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For kids, Disneyland is great

I've had some speedy responses to my support requests on the Shield controller issues, to be fair to them. No solution yet, but a decent dialogue. Which is nice

Tried this out on my Nvidia Shield today. Not a great first impression as controller functionality is all over the place. Works ok on most "computer" games but arcade games are unplayable as Insert Coin and Start are on the same button and first button push doesn't start the game; only the second push starts the game.. which also inserts a second coin, so you always start in 2-player mode. 

Galaga doesn't recognise my controller inputs at all either. 

Thought I'd go to their discord server linked from their website, to get some support, but the link is a 404/the server is shut down.

Sad, as the 'computer' stuff is mostly nice.

Thanks for the tip on the film. It's available for streaming from my local Library's collection it seems

11 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

I think the problem with this RG350 models is there's always a new one just around the corner the 52 will be out soon I'm sure! And its bound to be even better.

Rg351v is just about to release! GB form and 640x480 screen are the main draws.

My wife and I have a weekly appointment trawling through the collection of awful diaster films by The Asylum and the like. Plenty of comet/earthquake/hurricane/tsunami crap

Was the Buster Crabbe one tongue in cheek? Crappy and cheesy as hell, but I didn't think that was deliberate

11 hours ago, Welrain said:

Land that Time Forgot isn’t a Ray Harryhausen, did you mean one million years bc?  Land is all puppets not stop motion.

Plastic dinosaurs, both are fun. Whatevs

Some films we watched recently

All the classic Herbie films

Lots of the Ray Haryhausen films (Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad, Land that time forgot etc)

Police Squad/Airplane/Naked Gun series (the risque parts go over their heads)

Last Starfighter

Goonies

Tron

No new episode to hate-watch tonight

9 hours ago, drmick said:

 

She seemed to disappear a bit for this season. Wait, that wasn't her with the rest of the bridge crew was it? I thought she was blonde.

I got confused by that at various times. I had to scroll back through the ep to figure it out. This other, rather similar-looking, bridge-crew member with black hair seems to have appeared in the last couple of episodes. But the blonde one one (google tells me she's called Lt. Nilsson) is still there too. Does anyone know the name of the one with dark hair?

On 04/01/2021 at 23:49, Barnard said:

One more episode! I'm so excited! Building up to a cracking season 4!

 

http://blog.trekcore.com/2021/01/star-trek-discovery-season-finale-photos-that-hope-is-you-part-2/

Hey, I think you're looking for a different thread. This is the Discovery Hate-Watch thread

Watched it all now and rather enjoyed it. Unsubtle political allegory, but a good 'wartime resistance' movie.

7 hours ago, Huz said:

Also did anyone watch it in UHD and did it look any good?

It was a bit dark, murky yellow for me. I switched to the non-HDR version. But my cheap Sammy is a bit rubbish for some HDR.

This is out on Netflix now (in Sweden at least). Enjoyable first 10 minutes so far. The fact the UK cinematic release was cancelled doesn't fill me with hope though.

Over Xmas I unboxed my old dvd collection that we haven't looked at since we moved here six years ago. Loving going through some old classics and, surprisingly, finding it much easier to choose something to watch than we do on streaming services. And the upscaled DVDs look better on our TV than I expected then to!

22 minutes ago, probotector said:

 

...he set back progressive politics a decade and empowered the incel neckbeards

A Star Wars film managed that?

That was just horrible and made no sense at all.

Is it up? I'm not watching it today. Gertcha.

I definitely get some Idris Elba vibes from him, in looks and intensity. It's not just the Black British guy in sci-fi thing. He's nothing like, I dunno, John Boyega or Noel Clarke for example.

Maybe a bit Paterson Joseph though, from when he was in Survivors.... Not so much from Peep Show though

On 02/12/2020 at 23:51, Rob_Pulsar said:

Hey. Can anyone recommend a handheld that will do Dreamcast and N64 emulation (and below) please?  I see the RG351 above isn’t quite there. 
 

Has anyone tried an android phone with a controller shell? I say Android as I assume iOS is a no go for emulation?

 

This is going to be a gift for my sons so ideally something robust and not costing more than £200 if possible. Thanks 

The GPD XD Plus while being old now is still one of the best for N64 and DC. A bit overpriced but nicely made. 

Powkiddy X18 is a slightly cheaper (in all aspects) alternative that still does well.

Looks like the one I bought from Argos close to 20 years ago. It was good