For what it's worth, Lenna Söderberg doesn't seem to mind her picture being used, she actually gave a talk about it at a conference in 1997. If you're on the birdsite you could probably ask her if she's changed her mind in the 20 years since, dunno how often she gets asked it; shes @lenasberg far as I can tell.
@bob The main question I hear is "Why does it need to be a person at all?" with a side of more moralistic stuff about how the source image is porn and that's kinda questionable. I'd say that there's undoubtedly an advantage to having a standardized image (or set thereof) but I've never really gotten the reason for Lena in particular aside from "it' what people use"
@stigatle I had a hell of a time seriously going backwards. I couldn't figure out for the life of my why when I ran my makefile the arduino wouldn't output over serial.... I had the makefile flashing an old file called hello.hex, not what the makefile was now building it as, hello :)
In my defense most of it wasn't the AVR code itself: you get a vaguely normal-feeling system with a libc. The problem was consistently *flashing* the damn thing without errors.
@stigatle "Well I wanna play with my arduino but processing is kind of a meh language. Let's spend 6 hours trying to figure out how to get serial communication working through C!"
@katiekats So why can't botw be far in the future? That's the implication of calamity ganon after all: some point in hyrule's far, far future technology developed and Ganon was 'permanently" sealed away using the guardians, but Ganon channeled all of his hatred to return as calamity ganon. The only problem is "why did technology slide back?" Aonuma says as much himself: BotW takes place long, long after any other entries.
I ask because the new zelda DLC came out today and one of the new features is literally-objectively-best horse armor. The Ancient Armor adds 2 stamina to your horse and teleports it to you when you whistle.
@bob What's that quote? We buy suits and pay for cars to go to work to afford our suits, cars, and the homes we leave vacant all day so that we can go to work?