My cheese for DS1 was just getting up close to enemies with your shield up and getting round the back of them. You seemed to be able to shuffle faster than they could turn. Then backstab away.

I think it’s Bloodborne that doesn’t even let you access the levelling system until you’ve encountered a boss.

We used to have a TV nutritionist called Dr Gillian McKeith.

She was later forced to stop advertising herself with the word “doctor”.

I’m sure it was Ben Goldacre who said “Gillian McKeith, or to use her full medical title, Gillian McKeith”

They don’t even have to change their habits.

You can get delivery from many local takeaways without needing to send half (or more) of your dinner money to a silicon valley billionaire.

Yeah, command lines just feel native on Linux, where in Windows it feels like it’s running off behind the scenes to fetch a grown up.

A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you’ve found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.

Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn’t able to play Nex Machina on PC.

Imagine being so poor you’re driven to a doctor’s appointment rather that having them come to you.

It’s basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.

What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright “paper” is or some shit.

HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you’re mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they’ve fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.

As far as I could tell only 12 people could vote on whatever this was, and 8 of them are republicans.

Hell, one of them even voted for it. I assume the one in the shakiest seat.

People this low in the pecking order don’t get invites to Paedo Island.

Might be worth looking at who donates to them though…

In the files? I think even Ghislaine didn’t have her picture taken with Epstein as many times as Trump.

Irish are non-white again. We’re going back to the 1800s, baby.

MS do sell Atmos (and DTS:X) support as an individually licensed thing, threough Dolby Access and DTS Sound Unbound on their store.

I do wonder how it could work in Linux, as well as getting things like commercial streaming services in 4K.

Presumably some sort of black box hardware would be needed (for the super top secret Widevine L1 shit), the manufacturer of that can pay the Dolby fees, and then just some basic open source code to call the hardware features.

Reminder that Virginia Giuffre (Virginia Roberts in this document) died earlier this year, in an apparent suicide.

Which is presumably convenient for somebody.

Yeah, it’s just what would work for me once I cancel Netflix Premium Plus with Reduced Adverts.

Ugh, cycle lanes. Get rid of sidewalks too. Make more room for our oversized child mashers! What are these things? Buildings? What are they for? They’re just getting in the way of more road! Get rid of it all!

I won’t be happy until we’ve just got 4 million square miles of pure asphalt!

You’re absolutely right, that’s just me not wanting it for Jellyfin on those grounds.

For mainstream users, I would assume that Linux being unable to run streaming services at full quality would discount it as a serious contender as well.

Does it support Dolby Vision?

Because if not, I’m not sure how it’s going to compete with Android TV devices.

Take one or two of the traffic lanes to cover it. They have enough.

I can go faster than that on the clapped out bike I bought when I was still in school. And I’m 45.

In the UK e-Bikes are limited to 15mph (in that the motor cuts out above that, so you can pedal faster if you want), and frankly that’s fast enough. Plenty of idiots can’t handle even that, and of course they don’t use helmets either because fuck having your brain inside your skull, right?

It also depends on your definition of e-Bike, because I’ve also seen it applied to what are basically motorbikes with an electric engine. I think that sort of thing should require a license and test to be allowed to ride in public.