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You can get prescription lens inserts. If you're just near sighted some of the models have built in adjustment.

Eh. I don't think the Macbook's trackpad is that good. It's better sure, but it's still not as intuitive panning or rotating over the image directly on a touch screen. And it's still useless for drawing.

There's plenty of bad panels in Apple displays posted on Reddit and other forums.

(e.g., https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/studio-displays-with-sc...)

Maybe the panel lottery is more in your favour but it isn't gone.

Pro-motion, 120FPS display.

That's the whole iPad line. No multi-user because they don't want families to buy only one iPad, no support for running apps outside of the app store, etc.

Xbox One was originally going to require frequent online check ins, I think daily or weekly, games on disc were going to tie themselves to your account and publishers could choose whether or not you could resell them at select retailers or share them with your friends, IIRC you could share a game one time with a friend. They also didn't focus on games when showing it off and it was priced $100 higher than PS4 despite being weaker because of the bundled Kinect nobody wanted.

They are not doing super amazing this gen. Reports have them selling 1/3rd the units of PlayStation 5, Game Pass has stalled, they apparently used a JIT manufacturing setup and so were much more affected by the component shortage, so a console that was $500 at launch is now $800.

Funnily enough, because they put in serials into Xbox One games for tracking they did recently launch a really cool disc to digital service that gives the best benefits of physical and digital.

While sports betting was allowed, in the past I don't think it was allowed to be advertised beyond like lottery displays. You would not see ads during Hockey Night in Canada for it either on the boards or during breaks. Now they are all over and run by third parties.

GKCs aren't perfect, but both PS5 and Xbox Series consoles have had games where the disc is near useless too, either with only part of the game on the disc (e.g., Oblivion Remastered) or virtually none of the game on the disc (Indiana Jones). GKCs are at least upfront and clear on the packaging. I wish they had banned the practice of codes in a box. THOSE SUCK.

And just yesterday I had to use my modded 3DS to rescue a physical 3DS cart that wasn't booting. Luckily I was able to but there's no guarantee a physical game will last forever either.

BioWare didn't make NWN2, that was Obsidian on the same Bioware engine that powered KOTOR 1 & 2 and NWN1.They did do Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 which were originally published by Interplay.

It had a 3DS version, and that was more of a remaster than a remake. Spruced up graphics and some QoL things but basically the same bones.

Furigana works on Kindle, although IIRC you have to use AZW3 or I guess KFX.

It's not just the gamma correction. Things like water are different in GLQuake.

DF Retro has good comparison of software Quake, GLQuake and VQuake (for the Rendition Verite).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxRXZhQuY8

It depends on the colour display. Kaleido screens use a colour filter over a B&W screen so they are just as fast as refreshing as the B&W ones. The other colour eInk displays are much slower which is why they've seen less uptick in consumer eReaders.

Because it's about how they modded their 360 and Peer Pressure was only released on the same day this blog post went up.

You can use Kodi as a Jellyfin front end. Personally I don't care enough about streaming TV to mobile devices and I only have 1 TV I watch on so the extra complexity of Plex or Jellyfin seems not worth the hassle.

And I definitely don't want to pay for something like Plex.

There's a tool built on top of yt-dlp, ytdl-sub that can automate it for you. It will check if there's new vids in the channels you're interested in and download them and can make metadata for Kodi, Plex, etc. for them too. It can also delete old ones if you want.

I think the only problems I've had on mine were network related and I would have had the same problems with an ATV since it can't magically fix DNS or my NAS being off.

If you want a privacy focused solution it's probably the most private. Yeah, admittedly harder to use but I'm not recommending it to my parents.

Doesn't seem like it. Siri AI is not even available in all languages yet either. $429 CAD is crazy. You can get a whole mini PC and a Bluetooth remote for less and slap LibreElec on it even at today's crazy prices. And it'll be a better remote too.

Audible does X credits per month subs and a credit is 1 book. I guess there are Netflix style ones too now.

I hate the bigger font too. I prefer fonts and spacing used by most MMPs. It's what I use on my eReader.

It's not at all. It's really common. PS3 does it and has resumed discs I played years ago. Blu-ray is more hit or miss because BD-J mucks it all up. Titles without that tend to work, but big studio releases tend to have it so...

Kodi can remotely play DVD ISOs. It does mean you get no compression though.

Not worth it. It's basically a knee capped Ryzen 3700X with less cache. You can get a better CPU for less money. The GPU performance is still alright but it's not good at non-gaming tasks as it lacks cores for ML tasks.

A lot of physical manga volumes reduce what would have been originally colour pages in the serialization to B&W anyways. Heck, it's verrry common for that to include the eBook edition even though it doesn't really cost them anything.

Shrug. I've read comics on a 7" eReader, scientific papers on 7.8". Rarely is there a real problem IMO, occasionally color charts are a problem on my B&W reader.

I have slightly more sympathy for scientific papers due to smaller text and overall extra density but considering that it's pretty common for comic publishers themselves to release editions smaller than a typical 10.25x6.6 page, you don't really need page size (e.g., Archie's digests, every manga tankobon ever, DC Compact Comics).

Consoles come with a controller and enough storage to be usable for games. The largest Apple TV 4K is 128GB and it's really common for games to easily be 50+ GB or even considerably more. 100 GB is not even that uncommon anymore (e.g., Call of Duty, FF7 Rebirth, Baldur's Gate 3).

When Apple first launched the Apple TV game store they required games be playable with the horrible remote. Understandably even games that would have been fine on the hardware didn't bother and while Apple later relented and allowed games to require a controller it's still an extra purchase that's needed.

Even the Surface Pro doesn't work well with the generic image. I had to go get the Surface Recovery one to get it work enough to go through the install because there was no support for the touch screen or the official Surface keyboard on the generic one.

It's a 2005 game. Yeah it's running on 2001 tech but it still has all the lessons learned from the previous years both in terms of 3D game design and getting the most out of the hardware. Would you call Doom 3 an early 3D game? It can run on 2001 hardware too. Or Half-Life 2?

RE4 isn't really an early 3D game. It was a late GameCube title almost a decade after Quake.

There has been some 2D decomps too, Pokemon Red/Blue being the biggest I can think of. I can also imagine they make more sense for the 3D consoles where games tended to be written in higher level languages than raw assembly.

Game companies maybe have the source code and tooling around. And can maybe get a remaster. Look at titles like Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD. Square Enix lost the source to KH 1 despite it only being ~12 years old at release and had to rebuild it. Developers close all the time, they get bought and sold and bought and sold and nobody is entirely sure who owns the rights to X title anymore or where the code is. Then you also have licensing rights for cars, sports leagues, music etc.