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very interesting, thanks for the tip. will give this a try!

people were down on 2 for reasons i don't remember or maybe i was too busy standing on a hill and shelling the other team's base with impunity to care

99% of my YT is on a Google TV, probably no good blocking options there, and i'll be moving to an Apple TV soon where there definitely aren't

this is/was my plan when the Alder Lake-N successor boxes start showing up (not Gentoo though) but the RAM crisis is going to make that project dramatically less appealing. wish i'd socked away a $40 SODIMM last year when i had the chance

reminds of endless Blockbuster nostalgia from people too young to remember Blockbuster running the mom and pop video places out of town

the idea of sneering at folks performing enormous amounts of highly skilled labor for the benefit of everyone, for free, will never stop blowing my mind

we've had a Frigidaire for like a decade that's still going strong and hasn't ever needed anything besides standard maintenance

i'm also waiting to see what's up with the new Apple TV but it sounds like the odds that they're gonna add proper Dolby Vision FEL support are low sadly

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there is: fooyin.org

interesting, will keep this in mind. per some tips from various people i updated the firmware (it was still on 1.0.0) and the chattering seems to have basically gone away now -- maybe they tweaked the debouncing algorithm post-launch?

reminds me of a Carmack quote from the height of id Software that if you had infinite processing power you'd skip triangles entirely and just do everything with voxels. been looking for that quote for years but haven't ever rediscovered it

that piece is truly arresting, starts with a fairly dry lexical analysis and by the end i was weeping

also we used to dispose of the tree this way in the woods out behind the house and it was always one of the best parts of the holidays as a kid who was fascinated with setting things on fire

at this point it's exciting to see a government agency doing anything that serves the public at all

yeah in fairness he did do the work, I was one of his editors for a hot minute at GameSpot when he was still in the thick of the Final Hours feature series (think Prince of Persia SOT was the only one I touched)

quality list. one point of order, the screenshot is from Geometry Wars 2

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a lot of OLEDs use unusual subpixel layouts so it's definitely a thing, subject to model and personal preference (and maybe what software you're running)

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i wish there was a combat-free mode where you could just run around and look at all the stuff on the island without people shooting at you. i was getting big "Doom wad of the Enterprise" vibes from exploring places like the Simpsons and Flanders houses

whoa, otters AND butterflies??

addendum, i'm waiting for Wildcat Lake to (hopefully) replace Alder Lake-N in the Aliexpress fanless x86 DIY routerbox ecosystem for this, but eventually intend to run a plain Linux router on that sort of hardware, at which point i'd almost certainly throw all network-related stuff directly on there

all that said i think $35 for a 1GB Pi 4 would be perfectly acceptable if Wireguard is all you're using it for

mainly because WG throughput is at least 8x faster on the Pi 4 than with the old CPU on my Edgerouter 4 (which is MIPS64, not ARM)

that Pi also does like half a dozen other things at any given time though (e.g. Home Assistant, CUPS, DDNS updates, NAS backup target)

combo of a Retrode and a Retron 4 for the SNES carts a while back, then Open Source Cart Reader for the NES/N64/GB/GBA. can be a little tricky with some carts but very worth the effort to see and preserve all my dumb names, places where i left off etc.

last year i went on a mission to dump as many of my old cart saves as possible, and remarkably every single one of them was intact going back to Zelda II and Dragon Warrior. only one i lost was Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (which was there at first but fizzled during the transfer)

you're not wrong, i think a couple of low impact passion projects timed around the anniversary (e.g. a nice 4k120 Geometry Wars remaster) could have engendered some actual good will but that wouldn't give 100x ROI so that was never gonna happen

lack of fanfare from MS on this is a little weird to me, nostalgia for the 360 seems like the one feel-good thing they have to fall back on right now. i know they went big on the OG's 20th a few years ago, but still

the morph ball is going to be terrible for his sciatica

read it in his voice, just want him back

yeah the lit/unlit candles one really messed with me, but i had several super close saves/huge Burst mode payoffs that perfectly lined up with the music and visuals in a way that was borderline religious