I’m just about to finish season 2. I’m enjoying it enough to keep going but it does feel somewhat jarring coming into this from DS9. I definitely prefer 90s TV show style.

The next show on the list will be Babylon 5 though because I could use a Star Trek break!

Recently finished Deep Space 9. It took me almost a year to get to the end and it was awesome. Highly recommend. Now watching Strange New Worlds and it’s… okay. The seasons are too short for any interesting character development and the dialogue has a lot of streaming-era quipping which makes me stop listening.

The obvious thing to do here is let the really bad PRs through without comment, but keep the better ones in limbo with a never ending list of superfluous change requests. Fuck them both ways!

The best thing about Lumo is that it isn’t integrated with their core services. I hate seeing ✨bullshit everywhere.

Touch but don’t touch.

It’s one of the big contradictions of Star Trek… they somehow achieved utopian society while running everything on fucking touch screens.

Trying to force my way through the last few quests of Final Fantasy XVI. This has been my first FF since the PS2 era and wow… what a let down. It stinks of design by committee. I also started Final Fantasy IX again the other day to see if I’m just being an out of touch old person and no… that game is absolutely magical. Modern FF really is that bad.

Great post as always. That white PSP looks so slick compared to my crusty silver one… I’m jealous!

I once replaced an old job’s bullshit complicated nav with a massively simplified, JavaScript-less, visually and functionally identical solution using CSS grid… and my PR was shot down because nobody else wanted to learn grid. It took me about 15 minutes of reading to learn what I needed to know about grid to build that.

Reddit is the toilet of the internet.

Spotify is such a shit company. I used to get paid (peanuts) on my artist account but they raised the threshold for getting payouts so now I get nothing.

The Blade Itself. Joe Abercrombie has ruined the entire fantasy genre for me… nothing can compare.

This inspired me to go dig out my old PSP only to discover that I have no battery… I threw it out when it pillowed years ago and forgot about it. I’ll have to play on Retrodeck for now!

Great article! It looks like a really cool device!

I’ve been thinking a bit lately about 4:3 gaming while emulating FFIX on my Steamdeck in the original resolution which is still beautiful. It’s got me wondering whether wider aspect ratios are detrimental to game development. Like… does creativity or artistry get spread thin when they have to fill a wider screen. Does the budget need to be inflated to pull it off?

As a Wipeout pro, which game do you think is the best in the series? I’m a new Wipeout fan, I started with Pure this week and it’s awesome!

Imagine trying to fill out a leave request on that!

When the trailer is just a highlights reel of the entire plot. If the movie was worth watching they would let it speak for itself.

I can live without it.

I would like them to separate genre out of the tag system and curate the list of genres themselves, create strict guidelines for devs to select genres for their games, and let customers discover games via genre instead of tags. IMO the tag system is the worst thing they’ve ever added to the store.

There seems to be an overwhelming amount of JRPGs on the PSP right? It could take years to get through them all haha.

Part of the issue IMO is that so many of our Lemmy communities are just copies of subreddits. The bot creators see a subreddit shaped hole so of course they want to fuck it. Having communities with new original themes might help deter the bots, and the natural content might be more interesting too!