Chocolate is native to the Americas and started to spread around the world in the 17th century, so it makes sense that most languages use the same word, as it is a quite recent addition.

I have been living in Japan for years and I would like to know where you can find a lunch bowl for 600 yen which is not a company cantine or industrial konbini shit.

This is a big misconception. The core neighborhoods of the big Japanese cities are dense, mixed-use, and have good mass transit. But as soon as you move a bit further away, they degenerate into endless urban sprawl like American cities. I know because I live in a small Japanese city, and it is just box stores, small detached houses, and two-story apartments.

What does your comment has to do with the topic of this thread? Why do you guys always need to insert US politics into everything?

By that logic, everything is a cultural difference...

You can say fuck on TV, it just increases the age rating. Same with showing nipples. Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from _any_ consequences of speech…

There are indeed a lot of cultural differences between the United States and Europe.

That only applies to TV sets, computer monitors operated at much higher frequencies outside the human hearing range.

They weren't that high frequency. I could hear computer monitors into my twenties at least. I'd guess somewhere around 20 - 22 kHz. CRTs were largely replaced by LCDs by my late 20s/early 30s, so I don't have a good sense of when I stopped being able to hear frequencies that high.

VGA monitors had a minimum horizontal frequency of 31 kHz (480p at 60Hz), way outside the human hearing range.

And arcade monitors, or at least the ones I've been around do. I can hear an arcade machine in a different room

Most arcade monitors operate at the usual 15 kHz, although some later games operated at 24 kHz (medium resolution) and 31 kHz (high resolution).

Have you tried BFI (black frame insertion)? Many people swear by it because it improves the "motion clarity", but it has the side effect of significantly increasing flicker.

Most of these CRT shaders seem to emulate the lowest possible quality CRTs you could find back in the day. I have a nice Trinitron monitor on my desk and it looks nothing like these shaders.

The only pleasant shader I have found is the one included in Dosbox Staging (https://www.dosbox-staging.org/), that one actually looks quite similar to my monitor!

Based on the repo dosbox staging seems to be mostly using crt-hyllian as their shader: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/tree/main/r...

That same shader is also available for RetroArch

A Trinitron shader would be two very thin horizontal lines trisecting the screen.

In any modern OS with CoW forking/paging, multiple worker processes of the same app will share code segments by default.

COW on fork has been a given for decades.

You can't COW two different libraries, even if the libraries in question share the source code text.

Nowadays' Japanese arcades are not like the ones GP is describing, most players don't interact with each other directly anymore.

Notable exceptions are places like Mikado centers that organize tournaments and keep the old flame alive.

I don't think the culture is the same due to cabinets having network capabilities now, but I do think it's possible.

At the taito station in Akihabara, I've met tourists a few times when I was in town for a large tournament (EVO Japan) and made friends from it. I've also had people watching me play, but unfortunately I don't speak Japanese.

I know there's a few arcades that still have some street fighter III: third strike cabinets with regulars. I can't speak for other games but at least for street fighter, people are almost always open and friendly.

I was there 2 years ago. I went inside one of the multi storey gaming places in Akihabara. The old school (90's and older) era games are a small section in one floor when there is 6 storeys of gaming.

That sounds like the Taito Station on the right side of the street. On the other side there is a Gigo with a whole floor for retro games, and Hey! that is focused almost only on retro games.