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I miss the early style of 3D animation. Like ReBoot. Or that one Kylie Minogue video.

Those sleek, smooth surfaces & simple 2D textures. The deliberate (& clunky) animation. It's the result of hitting a wall with CGI, and once we cleared that wall this style died with it. I sorta get why - it's like using pencils and suddenly the world moves on to paints, but what about the folks that like pencils?

Good stuff.

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    I have opinions about music tagging! I'm picky; I don't trust any amount of automation to find the exact right release with the right album art I want, so I use GUIs instead of a CLI -

    MusicBrainz has Picard, and that's pretty slick. Also includes a handy renaming tool for keeping files organized. Quod Libet is also worth a look. I'm not as familiar with its feature set, but it'll run on a toaster.

    One day I might try to tackle Beets. Heard lots of good about that as an auto-tagging solution, so maybe check that out, too.

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    "Ernie & Emma" dir. Bruce Campbell Recommendation (www.imdb.com)
     

    I was lucky & caught the premiere of Bruce Campbell's passion project last night, and could highly recommend it when it releases this fall.

    Written & directed by Campbell, and produced by his wife. It's a (light) drama about a man (Campbell) following his wife's last wishes. It's far away from the B-horror films he's usually in. He described it as "a Hallmark movie with death, drugs, and infidelity", and that's pretty much dead-on.

    Great flick. May not have been my favorite Bruce Campbell movie, but I do think it's his best performance.

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    Service for TV-like programming? (piefed.social)
     

    Hiya,

    Plex / Jellyfin are nice and all, but you know what I really want? A TV-like "channel" I can configure with TV shows & movies to play on a schedule. I miss the cycle of Morning News -> trashy daytime tv -> light afternoon programming -> prime time -> late night -> repeat, or simply turning on the TV & having something already playing. Or that one-button channel up/down to move to a totally different vibe. "Playlists" in Plex/Jellyfin almost do what I want, but they're difficult to pick up midway through, the "dumb shuffle" doesn't care if I've seen an episode recently, and I can't really mimic that daily tv cycle.

    Is there a media streamer that does this? Do Plex/Jellyfin have that function & I've just missed it? If it doesn't exist, would someone be a pal and whip that up?

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    Just started House of Leaves (piefed.social)
     

    Just hit pg 179 of the "remastered, full-color edition" of Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves" and I need to gush about it somewhere. Obviously some (mild) spoilers on my end, but I'd appreciate no spoilers in the discussion below.

    I went into this mostly blind. I knew it was a horror novel, experimental; that it had inspired several cool "non-Euclidean" video games, and I knew it was about a house that's "bigger on the inside". I was also prepped for weirdness, as it's often included in weird/horror fiction lists alongside the likes of Lovecraft & "The King in Yellow".

    Honestly, I was ready to ditch this, but now I'm fully invested.

    SPOILERS
    I did not know about the footnotes. Or the formatting. Or the fonts. Or the meandering. Folks, last night I was ready to put this book down. Expedition #3 was underway, and I found myself having to hunt for each footnote. Back and forth, back and forth. Sometimes they'd go on for pages, and often they'd wander far away from the ongoing story. I'm pretty sure some didn't exist. Then came Footnote #142. Completely blank. "What the hell? Just a dead en--" and that's when it hit me - it's a labyrinth. The book mimics the house. The book is a labyrinth. I'm bouncing between footnotes & story, between fonts/voices & tone. Sometimes it's a dead end and I have to backtrack. Sometimes I feel a little progress. It's a maze, and I'm suddenly excited & apprehensive to explore more of it.

    I mean... damn, Danielewski. I'm hooked. You got me.

    None of my friends have read it, so I had to release some excitement somewhere. Thanks for reading.

    Without spoiling anything, have you read / enjoyed House of Leaves? What's your favorite "experimental" book?

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    Map recommendations? (piefed.social)
     

    Anyone have recommendations on map packs for DOOM 1? Conversions you enjoy?

    And if anyone wants to chat: I just finished my very first "casual" playthrough of DOOM ep 1-4 (haven't touched Sigil yet), and while I loved the first couple episodes, it felt like it lost momentum towards the end. Instead of intuitive level design they kinda just throw everything they can at the player. I missed the secrets you could "figure out" vs the "spam the Use button against every wall" type. Is it just me? Does DOOM II continue that trend?

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    Servarr wiki recommends no VPN? (piefed.social)
     

    Yo ho me hearties,

    I was reading through Servarr wiki's VPN Guide and saw this callout:

    For most users, secure DNS is sufficient instead of VPNs and fixes indexer connectivity issues without the complexity and problems of VPN setups

    Are VPNs no longer the recommended practice? I was under the impression a VPN was pretty much required for sharing stuff in a copyright-sensitive country. I'd be delighted if I could simplify my app stack.

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