[-] yukichigai 20 points 3 months ago

An Xbox 360 with a VGA adapter and Dead Rising. My TV at the time was one of those gigantic old 90s video editing CRTs, the kind that take all sorts of analog inputs like RCA and S-Video and even did HD if you could convert something to BNC, but pointedly would not do Component or HDMI. A few days prior I'd learned that VGA can be repinned directly to BNC, and then when I was wandering through Best Buy I saw they'd gotten some 360 VGA adapters in. I stopped, flipped a coin, called heads, it landed heads, I bought it.

I'd figured I'd get some minor fun out of it, basically just bought it because I really wanted to play Dead Rising. Instead I wound up using the ever loving hell out of my 360. Still have it, still works, no RROD or anything.

[-] yukichigai 22 points 3 months ago

Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.

[-] yukichigai 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The rumors that the cancelled next season of Enterprise would've had Shran as a main cast member had me damn near grieving. That would've been amazing.

As my wife put it, the Andorians make Enterprise worth watching.

[-] yukichigai 20 points 4 months ago

Gotta justify that printer ink budget.

[-] yukichigai 21 points 5 months ago

86336930 checking in. Pretty sure I remember the password, but it's not like I can check now.

You will be missed, ICQ. When no other messaging service worked, you always did.

[-] yukichigai 20 points 7 months ago

Something I custom burned myself. Either a mix of ska/punk or an abridged version of The Fragile.

[-] yukichigai 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

90% of the time it's bigots who are upset that they're getting deplatformed. The other 10% of the time it's the incredibly idealistic or naive. Either way it's a crap argument. You are under no obligation to endure verbal diarrhea, nor is it your responsibility to change the minds of the people spewing it. They shit the bed, they can lie in it.

[-] yukichigai 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Almost, but needs a few tweaks:

  • Content should be border-to-border in the 2000 panel.

  • Needs to be 3 lines of content in 2010 and only two lines of content in 2018.

  • 2018 needs a slide-over autoplay video on the bottom-left of the content space.

[-] yukichigai 24 points 1 year ago

The original DVD release of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 riff of Godzilla vs Megalon. MST3K licensed the film from a company that did not actually own the rights to it, and only discovered when Toho sent out a cease and desist following the release of MST3K volume 10. Production was stopped, but a few hundred copies were still sold.

Funnily enough some of those copies were actually sold to Blockbuster, who somehow were allowed to keep renting them out even after the C&D went into effect. I made sure to rent a copy ASAP once I found out.

[-] yukichigai 26 points 1 year ago

This is my headcanon and I cannot be convinced otherwise.

[-] yukichigai 26 points 1 year ago

Depends on what counts as "better".

Better quality? WAV, since it's lossless.

Better efficiency? OGG (well, Vorbis) since it compresses pretty well, but you'll still get a (minor) loss in quality.

That said, both of those formats are old news and should only be used if you have weird, specific compatibility needs. For lossy compression, OGG/Vorbis has been succeeded by Opus; it's what YouTube uses, compresses fantastically, and is supported by damn near everything. For lossless, FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is still the gold standard: you can reduce file sizes by as much as 60% with literally zero loss in quality. If you can, use one of those.

[-] yukichigai 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows not having a built in free RTF editor is notable

Yeah, that is a bit odd, but then again when's the last time you've seen something other than a cut-rate eBook in RTF? Everything is either some variant of plain text or a DOC file these days.

Plus, it's rare that you ever need to edit RTF files. Read, sure, but that could be handled by Word Viewer, which is free.

EDIT: Right, they're discontinuing the viewers, but apparently they have a cloud-based online thing that's free? Sucks if you live somewhere with crap internet I guess.

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