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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 3d

Aspect ratio of the gods.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 6d

I am forever cursed to love survival horror, but hate puzzles.

Signalis is a properly awesome game. But my ADHD makes some of these puzzles pure tedium. This particular letter/number switch up was fine. But the water level puzzle - nope.

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𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕒 𝕍𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕤𝕤 @veensaw.net · 9d

Yay! Let's start a new #MODtober fest thread and share your love for tracked music, one track a day!

Old and new stuff, and yes, not just .MOD: SID, SND, XM, and so on as long as it's tracked music

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 9d

I've spent 25 years babysitting humans who are awful at Excel. Quite honestly, this changes little for me, other than the emotional state of the entity I'm babysitting.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 9d

As a tall, broad shouldered fellow, I never enjoyed the cramped ergonomics of the compact computer nook. I was very happy to leave this behind for a spacious desk.

pfc. italian beef @realbillhicks.bsky.social · Feb 22

we used to respect the computer

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 10d

the youtube vs yt-dlp arms race is hilarious, because of how lopsided it is.

on the one hand, you've got a company with the GDP of Denmark who has about a manhattan-project's worth of developers they can assign to this.

but on the other end, you've got every bored or annoyed javascript hacker.

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 10d

Anniversary: Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today. (Repost)

Anniversary: Mean Machines, The UK's Greatest Console Magazine, Turns 35 Today

"Brutally honest reviews, top-class tips, and close-to-the-knuckle humour"

www.timeextension.com

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Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 12d

35 years ago, I was playing US Gold's top class SMS port of Gauntlet. More interestingly, YOB's Gossip page had some VERY interesting info. Considering it was written in Sept 1990, there are some really juicy nuggets about forthcoming systems years ahead of their release!

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filoppi.bsky.social @filoppi.bsky.social · 17d

The state of HDR in the game industry right now is catastrophic.
Silent Hill F, AAA game, shipped w/out color grading in HDR, on top of the raised blacks that come with all UE HDR games

It doesn't look as it's supposed to in HDR, atmospehre is completely gone, devs either didn't know or care for it

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 14d

I remember getting a fold-out comic of this with a different toy, and being fascinated by the characters. I lived in a small country town at the time (late 80s I think?), and had no way of finding out what they were, or getting access to the toys. Thank you for covering this.

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Retroist @retroist.com · 14d

Knight Rider is 43 years old today. Still one one of my favorite star cars and the theme song still sounds amazing decades later. I still want to a car that can drive itself while I play Atari.

www.retroist.com/p/retroist-k...

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 14d

I'm a big horror gaming fan, but yeah, I cannot deal with the infighting in that sub. There's a whole other sub called "silentchill" that exists purely as a way for sane people to have a nicer time talking about those games.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for doing this in HDR. There's really not enough focus on it lately, and some really poor public understandings and opinions as a result. The visual benefits to gaming are enormous when it's done well.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah it's a fun little game. Changes the way you think about enemies and projectiles, as well as risk aversion.

Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 15d

In Ikaruga you want to run into the matching coloured enemy bullets to absorb them. In Psyvariar you have a field around your ship, and you want the bullets to touch that, but not the ship itself. You "scrape" past the bullets to level up.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 16d

Aww yiss bullet scraping is back in fashion!

youtu.be/Fy8vEi6CiDA?...

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 16d

Windows HDR continues to be a mess. It's quite incredible that the Linux desktop, streaming media, phones and console gaming are all pushing further ahead. It's so rare to see PCMR holding so tightly on to 1990s technology.

Tim Henderson @pretendbeard.bsky.social · 18d

A bit random, but the skies in Death Strandimg 2 are frequently just gobsmacking. It doesn't matter what graphics card you have; unless Windows gets its shit together with HDR, the inevitable PC version will never be the best-looking one.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 17d

HDR and proper colour management were what cemented my decision to leave X11 behind for good.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 17d

Every single one of these lists screams about "X-forwarding over SSH" being the killer app Wayland can't possibly replicate, while entirely missing the the fact that Waypipe exists and works extremely well.

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SarahJaneAvory @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social · 28d

A little update of my Spectrum Next project...

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · Apr 14

Gonna tell my kids this was Wario.

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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · Aug 25

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 25

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

arstechnica.com

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 21d

Microsoft count every Windows 11 install as a "happy customer". It doesn't matter if you paid for it or not. It doesn't matter if you hate it or not. Your only value to them is being part of a binary statistic.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 21d

You have other choices. Please consider them. Yes, I know it's effort to make the switch. But this isn't going to get better. Complaining on the internet about Windows has done nothing to improve it for a very long time now.

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Dan @danmons.bsky.social · 22d

(Yes, this counts as my most GenX complaint).