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- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 1 week ago:
Mihon is great right up until you’re trying to read ultra high quality manga with screentones. Mihon doesn’t have modern scaling algorithms, so anything significantly larger than your screen resolution will moiré like crazy.
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 1 week ago:
CDs and DVDs are digital media. There is no degradation of the content when you convert a fragile physical disk into a dumped ISO, and the dumped ISO can be stored on an arbitrarily large number of devices. Stuff like physical books or analog media (vinyl records, for example) are worth caring about physical degradation for, but a “physical copy” of a PC software disc is just a more fragile way to store the exact same ones and zeroes that can be stored on actually resilient media.
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 1 week ago:
release installers DRM-free online. No need to bother pressing plastic and wrapping it in plastic and wrapping that plastic in thinner plastic and then putting it in a box full of plastic to ship around the globe on giant cargo ships, to be ferried from the docks to sit on store shelves or the shelves of some amazon warehouse where they’ll get wrapped in more plastic and shipped in more trucks all so that you can install the files to your SSD anyway, and if it’s DRM-free you could just make backups instead of holding onto the plastic.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
As long as spellcasting is still good and spellcrafting is still in. Magic was a complete joke in Skyrim and not just because it was terrible DPS compared to swords and bows. The spells were all so boring.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Just not buying something isn’t a boycott. Don’t buy bad games, and it’s a good idea to include dark patterns in the criteria for what makes a game bad.
- Comment on The box that Doom comes in will play Doom 2 weeks ago:
I was wondering what the catch was here, since Limited Run Games is widely known for producing absolute shit products branded as collectibles. $700 for this, lmao.
LRG is the company that sold $150 CD-Rs for 3DO, produced NES cartridges that can fry consoles with unsafe voltage (big preservation W, amirite?), vinyl records pressed with lossy compressed source audio, advertised physical collectible games that require patches, and justified the low quality of their “premium collectible” products by saying that their customers don’t play the games so it’s okay.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 4 weeks ago:
Or it’s actually running at 720p30 and being FSR/framegenned into a blurry shimmery mess. There’s no way Nintendo managed to cram a chip powerful enough to render its own Switch 1 games at true 1080p120 into a tablet.
Fixed.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 4 weeks ago:
Or it’s actually running at 720p30 and being FSR/framegenned into a blurry shimmery mess. There’s no way Nintendo managed to cram a chip powerful enough to render its own Switch 1 games at true 4k120 into a tablet.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
If you’re leaving Plex because it’s subscribeware, Emby is also subscribeware.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 month ago:
And now, that feature costs $240. Suddenly, jumping through hoops to configure Jellyfin’s external SSO plugin becomes a lot more rewarding.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 1 month ago:
it’s Element/Matrix if we’re lucky. Revolt is just another Discord - surely this single company will last! With Element/Matrix being an open protocol, it won’t be a “platform” you have to leave when it goes corporate.
- Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 2 months ago:
All my video media that’s easier to replace than preserve is on my NAS running openmediavault with mergerfs. If I lose a drive I can always just, you know, torrent the tv show again.
My main PC (everything except the Steam game install directory) is backed up through KopiaUI to a folder on that mergerfs array that contains media that’s difficult/impossible to replace. Daily incremental backups.
That folder is mounted on my PC through DOKAN, which tells Windows OS that it’s a local resource (it does this more thoroughly than just assigning a drive letter to a NAS folder through Windows’ built-in system. The PC, including the “sensitive NAS media” folder is then backed up to Backblaze’s personal backup service ($99/yr, unlimited size with one-year versioning). The DOKAN step is required for this, since Backblaze doesn’t support mounted NAS drives or non-Windows systems (presumably they don’t want to use space on versioned encrypted backups of hundred-terabyte pirate movie collections).
- Comment on My current handheld lineup 2 months ago:
Definitely go RG35XX line then. In addition to retro games, a ton of freeware and indie PC releases are playable on those through Portmaster.
- Comment on My current handheld lineup 2 months ago:
Have you tried any Portmaster games? Baba is You, Balatro, and UFO 50 have been occupying me more than actual retro games on my RG35XX+.
- Comment on Sonic Galactic Is So Good "It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product" 3 months ago:
Even limited to 2D Sonics, there are official Sega products that are just terrible. Remember Sonic 4?
- Comment on Sonic Galactic Is So Good "It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product" 3 months ago:
“Official Sonic games” run the gamut from Sonic 2 to Sonic Boom/'06. It’s kind of the poster child for a franchise that is an unstoppable media juggernaut that has beloved titles… and some absolute garbage games.
- Comment on Sonic Galactic Is So Good "It Could Stand As An Official Sega Product" 3 months ago:
“it’s so good it could be an official Sonic game” is… not very indicative of quality.
- Comment on Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games 3 months ago:
There’s also just grammatical stuff that looks better in text. “In the future, it’s player driven” would conversationally flow perfectly well, but as written text the tense of “it’s” doesn’t line up with the statement being about the future. Hence the present tense being corrected to future tense.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 months ago:
Reddit was like that for ages before they implemented i.redd.it and v.redd.it. it’s the whole reason Imgur even exists, Reddit wouldn’t let you “upload an image” and would only aggregate comments and upvotes for links to external content.
That said, this Plebbit project raises more red flags than a Danish standing army.