![]() ![]() "That thing you like, sucks" - well, different things for different people.GIF animations are an easy method of getting a message across to your audience during a presentation in a fun and lively way. your favorite vs-code website stalls in my browser, spins up my fan and scrolls really sluggishly because of all the gifs. Apparently nobody cares about gif enough to do that kind of thing with it - or it's so limited, there are fewer places to do that kind of thing. This is nothing to do with video codecs per-se, it's just part and parcel of video on the web and the companies which control it and the things people do with it to grab control and commercialise and overreach. You can also no longer watch a YouTube video and lock your iPhone to keep the audio playing, like you could a few iOS versions ago. You can also be listening to a Twitter video, scroll it juuuust off screen, and have Twitter decide you must have gone deaf as well and pause playing. > with videos you can auto-play on scroll It would be neat if right click -> reload image, restarted it, or if there was a restart option in the right click menu. > I find it very frustrating to have to wait an entire loop to wait for an instructional gif to start from scratch This means gifs can't be a replacement for all video, nor am I suggesting they should be only saying I prefer to err on the side of gif more than most people, because the experience is generally less annoying (not completely annoyance-free). d) Nobody ever says "don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell, thanks from my Patreon sponsors like xxSwagMaster, buy my merch and smash that like button" on a gif. c) never have to mute music and unmute a gif and rewind it just to find out if there is audio to miss or not. b) never have to take action unmute a gif. This means I a) never miss something in the audio track, because there isn't one. > Your twitter complaints for example is completely invalid, gifs cannot play sound at allĮxcellent. Authors could replace gif frames with ads but they generally don't, and haven't done so for years. I have never seen a gif say "an error occurred, try again later" when I try to unpause it, like YouTube says several times each day for videos I paused yesterday. It's not that the gif file format mandates that they must loop, or that video codecs mandate playlists, but that's what people actually do with them and all those things together make videos a worse experience for anything which doesn't need to be long form video.Īuthors don't need to put ads in videos but they do. Gifs tend to scale with pinch-zoom, videos don't. Videos tend to fullscreen when played and then have to be waited for, or start playing tiny then have to be fullscreened and restarted to watch. Gifs tend to sit inside a mobile page while loading, then play in-place ready to be scrolled back to. My complaints about what people actually do are unfair, because you can imagine things being different? Load a page with a video which doesn't play immediately and a gif which doesn't play immediately, and it's annoying for both, then leave it for a bit and the gif will very likely load then loop so I don't miss it when I look back, the video is as likely to play then autoplay the next 'related' video so if I don't wait, I do miss it. Twitter feeds in a browser where the videos auto-play as you scroll over them, but play without sound so you have to mute your audio, unmute the video, then restart it to catch whether you missed anything - but if you click wrong it whisks you away to load that tweet in a new page and reloads everything including the video muted again - are the worst of all worlds.Įven as someone who whines a lot about efficiency and waste and bloaty websites, this is still a time I'd rather say "if gif is too big, find a way to make gif smaller, not replace them with a worse experience". Video, video buffering, video with broken skipping, players blocked by ad blockers, players that take ages to load and contact tons of sites, autoplaying video, video which pops out to picture-in-picture and floats over the content, video with adverts interrupting playback, video with overlays interrupting the video, video which stalls midway through, video which breaks if you leave it paused long enough for some session to timeout and it can't resume, video which often re-downloads after skipping back to an already-downloaded section, has been the opposite of a great improvement. I don't love how long it takes to load, but if they were videos I had to click to play, that would be worse. The Visual Studio Code release information pages are an example: - this page with uBlock is about as good as the modern web gets. Markdown + animated gif has been a great improvement in the world in recent years. ![]()
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Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review, 1988.Ĭollection comprised of scholarly contributions in honor of Rivera’s personal and professional life. Tomás Rivera 1935–1984: The Man and His Work. Lattin, Vernon E., Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, and Gary D. ![]() Review of The Harvest, a posthumously published collection of Rivera’s prose comprised of six stories, four of which were previously published, as well as a fragment of an unfinished novel. “A Late Harvest: A Review of the Collected Stories of Tomás Rivera.” Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue 17.3 (September–December 1992): 279–284. Olivares 1985 includes national and international perceptive essays that focus on specific aspects of Rivera’s work and life, while Patell 2004 offers a general introduction to the author in the context of popular culture. Guajaro 1992 gives us a pointed review on Rivera’s posthumously published The Harvest. Martinez 1992 compiles a comprehensive collection of Rivera’s life and work. Spence 1988 (cited under Bibliographies) offers an early bibliographic guide to scholarship on Rivera. 1988 is an excellent collection of essays on Rivera and a useful entry point that also contains Maguire 1988. The work listed in this section provides both readers and scholars with important introductions and overviews of Rivera and his writing. Posthumously, The Harvest (1989), a collection of Rivera’s prose as well as a fragment of an unfinished novel, and two more collections of Rivera’s poetry were published (1990, 1991). During Rivera’s administrative career, he published a collection of poems, Always and Other Poems (1973). And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1988), considered to be the definitive translation. And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971) by Rivera’s colleague and close friend Rolando Hinojosa-Smith as The Migrant Earth (1987) and also by Evangelina Vigil-Piñon as. Since its original publication in Spanish, the novel has since been translated by Herminio Ríos C as. Additionally, the critical impact of the novel on Chicana/o literature and studies is evidenced by the numerous scholarly studies that identify it as one of the seminal works of emerging Mexican-American literature. tierra with embodying the ethos of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement that celebrates ethnic difference and collective identity. Many prominent scholars and critics have credited. The novel, rendered through disjointed memories, comes to reflect a collective consciousness that proves to be a source of empowerment for the Chicana/o community. y no se lo tragó la tierra was paramount in depicting the social and political injustices prevalent in Mexican-American communities additionally, it was critically acclaimed for its complex nonlinear narrative form. tierra and awarded Rivera the first Quinto Sol Award. . . Regardless, Quinto Sol, a company that focused on promoting Chicano literature, proudly published. Initially, Rivera had a difficult time getting his work published due in part to the fact that it was primarily written in Spanish and many publishers worried that the language barrier would restrict his audience. His working class upbringing and his experience as a farm laborer informed his highly praised novel. At 48, Rivera died unexpectedly from a heart attack, leaving behind a legacy as a central figure in Chicana/o literature and education. Following a few years teaching, Rivera pursued a career in administration, becoming the first Mexican-American chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (1979–1984). Rivera graduated from Southwest Texas State University, earning a master’s degree in English and administration, and later from the University of Oklahoma, earning his doctorate in Spanish literature (1969). Tomás Rivera (b. 1935–d. 1984) was born in Crystal City, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants, and grew up working alongside his parents as a migrant farmworker throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan, and Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Being a magazine that had the latest information and was one option of many, cheats were as important as the newest reviews or previews-to some readers, more important, because it was tangible and something they could use to prove themselves." After all, the first player to access Sonic the Hedgehog 2's debug menu or trigger God Mode in Doom rocketed to the top of the playground's food chain. 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While converting Konami's arcade shoot-em-up Gradius to the NES in 1986, programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto found the game too difficult and programmed a cheat to give himself power-ups: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, and Start at the main menu. One developer's oversight was another player's salvation. During those last builds, sometimes people just plain forgot to take codes out." ![]() You sent the code off to get approved and it was rejected or approved by the console manufacturer, and that was it. Before paving the road to hell with 1996's Diablo, Blizzard North paid the bills by taking contracts to write games for Sega Genesis and Game Boy. "The process was very different back then," added David Brevik, co-founder of Blizzard North. "And once you think you have a final gold master of the game, you don't want to open up the code and remove them because that could break the game in some unexpected way." 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In June 1997, Amrich landed his dream job as an editor at GamePro, and learned how and why codes like DULLARD came to exist in the first place. ![]() ![]() The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. This cookie can only be read from the domain they are set on and will not track any data while browsing through other sites. The _gads cookie, set by Google, is stored under DoubleClick domain and tracks the number of times users see an advert, measures the success of the campaign and calculates its revenue. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. It does not store any personal data.Īnalytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. 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