It’s 2018 by a long way for me.

They took out most of the “rargh, Kratos smash!” angst of the previous games and gave us a heartfelt tale of a father and son. The viking setting is a great change of pace. The gameplay is obviously different, but not in a way that’s worse. And the optional post game enemies are a real challenge. Sigrun especially is on par with anything I’ve faced in the Souls games.

I did have to suffer some of the worst pronunciation of Icelandic I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s almost worth it to see my wife wince every time somebody says Niðavellir in GoW Ragnarok.

Sure, there’s big lists of them right here.

https://github.com/az0/vpn_ip

Hardly a secret.

No thanks, we don’t want it.

Didn’t the games also do their own thing though?

I’ll likely “lose” some money from my index tracker funds when it happens, but bring it on. I know billionaires will lose a lot more than I will.

• more ads
• more pointless notifications
• taken out that one thing you actually liked and put it behind a paywall

Independent Hazelight please. I don’t want to give money to Trumpists or Oil-men.

I can’t think of anyone else they own (and haven’t shut down) that I still give a fuck about. Maybe Criterion still have potential.

It’s been pretty decent.

Supports Dolby Vision/Atmos etc. Image based subtitles (e.g. those ripped from a disc) end up getting transcoded, but that seems the only thing it doesn’t natively support. Had trouble with AV1 but I’m not sure if that’s a general thing or that one specific file.

I use an nVidia Shield for it. There’s probably cheaper ones, but you tend to get what you pay for, and I’ve got a few 4KBR remuxes that even that struggles on.

Your server isn’t working today.

This is because Microsoft wants you to finish setting up your PC that has been running for ten years.

Yeah, no point.

Be like preserving a printout of a steam code.

Put it with the rest of the Nazi memorabilia.

It’s annoying, but it had to be done.

Must be making bank on that ass to afford that many cigarettes.

It is fucking mental that an industry plagued by data harvesting is being asked to harvest more data.

Anyway, I’m now in Belgium according to my VPN.

It can’t even count them properly.

It’s weird how they voted against it as opposition, but as soon as they took power just let it in.

Almost as if that’s what they wanted all along.

Round edges and a Windows Vista era soft blur?

I can’t think of anything more generically Apple…

A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you’ve found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.

Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn’t able to play Nex Machina on PC.

It’s basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.

What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright “paper” is or some shit.

HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you’re mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they’ve fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.