As a fellow Brit I have indeed done horrifying things with naan breads but mine weren’t home made. What’s the book? It sounds fantastic.

Breakfast naans are a thing?

Mmmmm

I’ve got a fairly nice 65" Dolby Vision/HDR10/etc. set with a decent NITS rating. I reckon your scaler is the defining difference. I think I was playing it through an Xbox One X and the results were hideous.

I’ve yet to encounter a good upscaler but I’m glad you’re happy with your setup!

To what screen size?

I put in my copy of The Hogfather a few years back and took it straight back out. I should probably check if there’s a better quality release available although I can’t imagine they did the effects for anything above 1080p.

I’m pretty open. I’ve been using the internet this way for about 25 years and to date it’s never been a problem. I’ve got clothes with my handle across the shoulders, etc. so it’s not a secret who I am. I try not to be too specific about some stuff that I don’t feel are mine to talk about, or that might be professionally problematic (I don’t really talk about my current employment anyway - I’m not ashamed of it, it’s just not very interesting and doesn’t particularly define me so it’s not very relevant).

In various online communities over the years I’ve been one of the biggest fish so I’m occasionally recognised which varies between flattering and a little uncomfortable (usually in terms of " You clearly want something so what is it you want me to do/not do or wish I had done/hadn’t done?" but with socially awkward pleasantries). This has resulted in someone trying to use an FAQ I wrote to argue against me, not realising - meaning I effectively had to dust off the old “don’t you know who I am‽” type of response (albeit minus the diva overtones).

In the past the odd person has been a bit stalky and then been surprised when this information doesn’t intimidate me (I recall a particularly memorable one being “I know what you look like” to which my response was a photo of me with a shocked face). I do care what other people think but disapproval doesn’t bother me all that much. I try to be true to myself so when confronted there’s nothing to use against me - there’s no cognitive dissonance (so if I was an arsehole, no, I meant to be, it wasn’t an accident, it’s what I felt was an honest response to the situation).

That’s exactly what I mean though - I want to be much later than the advertised start because it’s a damn lie.

A friend of mine is super anxious about being late for stuff. This did not jive with my desire to be as late as possible to films. My ideal time to take my seat is about a minute before it starts. I already paid for a ticket, fuck off with your adverts.

To be fair, DVDs look terrible on what’s a normal sized screen these days 😉

Cinemas are almost peak predatory capitalism. Unsurprisingly I’m not super keen on going. Sort your act out, cinemas, or piss off.

As a result I’ve got a small home cinema setup in my home. It’s only 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos but it’s a far cry from VHS on some 28" CRT on the other side of the room.

Game development as a service.

Boak.

Every time I consider learning more JS because it’s widely used I find myself between a rock and a hard place. It’s popular but it probably shouldn’t be and I don’t want to contribute to it being used even more for whatever mad shit is being attempted now.

Smartphones with WiFi came waaaaay later!

I’ve no idea what market penetration was like on a different continent twenty years ago 😂

Many Nokia phones ran Symbian S60 (I specify because there was a number of Symbian OSes. I’ve never quite pinned down why). Not just Nokia, but in their day Nokia were THE phone company.

I went from a Nokia N90 to an iPhone. The iPhone had fewer features at the time (the app store came later, it couldn’t record video - let alone edit it, etc.). The thing was that the features it did have were so much more user friendly. It was night and day.

Smartphones are surprisingly old although I doubt more than a tiny handful of their users actually knew what they were capable of back in the day. I had my N-Gage setup with a web browser, MSN Messenger client (the IM service of choice in the UK at the time), Xvid video player, Ogg Vorbis audio, office software, and quite a few games too (both Java and native). My N90 could use all the same software when I moved to it a few years later.

When were we a free country?

Smartphones are much older than that. Symbian Series 60 had a substantial install base long before the iPhone. The N-Gage was a smart phone, for example, so we’re not just talking high end stuff.

Smart phones didn’t start with those features.

…he said, oldly.

I should get some new batteries for mine.

For me the PSP is a story of squandered potential. There were some great games but so few seemed to really embrace the potential of the format.