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AAC vs AC3 bitrates

In the past I’ve chosen I’ve often kept AC3 audio tracks thinking that their substantially higher bitrates made them better than the AAC tracks I compared them to. As I’ve since learned that AAC can be comparable to AC3 at a substantially lower bitrate, to have a means of comparing the two codecs, what would the...

Radicaldog ,

I’d honestly suggest using your ears and deciding if you can tell the difference. My music library is under 20GB so I do not fuss too much, but I am not truly sure I can tell the difference.

Radicaldog ,

You can get extensions which make the homepage redirect to your subscriptions page. Lifesaver imo.

Radicaldog ,

I’ve got a Switch and a Deck, and I can’t fathom all these replies saying the Deck is just as good for Switch. It’s not, and it’s not worth playing games at 90 or 95% performance when you want 100% performance. “Playable” to “native performance” is such a big step. Plus, it costs more.

Radicaldog ,

I recently redownloaded Driver Parallel Lines some 14 years after I bought it. PC is doing so much better than consoles on keeping things backwards compatible - imagine a PS5 casually letting you play PS2 or PS3 era games at no extra cost!

Radicaldog ,

Back in the day, if you wanted a drop shadow you added it in photoshop… And saved as jpg

Radicaldog ,

You can download the books you buy with credits, and also anything currently in the Plus catalogue. I’ve found this very helpful as they remove things from the Plus catalog with very short notice periods, so you may not get to finish books you start. (And I remember stuff like how Salman Rushdie books were removed when he was in the news from the assassination attempt. Maybe that was publishers seeing dollar signs not Amazon, idk, but it was gross. Same when Sean Lock died.)

Trying to get the Simp- series...with multi-dub multiple languages. Is there any release as this? Or where/how could I rip it myself?

So, yeah…trying to get a multi-language rip of these series. Ideally with English and Latin Spanish, maybe additionally Spain-Spanish, French and Italian…But not sure how could I go about this. How could I get a multi-dub version?...

Radicaldog ,

Subscribe to Disney Plus and also trial Anystream. So long as the service has dubs, you can pick and choose what gets embedded in your download (720p max). You will need a license for a show that long, but the trial can prove it works on a few episodes.

Radicaldog ,

A lot of people are posting games that are short and linear. But to match your energy, games that cannot be replayed unless you forget what you learn;

  • Case of the Golden Idol is a mystery/deduction game, a la Obra Dinn.
  • Toki Tori 2 is a puzzle metroidvania, where you can do your full moveset from the start - tweet and stomp. Right from the first screen, big chunks of the map can be shortcut through once you put your later learnings into practice.
Radicaldog ,

It’s a puzzle game of working out how to complete your to-do list, so that the next area unlocks. Beyond its meme status, I do think it’s a very smartly designed puzzler, with lots of experimentation and observation.

Radicaldog ,

Nah, I replayed it and it is still great. (And I don’t replay many games!) Like rereading a good book.

Remedy acquires full rights to the Control franchise from 505 (www.destructoid.com)

Today, on February 28, nearly five years after Control’s initial launch, Remedy Entertainment, the team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series, released an announcement regarding a deal between them and 505 Games, detailing a full transition to Remedy acquiring full rights to the franchise. While Remedy...

Radicaldog ,

Epic funded that and allowed them to take the risk. In that case they’re the good guys, so I don’t see the point in being a hardliner about their store. Use Playnite if you are adamant about having all your games in one launcher!

Radicaldog ,

Weird, I have permanent access to Samurai Champloo on my Jellyfin server. I would have paid given the option, but, y’know, they wouldn’t sell this kind of service.

Radicaldog ,

She won the ladies’ event though. Plus

The court also saw a video of Grabska training her dog in a park for more than an hour in addition to the Christmas tree contest pictures.

Sounds like she could do everything except go to work…

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined

Radicaldog ,

The myth of Aaron Swartz continues…

He was a big proponent of free speech absolutism. He’d have been more than happy with the jailbait subs, watchpeopledie, fatpeoplehate etc. I really don’t think he deserves a free pass just because Reddit wasn’t enshittifying while he was around, as it was in a growth phase. It had other problems which needed resolution.

Radicaldog ,

I guess it’s the one I care least about that I listed. Substitute in the overtly racist subreddits, if you wish, as they surely didn’t deserve a platform.

Radicaldog ,

Cheers for the citation

Radicaldog ,

Seems like one to be wary of reviews for. At each publication, the person who enjoyed part 1 will be excitedly picking up this job, while anyone who disliked part 1 will be passing. I guess the main benefit is it matches the audience; if you didn’t like part 1, reviews won’t convince you this is worth it.

On balance, I like that they’re deviating from the original. I dislike that the main deviation is padding it into 3 games.

Radicaldog ,

Not really, except for where they re-take your biometrics to confirm. More often, biometrics get turned into digital info which can’t be changed. If a scammer gets your DNA biometric, tough shit, you’re now unable to change it and deny the scammer access. It is a huge boon for some forms of fraud.

Radicaldog ,

If I’m taking one thing from this thread, it’s that I’m most likely to click on something called “Desiny Potato”.

Radicaldog ,

Someone spent a while telling me Nier Automata was great, and it took a couple years before I got independently interested. My punishment is the same fate, of telling others it’s great, and no-one trying it.

Same with Return of the Obra Dinn, which has a niche art style but a captivating set of mysteries.

Radicaldog ,

I’m enjoying it so far :)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch::Google is testing a feature that places a call to a business , waits on hold and then give you a call once a representative is available.

Radicaldog ,

Our customer support is full of (older) people buying stuff from us. Not everyone likes using websites when a phone will work!

Radicaldog ,

Windows’ relentless backwards compatibility is underrated, but it’s so damn nice I can still play games from 2005 effortlessly. Android has been a shitshow in comparison, as even when mobile gaming wasn’t so shit (Doodle Jump, Angry Birds etc), the whole era has been almost wiped from existence.

Radicaldog ,

Not on the banned list, have at it.

Radicaldog ,

I wish I gave a shit about any of their games so I could boycott properly.

Radicaldog ,

Just an observation, but if it was a Tesla, the brand would be in the headline. Media is weird.

Radicaldog ,

Kind of nice to see NFTs breaking through the floor at the trough of disillusionment, never to return.

Radicaldog ,

If it results in 1% fewer kids using, and 95% less vape litter, then that’s a win-win in my book.

Radicaldog ,

Kinda crap advice for novices, as shorting means uncapped losses if you’re wrong. You’d have to be very confident other people are making a mistake, as other investors may not worry that power users no longer like Reddit, and stock could still go up.

Radicaldog ,

I know exactly what I’d do with it.

Get into gunpla, of course.

Radicaldog ,

Lanterns are a plague on farmers unfortunately. We’ve picked out quite a few from hedges over the years, it’s just littering with extra steps.

Radicaldog ,

Whistleblower laws need strengthening. Snowden’s leaks, for example, were clearly in the public interest and needed to be leaked. It’s an unjust country that can’t see that and spare him.

Radicaldog ,

I totally get it. I love the extras like directors’ commentaries, and streaming feels like it has lost so much. But I don’t want the hassle/space of dvds, I just want to buy complete digital versions that have all the extra bits. And until they will sell me it…

Radicaldog ,

Man, this thread is full of dickheads. Even if, say, only 30% of these people voted Remain, that’s a lot of people who deserve some sympathy. To damn a whole group of people when a substantial number share the exact same opinions as you is truly thoughtless.

I’m a remainer in a leave-majority area, for what it’s worth. May as well tell me about the “consequences of my actions” too!

Radicaldog , (edited )

Did you read the article? The couple quoted spent about 140 days and now can’t spend more than 90.

Radicaldog ,

But the people I am talking about are the remainers who didn’t have that.

Radicaldog ,

Turnout was actually pretty good. But there was external manipulation, illegal spending, plus a ton of shifting goalposts, with no confirmation vote once the real Brexit “deal” existed. Pre-vote, people were told we’d be able to be like Norway, as unbelievable as that sounds now. Wild how a 52/48 result was taken as confirmation for the hardest Brexit possible. It truly sucks.

Radicaldog ,

Not really

Radicaldog ,

I’ve only used Jellyfin, but I struggle to imagine Plex being much easier - it was a piece of piss to just run the installer and point at my folders. Complexity only comes when doing stuff like making it available over the internet.

Radicaldog ,

Yeah, very annoying to be told a word is “new” when I know it well, and vice-versa be expected to have done whole lessons on other words that I’ve never seen before. That said, not many options for Hungarian, I’ve only seen Drops as an alternative daily app.

Radicaldog , (edited )

The user is being hyperbolic, but is referring to their substantial role in popularising loot boxes, as well as the marketplace that has spawned a real gambling industry around it. Kids gamble on 3rd party sites for marketplace prizes and Valve does very little to interfere.

Radicaldog ,

Your first line is straight up misinformation. Epic has remarkably few games with DRM, mostly from big publishers implementing their own. I’ve yet to find an indie that can’t be launched directly as an .exe. Same with Cyberpunk 2077, launches directly without issue.

The only singleplayer game I can’t play offline is Hitman, just like on Steam, because their publisher sucks.

Radicaldog ,

Playnite can do game time from Epic and Steam, plus its own accounting for any .exe you can launch through it.

Radicaldog ,

Copying a comment I made on the other site;

Recursed, just £1.67. It is a brilliant puzzle game, completely mind bending stuff about recursion and jumping into chests inside of chests while taking another chest with you so you can jump inside it…

Wonderputt Forever - £2.20. Prettiest minigolf game, animated to excess. Less than an hour to beat unless you go for optional challenges. You may have played the original flash game a decade ago.

Radicaldog ,

The multiplayer is full of ultra skilled people who have played for years, so a steep curve. Best FPS campaign ever though, so I recommend it for that.

Radicaldog , (edited )

The original predates mobile. Looks like Netflix have put this one on mobile. Still very good so don’t let that put you off.

Radicaldog ,

I am so done with pregnancy test Doom, though - the only part of that that is pregnancy test is the plastic shell. Kind of sick of seeing it crop up!

Radicaldog ,

We found out in the Apple lawsuit that the games are fixed price for Epic, so you can download or not as you wish - individually you do not make their cost go up.

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