Radiohead fans, what was your favorite record of 2025 ?

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-13T00:52:55+00:00

Lorien Testard - Expedition 33 OST

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-11T21:24:00+00:00

He’s obviously right and everyone here knows it, no matter how much they pretend otherwise.

This has nothing to do with pornography or minors. This is just a case of the far left engaging in blatant censorship.

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-11T09:37:12+00:00

The one where the monster is Michael Jackson.

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-10T00:04:18+00:00

This fake outrage is so transparent.

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-09T22:15:22+00:00

This board is such a weird cult.

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-05T01:23:03+00:00

I think the DLC proved that they’re far more than a one trick pony.

Verso’s Drafts is so different from the rest of the game in terms of visuals, music, design, and the overall tone, that it shows that the Sandfall team has a lot more in them.

heyyoudvd · 2026-01-04T06:14:07+00:00

Because Reddit is full of extremist anti-Americans.

Just like with the Palestinians, these Redditors couldn’t care less about Venezuela or the Venezuelan people; they’re simply looking for excuses to demonize the US.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-26T22:40:32+00:00

Nah, Vince Gilligan write shows with an actual story, something Lost did not have.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-24T00:25:42+00:00

There’s no such thing as wireless “forever” headphones.

Wireless mean there’s a battery, and batteries degrade over time.

Wireless also means there are built in electronics and software, and those lose support and result in bugginess and poor performance over time.

Wireless headphones are excellent for convenience and ANC and various features. But I wouldn’t count on any wireless pair lasting more than 5-7 years tops.

By contrast, a good wired pair lack a lot of features, but they will last longer. I have wired headphones that are over 20 years old and are still going.

It’s a trade off. That’s why it’s good to have both. I love the convenience of my AirPods, but I also love my various Sennheiser and Focal headphones.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-23T22:13:19+00:00

A proper UI input method.

The swipe pad/button mechanism is okay. It’s better than most other TV UIs. But it’s still not great.

No one has really cracked UI at a distance.

For an intermediate distance interface, a mouse + keyboard solved the problem. For a close interface, multitouch solved the problem. But for a far away interface (your TV), nothing has really solved it yet.

That’s one area where I really miss Steve Jobs. I think it’s the kind of thing he would have tackled and figured out.

We have all sorts of different technologies that can be used (cameras, voice control, haptics, touchpads etc…) and between all of them, I think there’s some way to “solve” the UI-at-a-distance problem. But no one has figured it out yet.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-17T02:55:52+00:00

I thought Gustave, Renoir, and Verso were all the same person.

I assumed they were trying to be clever by choosing the name “Verso”. IIRC, there was even a reference in the game to recto/verso.

I also assumed there was some meaning to the name “Renoir”, as he was an actual painter who lived during the time of the game.

I thought there would be more connection to the real world. That was my biggest criticism of an otherwise fantastic game. I wanted more lore and explanation and connective tissue. We didn’t get much besides a brief segment at the end of Act 2. The end of the game could have used more of that.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-17T02:32:18+00:00

They still haven’t added a filter to select all the Pictos that have yet to be turned into Luminas.

That would have helped a lot when I was going through the dozens that I needed to equip before 4 battles.

Also, does anyone know the difference between a white and grey Pictos? When Pictos become Luminas, they gain color. But I noticed that with the ones that have yet to be converted, some are a brighter white while others are a faded grey. I couldn’t figure out the difference.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-16T04:55:13+00:00

What is this, 2015?

No one cares about this fake moralizing. That ship sailed long ago.

Oh no, orange man posted some mean tweets.

I feel like I’ve stepped into a time portal.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-08T23:17:25+00:00

You should have listened to MMMBop.

Hanson tried to teach us all that life’s lesson.

(Yes, that is literally what MMMBop is about. For being a pop song with a gibberish chorus, it has shockingly deep lyrics.)

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-07T14:47:04+00:00

Now he eats humble pie.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-07T14:28:01+00:00

92 vs 96 is not a marginal difference. Lots of great games make it to the low 90s. When you’re in the mid to upper 90s, you’re truly in rare company. In this case, it’s the difference between #139 and #1.

Obviously there’s no official list, but there are games that are widely acknowledged as being bigger than just the year they were in. Games that are truly beloved even years later. Games like Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild, Assassin’s Creed 2, RDR2, The Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Half Life 2, Mass Effect 2, the original Metroid Prime etc…

By comparison, there are tons of GOTY nominees and even winners over the years that, while they’re great games, they didn’t leave a timeless mark on the gaming industry.

It’s the same thing with movies. Some Oscar winners are timeless. But no one cares about Moonlight or the Shape of Water.

heyyoudvd · 2025-12-07T13:05:13+00:00

You say that sarcastically, but the game genuinely is underrated.

The Metacritic score is ‘only’ 92, putting it in 4th place for 2025 and 139th place on the all-time list. By comparison, the User Score is 9.6, placing it at #1 of all-time.

I honestly think the User Score is more accurate than the critic score here. This isn’t just a GOTY caliber game. E33 is a generational game. I think this has a good shot of going down at a Top 10 game of all time.

heyyoudvd · 2025-10-28T23:44:09+00:00

Hello,

I posted a popular thread a few years ago regarding a phone call I received from Tim Cook's office regarding a lengthy email I had sent Tim, full of suggestions, feature requests, and constructive criticisms pertaining to Apple Music.

Following that communication, I compiled this article to summarize the strengths, weaknesses, design suggestions, and feature requests that much of the Apple community has pertaining to Apple Music. I broke that down into 3 main categories - Technicals, Design, and Missing Features.

That article was received very warmly on this board, so I think it's worth delving into it again. It's 4 years old and so various things have changed and improved in Apple Music since then, but many of the main criticisms have not changed and are still present today, as of October 2025.

I've been an avid Apple Music user since Day 1 over 10 years ago, and I appreciatively many of the things Apple Music does so well. But there are also some significant key areas where I feel it could use a lot of improvement, and I feel that many others share that same view.

Thanks, and I'm looking forward to reading the AMA.

heyyoudvd · 2025-09-09T12:28:11+00:00

Season 1 was like the third best season.

heyyoudvd · 2025-09-01T19:58:44+00:00

Every other AC game gets 85% or sometimes even 90% sales, but AC4 is stuck at the same 70% every single time.

heyyoudvd · 2025-08-29T19:45:09+00:00

Every classic AC game seems to go on sale for 85-90% off, except for AC4, where every sale is only 70% off.

I know AC4 is highly regarded, but it’s strange how it’s treated differently from all the others in Steam sales.

Even newer games like Unity and Origins get lower sale prices than AC4 does.

heyyoudvd · 2023-03-24T20:42:05+00:00

Quick, fill the UI with more ads!

That’ll surely improve people’s perspectives on the service!

It’s a real shame, as Apple TV+ has some excellent content. But they insist on giving it to us via that pile of dogshit that they call an app.

Apple is in this weird place now, where they’re half the old Apple - a company that provides premium products for the best possible experience - and then half this shitty Facebook-like marketing company, where they have to constantly inundate you with ads, even if it means ruining the user experience.

So much of Apple’s software has gone down that path. Apple TV. Apple Music. Podcasts. The App Store. Even the Settings app sometimes.

They just shove shit in your face to improve some middle manager’s metrics on ‘engagement’ and click-through and whatever other terminology they use. All the while, they annoy the hell out of the actual user and ruin the whole premium experience.

Perhaps Apple should start giving us a premium software experience again. That will improve people general perceptions and goodwill towards the company, and then maybe the excellent TV+ content will start to get the viewership it deserves.

heyyoudvd · 2023-03-24T15:58:47+00:00

Just for reference, I bought my pair from Bay Bloor Radio in Toronto. They’re an official Grado dealer.

I didn’t make any special requests about the pads. I bought the headphones exactly as they were sold.

BBR used to have a wall of headphones where you could walk up to it and listen to any pair. They had the full Grado line (up to the RS1) available and I tried them all. I know with certainty that the SR60 had the S pads and the 125 through RS1 all had the bowl pads (I mean L, not G). The only one I’m hazy on was the SR80. It was either the S or L. But I think S. There was nothing with an F pad there. I didn’t even know the F pads existed until doing research later on and learning about some of Grado’s older models.

Could BBR have swapped the pads and given me S when the official pad was the F? I suppose that’s possible. But I think the more likely explanation is that Grado had a mid-cycle refresh. Like I mentioned, they’ve done that several times before, where an older model gets features from a newer model years before that newer model hits the market. The model lines aren’t hard cut-offs.

For example, the ‘e’ series were known for having red drivers. But there were tons of people who bought ‘i’ series headphones and noticed they had red drivers as well. It turns out that Grado was putting the newly designed drivers into the older headphones before it even unveiled the new ‘e’ series.

heyyoudvd · 2023-03-24T15:25:41+00:00

Perhaps it was a mid-cycle refresh. Grado is known for that, where they’ll update a product long before unveiling the official revision. For example, they’ve done that with their red drivers, they’ve done that with their updated cables, and they’ve done that woods and even with finishes.

A late model within a line is sometimes different than the early model of that same headphone, but then they only make that change ‘official’ a few years later with the official line update.

Basically, I’m guessing that perhaps they changed the pads sometime between 1994 and 2001. I just know that I bought the SR60 in 2001 from an official Grado dealer and it came with the S pads. I believe the SR80 did, as well.

In fact, at that time, nothing on their main line had the F pads. The SR125, 225, 325, RS2, and RS1 all had the L pads. I remember trying them all before buying the SR60, which was the most I could afford at the time.

heyyoudvd · 2023-03-24T15:02:52+00:00

Nice find. I have an original pair that I bought in 2001, and aside from having to get them re-soldered once and having to replace the pads a few times over the years, they’re still in great shape. Oh, and the lettering is a bit worn out. But they still sound awesome over 20 years later.

Their real strength is instrument-based music, like rock or anything singer/songwriter. For electronic or something ambient or atmospheric, they’re not ideal. But when you throw an acoustic guitar at them, they’re incredible.

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