GOG has sent me a number of E-mails telling me how honoured I should be to be allowed to become their patron. Like. Pay them money. Because they're such good boys, I guess. What would I get for that? Access to an exclusive Discord server!

Upladders in the attic, I have a power strip plugged into a power strip. Not drawing that much power, but the fucking wall warts take up so much space for the handful of watts they each draw so I ran out of sockets. Disgraceful. Also very near a smoke alarm so I ain't worried.

"Guys, how many days do you work in the Summer? In italy, people don't work a lot because they often go to the beach." That's... racist? Painting the Italian people as lazy bums?

So I did a thing in Blender just to test the concept. This doesn't use any manner of editing or compositing, it's entirely in camera. The wobbliness is the denoiser because I didn't want to spend sixteen hours rendering out the animation, but I feel like it gives it a suitably surreal vibe.

I looked for updates on Luigi's Mansion yesterday, and apparently the trial is set for October and he no longer faces the death penalty.

Reading about how contact lenses were invented is really, really, really uncomfortable. "Hey look I made a wax cast of my eyeballs!" "Why the fuck would you do that?"

I just love living nextg door to a family with three young children who have not the faintest notion of how the word "silence" relates to them.

>download game >launch game >read and accept four different EULAs >log in >"update installed; game needs to restart" >restart game >"to play the campaign, the game needs to restart" >restart game >"to play the game, please wait for shader optimization to finish" Are you fucking kidding me.

The real life Velociraptor was covered in feathers, and about the size of a corgi. And if it did, as the films claim, have pack behaviour, this means Velociraptors could potentially be domesticated like dogs.

So here's fun: To turn off an Xbox controller, you have to hold down the "Xbox" button in the middle. To enter Steam Big Picture Mode, guess what you have to do.

...I'm sorry but Bam looks like shit in this picture. Jeebus.

A remake of the next-gen version. Hrm. Gonna be honest, the version I played when I was a wee twat was the PS1 one, which was basically a level pack for the previous game. Not sure I'mma like this.

Okay so I just wanted to buy two games from the same franchise - no I'm not saying which, you'll laugh at me. And because both items include the same free-to-play add-in game, it wouldn't let me check out. Again. Because both included a FREE TO PLAY game in a sort of bundle deal, it wouldn't let me.

I keep having to remind myself that I do in fact have disposable income. The only reason I don't own an Elgato Stream Deck is that I haven't ordered one. But then... I don't want to? I keep looking at it and going "huh, that's neat" but then "I don't need this". I already have macro keys.

Shout out to Mafia II: Definitive Edition, which wouldn't let me set the screen resolution to my primary's native one because for some unknown fucked up reason it decided to query the quaternary screen which was running at 1440x900 back then.

You'd think that this huge flashing sign right by the stop light would help. You'd think raising the bridge by eight inches would help. You'd think truck rental companies telling people about this spot would help. They still get crashes semi-regularly.

...I wasn't under the impression that Titanfall 2 literally employed time travel. Of COURSE it's faked. I imagine they have two versions of the level and the "time travel" device teleports you back and forth.

So Dad was like "have you heard of this band?" and I listen to a bit, I look at the profile picture, I read the blurb, I check the discography... It is the most obvious AI slop you can imagine. Not a single part of this stood up to even the most basic scrutiny. And that shit is allowed on Spotify.

In 2011, a robot was exiled to Mars as punishment for felicide. It's still there today, still operating.

I was just looking up the Spotify page of an "artist" I suspect of being an AI model... The "about" section has emdashes in it. Case closed.

Ha, already out of stock. That didn't take long.

Allegedly, Alien: Isolation 2 is going to run on Unreal Engine 5. That's an interesting decision. The first game was remarkably well optimised to the point that it ran flawlessly on high settings on my ANCIENT hardware at the time. UE5 famously can't maintain 30fps on medium without DLSS.

Being too angry to stay dead, fighting his way out of hell, paying the ferryman in buckshot to the face and hijacking his ferry, then beating Cthulhu to death in a fistfight... Eternal don't got shit on The Dark Ages.

I might vomit.

So I found out the other day that actor James Ransone, who played Ray Person on Generation Kill, hanged himself last year. And the guy who wrote the book Generation Kill? Shot himself in 2024. That's jolly, isn't it.

Yes I thought that might tickle The Cat.

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden is way into arcade emulation, hence the famous song "Hallowed be thy MAME".

Assassin's Creed III should just remove the part where you play as Haytham Kenway. It would make the game worse overall, but it would also mean you don't downgrade to an inferior protagonist partway through.

"How do you take your coffee, sir?" "Instant, Type II."

Okay that is... yes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jj0...

It just occurred to me that I've owned this Ryzen 5900X for over two years and one of the things that really annoyed me about the 2600K, I never actually tested with this thing before... until now. Oh yeah. That nyooms.

Aldi categorizes raisins as a snack. Lidl categorizes raisins as a baking ingredient. Which is why it took me months to find out Lidl sells raisins, because I was looking for them by the nuts and crisps, not by the yeast and fondant.

Here's a fun puzzle: You can't read braille, and know that these say sun, moon and star but not in which order. Without endangering a blind preteen, determine which is which. Then wonder about how an FBI analyst wasn't able to figure this out.

Why has BRIAN BLESSED never played Archchancellor Ridcully? It is the most obvious casting choice ever.

I keep starting over in Factorio because I'm dissatisfied with how things are going. Fnah. Lost five hours because there was only a single oil well anywhere in range of my base.

You know you play too many military games when the letters "APFSDS" mean anything to you. Anything at all.

If it made sense, it wouldn't be Lynchian.

So Factorio was flickering like hell and I looked into it and that's an issue with FreeSync that happens because the game is locked to 60fps. Fun times, but it's giving me a headache so I went and installed a mod to get it running at 240.

What, exactly, is the purpose of a trailer hitch demagnetiser?

Got a light?

Every single one of your ancestors managed to get laid at least once, so what's your excuse?

What's funny about printing with nylon is that the filament doesn't melt until it's rather above the printing temperature of other types so you have to unload it manually even if using a material switcher because I've had it clog the nozzle just by way of not being a liquid yet.

Scrambled eggs are fascinating because depending on how you make them, you can get a whole range of textures from slimy to rubbery and not a single one of them is pleasant.

So my pushin' stick broke today... But not the 3D printed part. For the second time, my 3D printed design has outlived the non-printed hardware it is mounted to. I think I got myself a fairly decent design here.

Gimmidabudabudah? Ooh.

"New Cliff Burton Solo" The man's been dead nigh-on forty years so I doubt that VERY much, YouTube.

This is really, really, really unpleasant to listen to. Mainly because it contains Megadeth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuCE...

You can't lie to me, this is Tatooine.

"Made with organic apples". As opposed to what? AS OPPOSED TO WHAT, HOW IT'S MADE?

In the German translation of The Sims, they translated the personality trait "Outgoing" as "Extroverted" and when I was a child I had no idea what the fuck that meant so good job localisation team, you suck.