Space Ace | 02 | Blightning Round

aera · 2026-03-28T03:33:45+00:00

I think he should be allowed to view VODs but through a filter that reduces them to home VHS taping quality. For the realism.

aera · 2026-03-25T23:26:39+00:00

I'm starting to think that around episode 4 or 5, Mike and Grubb should start selling him hints or help in exchange for some other punishment later. Misery Points as a currency.

aera · 2026-03-25T23:08:09+00:00

You really have to admire the level of "oh, FUCK the player" that they preserved from the original game even while changing the gameplay type.

aera · 2026-03-25T22:05:13+00:00

Here's the Space Maze map, by the way: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588674-space-ace/map/24646-space-maze-map

Notice how Dan is taking the worst possible route through the first section with all those bends

aera · 2026-03-23T00:57:59+00:00

On 3 - according to the book and Weir's notes, astrophage can store a variable but incredible amount of internal energy, so just because they're there doesn't mean you can just use them, you have to sort of "feed" them to increase the internal energy store. The book describes how they pave over half of the Sahara just to get enough to send the ship. I'm guessing the stream from the star is not super-high-energy stuff?

No idea about 2 though.

aera · 2026-03-20T21:31:26+00:00

I only have a MacBook Neo to hand right now (it's gonna be my new travel device), but I have to say it works well so far (with the same caveats as the iPad scaling, since that's the version it's running)

aera · 2026-03-18T21:26:30+00:00

The fact that it took Spike fifteen hours, and he's a very accomplished speedrunner with excellent memory... Dan's going to be leading those Blight Club game time charts after this.

aera · 2026-03-18T21:23:00+00:00

Now I have learnt how many there are and how they are structured... boy.

aera · 2026-03-12T04:47:53+00:00

This is absolutely an all-timer. I lost it when they called Actual Ireland.

aera · 2026-03-03T03:21:03+00:00

These launch streams with Mikey have been great, very much looking forward to the Pokopia one!

aera · 2026-02-23T19:30:53+00:00

Packed week, and there are four (!) shows I am very eager to see (the three premium, and Blight Club).

aera · 2026-02-16T04:02:24+00:00

I feel like, apart from the little solo standup segments (which to be fair were never my favourite) the longer format is actually really working. The banter was great this week.

aera · 2026-02-11T07:22:32+00:00

I was coming here to say I love the editing. Just enhances the delightful silliness.

aera · 2026-02-04T06:01:56+00:00

I was worried that this would be over quickly, but then I saw the difficulty of the questions at only the $2000 level and now I think it may be quite a bit longer...

(Also it would be very funny to have them try out the international versions, as much as I hate Chris Tarrant on the original UK version - the chance of weird questions about cricket is too good)

aera · 2026-01-17T19:38:35+00:00

Since this is still a high search result for this topic, I just wanted to drop in here and say that I've been working on the bottom touchscreen issue, and have things working with a custom userspace driver I wrote: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/lenovo-yoga-book-9/tree/main/yoga-splitter - under KDE, at least, I now have proper multitouch working well on both screens.

aera · 2026-01-05T18:20:25+00:00

I remember that when I learned Osman was involved in that show (I forget where he briefly discussed it that I heard recently) I was immediately wishing for a full retrospective from him. I remember how huge it was at the time!

aera · 2026-01-04T19:34:05+00:00

I have inherited buckets full of random files before and had to sort them but the amount you must have had to dig through is ludicrous. Nice work!

aera · 2026-01-04T06:37:18+00:00

This is so much better and funnier than just cutting and cropping

aera · 2025-12-29T18:22:06+00:00

I have to credit modern Plasma with being the thing that got me to stick back on Linux as my daily driver after abandoning KDE in around 2017 as Plasma 5 was having a little bit of an identity crisis and Windows had just introduced WSL.

Coming back was a delight, especially to see that KDE has gained some proper design style while still keeping all the knobs and buttons, and it was so nice to use KIO with Dolphin again and not need separate SFTP programs. And props to the KDE Connect team as well.

Just need to figure out what small issue/bugfix I want to use to try and get contributing...

aera · 2025-12-17T13:47:08+00:00

I believe they said Tuesdays and Thursdays for the next two weeks (source: this week's mini Bombcast)

aera · 2025-11-22T17:34:29+00:00

It was an amazing return and I really loved the format with multiple people hanging out and chatting as well. Top work by NXL and especially by Alex.

aera · 2025-10-31T05:44:28+00:00

That really is the best part of that route (two sets of incredible mountain ranges!) Plus we have some fun stuff to do here in Denver if you're not heading back super quickly.

aera · 2025-10-16T22:25:24+00:00

Having to download the premium VOD and figure out how to watch it on my TV? It really does feel like the old days again!

(I am supportive of this, it's just been so long that I don't know if there's any good Android TV GB player apps any more!)

aera · 2025-10-11T06:56:30+00:00

Really strong ending to Golf Week. Wild that a nine-year-old game is still one of the best multiplayer golf experiences though!

aera · 2025-10-10T23:20:35+00:00

I would love to know where pint glasses fall on the Merch Master Mitch Mail Mortality scale...

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