Thomas Winwood

If they're on foot it's infantry; on horses, cavalry; on chariots, chariotry; on camels, camelry; etc. The pattern is easily extended to fictional creatures (e.g. wargry in B. Devereaux, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, "Collections: The Battle of Helm's Deep, Part II: Total Warg", 8 May 2020).

I would hazard a guess that a formation of centaurs would be centaur infantry, following the same logic that leads to tanks being called "mechanised infantry". But what do you call a formation of Shining Force pegasus knights? They're basically the same as centaurs, but they can fly.

I just found out SMSPower translated Phantasy Star into Latin as well as some languages it would make sense for a science-fantasy RPG from 1987. www.smspower.org/Translations... @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

I have a bunch of thoughts swirling around my head which I want to get out, so here's a thread about the potential for a Darkstalkers sequel. (I'd love to see one, but I think there's solid reasons why one doesn't exist besides the lack of will within Capcom to champion the idea.)

This contributes to the lack of will within Capcom to push for a sequel, but I think SNK is in a good position to deliver the game people who know Darkstalkers mostly by name and reputation have in their head. Unlike Capcom they're not burdened with the knowledge of what Darkstalkers *actually* is.

I have a bunch of thoughts swirling around my head which I want to get out, so here's a thread about the potential for a Darkstalkers sequel. (I'd love to see one, but I think there's solid reasons why one doesn't exist besides the lack of will within Capcom to champion the idea.)

This gets to what I think is the heart of it. Console vendors could have been making branded PCs with the same standardised controller for thirty years now and had near-effortless backwards compatibility, but they just can't stop chasing controller gimmicks like random touchpads and haptic triggers.

Someone please edit the Souls Modding Wiki to change "D. Suki Village" to "D-suke's Village". It's a joke about the designer, Daisuke Satake, not wanting to commit to a name for the area, but the incorrect transliteration has hung around since the page was still on Wikidot.

Things gamers believe about graphics card tech which I no longer believe are true: 1. Raytracing is only relevant for maniacs chasing hyperrealism. Reality: it's a different process for handling lighting which is much easier for developers than rebaking the lighting in the scene over and over again.

3. You have to choose between raytracing and performance. Reality: a 16GB 5060 Ti will run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p 60fps with all the raytracing bells and whistles and no frame generation. The problem is they're still selling cards with 8GB of VRAM, which is categorically not enough for raytracing.

Things gamers believe about graphics card tech which I no longer believe are true: 1. Raytracing is only relevant for maniacs chasing hyperrealism. Reality: it's a different process for handling lighting which is much easier for developers than rebaking the lighting in the scene over and over again.

2. DLSS is a band-aid fix for raytracing tanking performance, rendering the game at a lower resolution and then using generative AI to fill in the missing pixels. Reality: …it's just temporal antialiasing. Nvidia is marketing it as "AI" because they're marketing *everything* as "AI" at the moment.

Things gamers believe about graphics card tech which I no longer believe are true: 1. Raytracing is only relevant for maniacs chasing hyperrealism. Reality: it's a different process for handling lighting which is much easier for developers than rebaking the lighting in the scene over and over again.

I wonder if people believing English is a language that mugs other languages for their vocabulary is a result of how many Anglophones are monolingual? Japanese is full of Chinese words. Welsh is full of Latin words. The Romance languages are constantly passing words around like notes in a classroom.

Just discovered Bluesky sorts likes in the order you clicked the like button. JUST. SHOW. THEM. IN. CHRONOLOGICAL. ORDER. WHY IS THIS SO HARD

This is one of those things a bunch of people have passively picked up but which doesn't really stand up to scrutiny all that well so if you don't mind I'm gonna do a quick thread breaking that down. tl;dr: assume Code Vein is unrelated to God Eater until given incontrovertible proof otherwise. 1/

My guess is these small similarities were an escape hatch for the risk they took in creating a new IP; if the game failed, they'd call it a spinoff and add a small reference to revenants in the next GE game… but we now live in a world where Code Vein by itself outsold the _entire GE series_. 4/

This is one of those things a bunch of people have passively picked up but which doesn't really stand up to scrutiny all that well so if you don't mind I'm gonna do a quick thread breaking that down. tl;dr: assume Code Vein is unrelated to God Eater until given incontrovertible proof otherwise. 1/

It doesn't help that there's things people have picked up as "truth" which aren't actually in the game, such as Louis and Karen's surname. The game doesn't give them one (I even checked unused text strings which give a bunch of other characters surnames) but Bandai-Namco Europe said it's Amamiya. 2/

I see a lot of people arguing chess960 is just better than standard chess because "there's less theory", and that's not true. The absence of named openings doesn't mean there's less opening theory, it just means you get all the same kind of "except on Tuesdays" clauses you find in endgame theory.

Eventually someone will invent the opening-theory equivalent of the Philidor, Lucena etc. positions and you'll have to memorise things again, at which point all you've done is cut off a part of chess history that a lot of people enjoy and benefitted a few supergrandmasters for a while.

Are there any fonts which use Unicode arrows and ligatures to provide glyphs for fighting-game motion inputs? e.g. this for the sequence of U+2193 U+2198 U+2192 (↓↘→)