The kids are playing-up downstairs

Probably Deadwood.

I like the complexity of the characters - nobody’s truly good, nobody’s truly bad.

I like the how some of the experiences in the show are so universal and some are so peculiar to that time and place.

The performances are all incredible.

I was completely taken with it and still am.

Yeah, in the Dragon Ball Z Kai English dub, Vegeta now says 8000!

Was shocked to discover very recently that it’s meant to be “It’s over 8000!”, and 9000 was a mistranslation

Computerwelt by Kraftwerk.

But Remain In Light by Talking Heads is a very close second.

Nope. Getting an Anbernic and Steam Deck opened the way to easy playing of older games, and I’ve been having a great time.

Recently I bought a mini PC with AMD 760M iGPU, just to get something modern, cheap and good enough in case prices get even worse.

Been playing Return To Castle Wolfenstein, The Settlers II remake, ballisticng, Fallout 4… quite a few other cheap and/or old games.

If triple A games are going to cost that much to play moving forwards I’m just not going to play them 👍

The thing that really bugged me about Spore was how lame the “evolution” was.

If early developments in your creatures set certain things in motion that then played out differently that would be great and add replay value.

But nothing was meaningful at all, you could completely change stuff back and forth. Very little in your evolutionary history actually mattered, at all.

This was all an incredible example of how incompetent a major democracy’s government can truly be.

Not only did they allow the single “leave” option to remain completely undefined, but they ran it as a simple “majority wins” referendum. So all those negotiations, all the arguments, all the billions spent and billions lost. It was all to achieve a supposed 4% increase in satisfaction.

Now 52% of the country could be happy instead of 48%. Game changing!

It was surreal being British and supporting “the other side” the whole way through. We were absolute clowns and outclassed in intelligence and decorum at every turn.

I really love Ghostbusters, as in the first film, not as in anything that’s in the universe.

I thought Afterlife was awful.

The same way I enjoy ignoring the main quest in Skyrim.

Stumbling around meadows and caves, seeing what random stuff and events I find, and still having a 10/10 great time.

No need for real life to be any different.

Gozer in Ghostbusters for the Master System.

As with any game of that era you had to play through the whole game with no save to reach the last boss. Sometimes you’d get taken out before reaching Gozer by the poltergeists on the stairs.

Then finally you’d have a few seconds to figure out what was going on before you were one-shot-killed by a projectile, with very like time to work out where you could have moved to.

I’ve still never truly beaten Gozer, but finally used save states to finish the game on my Anbernic a couple of years ago, meaning it took me about 30 years to see the ending.

Oh wow. So that’s what it’s doing. I could see it was ignoring most metadata that other software would use, but never thought of that.

Great to have an answer, but a shame it’s such an incredibly stupid one!

Edit: With the help of a python script made by Claude I’ve made things better.

But even now that things are ordered correctly many albums ”start” at track 10 and finish with tracks 1-9, so I have to scroll back to go to track 1. Madness.

I both love and hate mine. The fundamental sound quality, size, weight and aesthetic is great. And I love an interface that means album artwork doesn’t matter.

Being a universal USB C DAC is great.

But the software quality control is horrendous. Every update introduces a new bug, you can’t update without wiping all your settings, and some albums won’t show the tracks in the right order no matter what I try.

Yep.

I can’t imagine ever buying another console again.

Have a steam deck and set up my budget Linux machine yesterday.

Got so many PS2 and PS3 games I can’t play anymore on a single device. Never going to have that problem again.