MeatsOfRage

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[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Just don't connect it to the internet and it's a dumb display, simple as that

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yea I've got a 65" OLED with Dolby Vision. I'd have a hard time going back to anything else. But why even worry about smart features at all when an offline TV is effectively the same as a monitor anyway for less money and more entertainment specific features.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're a small studio with a small budget. They probably didn't have the skills and money. The success of the game on Steam would have given them the resources to do this.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My biggest fear was arriving at the app store and seeing the word free. Glad to see there's still people making games where you just pay and get the game.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://youtu.be/b6xeOLjeKs0?si=sDBTe7CCKxoT5-k5

https://youtu.be/ev0Ay1m4MWs?si=OFprAycQpipTXaTP

Long story short they turn songs into digital fingerprints, where it can be stored in a tiny way. When you start recording you're making a fingerprint as well. Then it just starts testing yours against its database.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I'm a little concerned for the next one, Paul King stepped down as director and the new guy has almost no credits behind him. Commercials and music videos, not even a TV show.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Looks like that comment is gone now

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The Leftovers. If I were to ever put together a top 10 list of personal favorites, this would be at the top then in a distant second I could start ranking the rest. I love how fully realized its concepts were. I love how it stuck true to its convictions right up to the end. I love the mashup of science fiction and fantasy and grief and contemporary life. I love the beautiful Max Richter score. For a show that starts pretty bleak in the first few episodes you really feel the love and warmth by the end of the series and the discovery of inner piece.

I always like to add this caveat to anyone jumping in, the first half of season one can be tough. Episode 3 is a good taste of what the show is at its best and episode 6 is one of the best in the series and the point where most people are fully hooked.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Memes no, but I've found a lot of value in things like my hometown has a pretty active sub on Reddit which is useful for local information or subs around specific TV shows or video games bring a lot of interesting discussion or just asking questions on niche topics I'm much more likely to get an answer from a larger user base.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (10 children)

This for sure. It's something severely lacking at Lemmy, without the large user base the small communities can't sustain the way they do on Reddit. Lemmy serves best as a replacement for the biggest subs.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Biggest thing I miss about the old Pixels was this because you could swipe it to pull the notifications bar down. It worked system wide so you could during a game or video just pop it down to check time or settings and just flick it away without moving your hand to the top of the phone.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Don't know if it really falls under Horror but Get Out is an obvious favorite.

Us, Split, Black Phone and Invisible Man are all pretty solid.

Freaky is more comedy than horror but it's a lot of fun.

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Canon EOS 70D

f/16.0 1/640 18.00mm ISO160O

I don't remember the exact location, we were on holiday in Rome. We were on our way to a restaurant called "I Porchettoni" after seeing it on Anthony Bourdain. Looks like the restaurant is rebranded to Trattori Pigneto. It's not far from here but I can't seem to find the exact street: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zaPqW2RCHkv8GYyE6

Don't know the guy, just thought his jacket would look cool in a picture with the bricks and graffiti

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We were traveling through Malta in 2018 when I came across this. According to the locals it had crashed up on shore about a month prior. They didn't know what to do so they tied it off until they could come up with a solution. My personal favorite of the photos I took. The two guys below were exploring the ship. Thought it would ruin the shot but it ended up adding some good scale.

 

I'm thinking about moving my PC out to the living room and streaming back to my office when I need to. I've used a number of moonlight clients with mixed results.

Apple TV and Xbox Series X, terrible with massive lag.

Android with Nvidia shield pro or Chromecast with Google TV, not bad but not amazing,

MacOS client on MacBook pro and Google pixel 6 pro over wifi 6, perfect feels like it's on the same machine.

Before I go through all the effort of setting up the Raspberry Pi 4 just wondering if anyone has any first hand experience on the quality of the stream

 

Most of my collection is just the movie rips of just the video that play fine in Plex or Jellyfin. I've got a couple of full disc rips though that have the menus and features and all just like you would if you put the disc in. I can open these in VLC on my computer by choosing the folder.

My living room setup is an Apple TV as the primary streaming device but I also have an Nvidia Shield pro and Google TV Chromecast.

Is there any way to stream these over the network into some kind of app on any of these devices?

EDIT

After some looking around Kodi might be able to do what I want. Going to investigate further.

EDIT 2

The Kodi repo with the required addon (HEVC kodi bluray addon) seems to be down, maybe permanently :/ Still looking for a solution

 

Ok so here's the rules

  • I just bet on red every time
  • I start with 1 dollar
  • every time I lose, I triple my previous bet
  • every time I win I restart

I'm going to simulate 10 games

  • Game 1 - Bet $1 Lose
  • Game 2 - Bet $3 Lose
  • Game 3 - Bet $9 Win $18
  • Game 4 - Bet $1 Lose
  • Game 5 - Bet $3 Lose
  • Game 6 - Bet $9 Win $18
  • Game 7 - Bet $1 Lose
  • Game 8 - Bet $3 Lose
  • Game 9 - Bet $9 Lose
  • Game 10 - Bet $18 Win $36

In this simulation I'm losing at a rate of 70%. In reality the lose rate is closer to 52%. I put in $54 but I'm walking away with $72, basically leaving the building with $18.

Another example. Let's pretend I walk in with $100,000 to bet with. I lose my first 10 games and win the 11th.

  • 1 lose
  • 3 lose
  • 9 lose
  • 27 lose
  • 81 lose
  • 243 lose
  • 729 lose
  • 2187 lose
  • 6561 lose
  • 19683 lose
  • 59049 win $118098

$88573 spent out of pocket, $118098 won

Walk out with roughly $29525.

I get most casinos won't let you be that high but it's a pretty extreme example anyway, the likelyhood of losing 10/11 games on 48% odds is really unlikely.

So help me out here, what am I missing?

 

I'm looking for some game recommendations. I feel like a ton of these games exist but they're riddled with IAP. I don't mind paying a little to buy the game. I have the play pass but so many of these games are active involvement and landscape orientation. I like to have an extra hand free and landscape requires both hands on. But really want passive engagement. Like as soon as I stop playing the game is waiting for me. Example games:

Polytopia

Magnet Balls

Free Cell

Threes

Card Thief

Knights of Pen and Paper

Games like Slay the Spire (but portrait). Although I've never really found a Slay the Spire-like that didn't feel like a watered down version of STS

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