It’s just because caliber is a real word, but calibur isn’t. It’s been used for a long time in different media to name swords after King Arthur’s sword Excalibur.
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scutiger@lemmy.worldto Risa@startrek.website•Just imagining Bones finding out and being extremely impressedEnglish10·2 years agoYou thinking Billy Butcher in space?
scutiger@lemmy.worldto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•I don't think this opinion will be contra-versial hereEnglish2·2 years agoI haven’t played much of the arcade version of Contra, but on the NES version, the S can actually shoot faster. There’s a limit to the bullets you can have on screen, so if you mash the button fast enough, you get to shoot again as soon as a bullet leaves the screen. If there’s nothing to stop your bullets before the hit the edge of the screen, you’ll end up with a line of bullets in front and a spread of 3 bullets. If there are any obstacles that stop your bullets early, eventually, you just end up with a stream of bullets in a straight line in front of you with no more spread.
The laser only does 4 hits per beam, but you can only have one beam on screen at a time, and if you fire again before it hits, it just disappears before firing the new shot.
Ah, the Estevez brothers!
scutiger@lemmy.worldto Apple@lemmy.world•Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries31·2 years agoThere are so many things a company can change about a phone besides its thickness.
scutiger@lemmy.worldto Apple@lemmy.world•Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries102·2 years agoI don’t think anybody really cares about an extra half millimetre of thickness, especially if it means that you can save hundreds in replacement costs and extend its life by a few years. Nobody’s buying an iPhone and busting out the calipers to compare it to their previous phone.
scutiger@lemmy.worldto Apple@lemmy.world•Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t makeEnglish42·2 years agoOh no! Hurt Apple’s bottom line for the benefit of the environment? Won’t somebody thing of the poor, poor multinational megacorp?
scutiger@lemmy.worldto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•The NES at 40: Seven ways it changed the gaming world foreverEnglish2·2 years agoShiggity shiggity shwa
scutiger@lemmy.worldto Futurama @lemmy.world•My personal, most-quoted Futurama line: "Don't let the door hit you on the way out..."English7·2 years agoAny button! They ALL retaliate!
It’s the tough black mineral that won’t cop out when there’s heat all about!
40% titanium, 40% dolomite, 40% zinc, 30% iron, and a 0.04% nickel impurity.
They’ve been known to!
scutiger@lemmy.worldto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Retro games really did look better on a CRTEnglish91·2 years agoYeah, of course games made back then are going to look ridiculous scaled up to 1080p or higher. The SNES had a resolution of 256×224, and the graphics were designed with the drawbacks of 50/60hz interlaced displays in mind. Nowadays, we have progressive scan consumer-grade TVs at 4K resolutions and refresh rates of 120hz. It doesn’t make sense to scale the graphics up directly.
scutiger@lemmy.worldto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•The current state of my N64 collectionEnglish2·2 years agoWhich games don’t already have roms of them floating around on the internet?
So you missed out on the era of 8" floppy disks?
Now all you need to use it is a 90’s sound card with a built-in game port.
You’re supposed to put some type of desiccant like silica gel beads that will pull that moisture out of the air.
Leaving the box open will just let humid air in. You can’t let air out without also letting air in unless you have some sort of vacuum pump.