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Comment on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason in ~anime
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Comment on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason in ~anime
TyrianMollusk Link ParentIf a major streamer can't figure out their caching infrastructure and such to balance the burdens, maybe they need to work on their app so it can handle video overlays on a basic level.That's a usage of transcoding and can be rather computationally expensive, especially to perform at scale
If a major streamer can't figure out their caching infrastructure and such to balance the burdens, maybe they need to work on their app so it can handle video overlays on a basic level.
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Comment on Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason in ~anime
TyrianMollusk Link ParentThe trick here is what's effectively on-the-fly hardsubbing, and it removes any endpoint device dependency issues from the equation. Even a free home streaming box app like Plex has the ability to...If it was more widely supported they could use PGS to soft sub while still making it look almost as good (it's possible to hard sub animating subtitles though I don't think you can do that in PGS, but that kind of thing is exceptionally rare).
The trick here is what's effectively on-the-fly hardsubbing, and it removes any endpoint device dependency issues from the equation. Even a free home streaming box app like Plex has the ability to stream subtitles by combining them with the video as it's sent out.
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Comment on The video-game industry has a problem: there are too many games in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentThis is kind of where Steam curators were supposed to come in, to make narrower views of the massive Steam store, but like most things Valve does, it was half-baked, half-assed, and abandoned...This is kind of where Steam curators were supposed to come in, to make narrower views of the massive Steam store, but like most things Valve does, it was half-baked, half-assed, and abandoned without even being meaningfully functional.
If the game industry finds this issue a problem, they should get a discovery consortium together and build something that people can use to help connect each other with games. Something that isn't owned by one company/store/platform, that isn't built as a lowest common denominator marketing arm for mass releases, and where the companies do their diligence to support it but step back and let people actually be the actors.
If someone pretty much picks up the same games I do (and more importantly, passes the same games I pass), they shouldn't need to be a professional influencer for me to see when they like something I haven't noticed. That should be easy technology, but it needs to be done one place for everything, and user oriented so we can tune out the noise.
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Comment on Karen Gillan joins the new ‘Highlander’ and has the best reaction to the news in ~movies
TyrianMollusk LinkUgh. Her? She's a pretty face, but I hope she doesn't drag it down too much with her "acting". If only they would just give us a way to get the superior theatrical cut of the original, instead of...Ugh. Her? She's a pretty face, but I hope she doesn't drag it down too much with her "acting".
If only they would just give us a way to get the superior theatrical cut of the original, instead of the bastardized other versions, I'd give them any pass on the remake they want. It's sad how few have seen it.
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Comment on What are some great actual comedies made in the last twenty years? in ~movies
TyrianMollusk LinkMy Super Ex-Girlfriend 2006 Crank 2006 Going By the Book 2007 KOR Tropic Thunder 2008 Get Smart 2008 Dachimawa Lee 2008 KOR Phobia 2 2009 THA - segment 5 The Other Guys 2010 Detention 2011 John...- My Super Ex-Girlfriend 2006
- Crank 2006
- Going By the Book 2007 KOR
- Tropic Thunder 2008
- Get Smart 2008
- Dachimawa Lee 2008 KOR
- Phobia 2 2009 THA - segment 5
- The Other Guys 2010
- Detention 2011
- John Dies at the End 2012
- The World's End 2013
- Search Party 2014
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 2016
- Central Intelligence 2016
- Game Night 2018
- Extreme Job 2019 KOR
- Hobbs & Shaw 2019
- Night of the Undead 2020 KOR (note: not a zombie movie)
- Smoking Causes Coughing 2022 FRA (we go for pretty much all of this guy's willfully bizarre work, but it's very YMMV, and this will give you a good taste without without too much investment)
- Krazy House 2024
For shows, I'll throw out Angie Tribeca (season 1), The Middleman, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004 but I'll list it anyway), Pacific Heat, Danger 5, Bullet in the Face, Archer (season 1), Toast of London, and if you want a sketch show, Auntie Donna's Big Ol House of Fun and That Mitchell and Webb Look.
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Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025: Hidden gems in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentYeah, a pretty cute game. Finally someone at least doing a little to fill that Storage Inc void in the world. It's not quite it, but at least it's something and actually has user levels, the only...Yeah, a pretty cute game. Finally someone at least doing a little to fill that Storage Inc void in the world. It's not quite it, but at least it's something and actually has user levels, the only thing Storage Inc really needed. A shame Storage Inc 2 went the wrong direction, but at least Tipston is trying something.
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Comment on The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live (runs June 26 - July 10) in ~games
TyrianMollusk LinkIt's kind of funny, looks like my main sale purchases are going to be Netherworld Covenenat, which is still on its launch discount, and Bloodrush Undying Wish, which is inexplicably launching in...It's kind of funny, looks like my main sale purchases are going to be Netherworld Covenenat, which is still on its launch discount, and Bloodrush Undying Wish, which is inexplicably launching in the middle of the seasonal sale. There's also BlazBlue Entropy Effect's new character DLC, also on launch sale, so none of that is really seasonal sale stuff.
I'll pick a couple shmups to pick up, probably Divine Orders and Assault Shell 2, but those are both stingy sales. Only particular sale-sale items I'm looking at are Void Expanse finally putting their DLC back on sale after 2 1/2 years of nothing, and 30XX's character DLC finally getting its first sale, but those are minor even if holdouts.
Was actually rather hoping to pick up Relic Hunters Legend, after they finally put a demo up so I could see the game had more meat to it than it looked like, but annoyingly, they seem to have put the demo up right in the middle of the Feb NextFest with the game on sale for only a few days, and then nothing since for anyone who saw the demo later, despite pushing release (from early access) back to Q3. Indie devs man, it's like they are just flailing around doing random things. Someone in their forum mentioned devs had said on discord they would run another sale alongside launching their next game (Hell Clock), so end of July-ish I guess for that. Better than nothing, I suppose.
I guess I'll pick up Idun Frontline Survival (tower defense game where you move the towers around, not a horde survivor) instead, but was hoping to get some partner co-op going with Relic Hunters. We'll have to get that from Synthetik 2 instead, since they finally got their next update out after like two years stalled early access, though the game still seems like rather a mess plus it already screwed up my save. I knew it going in, but man those are terrible devs. I so wish someone else made something like Synthetik, so I could just never deal with these guys again.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentFar as I know, you can't use Steam Input without a controller, and you can't key events off non-controller actions. You can send kbm, not react to kbm. 3rd party tools like autohotkey might be...Far as I know, you can't use Steam Input without a controller, and you can't key events off non-controller actions. You can send kbm, not react to kbm. 3rd party tools like autohotkey might be able to, though, and if hobbes64 has a controller around then they can certainly use Steam Input to cover it.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentThanks. Pointed compliment, too, given I coined it from the historical source of royal purple dye: grinding up snail shells in Tyr. Sadly, I later started playing Guild Wars 2, which is set in the...Very regal.
Thanks. Pointed compliment, too, given I coined it from the historical source of royal purple dye: grinding up snail shells in Tyr.
Sadly, I later started playing Guild Wars 2, which is set in the continent of Tyr, and around there I just look like some bozo fansnail :/
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentThe moderation is pretty important. Steam has a weird moderation policy. The devs can have mods and do anything they want, zero rules enforced by Steam whatever the mods do. Alternatively, the...I find that how usable a Steam forum is directly relates to how large of a community the related product has.
The moderation is pretty important. Steam has a weird moderation policy. The devs can have mods and do anything they want, zero rules enforced by Steam whatever the mods do. Alternatively, the devs can not provide mods, and the forum defaults to Valve's mods, who will only check reported posts (eventually) and only for clear, obvious community violations. So a few people can troll endlessly and completely destroy a forum as long as they stay in the rules enough. You get a big game that goes that way, or devs with bad mods, and you really get the worst of Steam.
Not all the forums are bad, but Steam does seem to attract a lot of toxicity that no one does anything about, and so many people are absolutely hateful in so many ways.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentValve is stingy on the weirdest things. Like, why do we only have a total of only 100 slots to follow or ignore curators, but they'll track our helpfulness thumb for every review and game on the...Valve is stingy on the weirdest things. Like, why do we only have a total of only 100 slots to follow or ignore curators, but they'll track our helpfulness thumb for every review and game on the site? Let us make shopping lists instead of just the one wishlist. Or make shopping guides we can post places. Something. Anything to bring more curation to the store.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk (edited )Link ParentI think you can manage your news a bit from right clicking the news items in your library and selecting "show less". You can also click the gear by What's New and tell it to only show updates and...I think you can manage your news a bit from right clicking the news items in your library and selecting "show less". You can also click the gear by What's New and tell it to only show updates and not other stuff there.
I look over the Steam news page somewhat obsessively since I follow a lot of games, so the same things broadcast in my library is just a nuisance to click away every startup to remove the clutter from my games view.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentThen you must not be using Augmented Steam, because it puts the isthereanydeal lowest current and historical prices right on the Steam store page, so you don't need to go to ITAD unless you want...Then you must not be using Augmented Steam, because it puts the isthereanydeal lowest current and historical prices right on the Steam store page, so you don't need to go to ITAD unless you want to see the history graph or all the shop prices.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentYou can turn that popup window off at Settings->Interface->"Notify me about changes to my games...". Now if they would just let us turn off the unneeded and poorly implemented news item line at...You can turn that popup window off at Settings->Interface->"Notify me about changes to my games...".
Now if they would just let us turn off the unneeded and poorly implemented news item line at the top of the library.
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Comment on Steam Spring Sale suggestions in ~games
TyrianMollusk Link ParentYeah, it's weird how difficult it is to get anything set up to just look over sales on games you care about for the purposes of suggesting. Especially when we have such advanced tracking sites...Yeah, it's weird how difficult it is to get anything set up to just look over sales on games you care about for the purposes of suggesting. Especially when we have such advanced tracking sites like isthereanydeal and steamdb. There's a bunch of games I like to check up on and see where prices are or who's passing the sale, and it really ought to just be a list I could open somewhere.
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Comment on 'Ne Zha 2' is highest-grossing animated movie worldwide, tops $1.7b in ~movies
TyrianMollusk (edited )Link Parent"Anime" is the Japanese word for animation. It's not weird to expect it to mean Japanese (in some sense) animation, rather than just uselessly lumping together everything sharing the remotest..."Anime" is the Japanese word for animation. It's not weird to expect it to mean Japanese (in some sense) animation, rather than just uselessly lumping together everything sharing the remotest aesthetic or thematic connections.
Ne Zha doesn't look anything like anime. Deliberately annoying people by calling it anime would be, well, deliberately annoying.
"Donghua" is the Chinese word for animation, which is a less jingoistic label than "anime" or "Chinese anime" (and searching for donghua actually finds more of it, unlike "anime"). People are still early on realizing there's a very significant animation industry in China pumping out interesting anime-like content, so we'll just have to see what kind of mess things end up in over time. One can dream we might settle on labels more oriented toward utility than annoyance...
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Comment on GOG wants your vote on classic games to bring back with its new Dreamlist tool in ~games
TyrianMollusk (edited )Link ParentI voted for: Blur -- Unfairly talked about as "Mario Kart with real cars" this is a brilliant power-up racing game full of good, player-enabling design that other games could learn from, if anyone...I voted for:
- Blur -- Unfairly talked about as "Mario Kart with real cars" this is a brilliant power-up racing game full of good, player-enabling design that other games could learn from, if anyone were making meaty arcade racing games like this anymore.
- Tobal 2 -- Tobal was one of the only fighting games where blocking actually blocks instead of just letting the attacker keep doing whatever they were doing, and it also had a weird grappling tug-of-warish mechanic. The sequel has a whole procedural dungeon adventure mode. Sadly, has so few votes GoG suggests Total War games ahead of it when looking for "tobal", in case that's what you meant to type...
- Kohan: Ahriman's Gift -- Great RTS with multi-character squad units you set up, zones of control and supply, and unique hero units that gain power over the campaign. Final campaign battle where your dark fortress has to somehow fend off the most elite units of each other faction coming from all sides is memorable to this day, and I'm about as old as video games.
Kohan's on Steam, so that's nice, but I figure the other two have no chance, even though Blur was a masterpiece, and 20 player combat races is something we should have again, outside pirating.
I also added AtomHex and Devader, two top-notch arcade twin-stick shooters, and Assault Android Cactus, which is just weird they don't have on GoG already, being one of the legitimately best twin-sticks out there.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
TyrianMollusk LinkAfter a furious Guild Wars 2 flurry of being buried in the character creation slider mines last week, we're getting our new doll force up to speed so they can take their places as proper...After a furious Guild Wars 2 flurry of being buried in the character creation slider mines last week, we're getting our new doll force up to speed so they can take their places as proper characters. They get to skip to level 60 (thanks to our six-year-old account), and it looks like bonus XP from leveling-oriented new character achievements makes playing them to about 76 pretty breezy, then we have a stockpile of level skips to draw on to hit the cap at 80. We could really just skip directly from 60 to 80, but we do just enjoy playing, so might as well save that resource a little, since it has other uses, and tool around a bit remembering what classes play like without their elite specialization options.
Team new revenant has already become team vindicator and taken up a holding pattern at the Tequatl world boss until they map complete that zone, and team new necro is about to become team harbinger and get released into the wild. The two mesmer-engineer duos will be next to level, and then team hot guardian gets their chance. Have a skin we've been meaning to unlock for my guardian to go get, too.
Would be further along but I lost a chunk of time yesterday debating with someone on Steam vehemently opposed to Steam Input layers. Kinda nice to see someone actually dedicatedly interested in Steam Input configuration (Valve certainly isn't), but sadly they were clearly just there for toxicity and to construct dismissive insults, rather than understand the value layers can bring to games and why Valve needs to make them less buggy. Shouldn't have wasted time on them, even if I wish people would see Steam Input a little more. Tsk, Tsk.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
TyrianMollusk LinkPlayed various small things recently, but my partner and I have been somewhat unreasonably focused on Guild Wars 2 characters recently. We've been playing for years now, and had a stalwart...Played various small things recently, but my partner and I have been somewhat unreasonably focused on Guild Wars 2 characters recently. We've been playing for years now, and had a stalwart commitment to our nine initial characters. Nine covers each class, which basically lets us play anything without having to go through any more character creation, so it was a solid "enough" line to draw. But due to various bundles and holiday gifts, we've had two empty character slots and some premium currency kind of tempting us to take our general enjoyment of playing the game and add some more dress-up dolls--I mean, expand our "ready" core play options, as each character has settled into a main way they play and overall look that we're pretty happy with keeping.
So we've had noses buried in face sliders, look options, and possible names to spread out our doll force with six new characters (five we're each making now, and another for when we'll have another bundled slot to deal with, probably in August), and it's been exhausting locking everything in with looks we're going to be using for likely years, but we're finally wrapped up and getting to actually play again with leveling them so they can get to opening their intended "main" subclasses (the core nine can play all subclasses, so we're basically breaking off six of their #2 builds for the new kids).
At least leveling itself is minimal since you accumulate some things to skip a lot of that over years of play. We've got nine "new character" jumps to level 60 out of 80 from our six-year-old mains, and a host of things that can be used either for special crafting currency or a free level-up, so we can skip any of those last 20 we feel like.
But it's a definite relief to be back to normal playing and enjoying our new dress-up dolls (and getting used to them--very weird for a while seeing all these new faces) rather than waffling over various minutiae we're going to be stuck with for a long time. Not an aspect of the game we enjoy, but like many things, something we have to put up with to play GW2.
Yes, yes, pedantry aside, basic video compositing is something a major service like Crunchyroll needs to help partners get going in return for the non-trivial cut of CR's money they're skimming.