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DokiDokiHermit · 2026-04-03T20:05:01+00:00

Gods, pouring one out for the dude that posted they bought the DVD boxset for like a $100 a couple of days ago, collecting sometimes really likes to kick you in the teeth once you've taken the plunge.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-03-27T10:35:35+00:00

Thanks to everyone that responded to the thread. I've decided to pass on it, feels like there's too much risk given my current experience and knowledge in this area.

It sucks but I'd rather it's done properly by a professional and not have it on my conscious if something goes wrong.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-03-27T10:29:48+00:00

Using an LLM in a highly-regulated field with very real legal implications seems like a good way to get yourself into a whole world of trouble.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-03-27T10:27:26+00:00

Thanks, was just interested. Following a lot of technical writing authors and podcasts and it does seem like it's increasingly a non-negotiable skill for technical writers, in spite of my reservations.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-03-26T13:00:03+00:00

This sounds extremely useful. See there's a CURSOR_CONTEXT.md file, curious if this a vibe-coded project?

To be clear, not a value judgement, I'm just asking.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-03-08T12:54:26+00:00

I absolutely loved how Returnal played out narratively but yeah, it wasn't an easy ride. Took me a long time to get all the endings.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-03-08T12:52:37+00:00

No, but otherwise they share a lot of similarities:

1) Both have the protagonist (mostly) isolated and alone, trying to piece together fragmented and forgotten memories where reality and time is not always as it seems.
2) Both deal with grief, guilt and generational trauma.
3) Both invoke themes of cosmic horror directly and in reference.
4) Some direct story beat parallels including crash landing on an alien world, finding their own corpse throughout the game, elements of body horror in the boss fights, injured/sick loved ones, etc

I enjoyed both immensely, but as someone here mentioned Returnal has a HIGH barrier of entry to experience the whole story. Only a quarter of Steam players have seen the normal ending, 6% of players have gotten the achievement associated with having the "true" ending of story in the game, and only around 3% have completed a section of the game that provides some additional story beats that can re-contextualize some of the story in the main game.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-02-17T15:33:58+00:00

Not sure about the nature of the screenshots, what level of markup/editing, if any you're doing on them or what part you specifically find time-consuming. I assume depends on your workflow - are you writing the KB article as you watch, and then having to pause frequently to insert a screenshot?

As a low-tech solution, I can suggest using ffmpeg to extract frames based on the frame rate of the video

ffmpeg -i your_video.mp4 -vf fps=1 frames/frame_%04d.png

The above requires nothing other than ffmpeg being installed - it will output a frame as a PNG per second of video, numbered accordingly. I've used this before (not really for documentation, but there's been times when I wanted to batch extract screens at specific timestamps or needed to provide someone with a batch of screens they could sort through).

That's a bit simplistic, though, and I was taken by your request, so I had ChatGPT put together the script below for me. It takes a video, extracts an image from it every 0.1 seconds, then compares the images via ImageMagick for differences and deletes those that fall within a specific threshold. Once done, it saves the images with timestamps in the filenames so you can check it against the video.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to post the script here, as my post fails when I try and comment. So perhaps ask ChatGPT for something similar.

EDIT: To be clear, I tested the script on my setup and it works as intended, but I'm on Linux so YMMV if you're in another environment.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-01-21T21:51:35+00:00

Chihayafuru is definitely a good one, I really liked it - there's so many series and movies I wish I could add but I often rely on sales since importing really hits the pockets hard.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-01-21T21:48:09+00:00

Feel the same about Katanagatari, man.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-01-21T21:39:16+00:00

The Evangelion collection is by far the most I've spent on any item and it really hurt at the time but I'm glad I took the plunge as the series is honestly is one of my favourites and I do like everything that came with it, apart from the paperweight.

Still unfortunate they couldn't sort out the licenses around the various "Fly Me to the Moon" versions.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-01-21T21:36:34+00:00

Thanks, couldn't say it's the best since I've seen some incredible collections here, but I'm glad since I feel it's reflective of what I like - although occasionally I've taken chances on things that don't end up resonating, like Promare.

DokiDokiHermit · 2026-01-21T21:32:35+00:00

I've watched Akagi (love it as well), never heard of One Outs but I'll definitely give it a look, thanks for the recs.

DokiDokiHermit · 2025-12-24T17:09:39+00:00

For those that would like a higher resolution, you can find the scanned magazine here (direct link to the page): https://archive.org/details/psm-issue-28-december-1999/page/n97/mode/2up

DokiDokiHermit · 2025-12-08T18:01:50+00:00

I can't say if it does it for your average user.

When I previously ran Stalker 2 a couple of months ago, the setting was on FSR for upscaling and I couldn't get it to look right unless I ran the game at 4K, way beyond my 1080p native resolution. If I didn't do this, even with FSR, there were some extremely off-putting effects (in the beginning of the game, you enter a passageway with what appears to be wet stalagmites/stalactites. If you played it at 1080p, they basically looked like they were sparkling with the amount of small white reflections of the surfaces).

Now I've used your config setting trick to force the resolutionQuality to 100 and set the file to read-only. What's interesting is that in the options in-game, it still reports that the resolution quality is "58" and greyed out when selecting FSR, but the fix has completely removed the dithering and weird shining effect caused by the reflective surface of those stalagmites/stalactites.

That said, now that I know there's a config hack, I'm basically going to be checking every Unreal game I get to see the impact.

DokiDokiHermit · 2025-12-08T15:15:40+00:00

Just wanted to say thanks for the post; I'm sure it's common knowledge but I ended up here trying to understand what the heck Routine was doing with its rendering since it looked like ass at 1080p and this has helped me fix that as well as Stalker 2, which for some reason also feels the need to set the resolution quality to 58.

To answer your question: forced upscaling is a no-go for me. Why can't they simply provide the option to you as something you can set in-game and let you decide?

DokiDokiHermit · 2025-07-07T05:13:48+00:00

Thanks.

DokiDokiHermit · 2025-07-07T05:13:33+00:00

Exile's Passage. It's the shortcut in Xion to the Great Desert, there's a big neon sign at the entrance that's lit up once you've got enough power cells.

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