Dating advice: Find yourself somebody who looks at you the way I look at the AOpen HX08.

No Amazon, I'm not interested in your gaming store. And no, sending daily emails reminding me of said store doesn't endear me to it. Funny how that works, eh? And what turns lack of endearment into seething, burning hatred is the inability of opt out of those emails. Fuckssake...

I don't always get in, but when I do, it's to get out. (something something carpet, IYKYK)

DOS era PC gaming had a few classic shmups. This is one of them. Well worth checking out imho.

Is it pretzel shaped? Is it hard? Is it the only Sonic racing game that matters? Yes. Yes. And, well, yes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VCt...

This intro will never not be hilarious. Fact. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVN8...

The good thing about Paramount Network is that unlike other channels they have actual programming (ie, reruns) rather than infomercials. The bad thing is after 4'ish am it's bloody ink master.

@claymatic.games' Platyplus: Reclayed doesn't bring anything new to the shmup genre, but it's a very solid game that just oozes charm. It's basically the lovechild of an aardvark and an arcade cabinet and I mean that in the best way possible. store.steampowered.com/app/2912430/...

I don't always saturate my internet connection, but when I do it's probably for FLAC-y reasons.

I of course bought the 5LP/1 blu-ray variant being the mad lad that I am. 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRXi...

Feeling increasingly isolated, not helped by becoming more and more reluctant to even go out. By the end of the year I'll probably only go out for the bare necessities (groceries and doctor appointments) and fuck all else.

Is it just me, or are things a lot more quiet around here? Did some of you go back to L. Ron's shitter, or are you just moving away from (anti)social media in general?

1. Tilly is amazing. 2. Tilly's art is amazing. 3. Buy Tilly's art. 4. Is this a thinly veiled excuse to post this? Yes. Yes it is. 5. Seriously though, buy Tilly's art. Can confirm niceness of Tilly's art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo2L...

With all this Silent Hill this-or-that, how about some silent madness courtesy of the current season? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lj5...

Rearranged the shelves to make room for my Pixar collection.

ROTT is the GOAT.

It's friday. Time for the mighty Priest? Obviously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nobF...

Adventures in DVD land: Unexpected trek in bagging area

It's not until you do a fresh install of Windows 11 that you realise how incredibly annoying and stupid the default settings are. Apart from the "hide known file extensions" setting of course. The fact that it's 2025 and it's on by default is just plain moronic.

Windows be like:

Behold my settings for the start menu. Lay your eyes upon it and see that the fucking start menu keeps showing recommended apps. Hey @microsoft.com, how about fixing your OS instead of trying to force unwanted shite like co-pilot on everybody?

Note to self: when creating a custom Windows 11 install image/ISO make sure to include the Home version as well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqeR... content warning: weirdly sensual duck

Adventures in DVD land, or how I stopped worrying and start loving a Plextor DVD burner: Some discs are still rotten to the very core and aren't even detected. However, some discs previously unreadable work just fine in an old Plextor IDE DVD burner. TL-DR; Plextor is still the GOAT.

Adventures in DVD land: Colm again?

This is what peak 70s looks like. @oddtrots.com may or may not agree.

Testing my frankenstein'd PC for ripping DVDs and CDs. The SATA DVDROM drive is broken so that'll have to go. The SATA DVD burner works fine and is set region 1. Will test the IDE DVD burner (set to region 2) and CDRW drive later. So far: great success!

You know how some laptops and PCs have all kinds of preinstalled crap on them? A trial version of McAfee, a weblink to booking[dot]com etc.? Finally encountered its final form - a Surface laptop preloaded with OneNote and Office 365 in 27 (!) different languages.

Me whenever an English person mentions Knightmare: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnkj...

Adventures in DVD land: Liam Neeson directing Jim Carrey who is pretending to be Axl Rose. (bonus points will be awarded for correctly identifying the movie)

So I got my car back from the garage (apparently it was all done by yesterday but they forgot to call me), and now I'm waiting for the bill. I have a feeling it won't be cheap: Regular service 2 new tires Distribution belt + waterpump replacement MOT Please send tots and pears to my bank account.

So my father's HP laptop decided to show the system information at startup which halts the boot process until you press the escape key. Any guesses as to how useful HP's support website is when looking for a solution?

Went to see Bruce in the cinema. Bruce was damp, mechanical and mostly non-functional. Ultimately Bruce exploded.

Adventures in DVD land, confused AF. According to my list I should have a single copy of "Men in black", but upon opening one of the 10 disc boxes* I keep most of my DVDs in there's both a double layer disc and a single layer disc with label. visible confusion[dot]gif * like this one:

Adventures in DVD land: An idea for a movie is formed: A grandmother builds an exo-suit to fit crime and super villains: Iron Nan

If you see this, post a chef.

Coupons for €20 off on every €100 worth of LEGO? Can be redeemed starting today. Prices raised on LEGO sets? Also today. Nice one Intertoys, you absolute fecal faucets.

Adventures in DVD land: @trekkiesoph.bsky.social edition

Adventures in DVD land: John Woo's Bullet in the head - in the last 10 minutes things really kick off, and by that I mean audio and subtitles are wildly out of sync.

I'm not saying I have exceptional skills, but I did manage to crash Excel by using the search function. 🤷

And as an added bonus they removed Wordpad and added text formatting to Notepad. It's Notepad.

Thinking about another John Woo/Chow Yun Fat pairing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Hx...