>Sony were advocate of writing assembly in an excel spreadsheet

What was supposed to be the advantage of this over a traditional plain text assembly language? Using Excel macros to generate code?

I'm not actually sure how they had their spreadsheets set up, probably had a bunch of conditional formatting setup to highlight pipeline hazards, along with formulas to show total and wasted cycles counts.

Both Architectures had exposed pipelines, meaning the result of an operation would take a few cycles to show up in the destination register and some operations would take longer than others. You might have to insert a bunch of NOPs to make sure the data would be ready for the next instruction that needed it. Both Architectures were also dual issue, meaning two completely independent operations, operating on completely independent registers would be manually packed into a single instruction by the programmer. There also would be restrictions on which types of instructions could go in each half of the instruction, if you didn't have an instruction, you have to put a NOP there.

I'm pretty sure Sony liked the spreadsheets because it forced the programmer to see where all the NOPs were. The programmer would be expected to refactor things and manually unroll loops until all the NOPs were filled with useful instructions and peak performance was reached.

Maybe the spreadsheet was used to track the pipeline state which is necessary for good performance.

And impossible to finish any game by the schedule

Most PS3 games I've played had terrible performance problem, I guess now I know why.

Why the downvotes? It's true. If you stray from AAA titles, you get plenty of PS3-only games that had terrible lags and struggled to even manage 30fps on reduced resolution. GUST titles like the Atelier series come to mind.

>I really wonder what kind of drugs they were on when they decided that it would be a good idea to import millions of illiterate, young men from an alien culture that hates us. We now have terror attacks here in the EU on a regular basis and the rise in violence and rapes can't be hidden anymore.

Not only do the elites not see themselves as the same people as us, they fear strong middle classes as a legitimate threat to their power. Mass immigration is just one of many steps towards creating a population that can be ruled by force without accountability.

With the added side affect of a surplus of labour putting downward pressure on wages

Lots of great games didn't sell because they were non-franchise titles released at the end of their platform's life. Shantae, Drill Dozer... It sucks, but it was probably the right business decision.

Your taste is terrible though.

My gut says that all of these fields are much smaller worlds than you assume, especially when compared to the 7-11 million concurrent Steam users and countless more PC gamers in countries like China and Korea.

Sexual desire was fixed at a cultural level until it wasn't. The narrative that people only steal because they're poor and desperate is just that, a narrative. Anyone can feel excitement at taking another's property. Your perfect society free of crime is begging for a "disruption."

> Anyone can feel excitement at taking another's property.

My upbringing has had this "golden rule of ethics" (don't do to others what you don't want done upon yourself) ingrained in me pretty well, so I would never feel excitement about this.

(Hypothesis: This ridiculous objectivism has had people forget how much cooperation is ingrained into humans by nature.)

That said, I am aware that such thoughts exist in my subconsciousness, because the subc is always exploring all possible paths, but I have never experienced that as an even remotely acceptable (in terms of my own moral) path of action.

> don't do to others what you don't want done upon yourself

This only works for people who sufficiently appreciate their own possessions. Others might develop a very relaxed "stuff comes, stuff goes, who cares it's just materialistic crap anyways" attitude and and that equips them to have surprisingly little remorse in regards to theft. This is probably exemplified best in the extremely high rate of theft affecting near-zero-value bikes in many Dutch cities. That kind of thief might even rationalize by inverting guilt, "if he feels bad about the loss it's his own fault that he is not as cool about shitty old piles of rust as I am"

Have you ever watched a heist film? If so, you can't claim not to understand how it could be exciting to break into someone's property, risk imprisonment or death, and take their stuff. Go watch one some time, the writers make sure to paint the victims as bad men and the thieves as anti-heroes so that you can enjoy the fantasy without guilt.

You've missed my point for the opportunity to moralize and posture. Consider this: You know cheating is wrong, you probably consider yourself to be someone that would never do it, yet you can still acknowledge that it would most likely be enjoyable for at least a very short while, right? That's all I'm saying, not (lmao) some kind of faux-objectivist philosophy on the right to take other people's property or whatever it is you seem to be imagining.

It's human nature to crave sex, maybe not with every single person you meet, but certainly with more than a single partner in your entire life, right? For thousands of years, Christianity attempted to "work on this" aspect of human nature and make non-monogamous sexuality taboo. It was fairly successful at it. Yet (depending on your perspective) it only took somewhere between a few years and a few decades post-sexual revolution for it all to come crashing down spectacularly.

If the most powerful institution in the western world couldn't "fix" this aspect of human nature over millennia, it is sheer arrogance to think we can do better today.

I'm not sure if that's the best example. People that don't crave sex fall out of the gene pool pretty quickly.

Something like aggressive behavior though, is something that can be selected against.

Feminists have selected against male aggressive behavior in our education systems for decades. They have "successfully" ruined the lives of countless western boys and laid the foundation for immigrants from non-castrated cultures to take their stead with redoubled aggression. Turns out that it's much easier to beat boys into submission than it is to subvert female attraction to dominance.

This is not r/redpill, if you're going to make outlandish claims, please back them up with good citations.

"This is not r/redpill" says it all, but ok. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war-...

Thank you for this insightful, valuable comment.

The ironic thing about OSDs causing input lag is that the very systems we emulate prove that video overlays are trivial to implement without buffering.