I recently took delivery of a new stick, so I'm prepped for a play through soon. I'm actually taking some time away from the chair lately, to heal and recover. I find myself with more aches and pains than I used to so I gotta cut down my hours at a desk. Either way I expect to get all the Freespace ...

So season 2 has come to an end. I think this show has ripped off ideas from just about every sci-fi franchise out there by this point. The writing is fairly mediocre, the characters are not likeable, the effects are too 'Star Warsy' and the canon violations are, at this point, unforgivable. It would...

I have a mammoth task ahead of me with this re-watch, because I'm also doing a binge read of the Babylon 5 novels and trilogies. I need more hours in the day. Watching S1 has got me thinking - B5 has a lot of rich world building, especially in the early seasons, and it makes me think that B5 is perf...

It also depends on the codec and level of compression. An SSD definitely heps, too.

This replaces the 'Lets Play' video series I did last year. I made a few minor fixes and tweaks to the campaign, and wanted to make sure nothing was broken, so decided to record my play-through and kill two birds with one stone. It's definitely a higher quality recording than before, and without my ...

My computer is only mid range, and 5 years old at that. It can play FSOPEN fine, and it can capture 1080p 60fps fine. But it probably can't do both at the same time, at least not from my experience with other games. Any game that requires more than 50% of the CPU will start to struggle in the record...

Great! I've just started watching S1 of B5 again using the 1080p versions. It was a nice find, albeit somewhat sketchy.
I'll have to give that site a read - reminds me of Jammer's Reviews somewhat. A place you can spend hours and hours reading.

Random video find:

A simple screen capture that records in 1080p 60fps. I have OBS but don't use it, I use a Linux package which offers better performance.

Apparently someone did a re-render of some original effects scene from the show. It's not a REMASTER, just a re-render using the maximum quality available. It's still the original models and assets. https://youtu.be/uHAuK_lDkk0 Impressive stuff. Related link: http://www.b5scrolls.com I just finished...

I think you can get super widescreen res, but I'm satisfied with 1920x1080.

I played Convergence for a bit, but was still reeling from the broken combat model of the main game so I didn't give it more than 10 minutes. Perhaps I'll revisit it after I get the game running again.

I've been drinking caffeine for about 25 years, so I'm fairly accustomed to it. I usually drink coffee in the morning and tea in the daytime, but overall they are fairly weak. Normally I don't get problems unless I overdose. Also I've not noticed any correlation between my anxiety and caffeine, but ...

https://youtu.be/WlYggtG8N60 This is a mostly blind play-through of Half-Life using the native Linux build from Steam. I am aware there is an updated version of this game with new textures and assets, but I decided to stick with the tried and true original - or at least the Steam version of it, whi...

Yeah I read those books when they came out. The only thing I remember about them is that everything just... ends. Lovely. I'm currently reading the Stargate Atlantis legacy books. I hope you enjoyed The Fallen! It took me a while to get this game running in high res. I actually did a format after th...

I wish I could shutdown and sleep. I have terrible nights, it doesn't matter how tired I am - I often wake up several times in the night (probably due to noise) and I freak out a lot while sleeping (abrupt awakenings, sudden anxiety attacks etc) and sometimes I just lie there staring at the ceiling....

Reddit has this kind of sub-reddit dedicated to shower thoughts. Since I don't post on Reddit, I figured I would create a thread here for that purpose. Basically a shower thought is when something occurs to you (usually a question) while taking a shower, though to be honest you can probably get them...