Joshua Wright's Blog, page 3

This Dude is Playing Every RPG Ever

And blogging about it. Check it out at CRPGAddict.blogspot.com. He’sbasing this off wikipedia’s list of RPGs, his Google spreadsheet can be found here. Also, he seems committed, looks like he’s currently around 1990, tackling things like Dungeon of Nadrod and Magic Candle (huh?). This is truly a life’s work if ever there was such a thing.

Hulu, why have you forsaken J?

Hulu is apparently dumping their anime back catalog so they can start airing live versions of The Bachelor Hoarders of Long Island. Or some dumb shit like that.

J, time to spin up yourcrunchyrollsub.

Kickstarter Drama

Interesting story on Gizmodo about a 3D printerKickstarter campaign gone awry. This follows a long, infamous list of failed Kickstarters. In fact, the list is so plentiful now, that it has begot its own subreddit:shittykickstarters.

That said, I just received my Freewrite the other day, and while some people are panning it as a 500 dollar hipster keyboard, hipstersare waxingeffusivelyover the product’sanachronistic simplicity. I think it fallssomewhere in between those poles, and hope to writ...

Infinitely Rechargeable Batteries?

Is it just me, or is this a really, really big deal?

Zentendo Going Full Nukemtendo

The folksat Nintendo must be the most patient, forward-looking, revenue-eschewing peepsin the industry. Apparently the NX won’t come out until next year. Ditto with the new Zelda. Via Wired.

Is Nintendo officially the new Duke Nukem?

In Addition to 4K, Apparently We Also Need HDR

So 4K is all the rage, especially with the new PS4K coming (which, horn-toot, I totally called). But 4K apparently isn’t enough, we also need to ensure our new sets have HDR. This sounds like total platitudinal synergistic marketing-speak.But is it?

Here’s the wikipedia link for HDR. And here’s a good Wired article on HDR. TLDR; HDR provides a greater range of luminosity than legacy (standard?) imaging technology. Getting HDR images on a TV requires new technology to capture the higher ranges...

Full Metal Alchemist Transmuting to Live Action

Via Polygon (which got their news via CrunchyRoll, which got their news via BiglobeNews). Let’s hope the anime transmutes to live action better than Alphonse did into a hollow robot thingie.

Here’s a vid to remind you of the FMA awesomeness:

New PS4 Coming Soon

If there’s one thing in life that I really hate to do, it’s telling someone I told you so. So it is with great humility and considerable regret that I must write these words: J, I told you so.

Just kidding, suck on that, J!

Dual Lense Cameras Are Coming, And You Can’t Stop Them.

Somehow dual-lens cameras can provide optical zoom with no moving parts. I don’t quite understand this. I’m interpreting this to say that these dual lens cameras provide so much clarity as to be equivalent to optical zoom lenses. Either way, this is pretty cool, and explains why the next iPhone is rumored to include such a feature.

Split Racing Is A Thing

And here’s the vid to prove it: