NonWonderDog [he/him]

Why should anyone trust this data for anything at all? How is it collected?

Google can’t be keeping searchable logs of every individual search by everyone on earth and making them available to you for free (the amount of data would be intractable, surely). I suspect these work by polling for cache hits in various content delivery nodes (or maybe just logs of returned results?), which means what Google Trends is really telling you is that someone made a web search on that day that returned at least one of the same results as the web search you queried google trends for.

https://testufo.com/persistence

The difference between 60 and 120 Hz and even between 120 and 240 Hz is blatantly obvious in this example. It’s about replicating the effect of looking out the side window of a moving car, not just the illusion of motion (which movies do well enough at 24 fps).

You need 1000 fps for zero motion blur, but nobody has a 1000 Hz display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJI3qTb2ze8&pp=0gcJCQMKAYcqIYzv

Extremely self-congratulatory tech insider, but puts the specs in context. It’s about as powerful as a $600 laptop, which is the most he expects it to sell for.

Valve only claims “6 times the performance of a Steam Deck” in the announcement, which isn’t all that much depending on how that’s measured. Still way faster than an Xbox, though.

The Universal Century timeline is why Gundam became famous, and is the most “Gundam” Gundam.

Production order of the major entries isn’t a bad way to watch them:
0079 -> Z -> ZZ -> CCA -> 0080 -> 0083 -> V -> 08MS -> ∀ -> UC -> Origin -> NT

• The original 1979 series is great, but it really drags for a dozen or so episodes in the middle. I haven’t seen the movies, but the movies are what actually made Gundam famous in Japan.
• Zeta is the direct sequel, is also great, and has the best OP of any animated series. Nobody recommends the movies instead of the series.
• Double Zeta starts with the aftermath of Zeta before just ignoring it and pulling a massive tone shift. It gets really bad for a bit, but I thought the episodes towards the end were better than anything in Zeta.
• Char’s Counterattack is essentially the real sequel to Zeta, although it’s slightly polarizing.
• 0080, 0083, and 08MS are spin-offs set during or just after the original. These are all pretty short, and you can watch them whenever. These are all good, but with minor problems (weird characterization in 0083, director changes and tonal inconsistencies in 08MS, etc.)
• Victory Gundam is incredibly grim and weird, but worth it just to see how depressing a supposed kid’s show can get. Starting here would be insanity, but it’s not actually directly connected to anything else so I guess you could do it.
• Turn A Gundam is the absolute best of Gundam, but it plays with the formula and calls back to the themes in everything prior. This one is technically alternate universe, but you should watch another full Gundam series first (0079 -> Zeta -> CCA would be good). The more Gundam you’ve seen, the harder this one hits, because it does a number of things that Gundam just does not do.
• Unicorn and Narrative were OK, I guess. Kind of felt like a more serious sequel to Double Zeta that integrated Char’s Counterattack.
• Origin is good, and you can watch it any time after Char’s Counterattack if you need more Char.

The newest one was GQuuuuuuX last spring, but it was major fanservice that probably only really made sense if you’ve seen 0079 -> Zeta -> Double Zeta.

Gentoo

No, they have it right. Add-on software means “added to this node/machine”, as in not part of the system image used to configure multiple machines. It’s all very archaic.