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Wow, so far I though it was only without mistakes. So you can get the perfection achievement when you make one mistake in each level? Kind of feels like cheating, sometimes you can gain a lot of information with a mistake.

I just binged through Season 1 of You're The Worst earlier today and that series is great, even if it has a few things that bug me (like how dumb the nerd guy is made out to be through most of the season, and the jokes about not remembering Killian[s name] -- Arrested Dev reference?). Maybe it's just because I'm not an immigrant but it felt more relatable than Master of None. I kind of liked how it ends and wasn't really expecting another season, but I'm not too disappointed to find out that there is more -- maybe it will work out, and I could just binge through the second season during Christmas.

In the second one the puzzles are getting kind of longish. A few times I really did stare at the screen for half an hour and one time it came to me that there's this thing I had never looked at before and Bam! That was the solution. I kind of dislike that you can make as many mistakes as you want and continue onwards.

I think it was the Steam Client or Steam Link update.

After a recent update, GTA V is no longer playing well on Steam Link The game just hangs for a second every few seconds. I guess Valve maybe changed the default video encoding settings recently? I remember it being fine a week or two ago. I really have no wish to play around with these settings to see if it improves something, as GTA V takes 2-3 minutes to load on my PC. Also the sound coming out of the Steam Link started crackling a lot (not that it didn't before). I guess I might try to switch to the non-beta software.

I liked the first Hexcells!

This is just how the game works, most of the time you're investigating something or the other and following clues. I get what you are saying about nothing happening. There can be pretty long stretches when it's like this, but it's a 150 hour game.

Hm... It seems like you are just set against it from the start, at least I don't understand what would make you just dismiss it like that. It has one of the most deep and interesting characters you can find in a game of this type (I think, because I don't play too many games this long any more).

What if Firewatch is just the minigame that ends to reveal the open world Puzzle Agent: North American Plate [edit] PS. I have more info on this, but I'll be ignoring this thread from now on to avoid more spoilers.

I live in a small country which means there are hardly enough people to specialize in everything. Thus it is seen as kind of important here to judge eating places by whether they have chefs native to the cuisine - because locals would not likely have the experience/knowledge/skill required. This may also be influenced by us having been behind the iron curtain for a long time - only during the last 25 years have people been able to move around the world freely. That said, I'm not sure who the chef is at my favorite sushi takeaway place. Just my 2 cents.

I finished Alto's Adventure! Whew! I tried the last achievement forever on iPhone, then had a suggestion to try on iPad and got it on first try.

Bought the Hexcells pack. Will give it a try tomorrow.

I know almost nothing about Star Trek, except that Kirk is a captain. I certainly didn't know that kid was Kirk until he named himself, but what Patrick R and Ben X said was obvious to me just from watching and reading cues from the trailer. I didn't read credits.

¡HEADLANDER!

I thought this topic could be separate of the "Building a Home Theater" thread. Since I'm now have a few remotely controllable devices set up in the living room, I want to look into getting rid of separate remotes. Eventually there'll be: a projector, HDMI switch, DAC/Amp (probably decco65), PS3, digital TV box, HTPC. I also have some lights in the kitchen that have a remote and can provide a minimal light when I want to keep the room mostly dark, but most lights are not controllable. Any experience with universal controls? I've heard good things about the Logitech Harmony's (like support for almost all devices) but also that their interface or programmability is not that great. I think some Harmony models can also control a PS3 somewhat, does that work for navigating the menus? Ideally I would like something completely programmable up to the point of writing my own software (maybe). Some example use cases: * when I turn on the "home theater", I want the projector, HDMI switch and amp to turn on. I may also want the HDMI switch to select some specific input by default (ok, so I bought a cheap one that is not ideal, has Input 1 on front, doesn't support CEC and emits nasty colored light). * I could also want to switch to music mode where the screen is turned off, but everything else stays on. * Maybe I want to do some more complex things to the projector depending on certain conditions like time of day etc. Perhaps a HTPC could do the actual controlling of some devices (the projector has a RS-232 port) while a remote just sends commands to it.

Necro time! For some reason I didn't find another thread where I may have posted about this so I'm resurrecting this one. Man, home theater/living room tech stuff can get complicated. At the moment I have a mostly functioning setup with some devices like Steam Link and Raspberry Pi with Kodi/OSMC providing most entertainment needs, and most relevant devices comfortably controlled by Harmony Smart Keyboard, which is quite similar to K400, but worse in some ways. I have a rather weird AV setup with a sidewall-mounted 3D projector and digital sound going to powered speakers with a built-in DAC in the opposite wall through old antenna cables in the walls... So I kind of need a very specific HDMI switch: 3D HDMI support, coaxial digital audio out. I've only found one of these with 4 ports and I think I need more ports soon as I want to add more devices like a NAS with HDMI and a PS4. So one thing I could do is buy another HDMI switch and run its output to the first switch, but I'm not sure if Harmony could handle controlling two exact same models of a device. Also I need a network switch and possibly a better router for better Steam Link experience although can I even be sure that a faster network would remove compression artifacts from games?

Well, maybe I'll give Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt another chance later. It's just at first it hit me with totally shallow characters seemingly unaffected by any events that happened to them, such as spending years in a cult, in a bunker, thinking the world has ended. Besides that it seemed kind of racist and every kind of other -ist.

I tried to watch Kimmy Schmidt but the first two episodes are just awful IMHO. I got a feeling like it might get better, but I'm not sure I want to invest my time... Maybe I'll go with Deadwood instead (or Man in the High Castle). [edit] Actually, I forgot I meant to watch Season 1 of Fargo so I'll go with that instead. But definitely want to check out Deadwood soon.

Wow, Master of None might be the most faith-in-humanity-restoring thing on "TV" (ever?). Also binged on Jessica Jones on the weekend and it was great!

Some random indie developer should just make an unrelated game called Half-Life 3. Preferably a Superfrog clone.

I like Up, Wall-E, Inside Out. Don't remember Ratatouille that well. I also think Miyazaki is great, but IMHO Wolf Children is the top the animation genre has achieved so far. And now I realized this new "The Boy and the Beast" movie that was in PÖFF but I missed was also directed by Mamoru Hosoda. Should have gone to see it.

Maybe you'll just need the Omni? http://www.virtuix.com/

Ah, I get it now. I think lerp usually means tiny correctional movement but you meant something bigger, like e.g. not jumping from a cliff to a castle, but moving there naturally? This would mean rather limited space to explore though, wouldn't it? Or some sort of dream-like trickery like in the Oculus demo I mentioned, which changes what is behind you while you are looking in the other direction. I imagine a small empty space for e.g. Vive would already help, where you could lie to the player a bit about how much they are moving and turning compared to real life. But such lies would be tricky to maintain for longer experiences I think.

What do you mean by 'lerp'? That word usually means linear interpolation, so you mean camera movement smoothing when you move your head or something? I actually got to try DK2 the other day. We only had a laptop so it didn't really run well, but I tried the demo where you sit in a chair and have to keep looking around to make it go forward. Some notes: 1) that's the stupidest idea of progress ever (seems like the faster you move your head around the faster it goes). 2) I actually had to grab the chair when I was high up (in space). I really felt it! I'm kind of excited / scared about trying something like The Walk. 3) I also really felt it when in the end the chair did a see-saw motion, but stopped feeling it immediately when camera started rolling. It seems the body/brain can take small lies, but if you lie big there's an immediate disconnect.

I was just thinking that this has been kind of a good year for movies, but really maybe it's just that I have personally started watching a lot more movies than I used to (as I think I've mentioned before, I spent the last decade almost not watching films). I can't really think of that many movies that really stood out besides Mad Max: Fury Road, Girlhood, The Martian, Aferim!, Tangerine, La Novia, Mommy, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Duke of Burgundy. Maybe I will add some others from PÖFF to this list after digesting... also The Lobster and some others I didn't manage to see yet. I've also yet to see Jafar Panahi's Taxi. Also, with non-hollywood movies it's getting hard to place them in a specific year. For example, Hard to Be a God is listed as 2013 on IMDB, but just below the title it says 2014, and on Rotten Tomatoes it's 2015.