Manual mode is so much fun! I the Thrustmaster T1600M that came with rudder pedals and a throttle, and i broke this plastic ring in the flight stick that keeps it from completely turning around when you twist it. I should have just used the rudder pedals but they kept slipping out from under me, and its hard enough to play that game in VR as it is lol.

I broke my joystick dogfighting in VR lol, no E:D for me for a while. Combat in that is NUTS if you turn off your mobility assists.

Somewhat unrelated, but the actors have done other voiceover stuff too and most of it is really fun! If anyone plays Elite: Dangerous you can replace the ship computer voice with Brent Spiner! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNI5PM6tr4M

The Doctor, voiced by Robert Picardo, brings his signature charm and encyclopedic knowledge to your drive with analytic ease and wit to help you navigate everything from traffic hazards to the final frontier of your daily commute.

That sounds fairly concrete to me tbh

It’s hard to explain without dumping some massive spoilers. Lets just say it didn’t give them the endings they deserved.

lmao “science! fuck yeahhhh!”

It sounds like you’ve done what you can, other than maybe leaving another blanket out there until its warm enough for her to decide to leave.

Oh my bad I thought we were talking about the entire Ars team, not the individual author.

Awww I hope she found some critters to eat or something. Cats aren’t supposed to go more than a couple days without food. She might need a vet checkup if you do adopt her!

“malpractice” would have been not puling the story/issuing a retraction.

Journalistic integrity? On my internet? Well I never.

definitely less annoying than a burnt down house

Holy s, 30 bucks per knob though. I better be able to pass those down to my grandkids!

Thanks for posting this. Holding the blade at the correct angle and putting the correct pressure on it is key.

Yup, coffee lake is when intel quick sync gained HEVC 10-bit. I had a 6th gen in my server for a while and that one needed h.264 content.

hardware doesn’t even need to be that recent! i’m using an i7 8700K for my plex server and it can transcode h.264 into h.265 on the fly.

I’ve noticed that things recorded on film hold up much better to low resolution compared to digitally filmed content.

The biggest issue with downloading x265 stuff from the high seas is that so many of them are just x264 that’s been re-encoded in x265, resulting in smaller file sizes but reduced quality as well. x265 is superior in almost every way technically speaking but it needs a good source material, not an x264 reencode. Their “golden rule” is more like a rule of thumb and I absolutely wouldn’t use some blanket criteria like resolution or dynamic range.

The writer and Brent Spiner said recently that Data didn’t really die, fwiw.

It’s all fun and games until you have to spend 3 actual days ripping 50 blu-ray disks to your media server.