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Brad Shoemaker
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1/3 of @nextlander.com, 1/2 of @techpod.content.town. Formerly Giant Bomb, GameSpot
yeah the lit/unlit candles one really messed with me, but i had several super close saves/huge Burst mode payoffs that perfectly lined up with the music and visuals in a way that was borderline religious
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
the aesthetic experience in VR really is just overwhelming at times
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Like after Tetris Effect it was a given it was going to be good, but... fuck.
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
more excited by mention of vim than any desktop nonsense, personally, but worth keeping sway in your back pocket if you move to Wayland at some point and want something that's basically still i3

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Sway
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November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
watched it last weekend for the first time in maybe 30 years, forever a stone cold classic
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
this jogged a vague memory, and... yep, sure enough
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
everybody's probably seen this, but an absolute classic of the "a cappella group on the subway" genre

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Naturally 7 Live in Paris Subway ! Full Clip
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October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Guy with a Southern accent awkwardly reading everything out loud as he typed it (including Latin) and then getting increasingly mad at a woman clearly in the same room with him who was just laughing and destroying the match.
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
i am waiting very impatiently for the full game
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
i only ever get biscuits there, honestly the Cajun filet biscuit and some Bo Rounds is all you really need imo. any biscuit will do though. their chicken sandwich is also pretty good
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
may not have made the point well but i did have this in mind in the previous post, in the sense that at least a small studio was able to take some of the giant corp's money and add some positive aesthetic value back into the world with it
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
what archive are you looking at? i thought the (rickety, incomplete) Google Groups archive was all that remained, but it seems like the Internet Archive may have a more robust backup?
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
oh my god
September 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
haven't started The Beast yet, but in DL1 i feel like i almost never engaged with volatiles even toward the end when i was way more powerful. kind of appreciated there being an enemy so awful to deal with that it forced an avoid-at-all-costs policy, maybe it's worse in the new one though
September 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
oh hey, congrats on the launch! game certainly seems to have landed extremely well, glad i'm not the only one who was bowled over by it
September 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
honestly that segment on the podcast wouldn't happen without the folks at @videogameschronicle.com, check out their news section!
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Seinfeld-ass bassline
September 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
yeah, someone on the Discord tipped me off. the tooltip made it sound like going in the deep tar was instant death so i didn't even consider scanning it
September 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
you know deep down the answer is "unfavorably"
September 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
good tip, fun gear is about 60% of why i'm still playing it

is it super obvious when that happens? i do read all the "posts" from the NPCs, don't remember anything that explicitly seemed like an activity though
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
others are the same, that's inherent to the way video compression works -- the intermediate frames aren't complete images, they're partials that get reconstructed during playback from diffs of before/after frames. so outside keyframes there's essentially nothing to cut on
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
yeah it being proprietary is the only coherent criticism i've seen of this. but i'd assume it'll trickle down to more general APIs/vendor implementations like most other new NV features? iirc everything about the first release of Quake II RTX was also proprietary before DXR and Vulkan RT came along
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM