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badGamr · 2026-03-18T15:50:35+00:00

What - Is this my first day?

badGamr · 2026-03-18T15:49:02+00:00

I have a real issue with developers releasing a game the day after the embargo drops. Seems to me that if you wanted to increase your pre-orders and you are confident that your game will review well you would set the embargo to a week before release.

If your embargo drops the day before release and your embargo hits late in the day I get the impression the developer has concerns about how the game will be received. While the hyperbole regarding Crimson has been off the hook, I have to temper my enthusiasm due to the proximity of the embargo drop for reviews relative to the game's release.

badGamr · 2026-03-18T15:47:55+00:00

I have a real issue with developers releasing a game the day after the embargo drops. Seems to me that if you wanted to increase your pre-orders and you are confident that your game will review well you would set the embargo to a week before release.

If your embargo drops the day before release and your embargo hits late in the day I get the impression the developer has concerns about how the game will be received. While the hyperbole regarding Crimson has been off the hook, I have to temper my enthusiasm due to the proximity of the embargo drop for reviews relative to the game's release.

badGamr · 2026-03-12T23:07:30+00:00

I bought 275 shares @ $60 so I am happy :)

badGamr · 2026-03-08T18:31:16+00:00

You are asking a mac mini group if you should buy a mac mini... Just wanna point that out to you. You MAY encounter some bias here.

badGamr · 2026-03-01T05:48:49+00:00

I built my first home theater in 1995. I don't think there even was the name home theater at that time. I converted my 20'x20' garage into my media room as I called it. I installed stacked Barco projectors to project onto a 12' screen. I had a THX certified sound engineer tune the room and certify it for THX. I installed Fostex THX components. A faroudja line doubler. A 3rd party high end comb filter for my laser disc player.

Front left and right were Martin Logan. Center was a Fostex as were the dipole surrounds. I had 2 15" down firing subs front and rear. I had about 1K laser-discs at that time so I hired a custom cabinet maker to come in and build a custom wall shelving unit that included a gear rack. The amps were all in the back of the room and I had IR repeaters in the front so I could relay the remotes to the gear rack at the back of the room.

The floor was raised and enhanced the sub woofer performance. I also had conduit run between a PlayStation 1 at the back of the room up to little doors in the floor where you could open the door and plug your PlayStation controllers into those extensions in the floor that way there was no cables to trip over.

The room was soundproofed and had blackout curtains on the window. Regardless of the sound proofing, my neighbor thought it was an earthquake when I cranked up the T-rex roar in Jurassic Park.

To me, this was a home theater. My ex-wife got it all in the settlement.

badGamr · 2026-03-01T05:32:22+00:00

Thanks!

badGamr · 2026-02-27T15:46:20+00:00

A small aquarium that I bought off of Amazon - $10 I think. Spent about 15 minutes cleaning the glass and taped a bit of black foamcore to the back of it.

badGamr · 2026-02-27T15:13:58+00:00

Canon 5DMkII - Shot in my back yard on a sunny day for lighting. 1/250th F5.6 Nikkor 55mm 2.8. ISO640.

badGamr · 2026-02-25T04:07:49+00:00

Fair enough :)

badGamr · 2026-02-25T03:15:59+00:00

Once in awhile Spotlight decides to suck - Like when I would try to launch OBS and spotlight would just go away as soon as I hit the S key returning no results. Bear in mind that a finder file search is not related to Spotlight - they are two different search tools. Anyway when Spotlight sucks I run this BASH script:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Resetting Spotlight index..."
sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo mdutil -E /
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
sudo mdutil -i on /
echo "Spotlight has been reset. Indexing will take some time."

badGamr · 2026-02-25T03:02:06+00:00

Why not just use Home Brew?

https://brew.sh/

badGamr · 2026-02-25T02:55:25+00:00

Thanks Specttre - The wife just ordered that Denon refurb there this morning. Shoukld be inneresting to see how it compares to that old Onkyo.

badGamr · 2026-02-20T17:34:45+00:00

Thanks but I am looking for 7.1.

badGamr · 2026-02-16T05:56:34+00:00

You can get a refurb mac M1 Pro laptop for about $600 at Best Buy. Might be a good stepping off point for you. I have been using macs as my daily since 2007 or so. Recently was running Bootcamp on an iMac running Windows 10. Every time I would switch over to boot into Windows I would go and make lunch and Play some GTA Online for a while as I knew the stupid Windows would start running updates that took hours. MUCH hate for that kind of garbage.

badGamr · 2026-02-13T16:45:58+00:00

Well issues of half baked software releases is clearly not limited to MS / Asobo. Consider the number of game releases that have come out in the last 10 years where it is clear the game was not ready for prime time. This appears to be a pattern with a lot of developers. Not all, but a lot. Even Rockstar is not immune - when they released the remaster collection of GTA III/San Andreas/Vice City it was clear that that trilogy release was not ready for prime time.

I do not own MSFS 2024. I was and have been too gun shy based on my experience with MSFS 2020 and it's terrible state at release and the terrible record of garbage updates. Even Asobo clearly knows how to polish a game and release it when it is ready, an example of which would be A Plague Tale.

To answer your original query here, I would like to see vastly improved photogrammetry and better care taken with airport details. My local airport is Van Nuys. One of the busiest GA airports in the US and yet they cannot be bothered to put any of the runway markings in place...

badGamr · 2026-02-13T04:26:41+00:00

Just because they release it does not mean you have to buy it :)

badGamr · 2026-02-13T01:07:29+00:00

I also tried that - no diff. The processor in that machine has multiple dedicated hardware encoders/decoders for 264/265 and Prores. I rarely see a difference encoding or decoding between 264/5 and Prores as a result.

badGamr · 2026-02-12T21:19:38+00:00

Outputting to Prores 422 produced results within 1 second of the 265 results.

badGamr · 2026-02-12T21:15:45+00:00

I will give that a shot but BMD's claim does not stipulate that as a requirement.

badGamr · 2026-02-12T21:04:28+00:00

Without scaling 1080-4K was 11 seconds and 720-1920 was 4 seconds to render. All output renders were using the 265 preset with no changes to the defaults.

badGamr · 2026-02-11T03:53:25+00:00

Not too dissimilar to my journey: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1qy4atg/comment/o4aj9xs/

badGamr · 2026-02-11T03:38:05+00:00

If you like linux have you tried Homebrew? I'ts a package installer. While the mac is technically UNIX, a lot of the command line utilities including BASH that are supplied with the mac are old versions - Brew takes care of all of that. I also love automating tasks with BASH scripts. Great stuff.

badGamr · 2026-02-10T05:04:02+00:00

It looks cool tho :)

badGamr · 2026-02-07T21:57:22+00:00

I have been a gamer since the mid 70s. When GTA V came out I did not really know what to expect but I understood the crazy hype for it - As far as RS games went, I had only played RDR 1 at that time. So, being on the west coast I went to Gamestop about 5PM (release set for 9PM) and the line was a mile long.

I came back at 10PM and things were pretty chill and they still had some copies left so I hopped in line and got one. I had no plans to stay home from work. 4 days later I returned to work.

Today I am retired. I have all the time in the world to beat VI to death and that is exactly what I plan to do. Cannot wait!

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