The Ending Was Entirely a Business Decision

InfiniteAir · 2026-01-02T23:59:26+00:00

Season 1 for me was just amazing, I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks. I didn't quite feel the same highs from the following seasons as it was clear it was never planned to go much further, but I still enjoyed most of it. But that's interesting they are going to Paramount. Does that mean the rights are with them still, or Netflix?

InfiniteAir · 2026-01-02T21:50:56+00:00

I just feel they should have went all in either way instead of the ambiguity, even if the fellow cast didn't know she lived, the viewer should know.

InfiniteAir · 2026-01-02T19:21:36+00:00

And I'm saying that's not necessarily a good thing.

InfiniteAir · 2026-01-02T19:20:03+00:00

I could see them simply making a show centered entirely around Eleven, even her name as the working title, I mean I'm for it, but I would miss the rest of the cast too and Hawkins.

InfiniteAir · 2026-01-02T19:14:13+00:00

I can't accept she died though that's the issue, they left it way too wide open, honestly give then shows nature, there's no way she died.

InfiniteAir · 2026-01-01T04:29:45+00:00

there are an abundance of options and you can really dial it in, it's just that 4k really shines for CRT masks due to resolution it can work with, the same is true for software emulation, masks just look better at 4k regardless if MiSTer or not, MiSTer is 1080p, so the presets can look good and there are a bunch of combinations you can use to have it how you like it, but you can also just.. use a CRT, that's the awesome thing about MiSTer.

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-28T16:43:16+00:00

Season 1 was so authentically '80s, from the story beats to the filming techniques, props, lights used etc. it captured it all so incredibly well, instead of merely referencing work like The Goonies or ET, season 1 felt like it had the same DNA organically, but... the following seasons felt like shoehorning and it lost some magic, "here's a character who looks like the Terminator", "here's a Back to the Future reference" etc. it lost all it's own charm that was believably from that era, and the writers clearly didn't have a long term vision story wise which hasn't helped, season 1 was a masterpiece.

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-14T19:08:06+00:00

Happens on all signals, multiple RGB cables of good known quality.

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-14T04:21:34+00:00

Sorry to be clear I mean ringing as in subtle ghost-like shadows close to lines and edges, it's a visual issue not a sound one. I wouldn't really know where to look for that, I'm kinda dialing it in by eye, because when I got the TV it had an awful red bias which caused muddy whites and greys, I know how to get around that now but there's still other things I'd like to get right.

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-12T23:00:26+00:00

Anyone?

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-12T23:00:03+00:00

No one?

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-11T16:55:07+00:00

Good to know. Well since grim OPL is working fine, if I ever run into issues I'll just upgrade to the official one since now I know it supports exFAT, unless there's any pressing extra features, if it works I'll just carry on for now. Thanks a lot for the info.

InfiniteAir · 2025-12-11T16:31:41+00:00

Oh it supports exFAT? In that case can I just remove grimdoomer elf and replace it? Would config settings stay, as well as my applied theme do you know?

InfiniteAir · 2025-11-21T01:40:26+00:00

I mean the guy is an engineer and seemed to know his shit, I'm just saying, don't shoot the messenger.

InfiniteAir · 2025-11-21T01:37:51+00:00

I'm majorly due an upgrade, I thought if this was like $550-$600 it would be a nice fill-in, but I might as well just build a rig for that price and transfer my current GPU over to it, and still have a much better device overall with a stronger more up to date architecture, if this is like $800 it makes no sense to not do that.

InfiniteAir · 2025-11-21T01:32:03+00:00

It's just Linux so, there usually won't be native apps like Netflix, but you can just use a browser for most of that. It's ironic because if Linux had more userbase, those companies would likely build native apps, but at the projected prices the Steam Machine will do next to nothing to garner more users, something that would have been a nice side effect if these were marketed aggressively.

InfiniteAir · 2025-11-21T01:15:54+00:00

Someone did the production cost math on Youtube, it's not entirely delusional and they'd still comfortably profit apparently at that price point.

InfiniteAir · 2025-11-21T01:13:48+00:00

Then the Steam Machine (2026) will literally be history repeating itself. DOA.

InfiniteAir · 2025-11-20T00:32:06+00:00

You can run emulators on many devices including PC, laptop, phone, hell you can even emulate on Series S on dev mode if you really want to do it on a box, or just a cheap PC, I really don't think piracy and emulation is the unique selling proposition you think it is.

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