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Yep. Best way to get a TV that will never sell your data or show ads is to literally blacklist its MAC address at the router level, and then assign the “smart” functionality to a device environment you control, like a Shield Pro with a custom launcher or an Intel NUC media PC or NAS or something similar.

Oh boy - finally a modern internet nerd argument equivalent to the pronunciation of GIF!

Wanted to better illustrate my point about asset modernization, here’s an example of what I’m talking about.

This is a 7.45MB animated GIF embedded among several others on the page for Helldivers 2 store page on Steam :

Here’s that same animation converted into an animated WEBP around 800KB… (I did an AVIF at 215KB with default settings from some random online conversion tool, but apparently Lemmy won’t allow those to be embedded / shown directly) :

It is literally ~10% the size, looks nearly identical (could make 1:1 with less compression for just a few KB more), loads faster, and will play back in everything except e-machines from the late 1990s.

Additionally, modern formats support things like wider color gamut - which means you can create HDR assets.

It’s not flat out “bad,” but it IS visually inconsistent when it comes to their overall design system element library… but their visual hierarchy, their arrangement of said elements, and layout - is overall pretty well done.

My personal biggest gripe is less about element appearance, but more on how inconsistent their tab layout ends up being from page to page.

When browsing, I always struggle to find a couple of elements - usually something from the specific set of tabs I want to navigate to like the “community” home, my wishlist items, or the shopping cart.

…But really my very biggest gripe is on my Steam Deck. I have the mod for allowing customized animated grid images… and when I go to the Collections section, the loading of those images grinds browsing to a nearly unusable halt.

I would LOVE it if they did overhaul their element library to unify things, and did away with older more bloated raster formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF and H.264+MP3 in MP4s… and instead switch to something like highly optimized HEIC / AVIF / WEBP and SVG, custom fonts with embedded symbols, and VP9+opus WEBMs to modernize and shrink their asset libraries. They could even have fall-back compatibility when they detect an ancient device that can’t decode them for some reason.

Not that anyone cares, but I am a Sr. UX designer who used to work in games but switched to general software like 12 yrs ago… so if anyone from Valve browses Lemmy… PM me. 😅

you’ll only see water bead up when you hit certain temps.

Leidenfrost effect FTW

Basically If you FIRST heat up your stainless steel cookware to the point that when you drip some water on it, it “beads up” instead of immediately boiling away, your cookware becomes temporarily non-stick. Just don’t want to go a lot hotter than that, or you’ll do things like burn butter (unless using Ghee butter or something with a higher “smoke point”)

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My shitty cartoons that I moved to a new animation-focused YouTube channel that now are getting less than 1/10th the views after seeming like non-subscribers liked them but subscribers were leaving my channel every time I uploaded them.

Even as a silent GIF I hear something like this masterful rendition of the song play in my mind’s ear.

Still can’t believe that (spoiler for Astro Bot)

… :(

And Earthbound.

Excellent summary, but I think folks were sad because a bunch of us had tuned in hoping to see :

That first punch that landed on Paul’s face made him stop dancing around like an idiot… but yeah after 2 rounds it became just a war of attrition, where Tyson’s knees (which apparently were in a brace outside of the fight itself) just couldn’t hold up and let him close the gap and deliver any of his admittedly still-fierce punches.

I always thought “lollygag” was a southern speech idiom, like “piddling” or “dilly-dallying.”

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I’d wait for one of these.

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In the long run Metal Gear certainly outshined them, but I think the Syphon Filter games were ultimately very different and so it wasn’t like one was just a better execution and you had to ignore the other.

One of my favorite little bits of goofy trivia between both series though was the joke in the dialog of MGS 3 : Subsistence where Snake asks the Colonel why “Sam” (presumably Sam Fisher of the Splinter Cell series) or “Gabe” (presumably Syphon Filter’s protagonist) couldn’t do the Ape Escape side mission instead since Snake said it wasn’t really his “thing.”

Now I fully expect someone to make this a custom rescue mission for KSP.