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• Post #4073594

  Okay, so, the new "My Little Pony" show will be a Youtube series with short episodes featuring Fluttershy, Twilight, Pinky and Rainbow Dash. On one hand I'm happy to see our beloved Gen 4 characters again, on the other it's kinda a lazy choice. And...not sure I like the short episode ideas. The best part of "Friendship is Magic" was that they could also handle more complex topics later on. And they had songs! Of course, the worst thing is, if they really stick to ju...

• Post #3834386

  These are the elevator buttons where I work. Both have blind-accessible Braille text. The down-arrow text means "down". The up arrow text is also four characters, so, what could it mean? Uppp? High? NO! It means: Someone just took the down button, turned it 180 degrees, and slapped it on. 😅 So, at least from my amateurish knowledge...it means nothing. Sure, you can abstract that the "not down" button means up. And I also think the arrows themselves can easily be felt bu...

• Post #3380382

  When I first learned about "Helluva Boss", every fanart I saw of Loona was angry, degrading, or pissed off. Which, hey, if you're into that, that's totally fine! But if people had shown me THIS side of Loona, I would've watched the show much earlier! Gods she's so cute. ❤️ (Yes, I think this specific screenshot is from newer episodes/shorts, I just wanted to say Loona can be so damn cute.)

• Post #1973810

  Ad-blockers for the internet are awesome and, sadly, very much needed. But I'd also love ad-blockers for everything else! Like, advertising posters in cities, and especially ad screens in and on stores! Hell, even teletext/videotext (you know, that old-fashioned thing on linear TV) has been full of ads, mostly dating and sex stuff even on the front pages. I mean, there are ad-blockers for RL ads...but spraying on ALL ad posters is hard to do without being noticed! 😁😅

• Post #1831174

  I watched the 1978s "Lord of the Rings" movie. I have to say while it, of course, can't be compared to the Peter Jackson movies who had more money, more runtime and much, much more modern technology, this one was actually better than I expected. I, personally, am not a fan of the rotoscoped live-action parts, the mix of drawn and live-action characters especially in battles feels a but uncanny, but it certainly is an interesting artistic choice. And it's not &...

• Post #1831171

  It's the 1st of May, which means many countries will have their Workers' Rights / Labour Days today. So, if you, like me, will be at a demonstration/protest today, for workers' rights, or against fascism, or both: Thank you! Best wishes, drink enough, stay healthy and safe! It's great to stand and walk together with you, we have to stand up and stand our ground, for us, and for those that need us to protect them. Thank you all for doing your part, have a good...

• Post #1808874

  There's this website on which you can listen to chiptune music from old keygenerators and I love that idea. 😁 https://keygenmusic.tk/ (No illegal content, just music.^^) #Chiptune

• Post #1808873

  Oh, there are at least some OLED TVs these days with an EU energy efficiency class of E and F (the range goes from A to G, G being the worst). To be fair: only on SDR, as soon as they usw HDR, they're back to G. But hey, I assumed TV manufacturers had just completely given up on trying to be more energy efficient...I still think they have. 😅 #TVs #TV #EnergyEfficency

• Post #1808872

  Also, talking about tech manufacturers and energy: I could totally save the energy my Always-On display uses if they hadn't taken the little notification LEDs from us! Those were great! Simple, efficient, even different colors for different apps if you wanted. I'd like those back! #Smartphone #Smartphones

• Post #1808869

  "Yoshi's Island" ROM hack replacing the Yoshis with the KDE dragons and baby Mario with baby Kandalf, please? 😁😊 #KDE #Yoshi #Konqi

• Post #1808868

  Cartoons I need to watch/continue watching - My Little Pony Friendship is Magic (my current break after Equestria Girls is too long already again!) - Amphibia (watched the first six or so Dot episodes, I like it so far) - Kiff (the new/current season, it's hard to get all episodes) - Bluey (watched the first episode, which felt a bit too pre-school-y for my liking (which makes sense), but the characters and messages seem lovely, so I want to give one or two more a try Mhh...and more, I...

• Post #1808867

  RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@BryanGreyson/115718011076712507 Also, regarding "Fandom" as a bad Wiki host: If you don't feel like searching yourself, there's an open-source browser extension called "Indie Wiki Buddy" that helps you to find independently-hosted/maintained Wikis when you find a fitting wiki hosted on Fandom. That way you can read and contribute to some indie wiki instead: https://getindie.wiki/

• Post #1808866

  I use clz.com to maintain my physical movie collection. The website has positive and negative things, but all in all it's a quite good way to organize, as long as you're willing to pay the annual fee. That said, among already having many fields to fill out, if you want, you can also add "custom fields". And as you can see it on an example on my Secret of NIMH disk, you can use these custom fields for totally useful things. ("Ja" und &quot...

• Post #1775299

  RE: https://floss.social/@kde/116487444734779958 Everyone, we need more Katie fanart! ❤️ #KDE

• Post #1383401

  MOUSE P.I. has an achievement/trophy that you unlock by punching a member of the racists' party, so, that's cool. 😁

• Post #1383400

  Alrighty! I've finished the Mouse P.I. story. It's a really fun game, I recommend it, as long as you enjoy shooters at all. I'd love if they would sell artbooks and posters. Let's see what else is to come for the franchise, it's certainly a very fun game with awesome works of art, and not just visually, but also sound and voice acting. (Story is about 16 hours for me, if you ignore the card-based mini-game which I personally really dislike. 😅) Longer r...

• Post #1383399

  It's nice that games these days, at least on Steam, offer their soundtracks and artbooks more often. I like those, and many games with awesome art styles should put together artbooks, even if it's just a loose collection of concept art without any actual "book" formatting. It's nice to see (and hear) more of the work that got into the making of a game. (And movies, as well!)

• Post #1252595

  A friend or something of mine is looking for *cool* Trans-themed hoodies. "Cool" as in, not just the trans flag printed on it or something, but some actual cool or cute design or something. So, if ya know any cool trans-themed hoodies that can be delivered to the EU/Germany without 60€ shipping (so, most likely no US shops), let me know, if you want, and I'll relay them. 😊

• Post #1252594

  Even the German Zootopia 2 Bluray only has German and English audio. At least Disney used to include the big European languages on their releases, and now even Disney is very barebones. At least the disk still had some bonus features and the main menu is done nicely, but damn. I sure should review movies and their disk releases individually. I already have to complain so often about disks without subtitles (which I think should be mandatory, but that's just me), but now even Disney is...

• Post #1252593

  As you might know, I basically buy most of my Blurays second-hand, except in rare cases where I really want one at release. That said, I usually use one of three big German second-gand business for that. In some cases eBay, but these days many eBay sellers are businesses as well and thus it's not always cheaper to begin with. That said: I feel I should try my hands at actual, physical second-hand stores, to see if they're cheaper, or have some sudden rarity. But there just are...

• Post #1252592

  RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@BryanGreyson/113289795465833229 With all my talk about preserving and/or owning physical media, I just wanna show off my Brok Deluxe Edition once again: The physical edition combined old-fashioned ownership with modern things by actually, physically including the game...on a USB Stick in the game case. You own it, it works offline, you still have something physical, the stick even has a cute, fitting color and, if you want to, well, it's a USB-Stick, you...

• Post #1252591

  I just found the website "Does it play?", which lets you see if you can use a physically bought game out of the box, without additional file downloads, and if you can play it offline, both things we should care about for both, media accessibility and preservation! https://www.doesitplay.org/ #Gaming #VideoGames #DoesItPlay

• Post #1252590

  There are so many older TV shows available as DVD or Bluray box sets. Star Gate, Star Trek shows, MacGyver, Columbo, many more, and that's awesome! But no new shows! No Star vs. the Forces of Evil, no Owl House, do new TV shows ever get disk releases these days?* I fear the answer is "no", meh. Ah well, I guess there are enough old shows for the rest of my live. *Statement based on the release situation in Germany

• Post #1252589

  "Why is it a thing that developers always release their game at 9 or 10 in the morning?" Erm...timezones exist? The developer is European and not from the USA? Damn, people that have "US defaultism" stuck in their mind like they're the only place on the planet piss me off. *sighs* (Of course that's not just a USA-thing, but it's the part of the world I read such and similar complaints most of the time. Ya know I'm a fuck-borde...

• Post #1252588

  "Mouse P.I." releases in about two hours! I expect saucy fanart of Tammy Tumbler tomorrow the latest! Don't let me down! 😁 I'm already disappointed it didn't happen after the release trailer, like when Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was announced! 😁 #MousePI #MousePIForHire

• Post #1252587

  Played 3 hours of "MOUSE P.I." so far. It's fun, don't know if we needed another game voiced by Troy Baker instead of new, unknown talents, but he does a good job, and so do the other voice actors. The gameplay is fun so far, but quite easy, enemy waves are short, which is fine by me, but not as action-filled as, for example, the new Doom games. The artstyle and animations are, as expected, really great. The Micer (Mauser) pistol has a magazine instead of top...

• Post #967578

  Reading a comment on how Chrome allows more privacy-invasive stuff, as if I needed more reasons to NOT use Chrome, just reminds me: I'm not a web developer, so, I have no clue really. But I generally feel browsers tell websites too much without asking me. For example, I use uBlock to block two browser events, "pagehide" and "visibilitychange" that tell a website if you start or stop looking at it, for example to allow the website to pause videos or s...

• Post #967577

  I still think that the 1986 "Care Bears Family" and "The Dreamstone" would make for a cool crossover. Both feature cute, furry creatures fighting against nightmarish powers of some evil darkness. No Heart and Zordrak would certainly be an impressive team, well, you know, until one of them inevitably tries to betray the other. And just imagine how hilarious the interaction between Blob, Nug and Frizz with Shriek and Beastly could be. 😁 I've already a...

• Post #967576

  For those not knowing me long enough: Quite some time ago, I started writing subtitles/captions for some short animations. I just wanted to see how much work creating captions is, what thoughts to put into the timing, how to work with and without the script present and such. I like that. I'd still do it, but I rarely have a specific need for it that's worth the ton of work. - But that said: I still want to try my hands at "audio descriptions" at some point,...

• Post #967575

  I'm a bit miffed. I was, and kinda still am, really looking forward to Mouse P.I, te upcoming shooter in the style of 30s cartoons: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416450/MOUSE_PI_For_Hire/ The thing is: They now announced the "Deluxe Edition", which includes the soundtrack, which is awesome, BUT also free access to the first, upcoming DLC. Don't get me wrong! I'm not against game expansions! I still think Starcraft, Diablo 2 and the old Command &...