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Another vote for Binging with Babish - though my interest waned when he started going from "hey, I could try making that!" to episodes requiring ever more complex and expensive niche machines (e.g. dehydrators), I completely lost interest around the time he started doing the "going round buying folk things" series. Never really got back into it, unsubscribed after a while.

Bon Appetit was great, then everything happened, many folk changed (for good reason) and it just lost the appeal for me. I've watched some of the spun off channels, but some of the appeal for me was the interactions.

I used to religiously watch everything Shut Up and Sit Down put out, but found myself watching less and less over the last few years - turns out, they changed primary content creators and editor (if I understand correctly) around that time, and announced that they did so recently. Still watch occasionally, but it's a very subtly different style that hits less reliably for me. May also be related to me managing to play fewer boardgames, lately.

I got a first generation badgy, and it had an issue that prevented it working with the battery.

Sqfmi said they'd sent out a replacement part to fix it, but never got back to me.

I love the ideas they have, but I don't trust them.

Out of interest, have you seen hbomberguy's recent video on plagiarism in YouTube and the section on AVGN?

I know the Corsair 800D used to have these. This looks different, but might be in the same line.

The "I" in "LLM" stands for intelligence.

Hold up. Digital zoom is, in all the cases I'm currently aware of, just cropping the available data. That's not reconstruction, it's just losing data.

Otherwise, yep, I'm with you there.

Like what?

Would you accept "in a way that can be reversed"?

I don't think loss is what people are worried about, really - more injecting details that fit the training data but don't exist in the source.

Given the hoopla Hollywood and directors made about frame-interpolation, do you think generated frames will be any better/more popular?

The developer Bohemia Interactive found it crucial to promote the idea of player creation, something that was true for most of the golden era of early PC gaming.

I can't agree more - so many high profile games and trends came from the ability for players to mod and map for things, going back to CS and further.

That games with subscriptions etc are so much more locked down these days (for sort of fair reasons, if you agree with that model for monetising games - and not, if not) is pretty sad, and means that folk who may otherwise organically start mucking about with the ideas behind game development much earlier than otherwise.

That said, stuff like unity is way more accessible than it used to be, but it's a whole other can of worms for various reasons.

Looking back at community mapping competitions as late as TF2 (which didn't require mindbending detail, just an art style), it's sad that we're missing that these days - partly due to the increased detail, but also the ability to host your own server, mess with modding it, add new maps... And all in the name of (pessimistically) greater recurring revenue for shareholders.

To sum it all up, ":(".

Forgive me if this comes across bluntly but, having seen roughly no details on price or actual performance of the still unannounced PS5 Pro, are you pulling the 3-4x cost comparison out of the ether?

If the expectation is that it will increase performance by frame generation, and that's accepted (e.g. non native resolution performance), then I'd argue you could get away with a very reasonable build and upscale to 4k for a similar imaginary price point - but without any released details (or third party reviews/benchmarks), that's hard to say seriously.

Had to look it up, but "most probably" built between AD 1000–1050. Love that it's old enough that we're not entirely sure...

Or, to use your example, reviews that don't understand the product or play it for laughs. 😅

Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync it works nicely offline.

That's just not how LLMs work, bud. It doesn't have understanding to improve, it just munges the most likely word next in line. It, as a technology, won't advance past that level of accuracy until it's a completely different approach.

Really? Sent but not received, I guess? It seems like near any other method has things to show that you've sent it, that the server has received it, that the other user(s) received it, that they read it...

And images are... Well, very limited indeed. And costly, if we're talking MMS!

To me, it's definitely not the best choice - but I'm not in the states.

QuickBooks, by far. Running that on premise (which we did before they offered it as a service) was an absolute pain.

I'm not quite the target for this, but I'd value the ability to take age-ID (which for me is always my driving license) on my phone in some way.

I'll also say that I think you can get to Samsung wallet without unlocking your phone, though you need to authenticate to trigger payment, so it's possibly a way of not handing your unlocked device out.

I'm always weirded out by folk handing over cards to be taken to machines in other areas, too.

Edit: Huh, seems like there may already be a solution for me, [here] (https://www.postoffice.co.uk/identity/easyid).

When the founders all left, and/or Eurogamer acquired it (related) and started pushing the same videos/rubbish guides designed for SEO optimization rather than interesting articles written with passion.

I was really interested, but heard that they added Denuvo after the review window, which is somewhat offputting.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/6836577 example of a charging dock, there.

From what the steam reviews say, it's using Dosbox for the former.

Wow, I genuinely thought BFBC2 was already closed down.

From what I've seen, he seems pretty alright. May be wrong.

Thanks! Some fun bits!

Slay the Spire is a heavy recommendation from me, though it does have online sync I'm pretty sure it works offline...

To me, the difference there is that the jokes about snake oil and homeopathy, healing crystals, or essential oils are roughly the same - e.g. "what do you call X that works and has been peer reviewed? Medicine."

So far, there has been no equivalent positive usage in the crypto sphere. Medicine, though often administered to different levels, is a good idea in itself.

Actually, for most uses of crypto it's attempting to muddle in and "add" value to a previous known-good thing. Is the comparison here that crypto is snake oil currency, snake oil databases, or snake oil contracts? In every case, to me, crypto is the snake oil salesman trying to sell you the brighter tomorrow - without adding anything positive, and often getting the heck out of dodge (or folding a company and moving on to, e.g. LLMs) before delivering on promises.

Online mode seems closer to the worst, with a screen to kick you back to the main menu.

Once back at the main menu, due to the way all travel resets areas, you're likely to have lost progress since the last gate. You'll retain items and XP, but lose map reveal and have to run through the areas again.

Came here to say this. It hugely weakened any investment in characters and story, for me.

I would not recommend playing legion for the story. Or, arguably, at all - but particularly not for the story.

Out of interest, at a high level, why?

Did they patch out interesting exploits/speed run things?

13+ here, haven't gone to browse it since they announced the third party changes - despite, I think, my chosen app still working, I removed the shortcut from my home screen and it pretty much stopped me. Few days of awkward muscle memory tapping the area it used to be (embarrassing?)

Though this seems like a reasonably healthy take, it's another thing that makes me think I don't need to wonder about going back for The Final Shape.

So that is literally the last time, assuming no bugs, you would encounter it?

... Yeah, that is pretty much what I figured. 😑

Out of interest, have you seen the recent headlines around Windows 11 stopping working on unsupported hardware that it had been installed on anyway?

I just cannot figure out how downloading and installing a mod is somehow less engagement with this clearly dangerous pronoun selection compared to, I assume, not moving the menu from the default, creating your character, and getting on with the game?

Does the pronoun selector come back to haunt you during later exploration? Is it the final boss?

As an aside, I'm genuinely a bit worried about what terrible hellscape a site named "basedmods" which is only available on some kind of onion-or-web3 routing must be. (Jokingly, as I clearly can't resist knowing about it, does anyone have a Firefox add-on that will remove it from the websites I browse?)

Which C25K app is that? I'm using one that sounds less good! Would be interested to try that one.

Just FYI, it generally seems that none of these require origin or the EA app or any more than Steam as DRM.

What sort of control tuning have you done?

Seems like they assumed their original foot-in-the-door would hold the slam, here.

For what it's worth, I think the £30 was a theoretical amount for the "everything video" service.

But yeah, as a mashup enthusiast I'm resigned to the idea that it's never going to be well represented on streaming as a genre due to the concerns around licensing.

PlexAmp and Plex (and a few other things, I guess) are my solution, but it still means that link sharing with friends is an awkward mess.