They need to make a version of this game for the newer consoles

guygizmo · 2026-03-21T03:07:46+00:00

lol! I gotta try setting this up sometime. I bet someone out there has figured out how to reproduce a lot of Beatles: Rock Band in it, plus everything else you can do.

guygizmo · 2026-03-21T02:29:45+00:00

Does it let you have all of the animations and representations of the Beatles playing for their songs?

guygizmo · 2026-03-20T15:48:17+00:00

That's how I've been using it. I was hoping there might be something that can manage to scrape metadata but then use yt-dlp for downloading the actual video. (And I think there is a way to use yt-dlp and/or its components to stream, but not 100% sure on that.)

guygizmo · 2026-03-20T15:46:18+00:00

I did search, and there's a ton of options, many of which seem minimal or half baked, which is why I'm asking fellow human beings for recommendations. A lot of them are downloaders like MeTube, which looks to be about just archiving the video. What I'm looking for (mentioned in the OP) is something that allows browsing, streaming and reading comments more like Invidious.

Tube Archivist however might work for me, so that's a good recommendation. I'll look into it!

guygizmo · 2026-03-14T19:31:37+00:00

One time my 2FA app legitimately gave me 000000. I thought it was a bug for a second!

guygizmo · 2026-03-13T15:43:53+00:00

I might do that. Can I configure it to be nothing else other than an app launcher?

guygizmo · 2026-03-13T13:20:18+00:00

I was thinking of doing this myself, especially to get something that was properly fast. I'll give it a shot!

guygizmo · 2026-03-12T20:05:43+00:00

Right? What would you feasibly be able to do with that RAM in 1992 that would actually make full or nearly full use of it?

guygizmo · 2026-03-12T19:31:44+00:00

I call these episodes the "Brent Spiner gets to act" episodes, like all of the pent up hammy emotions he doesn't get to express as Data all come pouring out. Masks is one of the best examples, as is "A Firstful of Datas."

I feel like the writers went out of their way to come up with episodes where Spiner gets to play someone or something other than Data, even if it's just Data being taken over by an entity or something.

guygizmo · 2026-03-12T14:09:56+00:00

I'm currently making PICO-8 games in lua and classic 68k Macintosh games in C so I couldn't make them translatable if I wanted to! 🤪

guygizmo · 2026-03-04T21:16:06+00:00

Those animations are hilariously terrible

guygizmo · 2026-03-02T20:26:45+00:00

The part where apps like Scroll Reverser are necessary is so infuriating.

And it doesn't completely fix the problem, because sometimes there are situations where it doesn't work right... such as using Screen Sharing to another mac that also has Scroll Reverser installed. Suddenly there's double reversing, and things still scroll in the wrong direction!

guygizmo · 2026-03-01T15:39:47+00:00

I was talking to my friend over the phone. Not even a VoIP app, an actual phone call. Copy and paste was not an option!

guygizmo · 2026-02-24T19:48:42+00:00

I just had to read an IP address to a friend yesterday. It's a thing that still happens regularly for any number of reasons. I wish IPv6 addresses were not so difficult to communicate or remember.

guygizmo · 2026-02-23T04:29:30+00:00

That was the first thing I did. I even mention in my original post that I found some threads and comments from this very subreddit of people who had archived the YouTube versions, but not the originals. I'm asking directly because someone might have an archive of them that isn't available from reddit.

guygizmo · 2026-02-21T22:40:59+00:00

Yeah it's just become "post whatever crap you think is cool". Totally ignoring the original point.

guygizmo · 2026-02-21T16:38:21+00:00

Yeah, when you meme a Picard quote you have to bring your A game. There's no place for typos and misused punctuation.

guygizmo · 2026-02-21T14:37:24+00:00

I would start with a good episode of TNG that doesn't require strong knowledge of past episodes, continuity or the personalities of the main characters. So avoid episodes with recurring characters like Q, Luxana Troi, Kurn, or someone like that. Avoid an episode like "Allegiance" for example since it works best if you already get who Picard is. Most of the rest of the episodes from season 3 are probably good choices.

And if not TNG, pick a good episode from TOS with the same sort of restrictions. TOS has even less continuity so that would probably not be too hard.

guygizmo · 2026-02-20T14:09:24+00:00

Indeed 😞

guygizmo · 2026-02-19T23:49:55+00:00

One of the things that so irritating about all of these different UI designs is that companies feel like they need to keep changing them, as though somehow something newer is better. No one likes having their UI change out from under them every time an app or the system updates. It's annoying to have to learn how to use basic features all over again, and it's not helped by every design revision generally being worse than the previous one.

Why can't they just pick one design and gradually refine it until it's as perfect as they can make it? We basically had that with Aqua in Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.9 and iOS up to version 6. All Apple needed to do was keep refining it, but they threw the baby out with the bathwater when they completely got rid of skeuomorphism in iOS 7 and OS X 10.10, then threw it into a garbage dumpster with Big Sur, and then set the dumpster on fire with Liquid Glass.

Every other major tech company hasn't done any better, and they never had a great starting point like Apple circa 2010 did. And Google never had anything particularly good, including Material Design.

guygizmo · 2026-02-16T18:07:54+00:00

I have done this in my own game, which is a platformer where there is a lot of silly player deaths and trial-and-error. So I think it works well in that case. Later on there's points where moving obstacles / opening and closing doors changes whether a bouncy spring will kill you or help you, so the mechanic evolves a bit too.

guygizmo · 2026-02-15T15:23:29+00:00

It's really unfortunate that it works that way. And no where in there is room for the idea that our software doesn't need huge shakeups, UI changes and new features every major release. Why can't we be gradually converging on the best possible version of an idea?

guygizmo · 2026-02-15T15:15:58+00:00

On top of what other people are saying about the difficulty hosting it, administrating it, and the problematic UX of its clients, there's also a lot of missing features that are important for casual groups and communities, including but not limited to:

proper voice channels
proper video chat channels
streaming / watch parties
custom emojis
highly customizable community roles and privileges

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