thedirtyknapkin

what do you mean pairing? what kind of os do you plan to put on the mini pc? the biggest hurdle is going to be hdcp compliance with any legal streaming service. something like kodi on the other hand, just works like any other pc? a mini pc is just that. a mini pc. there's nearly infinite method to connect streaming services to a pc. I have a Plex server, but it doesn't play nice with all content, so honestly, i usually just use my network storage and pull things straight from the file browser. load them into media player classic with madvr.

I know there's newer systems that do fancier things, but I'm content. I need to upgrade my nas to be better able to transcode x265 video streams. that's s big drawback on Plex for me. my biggest use case is watching things virtually with friends. it's how i watch movies with people. my server can current encode a single x265 video stream pretty well, but the second it has more than one client it chugs. forget it if 4 people want a 4k movie. I would need a crazy beefy rig to run that. it also won't convert hdr without paying. most of my friends aren't trying to watch on an hdr screen.

so, we're back to me streaming via discord screenshare. it's not the best, but at least i don't need to keep a separate 4k hdr copy of movie for myself and a 1080p x264 copy for Plex that way. mad vr will even handle the hdr conversion for me when I stream.

it works well enough, though I'm open to suggestions as well. it needs to be easy for the clients to use. it can be hard for me, that's fine, but jellyfin is too much for most of my friends and family. Plex is already pushing it.

Ron would play more chess. buncha fuckin nerds.

fair in this context refers to paleness basically. though, it's often meant in the same way that someone today might say "she's thicc" and just mean "she's attractive" in a more general sense. fairness meant beauty to European high society at the time. aside from the obvious racial connotations, it also implies that she has spent very little time outdoors and has been free of disfiguring diseases, so high of status. it generally carries a lot of implications beyond just "white" and "clear skin". it captures everything that a European nobleman of the time would find attractive in one word.

yeah, but that's a whole generation after this. most games were colorful by then. especially once hdr started to come around.

games like crysis 3 and far cry 4 really helped break the trend.

I'd say crysis is almost the exact inflection point. look at it, it still has a lot of that brown aesthetic, but it's colorful and has bright skies and giant lens flairs. the lens flairs especially became part of the norm moving forward.

not to be too stereotypically reddit butt...

a bidet makes it a lot easier 😅. it shoots a little water up in there like a mini douche every time. helps get those last little stubborn bits too if there are any.

oh fuck, now we're getting back into those chimps that were raised as humans by private citizens. there's examples of them masturbating to human porn and being sexually disinterested in their own species. it's honestly uncomfortable to think about.

but voting third party isn't going to help end the war at all Trump has made it get clear that if he wins he will push Israel to destroy Gaza faster. explicitly. he wants them dead. a third party vote doesn't work in a first past the post system.

better hardware has always been an advantage, but this is more in line with bmw charging a subscription for heated seats. it's a new stage of nickel and dime monetization. and just because there's existing ways to use money to gain an advantage doesn't mean we should be inventing new ones. rich people don't need the help, and these companies don't need the money. accepting and enabling them on this will continue to consent to more and worse pay to win features.

this is explicitly and exclusively a feature to improve performance. whether it's effective is irrelevant. they intend to let you pay to gain an advantage natively in game. a non scummy game would instead try to minimize and mitigate the differences created by hardware, not add new ways to widen that gap.

you know what? my parents didn't tell me not to believe anything on the Internet. they taught me to be wary of information sources and how to be skeptical in a productive way.

the people that don't have these skills are the ones that told you not to believe anything on the Internet. they don't know how to tell what's real and what's not without their priest there to do it for them. now these people are all on the Internet without protection or guidance. the children that learned this behavior from them are here too. we had entire populations for generations that based all of their beliefs on what the local priest told them before the Internet. even after the printing press, many people relied on their religious leaders to interpret what was written for them.

for the most part, any non urban population would have burned you alive for trying to think for yourself for generations. now we're all surprised that they aren't very good calling out bullshit.

it's almost like religion is often designed around letting the powerful control people. it WAS the system of hierarchy before capitalism. it's where we got our social classes and kings from. it's for the powerful to manipulate others. it's working as intended.

oh shit, my bad. yeah IDK then. that's weird.

~~because a blade movie had been announced, but a blade actor had not. that was more or less the official announcement that snipes would reprise the role.

at least that's how i took it at the time. maybe it was an oddly tongue in cheek way of implying he was killing the film?~~

fuck me, i was wrong. IDK where i head that.

there just isn't the money in that kind of product anymore. studio porn in general isn't doing great. especially among younger viewers.

I worked for hustler broadcast for a bit, so i can confidently say that you're not wrong. we would still occasionally air some of those older more serious movies, but basically anything since 2000 has been more on the goofy side. that said, there are some genuinely funny ones out there. they aren't very good as porn, but they were my favorites. like there was one where Trump and Kim jong un captured Hilary Clinton in North Korea and they all had sex. the trump and the Kim were terrible, but the Hilary genuinely kind of looked the part, if Hillary Clinton had massive fake boobs. there was an Obama one from 2008 that was incredibly racist. it basically had Obama coming into the White House and revealing that he was actually a big bad gangster rapper, or whatever, here to fuck all your white bitches. I think there were three of those.

honestly, there's some high concept only fans out there if you're willing to pay. I know of one couple that does a legit travel blog with travel sex interludes. you might also find enjoyment in erotic literature if you haven't given that much of a shot. the Internet stuff of very different from the published stuff, maybe give them both a shot?

all of this kind of comes together to really get in the way of high concept studio porn. women with intelligence, self respect, talent, or real ambition don't go into studio porn. it's the toxic old way to get into porn. anyone that might have been good enough to actually perform well in those movies either goes for softcore stuff that they can claim isn't porn, or will self start on onlyfans. honestly, i bet we'll start to see more of that kind of content come out of the new porn media world. these days we're seeing more and more collectives and small companies operate through onlyfans. for better and worse. an optimistic take from someone that has worked on the back end of that industry for you is that these companies might be perfect for that. especially the ones that operate more like streamer houses. where it's just a co-op of creators and maybe a little suuport staff or a manager. that's the kind of situation i think we'll start seeing low budget high concept porn with better production than it used to have because it's easier to be better for cheaper these days.