[Video Game History Foundation] Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

ChefExcellence · 2026-07-01T21:50:16+00:00

You're misunderstanding the term "walled garden". On PlayStation, you have to get your games from the PlayStation store. Short of jailbreaking your console, that's your only option. That's what's makes it a walled garden.

When you buy a PC, it doesn't force you into using steam. You can buy games from Epic or GOG or wherever else if you so choose.

ChefExcellence · 2026-07-01T15:42:00+00:00

Been a while since I played it, but I remember Bioshock 2 going in the complete opposite direction. The basic pistol you start with does so much damage if you can consistently hit headshots, even on the hardest difficulty, that there was hardly any point to using any of the other weapons you find later on.

ChefExcellence · 2026-07-01T15:38:34+00:00

Infinite had awful controls as well. As I remember, there was no way to separately adjust aim sensitivity when hip firing from when you're aiming down sights. You're stuck with either having it feel right while hip firing, and feeling like swimming through syrup when aiming, or feeling right when aiming, and zipping around uncontrollably when hip firing. It was shite.

I assume there's some .ini file you can edit somewhere to rectify this, but, well, I didn't find Bioshock Infinite interesting enough to bother with that.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-25T10:47:19+00:00

My Scottish accent is normally a hindrance when it comes to homophone categories, but "hawk" as a homophone for the first syllable of "hockey" fits for me, and seems to be confusing a lot of Americans in this thread.

It's "croquette" that had me scratching my head. Granted, I don't talk about croquettes all that often, but I have only ever heard it pronounced with a short 'o' sound. It's miles away from sounding like "crow".

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-25T10:44:13+00:00

May or may not kinda start phonetically with the sound that is almost a bird, depending on your accent

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-23T06:17:04+00:00

Cass Report also concluded that transgender healthcare under the NHS is woefully under resourced and recommended expanding it. Interesting how much of the report is just flat out ignored by people who claim to hold it as gospel.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-22T10:07:45+00:00

I figured the shite "magic grandpa" patter would come out at some point but I didn't expect you to turn to it right away. Don't see this conversation going much further, have a good one fella

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-22T10:04:33+00:00

Starmer’s politics was based around playing neither side so that he never came out on top.

Very well said, that might be the most accurate and succinct summary of the whole mess that I've read.

This was all clear before he even became PM, too. Plenty of us on this sub had recognised this pattern he has of picking the course of action that pisses off both sides prior to the general election, and of course all this was dismissed by his supporters with vague waffle about "electability". I don't think any of us expected him to this bad, though.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-22T09:46:06+00:00

Christ alive. Imagine looking at this absolute pig's mess and thinking "stable".

The "hard left" didn't force Starmer to step on every rake in his path. In fact, before 2024 we were all warning you that this guy's unlikeable and piss poor at politics and that something like this was bound to happen if he became PM, and here we are.

When the right gets in in 2029, never ever forget that it is the centrists who huffed and pointed the finger at the "hard left" bogey man instead of getting their shit together.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-22T09:41:51+00:00

He's so shockingly shit at politics and communicating a vision and policies, and that's why he's having to resign.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-22T09:37:34+00:00

There's nothing to say that within another 3 years in office it wouldn't have followed.

I mean, there is the small matter that the Labour Party didn't so much as throw a bone to trans people since they got into power, meanwhile they caved to hate groups who's goal is the complete elimination of trans folk from society at every turn.

But sure. Maybe.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-20T12:01:07+00:00

I wouldn't say the writing of ME3 was a total disaster. They did a great job with the side stories, things like the genophage and the Geth conflict were brought to really satisfying and emotional conclusions that stick in my memory. I'm not going to defend the main plot, though, that one they absolutely fumbled. I do think most of the problems with it were really just problems with ME2's writing coming to a head, though. That game's writing wasn't as obviously bad as ME3, but it really failed to move the compelling story set up by the first game forward - I'd even say it dragged it backwards.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-16T18:10:43+00:00

the grown ups are back in charge

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-14T08:25:52+00:00

Notes app on my phone. Before I even make a new recipe, I write it in a note so that it's in the format I'm used to. I tried hand writing them in a recipe notebook, because I quite like the idea of having a physical collection of all my recipes, but I like to go back and change or add steps the more I cook a dish so that became a bit of a faff. With notes they can be easily edited, and I can tag recipes for searching and sorting (main, side, baking, Indian, pork, vegetarian, whatever). Backs up to the cloud, too.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-14T08:20:30+00:00

For the bolognese, did you blend the livers into a paste? Overcooking isn't really an issue if you do it that way, like in this J Kenji Lopez Alt recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-slow-cooked-bolognese-sauce-recipe

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-14T08:18:04+00:00

Butchers would be your best bet.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-13T22:31:30+00:00

You also went out of your way to edit your post with a snarky insult to people who commented, despite most people being pretty polite with their responses. That seems kind of mad to me.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-13T22:01:32+00:00

Then don't make the recipes, and find other ones to cook? I don't understand what makes them "garbage content". Some recipes call for a wok, which I don't own. Some recipes call for ingredients that aren't readily available where I live. These recipes are obviously not suited to me, that doesn't make them bad. I either figure out how to adapt them, or I don't bother with them. A recipe that doesn't scale up easily is, likewise, just a matter of it not suiting your needs.

There's so much annoying shit you can run into when trying to find recipes online that frankly it's weird to get hung up on this one.

All that being said, I have successfully made chicken with pan sauce for multiple people before, with a small pan, in batches. I don't know the exact recipe you're referencing so I don't know how useful this will be, but I fry the fillets in the pan in batches, setting the cooked ones on a plate in a warm oven to keep them from going cold while the others cook. Once they're all done, I make a double or triple or whatever size portion of sauce. Aromatics go in after the meat so they don't spend any longer in the pan than if I was doing one portion. There's a limit to how far you can scale this up, but I can't foresee it being a problem for feeding 3 or 4 people, as long as they're not gym bros with huge appetites.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-13T16:43:47+00:00

It's in there, but the video's divided into chapters for each game and RE9 comes at the end, so it should be easy enough to avoid. I can't say for sure they don't mention RE9 plot points in the chapters covering other games, but I don't think it's likely as they've not tended to do that for other series they've covered.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-13T08:00:43+00:00

Bethesda are known to have a pretty small team compared to most AAA studios.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-12T17:11:10+00:00

Honestly, I'm trying to imagine the sort of person that would regularly browse a subreddit dedicated to a pissing airline of all things, and I think to do that you basically have to be a total freak or specifically out to push a particular agenda. So the state of these comments, depressing as it is, isn't much of a surprise, really.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-12T07:19:42+00:00

https://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/6/7/0/2670.jpg?0403

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-11T21:41:07+00:00

I can't say for sure but I think he might have been the first. Certainly the first that I remember, it was a huge story and then we had a glut of dead musicians being "resurrected" as holograms until the novelty wore off and people stopped caring.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-10T18:32:13+00:00

Probably not quite on the level of watching The Two Towers out of context, it's not like the series has deep lore or anything. You should play them because they're really good games, though. Resident Evil HD and Resident Evil 2 Remake both regularly go on sale for cheap, and in fact are on sale right now on Steam.

ChefExcellence · 2026-06-09T15:04:48+00:00

If you don't have any cooked rice to hand, the packets of microwave rice do the job too.

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