I don’t often go for the full 4K Blu-ray Remux releases, since they’re massive and I can’t really tell the difference over a 10-15GB rip, at least visually. Just a webrip is fine, depending on the source. Plus even my nVidia Shield Pro struggles with them at times.

More like how all the music streaming services work. All got pretty much the same content, just different quality and prices.

Much higher floor limit, and no need to enter your PIN every X transactions.

Why would they do that when Google and Apple already do all the work for them?

Quality of HDR is very much dependent on the TV you have I think.

I’m still rocking a 2017 LG OLED which are considered pretty good, but as you go down into LCDs and the cheaper brands, you’ll probably take a hit on image quality. Some TVs used to have a yellow pixel as well as red blue and green, so could even be that.

HDR is less about the brightness (although they are brighter than older TVs) and more about colour and brightness accuracy.

Last time I tried HDR on Windows, that sucked too.

My Android TV and consoles are about the only devices where it works properly.

I wouldn’t mind so much if they all just used the same bundle of stuff, and you could install that once, and then the apps were all like 2MB each.

But no, big fucking bundle of shit, every single time.

Spoiler: That is absolutely going against your account.

SNES ROMs were actually around 4MB. People always spoke about them being 32 Meg or whatever, but they meant megabits.

I did like Animal Well, but gave up after looking at one of the bunny solutions and deciding I didn’t have the patience for that.

I think most of the size of games is just graphics and audio. I think the code for most games is pretty small, but for some godforsaken reason it’s really important that they include incredibly detailed doorknobs and 50 hours of high quality speech for a dozen languages in raw format.

But it looks like most of them are the leaves.

I know right. For 300 notes, I want a lot more Lego than that.

Animal Well

Reminds me of old Spectrum platform games, like Jet Set Willy or Dynamite Dan. Only with better controls.

Sort of Metroidvania. Not overly difficult for the most part, although some bits took me a fair few attempts. Lots of secrets and hidden areas.

Made by a single developer, Billy Basso, who sounds like a comic book character, but a British one who says things like “cor, eh readers?”

I could never get on with either of them. I was always a Paint Shop Pro man.

Have to use Paint.NET these days.

Because you could use the Linux one to save the file unencrypted because it’s not locked down.

If only there was a way for media to exist as a file.

Alas, it’s just not possible.

Gee, we’ve tried taking content away, raising prices, injecting adverts and forcing them to use our crappy clients.

Why are people turning to piracy?

Advertising and lobbying are the only thing these people know how to do.

And that’s only because everyone has already defederated from lemmygrad and hexbear.

I went back to it recently. It’s mostly down to Amazon deciding that paying them was no longer enough, you had to watch their ads as well.

Well now I don’t. I installed Jellyfin, paid up for two years of VPN, and got another HDD. I’m set. I’m all done with asking nicely for a better service so I got my own.

I sub to Spotify because it’s easier than pirating. I’m a creature of convenience. If there was one streaming service that had all movies that have already had their cinema run, and all TV shows, and was all in one UI, and nothing ever got taken off it, and it was a reasonable price (say the price of two current streaming services), I’d probably pay up for it.

But there isn’t. They don’t want to offer it. They all want to be king of their little corner.

Probably injecting ads “naturally” into the conversation.