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by Thad
Mon May 20, 2024 1:26 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: General Old Game Hardware Thread
Replies: 217
Views: 46376

Re: General Old Game Hardware Thread

Anybody have any recommendations for a grip for a 3DSXL? I'm not finding it comfortable to play for very long, and most of the grips I've looked at cover the microSD slot (not a deal-breaker; I've got an FTP server app installed so I can always copy stuff wirelessly if need be) and the stylus (somew...
by Thad
Mon May 20, 2024 12:50 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Animotion and Car Tunes
Replies: 478
Views: 111200

Re: Animotion and Car Tunes

Made it to the second season of Fantastic Four. I've always heard the second season is an improvement over the first, and the first episode sure reinforces that claim. * Better animation. I won't go as far as "good", but it's reached "adequate". * The best writing of any episode ...
by Thad
Mon May 20, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Doctor Who
Replies: 477
Views: 135250

Re: Doctor Who

You know what? It's nice to have one-episode-a-season Moffat back.
by Thad
Sun May 19, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: Media
Topic: The Star Trek Thread
Replies: 773
Views: 161639

Re: The Star Trek Thread

⋅  I think this may be the most cartoonish villain Star Trek has ever seen. He is the mentor of La'k, and respected him enough to raise him to be the next Primarch, but then when La'k wanted to date a human he marked him for death, sent the entire Breen armada after him, and once he succe...
by Thad
Sun May 19, 2024 1:50 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Free and Cheap Comics
Replies: 199
Views: 69385

Re: Free and Cheap Comics

Pretty brobdingnagian Hellboy bundle on. It looks to include all 12 volumes of the main series, both volumes of Hellboy in Hell, and a pretty decent (but not complete) selection of the spinoffs. The BPRD bundle still doesn't get us to everything but it's a hell of a lot. And if you missed the Hellb...
by Thad
Fri May 17, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: Your Facebook Timeline
Topic: GNU/Linux
Replies: 58
Views: 17729

Re: GNU/Linux

Manjaro updated to KDE Plasma 6. I also switched from X to Wayland, so I'm not 100% on which changes are different in the new version of KDE and which are due to how it interacts with a different display stack. But anyway, initial thoughts: It's snappier. It still does things like occasionally hang ...
by Thad
Thu May 16, 2024 12:44 pm
Forum: Your Facebook Timeline
Topic: Unforgivable Sins of UI Design
Replies: 289
Views: 82547

Re: Unforgivable Sins of UI Design

I was momentarily baffled as to why in fuck's name you can't drag an icon from the "Recommended" section of the Start menu to the desktop, but on further reflection that has to be a bug, not an intentional decision, right? You can drag from the "Pinned" section and from All Apps.
by Thad
Thu May 16, 2024 12:39 pm
Forum: Your Facebook Timeline
Topic: Unforgivable Sins of UI Design
Replies: 289
Views: 82547

Re: Unforgivable Sins of UI Design

Of course you can't update the firmware on an Xbox controller without connecting to a Microsoft account. Of course you can't.
by Thad
Thu May 16, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: Board Shit
Topic: State of the Brontos
Replies: 1415
Views: 373916

Re: State of the Brontos

If I make a joke about handing the forums over to Norondor, is that a fun nostalgic reference yet, or is it just going to be shouting again?
by Thad
Thu May 16, 2024 12:30 am
Forum: Media
Topic: X-Men
Replies: 375
Views: 42563

Re: X-Men

Niku wrote:except Spider-Man didn't end until '98.

The level of pedantic detail in this fucking gem.

If T'Chaka is still Black Panther, then that puts us somewhere before "Prey of the Black Panther", which aired in November 1995.
by Thad
Wed May 15, 2024 7:17 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Books
Replies: 225
Views: 67080

Re: Books

José P. Zagal and Benj Edwards' Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy is out and looks to be an interesting history. It's open access and you can get the whole thing as a free PDF on the MIT Press website if you're so inclined, though I'll be keeping an eye out for when I can buy a physical copy at my ...
by Thad
Wed May 15, 2024 6:01 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: X-Men
Replies: 375
Views: 42563

Re: X-Men

So how'd we do? Onslaught? Well, things went a little differently this time, but I'd still be very surprised if it didn't happen. Joseph? Well, we don't have the setup for it at this point but it could still happen later. Outback Era? I would have sworn that was where we were headed when...
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and branding irons
Replies: 246
Views: 73697

Re: Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and branding irons

Company sells "Fuck the LAPD" T-shirts. LAPDF's attorneys send vexatious takedown demand. Company's attorneys send response letter consisting entirely of "LOL, no." And then follow it up with a more detailed letter which concludes, The LAPD is not expected to like the existence o...
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 3:58 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: The Antisocial Network
Replies: 301
Views: 68587

Re: The Antisocial Network

Masnick: Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It I think he makes a convincing argument that what's put Dorsey off is that Bluesky's built both the protocol stack and the reference implementation, which was not the original plan but became ...
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Obituaries
Replies: 1581
Views: 329228

Re: Obituaries

Yeah, even if his mentees included just one of Coppola, Scorsese, Bogdanovich, or Cameron, he'd have a legitimate claim to changing cinema.
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 2:32 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Obituaries
Replies: 1581
Views: 329228

Re: Obituaries

Wow, that didn't register with anyone? The opposite: I've got a lot of thoughts about Corman and haven't had time to put them all together. There have been a lot of people who have done the same kinds of things Corman did, but nobody did it as well as he did. He had an incredible eye for talent, an...
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Freeware/Indie/Miscellaneous/Etc.
Replies: 34
Views: 12107

Re: Freeware/Indie/Miscellaneous/Etc.

And now if you want to run the Linux-native version of Aleph One instead of the Windows version in Proton, you can use Luxtorpeda for that.
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 11:47 am
Forum: Media
Topic: X-Men
Replies: 375
Views: 42563

Re: X-Men

I think Cyclops needs to work on his strategizing a little bit. When dividing up the team to fight Magneto and Mr. Sinister, maybe consider where to send the guy whose bones are made of metal and the only person who can actually harm Mr. Sinister IIRC Wolverine losing his adamantium was the result ...
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 11:04 am
Forum: Media
Topic: The Star Trek Thread
Replies: 773
Views: 161639

Re: The Star Trek Thread

⋅ Lighting and sets are looking a lot better than they did in season 1. It’s amazing how SNW got something so basic so right, right out the gate. I mean TBF saying "right out the gate" kinda omits the Discovery episodes they got to use as a trial balloon. I read somewhere that t...
by Thad
Tue May 14, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: Media
Topic: X-Men
Replies: 375
Views: 42563

Re: X-Men

KingRoyal wrote:It is currently being published?

I guess that makes sense in isolation but I'd probably use a phrase like "currently running" instead of a word that, in this context, is typically used to mean the opposite of a miniseries.