Provided I can still use about:config to clear out all the Mozilla crap then I’m happy with Firefox. The only add-on I use is ublock-origin on my phone and also NoScript on desktop.

Hidden gem in the sense that it sold extremely poorly on release. It’s become a cult classic since then so probably not “hidden” for people interested in retro games.

It was definitely quality over quantity vs the PlayStation. One year after I got a bonus I bought the resident evil 2 port for it because I find the fact that it exists to be miraculous; they had to do some wizardry to fit the 2 CDs into one cartridge with 64MB.

All killer, no filler - well done OP!

If you ever expand your collection then Conkers Bad Fur Day is a bit of a hidden gem which came at the end of the consoles lifecycle.

As in which version to buy? There’s an unreal engine remaster called Reload which is a full remake of the PS2 game and then a PSP port. The former has improved gameplay and the latter is like a VN with the dungeon crawling as the unvarnished original. PSP port does have exclusive content in terms of a female MC alternative story but I’d say that was for real enthusiasts

UFO50 is good value even when it isn’t on sale imo. So much content crammed into it!

I had fun with Hellblade 2. Doesn’t overstay its welcome. Not sure how I felt about the ending but it was memorable

One reason is that the coreutils in Linux use a lot of hacky or hard to read tricks to improve performance. OpenBSD explicitly wanted to make their source code more legible. FWIW I prefer the Linux approach.

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Nice write up.

I, too, love an em-dash but sometimes you are using them where a comma or semi-colon might read better.

Hey OP there’s this amazing movie called Licorice Pizza from visionary director/auteur Paul Thomas Anderson which you should check out. It’s a 70s period piece drama-comedy about young people struggling to hit personal development milestones - or trying to hit them way too early!

It’s a tasteful look at an odd couple relationship that doesn’t shy away from asking hard questions or being morally ambiguous. Something about it reminded me of the Coen brothers film A Serious Man specifically but it had a similar sense of humour to all their movies. Easily one of the best films of the 2020s for me. As an easter egg for PTA fans it is wild to see Philip Seymoure Hoffman’s son take a leading role when they look so similar and his father featured so heavily in the other PTA movies.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap from last year was a perfect bad movie. Even shoehorning in his aspiring pop star daughter into the movie as herself made it better.

BadMovieBible on youtube might be up your street, OP

I need a GitHub style host for my git projects. They are all toys and I don’t write anything worth collaborating with me on! Anyway my current CV has my GH profile linked to it so that people can see at a glance that I have personal projects/toys and know a range of languages.

One thing I’m going to miss about leaving GH is that I’ve got a few commits in FOSS projects on there like the Gentoo Package Manager, although maybe I can follow them if they move.

Read someone else saying the vampire coven is like a group of Christian missionaries and that interpretation makes sense

There’s a British film called All My Friends Hate Me from 2021 which covered a lot of the same themes but I think was more successful in terms of capturing the social anxiety of the main character. It’s incredibly funny but uses tropes from the horror genre to really emphasise the paranoia the main character is feeling.

Friendship felt very safe, for lack of a better word. It was cringe but had a soft edge to it like the US Office.

I thought it was great. Nice to see a new IP succeeding too. The twins being superficially, uh identical, while being played by the same actor could have backfired but I felt like the film did well to give them their own distinct personalities.

One thing that stuck with me was the racial politics of the vampire coven. When people were turned to vampires they became homogenised and lost part of their person/self and this seemed to be a metaphor for people losing their black identity by being forcibly integrated into a white system. It was unclear whether they recovered some of their personhood when the head vampire was killed but I think that’s what the film was saying in the post-credits scene.

I’m sure this is common knowledge but Lyon’s worker uprising in the 19th century is the origin of the word ‘sabotage’. The workers were protesting against semi-automated loom weaving machines that used punch cards like primitive computers. When the managers weren’t looking the workers would through their shoes (which were called “sabos”) into the mechanism to break it.

Just got back from a holiday in Lyon. Super interesting place! I got the impression that the quality of life was good for the locals. Met a bunch of friendly Lyonnaise at a music festival and they were extremely generous sharing their party supplies.

Edit: I believe Lyon workers movement were also originators of slogans like “workers of the world unite”

Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.