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[–] freamon 5 points 9 months ago

I think it's difficult to know where we really are in the release cycle for this console, as it's been disrupted so much by initial unavailability and COVID. Normally, we'd be due a Pro version this year, but it could be this year, it could be next year, it could be never.

Last generation I was happy with a standard PS4 until I played Control, and could see that it was struggling. I'm not sure there's any PS5 games that are known to stress the hardware, and would do anything with the extra resources.

I'd buy one now if I were you. Worse case scenario: you'll want to trade it in for an upgrade in a year or two.

[–] freamon 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use the pi or whatever little computer that's presumably hosting the pi-hole software to also be a DHCP server (and turn off the DHCP server on ISP's router). It can then advertise itself as the DNS server.

[–] freamon 1 points 10 months ago

For anyone else wondering, btw, it's because lemmy expects all 'id' fields to be unique, so it would error if the inner object actually was a copy of the original vote.

[–] freamon 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw a fan-edit of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines called 'Terminator 3: The Coming Storm'.

It cuts out all the goofy stuff from the original, leaving a tight 90-minute dystopian thriller that I really enjoyed.

It's only available in DVD-type quality, but I didn't mind (I've only got a 1080p projector).

[–] freamon 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In a fit of self-loathing, I viewed the page via 12ft.io to circumvent the paywall.

It doesn’t get better. “As an educated, heterosexual, Christian black man”, the author enjoyed “Boyz n the Hood,” “Menace II Society,” “Baby Boy,” “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” “American Gangster,” and “Training Day” even though they didn’t represent his lived experience.

These are all films directed ages ago by men, but - somehow - it’s only possible to depict black men like this due to modern Hollywood ‘wokeness’. If you wanted to a black character to be - I don’t know - a policeman or a chocolatier, it wouldn’t be possible. This is why Wonka and Fargo Season 5 weren’t produced, and we never got to see them.

It’s 'cos of the women, you see? Matriarchs, like - um - Tyler Perry, prevent black heterosexual men from been shown as anything other than criminals. They know it’s the only thing white liberals will accept.

The author mostly liked ‘American Fiction’, in having the courage to unravel this great conspiracy. Apparently, it’s great to see to someone like him on screen, because Representation Matters of course, but he didn’t like the LGBTQ elements, because representation of people unlike him doesn’t matter, and that’s just “gay mafia pandering”.

[–] freamon 3 points 10 months ago

I imagine so. But I think it's more the case that allegations don't arise in the first place if the actors have the opportunity to establish who's going to put what hand where before filming even starts.

[–] freamon 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's been grumblings from older actors about the need for intimacy coordinators. As Eccleston acknowledges in the article - this is one of the reasons why.

[–] freamon 2 points 10 months ago

My neighbours have played some terrible music before, but this whistling-down-the-drainpipe tune is the worst yet.

[–] freamon 4 points 10 months ago

Fargo's just finished an entertaining run. I wasn't sure about the finale, but I'm going to watch it again now I know what they were going for (also, it had so many fade-to-blacks for what would be an ad-break that that I thought 'is this the final scene?' about 5 times).

True Detective's back! Sort of: there was a clearly a show called Night Country that's been Cloverfielded into the franchise. But Jodie Foster's awesome (obvs) and the first episode was good, slightly spooky, fun.

I've got about 10 minutes left of ep 1 of Monsieur Spade - it's handsome stuff, but required more concentration than I had last night.

Season 4 of Taskmaster New Zealand is really funny. If nothing else, someone like Bubba shows how comfortably middle-class the UK version has got.

Oh, and I've downloaded - but not watched yet - a show called Criminal Record (it's got Peter Capaldi in it)

[–] freamon 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Markdown format:

[what the link says it is](where the link goes)

Normally, you'd do [awesome YouTube link](https://youtube.com/) but there's nothing stopping anyone doing [https://lemmy.com](https://youtube.com)

[–] freamon 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's Lemmy's fault: the original is a static gif file, and picts-rs has converted it into an MP4, on the unsophisticated assumption that it's animated.

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