Starting a review game tonight - Isles of Sea & Sky is a GBA-style zelda-like. I love this kind of game, I'm going live with it in ten mins, see you at twitch.tv/nethesem

Interesting debate about product reviews after MKBHD blasted the Humane AI Pin. I think there's a valid discussion around being tasteful in criticism - but it blows my mind that the Humane pin was the flash point. It was bad when they announced it. Why is anyone surprised that it's bad on release?

I'm starting Salt & Sanctuary 1 tonight - seen almost nothing of this game, so looking forward to taking a swing at it!
See you in an hour on Twitch: twitch.tv/nethesem

I entirely forgot to post anything here. So here's an Asus Zephyrus with Liquid Metal leaking all over the CPU 👌
There's a line of silicone sealant to keep it contained, but I suspect heat and expansion allowed the LM to blow through it.
Took some cleaning, but the laptop survived!

Starting The Outer Worlds tonight, not actually sure what I'm getting into, but everyone says it's great, and Obsidian certainly know what they're doing. So here goes nothing!
See you in an hour at twitch.tv/nethesem

No twitch stream tonight - away seeing family!
Will be back on Thursday with Snufkin game though, review copy came through!

OK touch-wood, rumours of Mirror's Edge being a little janky on modern systems and particularly difficult to stream/record look like they're greatly exaggerated. I'm going full-send and shall try to stream it in 30mins! Not played it for a very very long time! twitch.tv/nethesem

Yea I'm having a blast with it... It's got jank, but it prioritises fun over polish.
There's a simple tutorial at the start, and the base upgrade objectives help give you something to work towards. There's definitely a few tips I'd give new players though, which the game doesn't make clear.

A group of 9 Foxparks in perfect grid alignment.

So I'm playing Palworld, and saw this interesting scene... I was exploring this area fairly quickly, so this neat grid of sleeping Foxparks spawned at night and instantly went to sleep, staying perfectly in grid and alignment with the spawn points.

Cherry MX key switch in parts, with a switch opening tool, lube, and switch films.

Cherry MX key switch in parts, with a switch opening tool, lube, and brush

Switch lubing for my keyboard refurb project! It's easy work, just lots of them to do. Should make my old MasterKeys super quiet though!

I'm starting Ratchet & Clank, Rift Apart naaaoooow!
Never played R&C before, so jumping in at the modern end of the series - twitch.tv/nethesem

>watching the intro "Man it's a shame Alec doesn't have a chronos or something..."
>the reveal "ITS HAPPENING! HE DID IT! IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!"
For real though, amazing video - never knew there was so much going on inside a flash bulb 👌

In over 10 years of self-employment, I think this might be the first year when, upon doing my tax return, I had all the logins, security codes and other requisite ID numbers all on hand and ready to go.

Super insightful, thanks for sharing 👌

Sonic Frontiers OST- All Titan Boss Themes All Titan Boss Themes from Sonic FrontiersSong List:-Undefeatable-Break through it All-Find your FLAME-I'm HereWhich is your Favourite?

I'm just about finished with Sonic Frontiers, took a lot longer than I thought to complete to the amount I wanted - last stream for the end of DLC3 on thursday. In the mean time OH MY GOD THE BOSS TRACKS GO SO HARD THOUGH... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEX...

This is what greeted me when I turned on my work PC this morning. This is Edge on default settings (I don't use it). How is the average person supposed to make sense of this screen?
At a technical level, Edge is completely fine, but my god the default experience is awful to look at.

Ellie series 2 my beloved... I've missed having one of these. Expensive, but feels so much more premium. Rear paddles make stick-clicks so much nicer, and all other buttons can be remapped for Nintendo controls, or games that won't let you customise.

Petition: Don’t increase the income requirement for family visas to £38,700 Currently the financial requirements to bring your spouse to the UK is £18,600 per year and now the Government wants to more than double it. Most people in the UK don’t make that per year. We belie...

This law proposes that you will need to be earning over £38k a year to be allowed to bring your foreign spouse to the UK. I have a few friends who will be affected by this nonsense law. If you're a brit bong, sign the petition to fight it! Takes 30 seconds!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

Tonight, we being Breath of the Hedgehog - I mean, Sonic Frontiers!
I'm still undecided on this game, so time to see if I like it or not! See you in 20mins on Twitch - twitch.tv/nethesem

Christmas Eve special stream! Link's Awakening like I've never seen it before - going live, now! twitch.tv/nethesem

Building an 8-bit breadboard computer! Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

I'm sick and my comfort playlist is Ben Eater's 8-Bit Breadboard computer. IMHO this is the best way to understand TTL logic and how CPUs work at the most basic level. Required watching for computer science.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Fantastic - heck yes, commander!

So I'm half way through season 1 of Invincible... man... this show is intense. It's really, really good. Just as you think the violence is gratuitous, it makes a point about how this would be the reality. Just as you think a character is a shallow insert, they reveal their motivations. Outstanding.

Lego Fortnite is a very big symptom of Epic pushing Fortnite as a metaverse - something Epic have talked about for a long time. Fortnite isn't just a game anymore, it's a platform.
This isn't new, but I think it's only now that I'm agreeing with them.

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Rimworld stream and possible finale is on tonight - home from holiday sooner than expected. See y'all at 7!
twitch.tv/nethesem

As a fellow content creator, I've noticed that a large amount of the audience don't 'get you' as much as you think they would. And like, that's ok - it's not a dig at the audience or anything - I just think that not as much tone/world view comes across as you think it would.

I've started dipping my toes into Stellaris after a lot of bullying from a friend, and man, I'd have tried it a lot sooner if someone had said "have you played Sins of a Solar Empire?"
But also that's a really obscure game so I'm not surprised either.

It's much more about keeping everyone moving in the right direction than it is about suddenly arriving at all of the same conclusions at once, which is why it sucks that leftists often choose to divide each other over pedantry. 2/2

My friend has this Bus analogy: We want to get to the destination of [our goals]. But there are stops we have to get to before that, and sometimes the person sitting next to you wants to get off earlier. 1/2

The new version of Handbrake is now doing cropping on GPU, not CPU. I record 4x 1080p streams as a 4k mosaic, and then transcode it back into 4x 1080p files later, so I was extremely CPU-bottlenecked. This update has made my transcoding literally twice as fast - big W for the handbrake team.