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First day of sitting lessons.

Sounds like I’m never going to have a reason to buy a current generation console.

Autotune the news?

I installed Unciv from F-Droid. That’s what happened to my Sunday.

Trump’s allies allegedly asked the British government to intervene, but officials stated the king makes his own decisions.

That’s so hilariously pathetic.

I watched the video they released the other day and stopped half way through. It looked rather dull and also ugly, unfortunately.

How is there no middleware available for NPC movement? It looked tremendously stilted. Similarly the lighting and environments looked worse than things I was playing fifteen years ago. I don’t need cutting edge but it looks distractingly ugly to me.

Mechanically I like 64. I’d like a few more tracks, particularly for the battle mode. The later versions add far too much cruft for my tastes.

I really hoped I’d like Superliminal but ultimately I found it lacking in charisma and was tired of it by the time I reached the end. 6/10 is about what I’d rate it. Serviceable but mediocre.

As we all know, UI is a fundamental part of any piece of software’s architecture and cannot be changed without a ground-up rewrite.

Isn’t that what the Skate series is for?

I wish I could get past how ugly and small that engine makes places look.

Do your best.

They’re a tad bigger than that (100 GB per disc), and I’ve lost enough hard disks over the years to not want to have to deal with backing up files that big. Not when I can have a small collection of shelf stable discs that won’t suffer mechanical failure short of deliberate damage.

Anyway, you can disagree all you like. If it’s not inconvenient for you, excellent, but for me it is. Hard disks sit in the back of my mind as ticking time bombs that I need to keep an eye on if I want to trust them. Ugh, I’ve done enough of that in my life. So many dodgy disks!

Oh and that also assumes a load of infrastructure in my home that I don’t have. I know how to set it up, but I don’t want to. Been there, done that. I’d rather check the second hand UHD shelf at CEX and pick up the occasional disc when the price isn’t silly.

Of course, eventually my UHDs will decay, but the timescale is decades rather than years.

Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology. The most basic speaker setup for it is 5.1.2: 5 = front left and right, centre, rear left and right 1 = subwoofer (bass box) 2 = ceiling speakers

So a soundbar - a single block sat in the centre below the screen - claiming to do immersive surround sound is up there with gold-plated fibreoptic leads.

I’m always tickled when I see soundbars that ostensibly support Dolby Atmos.

Speaking only for UHD blurays - to get similar quality requires large files. Storing a collection of giant files is a hassle.

I don’t think attempting to blow into one of these is going to help matters.

I think the only thing I want to know is “can anything be done to help my body?” and I didn’t see anything in there. Limiting exposure, sure, but I am already exposed, so what do I do about what has already happened?

I really enjoy Calum’s work on obscure vehicles, shipping containers, and stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com/@CalumRaasay

Mustard has other fun vehicles, often with a focus on aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/@MustardChannel

David Hilowitz does fun stuff with musical instruments (finding them, sampling them, stuff like that): https://www.youtube.com/@DavidHilowitzMusic

I love wargaming miniatures and basically the only channel I watch on the subject is Eric’s Hobby Workshop: https://www.youtube.com/@EricsHobbyWorkshop

I wouldn’t really call it a “trap”. If you’re buying a console when it’s new at full price, sure, you’re being taken for a ride, but give it a couple of years for stuff to be cheaper and it can work out reasonably well.

I used to be a major PC gamer but eventually the cost/benefit calculation went completely off the rails.

That said, I’ve not upgraded to the current console generation because I’m still waiting on something to justify it.