(the first part of this had its volume raised so its loudest sound would match its equivalent in the other part; the difference would be even more stark without adjustment, because stable volume also cranks the volume up)
(bluesky fucked the audio, you can see the video here: youtu.be/0M2u912d0eI)

i cannot emphasis enough that stable audio is harmful. i got a complaint about music being too loud in this video, and i don't know if i fucked up, or if that person didn't know they had it on or that it raises the music's volume by eight decibels!!! turn it off, whether you make or watch videos.

whatever the issue, it's a shame that adoption is so limited, because hdr is really cool!! definitely cooler than 4k, which arguably hasn't even lasted very long in the video game space.

i don't think there's been a big, big push for hdr on screens like we saw for 4k, perhaps because 4k overshadowed hdr, or maybe because better colours demand purpose-made content to justify itself, whereas rescanning films in 4k and rendering more pixels in a game are much simpler problems to solve.

(i would word it more elegantly, but i haven't taken my meds yet)

microsoft tries to make you not feel like a sucker for buying an hdr display by applying their auto hdr stuff to games that don't properly support it, but it's not particularly smart; it seems to enjoy making the snow in frostpunk so blindingly bright that i can't read the ui.

absolutely not

the second channel's purpose is to host everything that can't fit on the main channel, so all non-hitman content (and some low-effort hitman stuff too) will go there.

it's a really fun administrative and economic challenge to over double your population by taking random provinces from china and incorporating them immediately. then you have to figure out what to do with the region before they're all entitled to welfare and start voting.

honey ilu but stfu

i just want to own all of a game, man

the most tempting option is to buy the specialist edition and hope i get a code to play the game early, but i've never had any direct contact with ioi, and the indirect contact has always been spotty -- i still don't even have a code for the new dlc!

what am i even supposed to buy here? it'll irk me forever if i miss the specialist suit, but getting it on the real release date is important to me as a youtuber. there's a very small chance of me getting the legacy edition, but even if i did, i'd have to miss out on the early access *and* the tux!!