Tomb Raider 1 open source engine TR1X adds a 60FPS mode

Found a video showing off the 60 FPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ED8HSHdHHQ

Quoting: CGull

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI do sometimes say or write "USAians", if I want to emphasize that contrary to what many of them seem to believe, they don't actually own all of America.

The idea that "America" is one continent is pure Eurocentrism, as is the idea that Europeans should be dictating how people in the Americas should speak their native languages, name themselves and name their places. Unfortunately, this silly idea of a unitary continent called "America" is still taught in schools in Europe, reflecting the attitude of disappointed colonialists that this hemisphere is one homogeneous mass that should look to Europe as a model. Some non-Europeans do see the imitation of anything European as inherently better.

The widely established colloquial usage of the word "America" (in English, particularly American English) has never entailed a claim to sovereignty over the entire "new world." The word lacks that content, nobody is using it that way, so to read it that way is to willfully misunderstand the intended meaning.

Almost every government and people in the Americas, in all their variety, celebrates its independence from European bullying on such topics as how they should refer to themselves in their native languages. Someday even Canada will formally repudiate monarchism. That will be a great day.

Yesyes, the Americas, true enough, I was just typing quickly, sheesh. I can't believe you did a multi-paragraph dissertation on what was basically a spelling flame. But my point stands: US people call themselves "Americans" as if there was nobody else on either continent. And if you don't think they claimed sovereignty over the whole thing I have a couple of "doctrines" to introduce you to--"Manifest Destiny" and "Monroe".

As to monarchy--Well, as a Canadian, monarchism is one of the few things helping us keep a smidge of cultural distance from the US, so I'm not giving up on it any time soon. In any case, while actual monarchy sucks, constitutional monarchy is pretty harmless and enables some useful political concepts, notably the "loyal opposition". If you don't know what that is you are probably not qualified to have an opinion anyone should listen to on the subject of monarchy.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyYesyes, the Americas, true enough, I was just typing quickly, sheesh. I can't believe you did a multi-paragraph dissertation on what was basically a spelling flame. But my point stands: US people call themselves "Americans" as if there was nobody else on either continent.

I hesitate to go further on this tangent, but this comes up from time to time and I get the impression there may be a genuine disconnect here. Do people outside the US really think we use the word "America" as a synonym for "the Americas," and not simply as an abbreviation of "The United States of America"? Because it's the latter. When people here talk about America or Americans, we're talking about the US or citizens thereof, not trying to speak for anybody else. If we want to speak more broadly, we'll use more precise words like the actual names of the continents, or "the Americas." In fact, I'm genuinely surprised to see you react as if the phrase "the Americas" is being pedantic in this instance, because I've always taken the need for such specificity for granted.

Sorry if I've written another dissertation, I just feel like I'm having words put in my mouth anytime this comes up. There are plenty of legit pigheaded attitudes to go around in the US, but I don't think a simple abbreviation of our country's stupid name is one of them.

Quoting: Smoke39

Quoting: Purple Library GuyYesyes, the Americas, true enough, I was just typing quickly, sheesh. I can't believe you did a multi-paragraph dissertation on what was basically a spelling flame. But my point stands: US people call themselves "Americans" as if there was nobody else on either continent.

I hesitate to go further on this tangent, but this comes up from time to time and I get the impression there may be a genuine disconnect here. Do people outside the US really think we use the word "America" as a synonym for "the Americas," and not simply as an abbreviation of "The United States of America"? Because it's the latter.

It's neither, really. Most Americans just don't think about it one way or another. But it's a viable approach in the first place because Americans don't think anyone else in the neighbourhood matters or, probably, really exists. So like yeah, it's an abbreviation for "The United States of America", but it's an abbreviation that's fine simply because it doesn't occur to Americans that anyone else might have any claims to the term.
It's like the way indigenous people tend to get annoyed when we whites talk about "Discovering America" even if we don't "mean anything by it"--we don't see ourselves making the assumption that nobody who mattered existed who knew about America before we "discovered" it, but they see it and they're not wrong (oddly, nobody ever talks about Columbus discovering "the Americas").