I think that’s close, but I’m talking about doing actual work on characters like Josuke
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the original trauma center felt kind of satanic anyway. you use your magical “healing touch” (inscribing a pentagram inside your patients bodies) which gives you hyper surgeon focus and slows time so you can cure them of GUILT
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trauma center is innocent compared to all those bootleg disney surgery games on the internet.
also whenever the subject of gimmicky early ds games comes up, i unfortunately remember the existence of that game snk released
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digital devil surgery
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NGC magazine in the UK had a part where they got an actual trauma surgeon to comment on the GUILT (Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin) disease and how realistic it was and she was like “well if it’s a toxin it can’t also be a disease, does that answer your question?”
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A thing I’m going to be thinking a lot about again now that I remembered it is: The local news when I was a kid said terrorists were trying to buy PS2s to use as missile guidance systems. Y’know, back when there were shortages of PS2s
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disappointed but not surprised that the news media would uncritically parrot that blatant SAPS propaganda -_-
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i remember hearing that sony was banned from selling them to china because the emotion engine could be used as “nuclear supercomputer”
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Was it Trip Hawkins who said the PS2 was more important in history than the printing press?
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Didn’t this turn out to be true? It’s been true in my brain for 20 years at least.
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I think about that one and ISIS USE PS4 PARTY CHAT CUZ ITS SO UNTRACEABLE
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i’m going to be thinking about Dr Hank Freebird for a while
also one of the doctors seems to be called CR-S01, are they a robot?
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Well the JSDF thought it might be used that way, and it never was.
The airforce used some PS3s in a network to do some shit though
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yeah, off the top of my head, I think the PS3 was the only console to ever actually be used for supercomputing purposes
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Pretty much entirely because it was trivial to install linux on it
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The NCSA did a little with the PS2, apparently, after Sony released a Linux kit for it in 2002: http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/
“It worked okay, it didn’t work superbly well. Every time you ran this thing, it would cause the kernel on whatever machine you ran it on to kind of go into this weird unstable state and it would have to be rebooted, which was a bummer,” Steffen said. They shut the project down relatively quickly and moved on to other questions at the NCSA. Steffen still keeps one of the old PS2s on his desk as a memento of the program.
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US DoD’s PS3 supercomputer:
UMass Dartmouth’s:
The UMass one was still going as of 2019–the Verge article–although they were looking starting to look into other devices:
Khanna has since moved on to trying to link smaller, more efficient devices together into his next-generation supercomputer. He says the Nvidia Shield devices he’s working with now are about 50 times more efficient than the already-efficient PS3.
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Look at all that PS2 BC going to waste.
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enter that room and instantly be vapourised by the hot air coming out of all those ps3 fan vents
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Wondering how many of them suffered from that yellow light fault
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