some games that looked old (like Animal Crossing)
There’s a good reason for that one: the first animal crossing game was originally made for Nintendo 64, though that version was only released in Japan. GameCube got a port of it and that port (plus some extra features) is what released in English.
a variable-length integer encoding that somewhat resembles what they do in UTF-8. It means for strings < 128 chrs, the length is a single byte. Longer than that and more bytes get used as necessary.
What you used might be similar to unsigned LEB128, which is used in DWARF, Webassembly, Android’s DEX format, and protobuf. Essentially encodes 7 bits of the number in each byte, with the high bit being 1 in any byte except the last one representing the number.
Though unlike UTF-8 the number’s length isn’t encoded in the first byte but instead implied by the final byte. Arguably making the number’s encoding similar to a terminated string.
The baby god event was never officially released, so this actually didn’t canonically happen.
It was released. The Azure Flute and the event where you meet and battle Arceus in the Hall of Origin in DPPt was indeed never released, but this is different.
Arceus had various distributions in 2009-2010; the US one was at Toys R Us for example. Trading that legit Arceus to HGSS and then bringing it to the Ruins of Alph triggers this event which takes you to a special location where you can choose one egg of either Dialga, Palkia, or Giratina.
The conditions that processors run under in situations like military equipment are drastically different from those of consumer devices. Consistency and stability are more important than performance in those contexts. So much so that RTOS systems like VxWorks are popular in that space. They’d probably already have features like clock boost disabled (or use processors completely lacking it) in favor of a lower fixed clock speed, probably avoiding these issues entirely.
You joke, but it really exists: the company that acquired uTorrent 17 years ago now sells an ad-free version of their current torrent client as “BitTorrent Pro” for USD$20/year, or alternatively as part of a VPN service bundle for $70/year.
Needless to say, stick with FOSS clients like qBittorrent/Deluge/etc instead.
Nonfree media codecs like HEVC/h265 are affected by US software patents. Distributing them from US servers without paying license fees to MPEG LA can put the host at risk of lawsuit. VLC, deb-multimedia (Debian), and RPM Fusion (Fedora) all avoid that by hosting in France, but even with those sources enabled patent issues can break things like hardware acceleration. Free codecs like AV1/VP9/Opus avoid all these problems.
Microsoft is US-based and can’t avoid those per-install fees. They could cut the profit from every single Windows license but apparently chose not to.
I have not once ever seen anyone shorten the name of a Debian release like that and I’ve been following/using Debian things for two decades.
Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie, Stretch, Buster, Bullseye, Bookworm, and Trixie aren’t “ds”, “dw”, “dj”, “ds” again, “db”, “db” again, “db” for a third time in a row, or “dt”. Both stable and sid are “s” too.