Why is Hong Kong dying?

I grew up in an era when Hong Kong was superior to other cities in Eastern Asia. We were once the richest. Our culture had remarkable influence on mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea. I used …

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Why does every gamer want 60 FPS when the human eye cannot process more than 30 FPS?

When I was a designer/producer at Atari arcade division, I was able to test this directly. The monitors we worked with could be either in 60 or 30 fps, no in between. We had to make sprites to m…

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