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Pentium100

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  1. Since Equestria is looking to genocide all humans, running away to another country would not help. I am not suicidal, so I would side with the humans and do whatever needs to be done to neutralize the threat. If the invaders touch my things or people I care about then it would become personal.
  2. Honestly, I quite like the filler episodes, like the one about Goku learning to drive. Maybe because I like the slice-of-life parts and am somewhat disappointed if there is no epilogue to a series. Then again, I like Lucky Star, which is pretty much what would be considered "filler" in other series without any real plot.
  3. Something new in Babylon 5 - awesome. I heard about the reboot though. I'm hoping it's going to be good. With so many of the original actors dead there is no way to have a sequel, but maybe the reboot is going to be good, after all, JMS is doing it.
  4. The three part series was interesting, the map is extremely complicated...
  5. I enjoyed playing the Blade Kitten games. The graphics are cute.
  6. If it has a composite output, I would just connect it to a VCR. If it doesn't, I could still use a VCR, but I would need a HDMI to composite converter. However, if you want to record in HD, there are HDMI capture cards, I do not know how fast CPU they need to handle the encoding, but this would result in the highest quality. Be careful about HDCP though, you may need a device that strips it. I do not have that particular device and I usually use a VHS VCR to record stuff that I cannot just download or rip the stream directly. I recently got a HDV VCR for recording in HD, but so far have not used it other than for some tests.
  7. I had it, to me it was similar to flu or a cold. A bunch of people I know had it, one died from it and for another, covid was not the cause of death, but it started the downward spiral.
  8. Laserdisc video quality is better than VHS and similar to DVD (though LD is an analog format). The main difference is that Laserdiscs more often have movies in letterbox format (VHS is usually pan&scan) and if the disc is made correctly, it does not degrade over time. Unlike VHS, LD only holds up to 1 hour of recording per side, so a movie takes up at least two sides. Some players can play both sides automatically, but others can't and if the movie is longer than 2 hours I need to change the disc at some point.
  9. I only have a few DVDs. I have about 120 VHS tapes though, but the vast majority of them are ones that I recorded from TV, mostly various concerts and music-themed TV shows. I still record a few tapes per year. I have a bunch of laserdiscs though.
  10. An even better question is "does Twilight even want to rule?". I mean, in the show, we never saw her show ambition to become a politician. Of course she took over because Celestia said so and she did not want to disappoint her. Twilight as a ruling monarch may be good or may be bad, depending on whether others can manage to dampen her freakouts. I woudn't vote for her though. Celestia is not perfect (especially in her handling of various large threats), but she did manage to not destroy Equestria for 1000 years.
  11. Oh yeah, I usually buy older games, my rule is "don't pay more than 10EUR for a game". There are some exceptions where I would pay more or even pre-order (or back a kickstarter project), but those are very rare.
  12. To make my post slightly shorter, whenever I mention "games" or "studios" I mean the "AAA" ones. If I want to mention indie games, I'll mention that. I think that at least some of the large publishers need to go bust, not just merge with some other company, but actually become bankrupt. There are a lot of bad practices with the games, the things that may, on their own, be OK, but the large companies have perverted them and made them into bad things. For example - DLC. DLC is a great idea - a cheaper extension to the game you already have - not a full new game, but some new missions etc. It's a cool idea to bridge the time until a proper full sequel is released. However, in an effort to get more money, the large companies began to split what would have been a full game into parts and call those parts DLCs. The more egregious examples are day one DLC and on-disk "DLC". Games became somewhat like moves in that they are more and more expensive to create. $100M budget is considered normal nowadays. There are two bad outcomes from this. One, the studios have became extremely risk-averse. Creating something new is a risk - what if it sucks? Losing $100 million is a big deal. Doing a remake or a sequel for a popular movie/game is less risky - you re pretty much guaranteed a lot of sales just from the fans of the previous releases, even if the new release sucks (as long as it does not suck too much). The other outcome is that the studios need more and more sales just to get even or they turn to other methods of monetization. A game that costs $60, even if the studio got all of that money, it would need to sell 1.7 million copies to just make back the $100M spent creating it. Obviously Steam takes a cut and then there are taxes, so the studio needs to sell even more copies. This makes studios create blander games in an effort to "appeal to a wider audience". Add to that the fact that studios do not just want to make money, they want to make all of the money (and have growing profits), you get the $10 "micro" transactions, games getting split in parts and sold as "DLCs" and all of the other bad things. Indie gmes are better in this regard and if there is some kind of a crash (and there may be a crash if things keep going in the same direction), indie games should survive it.
  13. Some good did come from it for me. I started working from home and continue to do so. Without Covid and the lockdowns I doubt that it would even be considered. The lockdowns were not that bad here though, the most strict lockdown was when it was forbidden to to to another city.
  14. Yeah, I first saw Izzy as "less annoying version of Pinkie", because, to me, Pinkie would be really annoying (to interact with, if I was in place of some other character, she's fine to watch on TV though). That's not the problem. The problem is using said item without asking for permission from its owner. Even if it was an ear cleaner or Izzy had figured out that was a toothbrush - it still would have been wrong to use it without asking. Some things could be expensive or they could have high sentimental value for their owner (even if the item is not very expensive in terms of money) and it is wrong to touch or use them without asking for permission. What if you accidentally break something valuable? Yeah. Well, that or being a child. But for children, there are parents who should take care of them and discipline them so they behave. Izzy's friends should not have to become her parents.
  15. It's a joke. "Plot" here refers to the story. There is a justification for watching a fanservice-y anime that the story is good enough to ignore the fanservice and watch the show for the story (plot) and not because the characters are almost naked. Someone could joke that some body parts of the character are the "plot" and the main reason you watch the anime. This was also applied to MLP - "I watch it for the plot and not because of cute ponies, that is girly, but the story is good enugh to watch it despite the girliness" or something like that. Of course, the show does feature a lot of pony rear ends, so somebody made that picture and the word "plot" began to be used to refer to the rear end of a MLP character.
  16. I intend to. I bought them specifically for their durability after having some headphones break rather easily. I saw a Youtube video where the guy demonstrating these puts them on the ground and stands on them. So far, some decorative elements have failed (the plastic just fell apart due to age) and I had to replace the pads once. The cable is made from thick plastic, I never had to replace the plug, but it looks like the plastic has hardened over time and now the cable is prone to breaking (the outer jacket breaks the wires inside stay intact), so I usually just put electrical tape over the break.
  17. Log out and log in using my account when I notice that for some reason I am logged in with an account that's not mine.
  18. MB Quart QP 805 HS, I bought them in 2008 and use them pretty much every day. The sound quality is good and the headphones are quite durable, though the jacket of the cable is going bad a bit. I also have Koss Porta Pro for when I am outside, bought them in 2009 or so, but I do not use them very often.
  19. Regarding sound quality: there are two types of compression - dynamic range compression ("loudness war") and data compression (mp3, aac and so on, the codec throwing away data to create a much smaller, supposedly "sounding the same" file). Data compression just sounds bad, especially if they overdo it (there is a local TV channel that primarily broadcasts music ... in mp2 128kbps). Dynamic range compression is interesting. It makes the recording sound better on low quality equipment (cell phone), but makes it sound worse on good quality equipment. However, with modern technology, the cell phone could take a good quality recording and compress it itself. This is actually used in movies. Movies have very high dynamic range, but you can set the player to "night mode" and then it compresses the sound. Listening to low dynamic range music (for me) is OK at low volume, as background. But if I really enjoy the song and want to turn the volume up, it sounds bad and kind-of tiring. However, I would be lying if I said that I demand the highest sound quality. There are songs that I really like, but only have low quality recordings (though, for me, a worn out/damaged tape is not as bad as 112kbps mp3 or 128kbps mp2). I have a CD with music I like, but it was mastered so loud, that it clips, so it just sound bad. Great songs, but I can't turn the volume up. There's also autotune and time-aligning everything. I may not be able to notice it immediately, but it's probably one of the reasons I do not like new music. It's like when food tastes bad (to me) - I am not a chef, I usually cannot explain why it tastes bad, but just that I don't like it. Still, I don't really like a lot of the new music, at least what is being played on the radio and prefer listening to the station that plays older music. There are some genres that I just do not like, for example rap or dubstep. There is some new music that I like, but it usually either a remake of an old song, a new song by an old artist or made in a style of the older music. For example - out of the songs performed in Eurovision 2022 I liked the song performed by Moldova, but did not really like the others. I also like the songs by Michelle Creber, but even though I like them (and have bought CDs and a record), it's not the same as listening to my favorites. I am sure there are some little-known artists who make music I would like, but the problem is that if they are little-know, it is very unlikely that I would find their CDs or tapes in a flea market or a record shop. I would have to specifically look for them, but to do that, I should know what I am looking for. Even when buying used tapes, I am unlikely to find new music there, but I sometimes find new-to-me old music.
  20. I have two uplinks, the main one is 1G/600M and the backup one is 100M/10M. I got the backup connection for a couple of Euros/month (added to the cable TV bill) and sometimes use it when the primary one fails. ISP market in Lithuania is very competitive, with people in apartment buildings usually having two or three (or more) wired ISPs to choose from.
  21. I didn't know about that before, but now that I know and tried... yep, I still suck at this just as much as before.
  22. Cool game but the kay mapping should have been different, I mean I got a low score because of the key mapping and not because I totally suck at this type of game. Yep, let's go with that.
  23. Graduated the school and if it is the equivalent of a real-life high school went to the University and was still studying or had graduated and was working there (Twilight seems to be the type who would become a researcher etc) or got a normal job somewhere, probably living in Canterlot or some other big city.
  24. I have moved 2.5 times (the 0.5 was going from one room to another in the same house and floor). Moving sucks immensely. The suckage is offset a little bit by the fact that the new home is better than the old one, but it still sucks. It does not help that I dislike change in general, especially irreversible change. Undoing all the setup, packing everything up, then unpacking and setting everything up again. All while there's this though in the back of my head "why bother doing it properly, this is temporary after all, just like the previous time I did it properly and had to take it apart in 3 years" which slowly goes away in a year or so, but by then there's a bunch of "temporary" stuff that is now permanent.
  25. Starlight interfered with Rainbow performing the sonic rainboom, this means that Twilight did not get the magic surge and did not manage to hatch Spike. So, she either was not accepted in the school (if this was an actual entrance exam) or was accepted, but became a "normal student like all the others. She most likely got her cutie mark later, probably in something else. This means that Twilight never became Celestia's personal student and did not go to Ponyville to meet her future friends. Celestia probably found someone else to be her personal student (and that someone else failed to stop one of the threats) or Celestia did not get a personal student at all and had to fight the bad guys herself with varying success.
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