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  1. Comment on Tyler, The Creator - NOID (2024) in ~music

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    Visuals are on POINT. The track itself is ehh on me, but maybe I just need more listens to soak it in. On the other hand, I have been really enjoying that track with Pharrell and Tyler

    Visuals are on POINT. The track itself is ehh on me, but maybe I just need more listens to soak it in.

    On the other hand, I have been really enjoying that track with Pharrell and Tyler

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  2. Comment on Controversial opinion: I don't like "cosmetic armor" being an option in games in ~games

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    I used have the same opinion (to a certain extent). I love monster hunter a lot, and to me its endgame is building crazy sets with all the skills you want for a particular weapon. And to do that,...

    I used have the same opinion (to a certain extent).

    I love monster hunter a lot, and to me its endgame is building crazy sets with all the skills you want for a particular weapon. And to do that, you'd probably have to make an armor set with parts from different monsters, meaning you'd look UGLY.

    In the earlier games I enjoyed loading into the mutiplayer hubs and just looking at other people's armor - if I saw a crazy mishmash of disjointed-looking armor I knew that you're just as enthusiastic about this game as I was. So I really liked that sense of (weird) community.

    But in the newer games, they added layered armor (essentially transmog). And I refused to use it until the next game. I succumbed, but now I can have my fun armor sets AND look amazing at the same time. While I do miss some aspects of having no transmog, I ultimately am converted.

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  3. Comment on Void Crew | Release date reveal trailer in ~games

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    Nice! My friends and I picked this up not too long ago and it's good fun for a while. But the nature of the endless mode and lacklustre-feeling progression made us stop after a while. The only...

    Nice! My friends and I picked this up not too long ago and it's good fun for a while. But the nature of the endless mode and lacklustre-feeling progression made us stop after a while.

    The only other starship-bridge-sim-game (not too sure what these are called...) I've played was Pulsar: Lost Colony, and I had a blast with that one. The world felt much more alive and "lived-in". Exploring that world and getting used to the intricacies of the ship systems felt super rewarding. I genuinely feel it's one of my top 5 games!

    And I suppose that's my gripe with this. I want a game like this but with a world I can explore and learn about with friends.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Switching to Linux, looking for distro recommendations in ~tech

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    Hey, thanks for all the suggestions! I've no problem with getting down to the nitty gritty, just have had no interest in really looking into it (till now). So I checked devtools when loading the...

    Hey, thanks for all the suggestions! I've no problem with getting down to the nitty gritty, just have had no interest in really looking into it (till now).

    So I checked devtools when loading the video, and I get this warning:
    Error Code: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) Details: mozilla::MediaResult mozilla::FFmpegDataDecoder<60>::InitDecoder(AVDictionary**): Couldn't open avcodec

    Looking at the about:support page on firefox, it says I have software decoding support for all codecs but HEVC. Hardware decoding is just flat-out unsupported for all of them.

    I double-checked my ffmpeg install - I don't have ffmpeg-free, I have the ffmpeg from RPMFusion. I 've also got libavcodec-freeworld instead of libavcodec-free. I've heard that the flatpak version of firefox just "works" so I might just do that instead.

    All in all this just cements in my mind that codecs in Fedora are NOT trivial and things do go wrong (the amount of forum posts I've seen dedicated to this corroborates this as well...)

    1 vote

  5. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I've been going down a best of 2020-2024 list by one of my favourite extreme music blogger, Machine Music. Here's some of my highlights Sea Mosquito - Fire, Magic, and Venom 22 minute single track...

    I've been going down a best of 2020-2024 list by one of my favourite extreme music blogger, Machine Music. Here's some of my highlights

    Sea Mosquito - Fire, Magic, and Venom
    22 minute single track black metal EP. Dark and brooding atmosphere with enough cool ideas to keep me engaged throughout. The last 8 minutes of the track has got me coming back again and again! It also caps off with some tasteful sax.

    Anna Van Hausswolff - All thoughts fly
    Can't say I've listened to much pipe organ music before, but what Anna Van Hausswolff manages to do with it here is incredible. This album is magical - everytime I listen to it I am just transported. The feeling reminds me a lot of the Tristwch Y Fenywod s/t. The standout track for me is the title track - it takes its time in progressively building to its climax, but its worth it.

    Odz Manouk - Tzurr
    Just well-written black metal. Evil pummeling riffs, throaty vocals, blastbeat galore, what more could you ask for. The last track is the standout.

    Other than the list, some of my favourite new releases are bríi (electronic with some dnb and atmospheric black metal influences that work far better than it should), chat pile, and geordie greep.

  6. Comment on Switching to Linux, looking for distro recommendations in ~tech

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    I've actually not tested this on VLC because I don't really use my laptop to watch videos. But it seems that my codecs actually do work - h264 and h265 videos play just fine through VLC. My...

    I've actually not tested this on VLC because I don't really use my laptop to watch videos. But it seems that my codecs actually do work - h264 and h265 videos play just fine through VLC. My problem is with Plex and youtube on Firefox.

    I did more digging, and it seems really weird. Youtube videos that are on my homepage load just fine. But when I play a video with low views, it just says "An error occurred". Are there any tools I can use to figure out why this happens?

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Switching to Linux, looking for distro recommendations in ~tech

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    For what it's worth, I've been using Fedora on my laptop for about a year now and I still can't get my codecs to work. I've installed ffmpeg and done the RPM Fusion stuff, but still no dice. So I...

    For what it's worth, I've been using Fedora on my laptop for about a year now and I still can't get my codecs to work. I've installed ffmpeg and done the RPM Fusion stuff, but still no dice.

    So I do think it's worth considering for a daily driver

    (By the way, after lurking tildes for so long I've finally got an account and this is my first post!)

    5 votes