I have an nVidia Shield TV that I bought in 2015. Software upgrades over time have added things like HDR support. It runs Android TV, but also offers full support for expandable storage, has multiple ports for USB and ethernet as well as IR and bluetooth control devices. It can also stream PC games from nVidia or…

When I found out that Valorant put what amounts to a rootkit on my PC in the name of whatever bullshit anti-cheat service it thinks players should have, I wiped and reloaded from backups. I’m not big on multiplayer shooters, just wanted to play a friendly game with my friend. Now I do research regarding what copy…

I feel like this might be the story of Googles realtime messaging tools.

I think the Eternals exists in part to offer an infodump on the MCU cosmos. It’s OK to get bits and pieces from Dr. Strange or GotG, but the Eternals can provide clear exposition about what’s truly going on. 

My issue with Stray on PC is that the camera drifts. It doesn’t stay where I put it. Sounds like a problem with my input device, right? Except that my trackball doesn’t exhibit that behavior anywhere else. Zero other places, in fact. Just in Stray. Is it a weird interaction with a Logitech M575? I don’t know. I’m not…

I buy a lot of inexpensive Android devices to give away to friends with kids, and to Amazon’s credit, Fire tablets have great screens compared to other budget devices. I will say though, that more-than-2GB RAM is a very notable improvement. I won’t even touch devices with less than 2GB, but the irritation that comes…

Bethesda releases buggy alpha-grade garbage with the expectation that modders will fix everything. Why not skip the middleman and just give the design docs to a promising set of modders along with whatever the current game engine is called and fuck off to count the money they make for the studio. Three years later,…

I spent an amount of money that could’ve paid for a home in the midwestern US trying to find a decent therapist. I don’t believe they exist. On the occasions when one is willing to admit their approach isn’t working, the only thing they really do is refer you to a different therapist. Presumably so you can make…

I really have to object to the idea that a Dell consumer laptop in any way, shape or form deserves to be called “best.” It’s just as much a one size fits some device as a Macbook or Microsoft Surface device.

FASERIP and the universal table are a great system. It’s very easy to remember the table as a whole, so there’s basically nothing to look up after character creation. It sucks that TSR lost that license ages ago, because the system was probably one of the most elegant ones I’ve seen for rules-light role play. Hearing…

I have a pretty strong dislike of DC characters in general, but seeing the super pets movie on this list, as well as the recent TV show featuring Batman’s butler, makes me think that maybe the list of titles from the opening of Teen Titans Go to the Movies wasn’t even a tiny bit of a joke.

Quibi brought us new episodes of Reno 911 and for that reason alone I shall not fault it.

Chocolatey.org’s choco is an open source solution that supports something over 5,000 applications. It’s been around a lot longer than any of the other Windows package managers and it does have a supported GUI component. I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned, because at the very least its library is considerably larger…

I’ll give the nod to anything that supports Kodi (i.e. everything that isn’t a Roku) for best sound support, at least insofar as Kodi will pass through everything without exception to a receiver that can deal with whatever input it’s been given, up to and including those 7.2.2 TrueHD audio tracks that source from…

Yeah but then you have to use Roku’s software, which I’ve found to be sluggish even on the fastest models, and disagreeable to viewing locally available content. Not everyone wants to run Plex or Emby  just to play videos they already have. Roku also has pretty poor support for high resolution sound, which is…

Sam’s Club hot dogs are the same $1.50 with a soda, and Sam’s club has more variety in its pizzas. Costco, at least among the locations I’ve visited, only has cheese and pepperoni. Sam’s will usually have four or five topping choices, including one that has actual veggies on it.

I truly, deeply, completely do not care what sort of camera a phone has. I have a camera for when I actually anticipate using a camera. Phone cameras are fine and they’re always going to suck. They’re either just good enough to take a picture of a receipt or to not complain about when the baby or cat does something…

Sure there is. I’m sitting at a Threadripper system right now that has a two year old CPU. Granted, I don’t have the top of AMD’s line myself, but in terms of multicore performance, it’s a rounding error from one side to the other between those CPUs. It’s fair to say that a high end M1 CPU compares favorably to…

I have a genetic condition called Klinefelter’s Syndrome. I’m technically intersexed, albeit in a way that doesn’t make all that much difference to my outward appearance. In my case, I didn’t get the hormone treatments that probably would’ve made me a more masculine person, but I think that in the rush to prevent…

Thor having a chariot pulled by a pair of regenerating goats named Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjostir is 100% real and part of his source mythology. It might be goofy but it’s a real thing.