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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Starting a review game tonight - Isles of Sea & Sky is a GBA-style zelda-like. I love this kind of game, I'm going live with it in ten mins, see you at twitch.tv/nethesem

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Interesting debate about product reviews after MKBHD blasted the Humane AI Pin. I think there's a valid discussion around being tasteful in criticism - but it blows my mind that the Humane pin was the flash point. It was bad when they announced it. Why is anyone surprised that it's bad on release?

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

I'm starting Salt & Sanctuary 1 tonight - seen almost nothing of this game, so looking forward to taking a swing at it! See you in an hour on Twitch: twitch.tv/nethesem

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Adamant IT @adamantit.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

I entirely forgot to post anything here. So here's an Asus Zephyrus with Liquid Metal leaking all over the CPU 👌 There's a line of silicone sealant to keep it contained, but I suspect heat and expansion allowed the LM to blow through it. Took some cleaning, but the laptop survived!

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Starting The Outer Worlds tonight, not actually sure what I'm getting into, but everyone says it's great, and Obsidian certainly know what they're doing. So here goes nothing! See you in an hour at twitch.tv/nethesem

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

No twitch stream tonight - away seeing family! Will be back on Thursday with Snufkin game though, review copy came through!

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

OK touch-wood, rumours of Mirror's Edge being a little janky on modern systems and particularly difficult to stream/record look like they're greatly exaggerated. I'm going full-send and shall try to stream it in 30mins! Not played it for a very very long time! twitch.tv/nethesem

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Yea I'm having a blast with it... It's got jank, but it prioritises fun over polish. There's a simple tutorial at the start, and the base upgrade objectives help give you something to work towards. There's definitely a few tips I'd give new players though, which the game doesn't make clear.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

So I'm playing Palworld, and saw this interesting scene... I was exploring this area fairly quickly, so this neat grid of sleeping Foxparks spawned at night and instantly went to sleep, staying perfectly in grid and alignment with the spawn points.

A group of 9 Foxparks in perfect grid alignment.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Switch lubing for my keyboard refurb project! It's easy work, just lots of them to do. Should make my old MasterKeys super quiet though!

Cherry MX key switch in parts, with a switch opening tool, lube, and switch films.

Cherry MX key switch in parts, with a switch opening tool, lube, and brush

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I'm starting Ratchet & Clank, Rift Apart naaaoooow! Never played R&C before, so jumping in at the modern end of the series - twitch.tv/nethesem

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

>watching the intro "Man it's a shame Alec doesn't have a chronos or something..." >the reveal "ITS HAPPENING! HE DID IT! IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!" For real though, amazing video - never knew there was so much going on inside a flash bulb 👌

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 28/01/2024

In over 10 years of self-employment, I think this might be the first year when, upon doing my tax return, I had all the logins, security codes and other requisite ID numbers all on hand and ready to go.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Super insightful, thanks for sharing 👌

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

I'm just about finished with Sonic Frontiers, took a lot longer than I thought to complete to the amount I wanted - last stream for the end of DLC3 on thursday. In the mean time OH MY GOD THE BOSS TRACKS GO SO HARD THOUGH... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEX...

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Sonic Frontiers OST- All Titan Boss Themes

All Titan Boss Themes from Sonic FrontiersSong List:-Undefeatable-Break through it All-Find your FLAME-I'm HereWhich is your Favourite?

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

This is what greeted me when I turned on my work PC this morning. This is Edge on default settings (I don't use it). How is the average person supposed to make sense of this screen? At a technical level, Edge is completely fine, but my god the default experience is awful to look at.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Ellie series 2 my beloved... I've missed having one of these. Expensive, but feels so much more premium. Rear paddles make stick-clicks so much nicer, and all other buttons can be remapped for Nintendo controls, or games that won't let you customise.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

This law proposes that you will need to be earning over £38k a year to be allowed to bring your foreign spouse to the UK. I have a few friends who will be affected by this nonsense law. If you're a brit bong, sign the petition to fight it! Takes 30 seconds! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/65...

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Petition: Don’t increase the income requirement for family visas to £38,700

Currently the financial requirements to bring your spouse to the UK is £18,600 per year and now the Government wants to more than double it. Most people in the UK don’t make that per year. We belie...

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Tonight, we being Breath of the Hedgehog - I mean, Sonic Frontiers! I'm still undecided on this game, so time to see if I like it or not! See you in 20mins on Twitch - twitch.tv/nethesem

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Christmas Eve special stream! Link's Awakening like I've never seen it before - going live, now! twitch.tv/nethesem

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

I'm sick and my comfort playlist is Ben Eater's 8-Bit Breadboard computer. IMHO this is the best way to understand TTL logic and how CPUs work at the most basic level. Required watching for computer science. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Building an 8-bit breadboard computer!

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Fantastic - heck yes, commander!

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

So I'm half way through season 1 of Invincible... man... this show is intense. It's really, really good. Just as you think the violence is gratuitous, it makes a point about how this would be the reality. Just as you think a character is a shallow insert, they reveal their motivations. Outstanding.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Lego Fortnite is a very big symptom of Epic pushing Fortnite as a metaverse - something Epic have talked about for a long time. Fortnite isn't just a game anymore, it's a platform. This isn't new, but I think it's only now that I'm agreeing with them.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Rimworld stream and possible finale is on tonight - home from holiday sooner than expected. See y'all at 7! twitch.tv/nethesem

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Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

As a fellow content creator, I've noticed that a large amount of the audience don't 'get you' as much as you think they would. And like, that's ok - it's not a dig at the audience or anything - I just think that not as much tone/world view comes across as you think it would.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I've started dipping my toes into Stellaris after a lot of bullying from a friend, and man, I'd have tried it a lot sooner if someone had said "have you played Sins of a Solar Empire?" But also that's a really obscure game so I'm not surprised either.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

It's much more about keeping everyone moving in the right direction than it is about suddenly arriving at all of the same conclusions at once, which is why it sucks that leftists often choose to divide each other over pedantry. 2/2

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

My friend has this Bus analogy: We want to get to the destination of [our goals]. But there are stops we have to get to before that, and sometimes the person sitting next to you wants to get off earlier. 1/2

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

The new version of Handbrake is now doing cropping on GPU, not CPU. I record 4x 1080p streams as a 4k mosaic, and then transcode it back into 4x 1080p files later, so I was extremely CPU-bottlenecked. This update has made my transcoding literally twice as fast - big W for the handbrake team.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I love this pic, and your previous one!

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Firefox is not to killing MV2, which makes them an attractive alternative for people who want powerful extensions. But given that the majority of extensions I see installed on Joe Public's laptop are spyware, this move by Google is not surprising, and in my pro opinion, not motivated by greed. 3/3

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

MV3 is more restrictive and requires adblockers to rethink how they work, and will limit their capabilities, but this is a side effect, not by design. The point of MV3 is to limit the permissions of extensions, as right now extensions can do a lot of obscenely insecure things. 2/?

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

The headline doing the rounds that "google is disabling uBlock Origin" is so misleading that I'm commenting about it. What's actually happening is that Chrome is switching from MV2 to MV3 extensions, a change that's been planned since 2018, and is nothing to do with adblocking _per se_. 1/?

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 16/11/2023

Someone (programmer) stands in front of you (user) with a knife. They go to stab you. An angel (CPU designer) dilates space-time so the knife is still traveling but requiring infinite force to accelerate. They overcome this and stab you anyway. That’s why your computer is slow.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I'm starting a new game tonight - Kena: Bridge of Spirits. This one's been on my radar for a few years as a simple, pretty action adventure game. Time to finally bust it out on Twitch. See you in an hour at twitch.tv/nethesem !

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Finished Half Life: Alyx. It is indeed, the pinnacle of VR gaming. The 3rd act is a hell of a ride.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

This got me bopping in tesco while I bought dinner. Absolute banger. Really digging the synthwave bands like Gunship and The Midnight right now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELdk...

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GUNSHIP - Symmetrical [Official Audio]

Taken from GUNSHIP's second album 'Dark All Day'. Stream & Download: https://gunship.ffm.to/darkallday.OYDSubscribe: https://cutt.ly/Gunship-YTOfficial Store...

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

eurrrgh. Sounds like another case of Sega trying to hit that old-school tone without actually understanding what made it good. Controller lag will hopefully get fixed, but yea, tight-controls are critical in a platformer.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

What's Superstars like? I watched the trailers, and it kinda looks like a Mario clone attempt =/

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I don't think I'll delete my account, just leave my name set to bluesky and pinned comment, so it's a pointer to where I've moved to.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Alyx is the best VR game I've played. It's that good. If you have VR, you should absolutely try it.

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

I'm starting Half-Life Alyx in VR over on Twitch NAAAOOOWW! twitch.tv/nethesem

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Half-Life: Alyx (The VR one...)

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Adamant IT @adamantit.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

I fixed a wireless Logitech keyboard where the USB port was broken off and rattling around inside👌 I should advertise peripheral repair more...🤔

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Logitech K800 USB Port Fix - LFC#371

This Logitech K800 came in with the USB port broken off and rattling around inside. Customer is fond of the keyboard, so wanted it fixed!Check out Adamant IT...

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

But I could heat a fork with a blow torch and solder thru-hole. Soldering modern heavy-weight 6+ layer PCBs with double-sided SMD loads is a completely different world, and requires completely different tools. I'm sorry industry vet, but your experience is worthless in this house. 3/3

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

I can't reply to this comment without saying unkind things, like how his experience is completely obsolete, and the tools of yesteryear can't compete with modern tools. These old irons were fine in his day when he was working on thru-hole electronics. 2/?

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Frustrating YouTube comment: industry veteran upset that I called an Antex soldering iron garbage, talks about his 60years experience with antex, etc. Accuses me of talking down to my audience, and blaming bad tools instead of bad craftsmanship. 1/?

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Gah... It's EGX weekend and I completely forgot that it existed. I need to get my ass in gear, it's the second event that's suddenly happened and left me thinking 'oh I kinda wanted to go to that and forgot to plan...'

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nethesem @nethesem.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I recorded a talking-head video where I read a script whilst NVIDIA Broadcast's Eye Contact filter made it look like I was looking at the camera the whole time. There are some... interesting... artefacts. Probably won't use it again, but neat experiment and proof of concept😅

Picture of nethesem looking at camera. During a hand clap, an eye is super-imposed over the top of the hands for several frames.

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