

Using an OLED display? I've found that's the only type of display that can even come close to reproducing the CRT look

The blacks are there, but the brightness is not. I just played some smash 64 on a CRT last weekend and using an OLED for my desktop.