Switchty Four

Do you not preheat your oven…?

Makes sense considering how musically distanced RAM is from everything else they’ve made, it’s a lot less house-y than their earlier albums. Talking as a die hard daft punk fan.

SoBe

What are the games closest to Metroid without being Metroid I can get? I’ve already played axiom verge

I dont think there’s an abundance but there are some out there

Rocket League was one for me where originally I didn’t need to make an account but after the epic games update it locked me out of playing at all (even local multiplayer only) if I didn’t make an account

Nails are out, pizza is in!

I’ve had one of these running for years, honestly I didn’t expect it to last this long as it looks really cheap

Had similar happen to me except I didn’t get to appeal it for quite a while and they told me they couldn’t tell me why it was banned and they wouldn’t be lifting it, I had no purchases mind you. Just made another account

If whatever you’re doing works with av1 then I’d say go for it. I do AV1 for Plex since all of my devices can hardware decode, however I keep my own videos at h264 software encoded (for smaller filesizes) since Synology photos doesn’t support AV1.

I use tdarr for my large scale conversions to AV1 but I use shutterencoder for everything else. It’s like handbrake but friendly for working in large batches and the UI is really nice https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/ It will add H265 to the end of the name too

I used to use this but now I just use yt dlp since it seems to handle random stuff with more success and it’s just as easy to use

Gonna agree or disagree with both of you - I think gaming is worse most of the time on an ultra wide but doing productivity side by side is really cool, and like you mentioned watching movies works very well with 2.4:1 or similar aspect ratios

As a kid I used to have keybinds setup in Jedi Outcast (bind k “NPC spawn stormtrooper”)that would let me spawn different enemies on me while notarget was on and g_saberrealisticcombat at 3. Hours of entertainment till the game would inevitably crash from too many enemies

Today I learned yt-dlp has sponsorblock built in

If you’re playing the game vanilla you won’t really miss anything, assuming you own all of the DLCs/expansions. Both games are modable but in my experience special edition is much more stable

I’m there too. I was really excited for the game. Didn’t watch any promotional material. Have never seen a trailer for the game and stayed away from any media of it. I got bored so fast and I can’t force myself to keep playing it as it felt like there was nothing more to see after the first few hours

This is a difficult one for me as I grew up with both (started work green leaf & GB pinball as my first Pokemon games) bit I think I agree, explorers of time/darkness was a much better game than any of the mainline Pokemon games were

Yeah if any dealerships near me ever had any in stock I probably would have bought one by now on impulse, I wish you could purchase it without any kind of dealership intervention though

Yeah I’m pretty split right now between getting a bolt while they’re still available or waiting and hoping the equinox is as good as they are saying it will be. I definitely want an EV at some point though my current (ancient) car currently does the job for short trips