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Two movies to recommend. Omnipresent a Bulgarian movie about a guy playing big brother. It's on HBO. The Dry an Aussie mystery/drama movie.

What about the Windows Photo Viewer app? Or are you using Photos app?

If it makes you feel any better it's the same in my case, plus no internet.

@LittleArmadillo0 If you like that here is a rabbit hole for you to fall in to. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZe6ZCbF9xgbbbdkiodPKQ

I have Xiaomi Mi Box S and it has been doing work for a couple of years now, although I only used it for 1080p and never tried 4k. You can sideload any app you need and can attach external storage to it. Alternatively Nvidia Shield is getting good reviews all around but it's price is higher than the rest of the competition.

It's kind of magnified in the US as the economy is so overinflated that the wage gaps are astronomical. Other than Switzerland there is no country in the world with wages of the same level and Switzerland has very little economic inequality.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/us-threat-democracy-russia-china-global-poll

If you never used an IPS you will take some getting used to the glow the panel produces. The positives of IPS are excellent color reproduction (calibration may be required) and great viewing angles, the negatives are relatively poor contrast ratio.

If you win anything, I'm calling that game unrealistic...

Looks to be a quality IPS pannel. The resolution may be an overkill for that size, I personally would have gone for a higher refresh rate.

Tried out Homeworld Remastered, specifically HM2. Started up a game against a CPU to see if I still remember how to play it. It all came back to me pretty quick and the first Battlecruiser was out in a couple of minutes, at which point I discovered the reduced unit caps and no level 2 or 3 research. Upon further research I discover that they balanced HW2 to be inline with HW1... Whyyyyyyy... Also there seem to be a lot less maps then before, or maybe I'm misremembering. While they have modernized the game with the basic quality of life changes, they ****ed it up with the balancing especially considering that they abandoned the game completely. There are some community patches out there in a form of a mod, but as far as Gearbox is concerned they will not touch the remaster anymore. I don't understand why they didn't just remaster the game and leave the gameplay as is, especially if they had no plans to support it in the long run. Maybe they expected more sales or a larger active community. Whatever the case may be I don't like the end product. This does not bode well for Homeworld 3...

At least Bioshock had an interesting premise and design/gameplay. TLOU2 gameplay was painful to watch let alone play.

Yep it was there, but the colors were so off I missed it. Either way that part wasn't really that jarring for me, comparing it to some other thing.

You monster. 😄

Interesting, they either redid that scene (tomb of Balin) for the extended cut, or used a different cut as I couldn't find that particular shot, or it's a different scene.

Just rewatched that scene, what bothers you about it?

If game reviews were like this, maybe I would read them.

Matrix 2 and 3 come to mind.

To that point, rewatching LotR in 4k showed how much better the practical effects are in the long run. Gollum is starting to show his age and the scene where Frodo and Sam run in to mount Doom is particularly bad.

Happy Birthday!

@BruceVC Do you know how it ended?

Here in Serbia, they are thinking of adding vaccination areas in malls. Seems that even walking in appointments are not enough to motivate people to get vaccinated.

Read the first book of the series when I was in high school, need to give that series another shot.

I think that if Japan tried anything against China again, China would sink those islands no matter the cost. Too many memories there, I think the Chinese people would force the government's hand.