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  1. Posted

    On 24/09/2022 at 6:34 AM, Hero-of-Time said:

    Kai Winn actress has passed away. :(

    Her work in DS9 was tremendous. You were meant to hate Kai Winn and she pulled it off amazingly well.

    Thanks for sharing this, didn't know... agreed, she played that character so brilliantly.

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    oops typo

    9 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:

    Did anyone on here watch season 2 of Lower Decks? I think I only got through the first few episodes and then never went back. Watching the trailer for the next season (DS9 part at the end is hilarious) makes me want to fire it up again and try and get through them all this time.

    I wasn't expecting to enjoy Lower Decks, and at first the whole "production line cartoon"ness of it made me cringe... but within 2-3 episodes I realised how much of a love letter it is to all the Star Trek seasons, jammed full of so many references when the characters geek out and talk about canon stuff that it's absolutely fantastic.

    I've heard you'd have to be a full-on Star Trek historian to be able to understand every reference in every line of dialogue.

    Highly recommended!

  4. Posted · Edited by mr_bogus

    On 12/05/2022 at 2:41 PM, Hero-of-Time said:
      Final Episode (Reveal hidden contents)

    ...

    Overall I loved it. I found it much better than the first season. Here's hoping a 3rd season isn't too far behind.

    Same here. I'd heard from some that it also falls apart in the second half like S1 did and was bracing myself for it, but for the most part I found it really enjoyable and was looking forward to each next episode, and now to Season 3.

    Reminded me a bit of The Voyage Home (that cameo on the bus was ace!) and also Future's End from Voyager.

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  6. Posted

    On 24/03/2021 at 8:52 AM, Happenstance said:

    ......I.......hmmmmm.......well.......that was.........sure something

    ...what have I just witnessed?

    I feel possibly even more confused than Q when he's trying to understand human empathy.

    Guess at least I can tick "see Garrett Wang in his underwear" off the bucket list now.

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  7. Posted · Edited by mr_bogus
    spoiler tag

    I'm halfway through S7 now, missed most of that season back in the day (it was the year I moved to UK). Some good episodes but a fair amount of filler too. Then they suddenly reach the last episode and "oh crap we have to finish it now, and we only have a double episode left... um...

    Spoiler

    ok Janeway from the future comes back with cheat codes. Done"

     

     

  9. Posted

    On 28/02/2021 at 5:07 PM, Hero-of-Time said:

    Just finished watching the episode where Kes lives her life backwards. I never realised Year of Hell was teased during this. Was a nice surprise.

    I still remember seeing that one for the first time in the 90s when it was screening, and chatting to friends afterwards about how cool those scenes were and how cool it would be to see more of it. Then the next season it actually happened and we were so excited.

  10. Posted

    On 19/02/2021 at 1:35 AM, sumo73 said:

    His character is more fleshed out in Klingon Academy, a PC game from 2000 that passed me back in the day.

    Indeed. Considering how much Plummer disliked the prosthetics/makeup for the movie, it's fantastic that he went through it again to act out so much more footage for the game.

    Ignoring the stretched aspect ratio, have a look him once again giving it his all in this performance:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiV5eciReto

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  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, Happenstance said:

    I really hope they spend some extra time on the rest of the crew in season 4. It’s all well and good showing them all loving each other but with other Trek shows we would know them all so much better by now. They need to get their own stories.

    This has been my most regular issue with pretty much the whole of Season 3. I understand Michael is the main character, but do they really need to make her wear all the hats in every episode, ignoring other crew members (or characters they've met) who are so much more suited to the task?

    The scriptwriters also tend to forget any trouble or demotions she got before, and constantly reward her for being irresponsible, going against Federation orders, and spontaneously putting everyone's lives in danger... yet Saru, a fantastic captain who upheld the Federation's rubric whenever possible, lost his chair to her (despite her being stripped of her rank as Number One just a few episodes prior to that).

    The scriptwriters really don't seem to have thought about the bigger picture from episode to episode.

  12. Posted · Edited by mr_bogus
    Added youtube link

    Having learned bass parts in the past - either to play on actual bass guitar or on keys (yep I've played keyboard bass in bands, pitchforks lighter fluid and matches are on the shelf to your left) - I really appreciate when the bass player does something interesting that really makes the song.

    Compare some RHCP or Black Sabbath basslines, to ones where they just follow the guitar chords (glances over at Metallica)

    Quite a few successful pop songs over the years too, I've discovered the bass line has really made the song (Hold Me Now by Thompson Twins, Crush by Jennifer Paige and In Your Eyes by Kylie are ones that spring to mind... I'm sure there's more modern examples too)

    Here's the start of a Flea youtube spiral to get an idea what I mean...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEF8WejnEc

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  13. Posted

    23 hours ago, Fierce_LiNk said:

    The Scarlett is great. Really simple to use and it works like a dream with Studio One. Looking forward to really playing about with this over the summer, and I can already tell that this is going to suck up a loooooot of time. I haven't hooked up my drum kit to this yet to see how that sounds or works, but I would imagine that it works well. (I've got a Roland V-Drumkit, so it's just a case of plugging the guitar cable into the output and hooking that to the Scarlett)

    So turns out it was an easy fix for the Scarlett, MacOS Catalina by default sets the bitrate from the default 48Khz down to 44Khz which makes it freeze. So all fixed and up running with the Scarlett + Macbook + Logic again :)

    Have used PreSonus Studio One at a colleague's house, it's great. Really straightforward and intuitive UI/UX, even not being familiar with the software I could find my way around it really easily and figure out what was going on.

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  16. Posted · Edited by mr_bogus

    Piano and synth connected to the 10 year old mac mini, cos the Scarlett audio device stopped working with the newer Macbook when I let it upgrade to Catalina 😢

    That’s a Korg X50, still my favourite & most versatile recording + gigging keyboard. (The Nord stage, by comparison,  hasn’t left its carry bag since lockdown started!)

     

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  18. Posted

    Grabbed it last night in Australia, they currently have stock at both EB Games and JB HiFi.

     

    Such barebones packaging - you literally get the cart and a single piece of paper inside. No booklet or anything. Still glad to have supported the physical release!

     

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    Had the PC version of that back in the day, and was convinced they'd accidentally used the CGA palette for all graphics cards (even EGA/VGA).

     

    For anyone too young to remember old PC graphics cards (lucky you), it had 2 palettes but the majority of games used Cyan/Purple/White:

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  20. Posted

    Hey hey! What about the new radio stations, Cruising Line and Camino a Mi Amor? They both fit in pretty well, imo. I always thought that if I raced well in Out Run, the good bit at the end of Splash Wave* would kick in on stage five, making it a sort of victory lap. However on this version, even flooring it with all the upgrades on, the music always peaks on stage four. ::shrug: Unless its F-Zero X, 60fps must be too much for me.

     

    Absolutely love Cruising Line, it fits the game so perfectly. Camino a Mi Amor sometimes feels right and sometimes not so much! Still glad to have both of them.

     

    I love how when you play without crashing, Cruising Line's styles/sections change with the scenery.

     

    The best EQ I've found for both headphones and speakers is like a < shape - high treble & bass, leave the mids in the middle. Then I am on a 3DS XL and I know the new ones have way better speakers...

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    Playing these games in 3D makes me both excited to finally be able to see the perspective decently beyond the blocks sprites, and it also makes me feel fortunate to be old enough to have experienced these in the arcades, before everything went polygonal (and then grainy and realistic and less colourful).

     

    I have specific memories of seeing each of these games for the first time - Outrun (in an arcade while on a school trip), Afterburner (at the shopping centre where I'd go to the cinema with friends on weekends or during holidays), Powerdrift (at a different cinema complex, somebody was actually once playing it wearing his motorcycle helmet! Couldn't ridicule him because he was brilliant at the game tho), Space Harrier (far out of town resort that I sometimes went with my friend's family maybe once every year or 2), etc.

     

    It's a pity that those type of associative memories are mostly lost now with playing everything on home PCs/consoles.

  24. Posted

    Physical copy arrived. I'm going to be honest and I say I thought the whole collection was on there, but I didn't read anything up on it before hand. :p

     

    Didn't realise there was a physical version out in JP! That looks ace :)

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