TVs have been available in 120Hz and VRR for a while now. Even my 2017 OLED supports 120Hz, albeit only at 1080p.

That said, I don’t see the need to chase that with more expensive hardware. Any game with a choice of performance vs resolution, I find myself swapping to performance mode. I can see extra frames, I struggle to see extra pixels.

I’m not sure the disc drive can be saved at this point. There’s big games that didn’t even come out on disc, like BG3.

When you’re no longer having fun.

If you want the worst, it’s Medal of Honor Underground.

I mean, fair play for trying to get a cutting edge PS1 game onto the GBA, but why would you persist if that’s all you could do with it?

Grab an Amiga emulator and get Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions.

Closest I’ve got to info is widevine keys extracted from insecure Android boxes. I’m happy just to download their copy tbh. It’s usually just as quick, if not more so.

Automated numberplate recognition systems have spoilt so much fun.

Yep, as wildly expensive and unreliable as AI is, so are staff.

Watch as loads of people get laid off, they realise the AI can’t do their jobs after all, but you know who can give it a go? Some guy in a third world country on $3 an hour.

Goldman Sachs has not invested in AI.

Their statement is factual though, on all three points. nVidia’s share price alone should alarm people. It’s the new dot com bubble.

The issue with any two party system is that they’ll both fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.

The PR referendum was the only time they’ve ever worked together and the public fell for it.

Yeah, it’s all on Twitter and Facebook.

Why hang out in the run down Nazi bar when the big chain bars are all accepting Nazis now?

I don’t often go for the full 4K Blu-ray Remux releases, since they’re massive and I can’t really tell the difference over a 10-15GB rip, at least visually. Just a webrip is fine, depending on the source. Plus even my nVidia Shield Pro struggles with them at times.

More like how all the music streaming services work. All got pretty much the same content, just different quality and prices.

Much higher floor limit, and no need to enter your PIN every X transactions.

Why would they do that when Google and Apple already do all the work for them?

Animal Well

Reminds me of old Spectrum platform games, like Jet Set Willy or Dynamite Dan. Only with better controls.

Sort of Metroidvania. Not overly difficult for the most part, although some bits took me a fair few attempts. Lots of secrets and hidden areas.

Made by a single developer, Billy Basso, who sounds like a comic book character, but a British one who says things like “cor, eh readers?”

Because you could use the Linux one to save the file unencrypted because it’s not locked down.

If only there was a way for media to exist as a file.

Alas, it’s just not possible.

Gee, we’ve tried taking content away, raising prices, injecting adverts and forcing them to use our crappy clients.

Why are people turning to piracy?

Advertising and lobbying are the only thing these people know how to do.

I went back to it recently. It’s mostly down to Amazon deciding that paying them was no longer enough, you had to watch their ads as well.

Well now I don’t. I installed Jellyfin, paid up for two years of VPN, and got another HDD. I’m set. I’m all done with asking nicely for a better service so I got my own.

I sub to Spotify because it’s easier than pirating. I’m a creature of convenience. If there was one streaming service that had all movies that have already had their cinema run, and all TV shows, and was all in one UI, and nothing ever got taken off it, and it was a reasonable price (say the price of two current streaming services), I’d probably pay up for it.

But there isn’t. They don’t want to offer it. They all want to be king of their little corner.

Probably injecting ads “naturally” into the conversation.

Gets you out of the consequences part though, which is good enough.

The ZX Spectrum was a home computer popular in the UK back in the 1980s.

Games loaded from audio tapes, and would frequently take 5-10 minutes to get into a state where you could actually play them.

Now get off my lawn!

One of them had Space Invaders. I can’t remember for the life of me which one. It was apparently used on the C64 quite a lot, under the name Invade-a-Load.

Well it’s the only handheld that hasn’t given me cramp after 20 minutes, so at least there’s that. DS and 3DS were limited to stylus games for me.

I don’t think that’s the case at all. They run from the carts just fine.

That’s less than a kettle, in the UK at least.

Of course I wouldn’t want to be running that all the time, because electric ain’t cheap.

Well, the *arr stack can.

That bit is called Bazarr. You do occasionally have to dick about as well, as the subs might not be for that file, different cuts of the movie, different studio credits depending on where it was ripped from, etc.

Fortunately most movie and TV rips contain the subs in the mkv file.

Part of the reason I abandoned Amazon Prime is the complete lack of subtitles on half the content.

You can’t even download the subs from a third party source, because all these services insist you watch everything through their own locked down player.

But you know, there’s a service with all the content you want, subtitles for any language, up to 4K Blu-ray quality visuals and audio, and you never see a “leaving soon” sticker on anything you’re just getting into and still have 4 seasons left to watch. And it’s called Jellyfin.

Immortals Fenyx Rising.

Feels a lot like Ubisoft still don’t understand the appeal of BotW vs their usual icon vomit on a map, but the gameplay and traversal are decent.

I spent an afternoon once playing Infinite Craft, which uses some sort of LLM behind the scenes to do it’s combinations.

At one point I got 007, and found 007+007 = 0014.

The maths gets wild though, and because it’s been trained on text, it has no idea when it comes to combinations of numbers it hasn’t seen before. I spent ages trying to get it to 69420 and just couldn’t, although I could get 42069.

As somebody who only got back into this recently (thanks Amazon, you sticking ads into Prime gave me the push I needed), it involves a lot of subscriptions and unavailable content.

I have a simple rule. If I install an app and it shows me any notification I don’t want to see, I immediately block it from having permission to do that.

I downloaded 28 Days Later and got half an hour in before I thought things like “this is taking a while to get going” and “I didn’t know Sandra Bullock was in this”.

I’d got the wrong film. It was 28 Days.

Maybe, but you’ll get the last laugh when they rely on it for everything and it is eventually whisked away behind an enormous monthly fee.

Yeah, world news is the one to block on lemmy.ml

Edit: Actually fuck it, just block the whole cesspool. Plenty of alternatives to post to.

Splatoon?

An actual boomer shooter would be like Space Invaders.

But at least it’s got a name I suppose so if you like them you can find them and differentiate them from all your online XP bar tutorial modern bullshit.

The only difference between alpha and release is the fixes needed to get through a sales demo.

Is that not how it’s pronounced?