In this video we'll take a look at the story behind the creation of the Sony Playstation 1 startup sound. We discuss the instrumentation and the harmony of the sound as well as how it is produced in real-time by the PS1, which leads to various error state variations (like "Fearful Harmony" and "Personified Fear") .

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In 2022, a clip of the anime Serial Exeriments Lain that aired after 9/11 went viral online and was described as "bizarre" and "surreal." This is the full story of how that clip came about, from the PBS station KTEH to its upload last year.

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Adam encounters one of the actual ghost trap props used on screen for Ghostbusters I and II, and this is a special one. Connected to the original transmitter controller used on set, this ghost trap is packed full of practical effects that not only let it open and close, but activate all the flashing and blinking lights that we saw in the films. Adam takes a look inside this iconic prop to see how the effects technicians made it work over 40 years ago!

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Over the course of the last 40 years, the Italians have spent 1.2 billion euros on a bridge to Sicily, and yet they still have nothing to show for it.

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Some extra footnotes for the above video that I didn't think were worth including:

1/ To get the music working with the "don't preload" mode, a small sub-heap is allocated inside the main one for... reasons. It works fine if the songs are just allocated to the main heap, so... eh? 2/ If you insist on keeping the DMA channel the same, there were many other, simpler ways to get this working. Like... why not just make the bosses load their own music? 3/ This whole "do stuff based on the background" seems to have been a dev favourite way of determining things, as a number of other things is tied to it. For example, whether the moving stair graphics should be loaded into Ghost House levels is ALSO tied to the background.

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Today, the world has approximately eleventy-six billion bus routes. But what was the first ever bus route? Where did it all start? And what has 17th-century mathematician Blaise Pascal got to do with it? I decided to try and answer these questions about the first ever bus route... while walking along it.

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🚉 What Japan’s Dangerous Type 4 Railroad Crossing Looks Like 🚉

Did you know Japan has four types of railroad crossings, and Type 4 crossings are considered the most dangerous? Unlike regular crossings with automatic barriers, Type 4 railroad crossings have no gates, no alarms, and no signals to warn pedestrians and drivers of oncoming trains. 🚦🚆

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A valley of righteous combat, a desolate jungle cave, a seaside mineshaft, and more... all linked by mysterious caves of translocation...

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This is a video on the Rijkshuisstijl, which is the Dutch Government's Visual Identity. It also compares with Sweden's government identity, the Swiss government identity, and the German government identity.

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Shinjuku Station is the busiest train station in the world, with nearly 3 million daily passengers. But just a short distance away, there’s a station that feels almost abandoned—Minami-Shinjuku Station. With only 3,875 daily users, it’s the least used train stations in Tokyo.

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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/26884614

this can't keep happening

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Ghibli (Ni-Tele) Big Clock in Tokyo is designed by Hayao Miyazaki himself, and mechanical characters who perform five times a day. This video shows two performances of day and night.

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Britain's railways are moving back under public control, having been privatised since the mid 1990's.

But why should we care? Is it going to make any difference to our experience of the railway? And most importantly, will it get any better?

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114 years ago this week, the two Olympic Class sisters reached significant milestones in their lives. The 29th/30th of May saw the completion of Olympic's Sea Trials whilst today, May 31st, saw the launch of the mighty Titanic.

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Two decades on, a rail disaster near Osaka remains a painful reminder of what can go wrong when employees are pushed too hard. NHK WORLD's Sato Mariko brings us more from the site.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29219960

What's the deal with the A: and B: drives? Why doesn't Windows assign them as drive letters?

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is basically a 90 minute compilation of legendary scene after scene after scene. Released in 1975, Holy Grail was the first feature film made by Monty Python. For those unfamiliar with the movie, let today's video be your official introduction. For those who very familiar with its innumerable bits of ridiculousness, let it be an opportunity for us all to revel in it together. Next time, I'll delve even deeper into the Holy Grail's behind the scenes production stories. So stay tuned.

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Japan's Streets are some of the best planned streets in the world. Is this purely the result of planning decisions? Or is there more to it?

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Hey y'all! The Finale for the Lego Minecraft Chunk is finally here! I hope you enjoy the video :)

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