Work has been epicly shit this week.
Is epicly a word? I don't care rn.
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Tonite I'll be live-streaming my thoughts as they happen (until I get bored, which might be mere seconds away, or it could be next week).
Buckle up.
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The feeling when a video plays a piece of music that catches your ear, but your subsequent searches for it find every mix BUT the one that attracted you, and every single other one is rubbish.
[#]Music #Remixes #SoManyRemixes
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I've been frequenting RockPaperShotgun since 2009. I've drifted a away a bit in latter years, evolving and growing after the company was sold to an SEO-focused news org. But I still count myself as a solid fan of the sites, especially when as a Gaming website it has never shied away from "Political" issues, like this one today:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/video-game-publishers-are-starting-to-use-anti-dei-as-a-marketing-meme
You can normally tell a Political thread just by the count of user comments left beneath - normally in the multiple-centuries instead of in mere dozens. This one has panned out predictably; some brand new accounts swooping in to make trouble, some well-meaning but dumb comments being taken to task and a LOT of anger.
Worth a read if you've got any room spare for the ongoing "Culture War" under a microscope. Plus, it's always fun when a games publisher outs themselves as unworthy of your money.
[#]Gaming #RPS #DEI #Brouhaha
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[#]SpiderMan #Remastered #MakeMineMarvel #PCGaming #Linux
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[#]PCGaming #Linux #LegacyOfKain #Reshade
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A small gallery of screenshots from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2. These are enhanced with Reshade shaders providing extra bloom, HDR, sharpening, colour correction and a spot of pathtracing. Along with the model and texture improvements offered by the Remastered edition I have to say this 22 year old game is looking rather marvellous. โ:ablobsmilehappy:โ
[#]PCGaming #Linux #LegacyOfKain #Reshade
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Yesterday I cracked getting Reshade to work on Linux.
Was led astray by a chap's howto youtube video where he clearly didn't encounter the same issue I and others had,where the install script didn't pick the correct dll for the game's API. Once I understood that and found a related github page with further advice it all fell into place, which is good because by that point I was blaming Wayland. Sorry, Wayland. (Top tip: PCGaming wiki lists every game's API if your unsure)
Now to sit and study graphics technology so I can understand how to setup some of the less-obvious-effect shaders. ๐ C'mere, RTGI. Raytrace me happy...
[#]Linux #Gaming #Reshade #Raytracing
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[#]LegacyOfKain #SoulReaver #Raziel #PCGaming #Linux
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Some spectacularly baroque and engrossing retro gaming on offer today: the remastered editions of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and 2 are out now from your favourite digi-stockist. If you've never encountered this series before, play it for the dimension-shifting levels, the elaborate plotting, the metroidvania progression, and three of the world's finest voice actors at the very peak of their powers plying your ears with verbal honey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5qzpSrd-ko&t=76s
[#]PCGaming #Linux #LegacyOfKain #MichaelBell #SimonTempleman #TonyJay
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I'm sorry, random American lady: you can't tell my beloved you're a fan of Scotland and then say you have some "Scotch Plaid" at home.
BEHOLD my withering stare of Gonnae No Dae That!
[#]Scotland #ScotchIsADrink! #TartanNotPlaid
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I've been seeing a lot of Youtube errors lately but oddly consistent ones. Am I correct in assuming this is Google's latest fuckery?
Trying a couple of Front-Ends and even they're struggling...
[Update: Newpipe (Android) for the win โ:ablobpats:โ]
[#]Google #Youtube #Fuckery #Software #Newpipe
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snippet of conversation between Alderaanian-born Rebel commando, Cara Doune, and an Imperial Remnant pilot on a ship she and her team are in the process of hijacking:
Offering this as food for thought, a possible factor of why the Right/Alt-Right/Fascists hate And fear The Left. Why they think we are the hypocrites. This concept of a Deserved Death. We preach that all life is sacred but rejoice when they die #Submarine
For all our finer words and touted morals our Solutions are, in the end, The same as theirs: Final.
[#]FoodForThought
Excerpt from The Mandalorian, Season 2 Ch16: The Rescue
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This was playing on the radio stream as I was cooking my fried rice: might have been what put me in the zone enough to finally nail it. โ:meowpuffyheadphones:โ
Snowdance - Vanilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGxhYi9moI
[#]Music #Musoc #SmoothChill #Globalplayer
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This will be my second Pinned Post.
Someone threw my use of anonymity up at me the other day, while objecting to a comment I'd made (it happens: I don't always get it right.). The implication was clear: Anonymity is harmful.
Respectfully, I disagree, and want to open this up for conversation because I think for some it's become frozen as Anonymity = Bad. General discourse around Troll behaviour seems to have cemented this idea in people's minds: "If you're not showing your whole identifiable/verifiable birth-self (#Truther) then you're doing it for nefarious reasons", backed up by cod-psychology around that mask liberating people to be their inner asshole.
This emphatically does happen but it's not always the case.
I've had more battles online than I can count, coming up for a quarter of a century's worth. I'm opinionated and like to set people straight - particularly if there's clear harm involved in someone's words or actions. Racism, Misogyny, TERFism...I've scars from fighting against all of them.
But I'm also quite a private person. Some people I clash with are pretty much evil (or behaving that way). I feel that requires protection; I need a level of protection. Over the years I've become very comfortable with creating a shield persona that keeps me safe. My Internet Name, Uraael, is part of this. I am Birth Name online only in certain circumstances, usually where I can't avoid it.
But this does not mean I change who I am, or how I deal with people. Perhaps I'm a touch bolder online? Perhaps conversations are easier to follow and interact with here instead of neuro-divergently puzzling them out in meat-space? These aren't things I have much control over, much as I might wish otherwise. But by and large I try hard to remain authentic to who I am everywhere.
Extrapolating outward, there could be any number of perfectly legitimate reasons why a person might want their identity shielded. The LGBTQIA community is a perfect example. Being who they/we are can have unpleasant and even life-threatening real world implication. Providing yourself some cover therefore makes perfect sense. If you don't need that then I'd suggest you enjoy a level of privilege that many others don't (my accuser was a white cishet male...), and would ask you consider what it's like in their world for a second before passing accusative judgement.
You might have to work a little harder to really truly know who I am but my heart and soul are right there every day in my posts and replies. Judge not a book by it's shiny animated cover.
Peace.
[#]Anonymity #Protection
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As I've been poorly all week, am treating myself to only the second attempt at a roast lamb ever in my life. It is dressed with mint and rosemary and on a bed of veggies sitting in a pouring of white wine.
My first Basting alarm is coming up....squeeees a little
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Aww, maaaan. How good is this?!? โ:ablobsmilehappy:โโ:ablobcheer:โโ:meowpuffyheadphones:โ Doing a little minimal shoulder-dance in my seat here.
The Dining Rooms - Afrolicious (Boozoo Bajou remix)
Bit of a Gotan Project vibe?
[#]Music #Musoc #TheDiningRooms #AmbientLounge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIbbUCJ04MM
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Shamelessly stolen from a @greycat prompt, this is a stunning song I've just been reminded exists:
Conjure One - Center of the Sun
[#]Music #Musoc #ConjureOne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNrUaPD7Vg
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Part of the thrill of modern gaming and sharing lovely screenshots is the 'How Far We've Come' angle. gestures to my son, adopts a Yorkshire accent When I were a lad this were all sprites....
I grew up on a ZX Spectrum and then an Atari ST (before Doom whispered lovely things to my eyeballs about gaming on PCs)
But look at the below. This is an actual screen of something I can actually play in my own home.
We should never lose sight of how utterly marvellous this is.
[#]PCGaming #Linux #Nightingale #Survival #Crafting #GorgeousLighting #HowFarWeHaveCome
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[#]PCGaming #Linux #Nightingale #Survival #Crafting #SceneryIsFantasticToo #IWantToGoHereForReal
All done. For now...
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