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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: For 1-3 I'd do the SFC remakes. 1&2 are just better, 3 is a mixed bag but it's worth having the better quality soundtrack. For 7 I think the 3DS version is the best; the new remake is probably a 'better' game but it cuts a lot. I like the DS remakes for 4-6 but the originals ar...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: imho it's less relevant to a DQ enjoyer than something like Torneko no Daibouken. My hot take DQ ranking best-to-worst 11,4,5,8,3,6,9,7,2,1 3, 5, and 11 are all masterpieces. 4 and 8 are personal faves. 2/1 are only relevant to properly experience 3. Many hate 6, not me! Only ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social As I said in my post on smart mouth guards, Gridiron is structurally incompatible with brain health. There isn't a way to stop a 220lb/100kg running back with a running start from gaining 3 yards without contact that puts both of your brains at risk.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: The NFL, however.. I haven't followed it in 25 years, but I can't even bring myself to watch it. The sport feels structurally flawed. Post-contact yards are so important, tackles are just collisions. Players are constantly off their feet or using their heads in the tackle. It's...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I remember being a bit annoyed by the shift in scrum cadence from "crouch.. touch.. pause.. engage", but looking back on it, 6 people bearing the brunt of a ~2 ton collision looks absolutely mad. There will always be risk in contact sport, but I think Rugby has adapted pretty we...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Player mouthguards have accelerometers and communicate wirelessly with the officials. When a big enough contact is reported, the player goes off and undergoes concussion protocols. I wondered if the NFL has adopted these, but as far as I can tell they are just using them for dat...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The test in Joburg yesterday was immense; underestimate the All Blacks at your peril. An early turning point was Kurt-Lee Arendse going off for HIA and failing. Ref Matt Carley at the time said "mouthguard." Somehow this tech had escaped me: www.world.rugby/the-game/fac...
Argent-Matter/gcyr created comment on issue #122: verify rocket building works across both cardinal axes - Can't reproduce this based on orientation, but I did run into an issue with the scanner popping off ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social "We had too much traffic and a component failed" is a board meeting report, not an outage postmortem. The solution of rate limits and CPU/Mem alerts is state of the art for 2014, a time when Github still let engineers publish proper postmortems: github.blog/news-insight...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "To think, you have to write. If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking." -- Leslie Lamport
by jason moiron, 2026