Posts by Minos

  • What have you watched recently?

    Quote from Radu

    On 10/5/2020 at 1:27 PM, Radu said:

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    Great series, watched it twice already ?

  • Tenet - new Nolan movie ?

    I watched it last night.

    Spoiler Couldn't understand shit. The sound is horrible and loud. Everyone is either whispering, or talking through masks or telephones. The pacing of the movie is ridiculous. It's 2.5 hours of non-stop dialogues and industrial horns and action scenes. There are no slow moments so you can try to digest what you are watching. The plot sounds really dumb deep down, with some horrible pseudo-science to try to justify things (unlike Interstellar that was "stellar" in this regard). The movie is overly complicated, maybe he was trying to to make it seem more than it really is. There's no character development at all, nor they even explain where the hell the characters come from, and what their motivations are. Nothing makes sense. This is one mess of a movie. I thought of walking out in the middle of it, something I've never done, but I was too stubborn to do so.

    Final Minos rating: 4/10

  • Raised By Wolves (Ridley Scott/HBO series)

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    The master directed the first two episodes, this looks amazing, will have to check it out!

  • THPS 1+2

    I was watching a review of this game the other day and I felt a little sad. So much work and love put into this... so I can replay the exact same game I played a thousand times! Would have been cool if they had come up with at least a few new levels, but I guess that's a very hard thing to do these days :D Seems like our culture is stuck in a loop of nostalgia... Capitalist creativity has reached its peak and everyone is afraid of making new things. I wonder what happened that caused this.

    With that being said, I will still check out the free key I got for it, the environments look cool!

  • Dune

    The new Blade Runner is not a masterpiece but it's an amazing movie. The environments are very believable, really great lighting and surfaces! I would watch it again.

  • Half-Life Alyx

    Quote from Minos

    On 8/17/2020 at 4:59 PM, Minos said: Finally got an Oculus Rift S! After fucking around trying to get it to work for days, I found out that my USB 3.0 didn't provide enough power. Got a new USB card, put it on, Oculus works once, then craps out. I switch around HDMI ports and then it works. I then jump into this game, eager to play it... and I get this annoying stutter every second or so (When I move my head sometimes one frame freezes and I can see the black borders around it).

    Now here I go spend another week to figure out what's causing that. I'd guess it has something to do with Oculus Home always being on and using resources unnecessarily. Seems like if you play VR games on Steam not only your GPU has to render the game itself, but also Oculus and SteamVR bloatware in the background. This whole thing feels hacky as fuck (Oculus, not Alyx).

    Hopefully I can sort these problems out and enjoy this baby :D

    Turns out the reason why Alyx runs like shit for me is that I have an old CPU. Guess it's time to get a new computer, this baby here has served me very well for 8 years already :D

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from Buddy

    11 hours ago, Buddy said: I was going to complain here but then I made a mental checklist of how things are going and there is honestly nothing I can reasonably complain about.

    It's my responsibility to fix stuff that bothers me.. so I guess I really can't have a moan? There are things that are out of our control but most really aren't.

    Who am I to say what's right or wrong but you may be depriving yourself from valuable resources by not complaining. It's useful to complain to friends sometimes, you might get a different perspective on what troubles you, some suggestions, or even a pat on the back to give you some energy. (or a hump from behind if your friend is HP).

    A bit unrelated, but the other day the weed was super strong and me and a buddy got into a nice philosophical discussion. He argued that people should do whatever they want as long as they don't harm others. I used to live by that thought, but the more I mature, the more I realize that kind of thinking is what got us into some of the troubles we have today. Sure, you should be free to pursue your dreams and Earthly pleasures, but we also need to develop a stronger sense of duty and responsibility if we are to live better lives, and that means doing things that you don't like sometimes, that benefit the greater good, otherwise we just live a meaningless life chasing after material things and pleasure, never feeling quite content or fulfilled.

    In Starship Troopers to become a citizen (and have the right to vote) you first have to serve your country. Of course in reality, this would mean fighting other people's wars. But it would be awesome if we had some program to get benefits in exchange for public service. For example, clean some streets or beaches, or paint some walls, and get a tax break etc...

  • Half-Life Alyx

    Finally got an Oculus Rift S! After fucking around trying to get it to work for days, I found out that my USB 3.0 didn't provide enough power. Got a new USB card, put it on, Oculus works once, then craps out. I switch around HDMI ports and then it works. I then jump into this game, eager to play it... and I get this annoying stutter every second or so (When I move my head sometimes one frame freezes and I can see the black borders around it).

    Now here I go spend another week to figure out what's causing that. I'd guess it has something to do with Oculus Home always being on and using resources unnecessarily. Seems like if you play VR games on Steam not only your GPU has to render the game itself, but also Oculus and SteamVR bloatware in the background. This whole thing feels hacky as fuck (Oculus, not Alyx).

    Hopefully I can sort these problems out and enjoy this baby :D