When I tried to use Krita a few months ago I couldn’t set the white point in the levels tool. I looked it up and the tool apparently doesn’t exist. That makes it awful for processing scanned artwork in my workflow.

Soooo, The GIMP.

Same. I want to play it but until it’s available in some sort of convenient package at a price point I can justify, I’ll play something else.

The lack of UHD drive is pretty funny.

Ooh, hardware encoding? Now we’re talking!

You’d hate my IDE at work. It’s bright pink.

That’ll certainly make it easier to pay the CEO.

The approach they took with the framing device really confused me. I very much enjoyed the Desmond arc, until it ended abruptly, never delivering on what it promised.

The following games seemed to be a scattered mess that I found difficult to follow.

I very much enjoyed being able to exit the Animus at any time, have a wander around, talk to friendly characters, and take a breather. I found the Animus concept worked well for me as a way to suspend disbelief. Why can’t I go over there? Because the person I’m playing as never did! Oh, I died? Well that didn’t happen, so let’s rewind that and get back into synch.

There’s some good stuff there, but it’s such a fragmented mess that it feels hard to retain and contextualise.

Why can’t we have some present day sections that advance the overall plot? Feel free to write the protagonists being defeated, or having to flee, or whatever if it’s needed to keep the saga going. Let them win sometimes and lose others.

In general the framing device makes me like the series a lot more than I otherwise might. It allows for all sorts of fun things (such as the reason for things like the cyclops to exist).

Luckily the feck attribute is too obscure to be in the line of fire.

Windows ARM devices, eh? I guess it’s time for another round of “how long until Microsoft give up on anything that’s not x86?”

It’s a working title, despite having run for nearly thirty years.

Whenever I see an Isuzu flatbed I smile inwardly. They’re practical, have lots of capacity, and don’t dominate the road for no discernible reason. I like practical solutions to real problems. I do not like ridiculous solutions to fabricated problems (you’re never taking that SUV up a mountain, be honest with yourself).

I was simply quoting The Simpsons - the KBBL radio DJs face being fired and replaced by the “DJ 3000”. The generic comment about congress is one of the things it spouts - and as you can see, it worked!

Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.

Unless they’re suddenly shoving a UHD drive in there, I’m not interested.

It seems a weird oversight - gamers that care about 4K surely also care about films in 4K? The notion of it being an external add-on is laughable.

Then again, this whole thing is a solution looking for a problem.

I used the touch pad as a trackpad mouse which worked very well for me. I also had various hotkeys mapped to the other touchpad and the rear buttons as modifiers (control and shift, if memory serves). I think I submitted my config but as my deck is in for repairs I can’t check right now (it’ll have my username attached).

Does this keep the prologue from the director’s cut?

Oops, forgot to reply to you!

With the custom input mapping I used (available on Steam) it played really well. Probably not as well as a keyboard and mouse but I was able to complete all the campaigns on hard without issue, if memory serves.

Multiplayer has never been my thing with RTS games so I can’t comment on that.

Sure, sure, but I was making a snarky comment about the “strategists”. I wouldn’t really call “state the bloody obvious” to be particularly insightful analysis!

I’m not in the US, but it was their playbook last time around and has been consistent with everything they’ve been doing for years. There’s been no significant consequences for their behaviour, why would they not take the same tack?

Are these strategists paid much? A toddler could have told you that.

lol, “X”. Get fucked.