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Comment Re:Moto Razr (Score 1) 313

My backup/travel phone is a Motorola VE66. It's a solid slider, being made out of a significant amount of metal. Technically it's a smartphone because it runs MotoMagx. It will run Quake II and ScummVM (among other various other things), but it has the long battery life and quick response of a dumbphone.

Comment Re:Sadly I don't think it's going to help (Score 2) 56

You can't emulate Pinball

Actually, you can. You might be interested in this too.

If you can appropriate an HDTV, lay it on a slant (or attached to a swing arm) and attach some flipper buttons on the sides, you could have a pretty good pinball experience. Hell, you might be able to use a 3D TV if you want stereoscopy.

Comment Re:Money or Art? (Score 1) 175

The guy doesn't even know what pixel art is. It's a very specific type of digital art that involves creating images by manually placing each and every pixel by hand. It's comparable to the old ANSI art of the BBS days.

He's trying to claim that sprites from Street Fighter III and King of Fighters is pixel art, when it's certainly not. Those games are very obviously made using standard raster art techniques and tools.

Submission + - Why We Can't Have Nice Things. (theverge.com)

westlake writes: The Verge and others are reporting that Google has temporarily shut down Map Maker after being overwhelmed by a toxic flood of spam — most notably the adolescent Android-pissing-on-Apple gag recently posted by one of its regular contributors.

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