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  • Man, I guess I can imagine someone liking “I FEEL ASLEEP!!!” Metal Gear back when there was nothing better for the western market, but I still think that game sucked ass. The original MSX2 version of the game holds up and is fun today, but if the NES port was the “real” game I don’t think it would have got a sequel. It might have been fascinating (if you didn’t know about the REAL one) but I genuinely don’t think it was fun.






  • That really is the final question that determines whether this can be marketable. I assume they haven’t published numbers or even attempted to measure it because that’s part of the long, expensive development cycle. They have a lot of catching up just to meet the effort already put into optimizing 4-stroke emissions, and I’m sure once it has a catalytic converter, lower compression, and an intake designed to idle efficiently then the weight and power numbers will be less impressive (think what people can do NOW with race/offroad/custom gas or diesel engines that don’t have to meet emissions).

    Though as he said in the video, conceptually it should have all the features necessary to be clean (as much as a 4-stroke), since it doesn’t burn lubricating oil or permit fuel-air mixture to be lost. D4S covers a lot of novel combustion engines with a good mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, so if he’s excited then I’m definitely still excited.


  • This is Google Ngrams, and the exact results can be found right here. It charts the frequency of a word or phrase occurring in all literature in Google’s library, by publication date. You can make interesting inferences about the popularity of words. Also, try two words, phrases or names separated by a comma to compare them side by side.

    It’s really cool but people have stopped talking about it much since it came out years ago.