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10 votes
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Tell your hopes and experiences with cloud gaming
So I just upgraded to an M1 Mac Mini. I was a little iffy on it, part of me wanted to build a PC just to play games but I really like MacOS and I mostly play on PS5 and the Switch with the PC only...
So I just upgraded to an M1 Mac Mini. I was a little iffy on it, part of me wanted to build a PC just to play games but I really like MacOS and I mostly play on PS5 and the Switch with the PC only being for indie titles and stuff that only works with a keyboard and mouse like RTS, 4x, or city builders. I just don't play PC games enough to prioritize gaming as a use case in buying a computer, but I also really like RTS and city builder games.
I figured WINE and Parallels would meet most of my gaming needs but my forays into WINE have been frustrating and buggy, and this reddit thread about what works on Parallels is, frankly, just kind of sad to look at. What's worse, apparently the new Age of Empires has some kind of pathfinding instruction set that ONLY works with x86 architecture. So it won't work under any kind of virtualization or emulation.
Enter Cloud gaming. It seems the big contenders right now are ShadowPC, GeForce Now, and Paperspace. Has anyone tried these? When I last costed these out Shadow was only around $15-$20 a month which was almost a no-brainer. But it seems to have gone up to $30 a month now, which gets costly enough to where it almost seems like I'd rather get a Steam Deck. Paperspace is like $10 per month plus another ~$1 per hour of play, which would probably end up cheapest for how little I play. But how it is in terms of configuration and latency I have no idea.
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Age of Empires IV - The IGN review
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‘Y: The Last Man’ paints a thoroughly grim picture of a world without Y chromosomes: TV review
7 votes -
Thoughts on Mulan (2020)?
I just finished watching it (pirated, because I wasn’t going to give Disney money after all the controversy regarding Taiwan). Uhh, it.. was bad? I mean I’m usually pretty positive especially...
I just finished watching it (pirated, because I wasn’t going to give Disney money after all the controversy regarding Taiwan).
Uhh, it.. was bad? I mean I’m usually pretty positive especially about all the Disney remakes, and I liked the general darker mood of this Mulan version. But what’s with the 90s era cgi physics?
Also, and I get the Mulan plot line is entirely about how ridiculous gender-gating is in general, but whew there is a serious case of The Stupids around a lot of the tradition, much more so than in the original. This felt very tropey to me, convenient idiocy. I mean yes okay this takes place 1200 years ago but …
I appreciated not seeing mushu, but the Phoenix could have just been a lot lot lot more subtle.
And I’ve never seen snow look so much like party foam. This is the same studio that produced Frozen?!
Man, this movie felt like it was written, produced and directed in 1998. I would say I watched the wrong one by mistake but the original was actually good for its time.
What happened, did I miss something? This could have been an amazing movie full of great music, awesome choreography, and a super dark take on the original. Instead, I watched the equivalent of a machine learning exercise in turning anime to live action.
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1819 Singapore
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5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel: The Terminator gambit (Game review)
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Windows 11: The Ars Technica review
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Tildes Game Review Journal - October 2021
Thanks to all who posted to or read last month's trial run of this topic. Let's try another month! This thread is for when you're done with a game and you want to give your finalized overview of...
Thanks to all who posted to or read last month's trial run of this topic. Let's try another month!
This thread is for when you're done with a game and you want to give your finalized overview of it. Did you enjoy it? What did it do well? What were some of its frustrations? Would you recommend it to others? That sort of thing.
For ease of readability, please bold the title for the game you're reviewing.
Also, please mark all spoilers as well using the following formatting:
<details> <summary>Spoilers</summary> Spoiler text goes here. </details>
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Tildes Game Review Journal - September 2021
I really enjoy reading through the weekly gaming threads where people talk about what they're currently playing. Those often give really interesting in-the-moment commentary, and I was thinking it...
I really enjoy reading through the weekly gaming threads where people talk about what they're currently playing. Those often give really interesting in-the-moment commentary, and I was thinking it might be nice to have a spot for more formalized "I'm finished with a game" thoughts and reflections.
This thread is for when you're done with a game and you want to give your finalized overview of it. Did you enjoy it? What did it do well? What were some of its frustrations? Would you recommend it to others? That sort of thing.
For ease of readability, please bold the title for the game you're reviewing.
If this is something the community likes, I'm thinking it could be a recurring monthly thing. Consider this month's post a trial run to see whether this is a concept worth continuing.
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Deep Work: The secret to achieving peak productivity
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iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 review: Foundational fixes
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Deathloop - Critical consensus
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Playdate hardware teardown
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Linus Sebastian tries the Steam Deck
27 votes -
One Tenth of a Second
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Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed
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Despair, pitiful mortals: Space Jam: A New Legacy is the future of entertainment
12 votes -
Black Widow review and discussion
7 votes -
User reviews are still the best tool we have
7 votes -
Compartment No 6 review – meet-uncute train romance is a Finnish 'Before Sunrise'
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Are plants animals like any other?
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Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance is truly, truly awful
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'Katla' is a new Netflix original series from Iceland – a cross between Stanisław Lem's 'Solaris' and the French series 'The Returned'
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Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898) A silent film review
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Playtime (1967)
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Scream (1996)
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Players in uproar over Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's bugs and poor performance
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Five problems (I think) KSP 2 multiplayer needs to solve to be a good experience
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Android Automotive OS review
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Impossible Worlds
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Thinking and Being
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Political Epistemology
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Betrayed review – This account of the internment of a Jewish boxer from Oslo packs an emotional punch, but pulls back from displaying any real horrors
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Hear me out: Why Johnny Mnemonic isn’t a bad movie
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Book review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
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The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall
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Book review: Progress and Poverty by Henry George
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The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream
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Notes from "Don't Shoot the Dog"
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An earnest review of the history of the world, according to History Channel show Ancient Aliens
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Review a product/service you first used over a year ago
Give an honest review of something that you've been using (or possibly stopped using) that's at least a year old, so we get an idea of what it's like for long-term use, rather than fresh. Anything...
Give an honest review of something that you've been using (or possibly stopped using) that's at least a year old, so we get an idea of what it's like for long-term use, rather than fresh. Anything is fair game: webhosting companies, kitchen gadgets, facial cleansers, etc.
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Monster Hunter Rise - Critical consensus
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Half in the Worst: Release the Snyder Cut!
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Hear me out: Why Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn't a bad movie
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The Snyder Cut is a much longer Justice League, but not a better one
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A thorough guide and review of Super Nintendo World, Nintendo's new theme park at Universal Studios Japan
7 votes -
Adobe Photoshop’s ‘Super Resolution’ made my jaw hit the floor
22 votes -
What happened to Jordan Peterson?
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Super Mario 64 review
7 votes