Couldbealeotard

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

If you start with the second one you won't know what's going on and feel like you've missed a bunch of important story.

This is how it felt after playing the first one as well. Half Life 2 is almost an unrelated game. The plots of the two barely line up.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Hang on, what is bad about the word moist? Some of my favourite things are moist!

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did emu wars teach you nothing?

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What do mean regarding terrible names? "Moth" isn't inherently a bad name; any negative connotations of the word come from the creature itself.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

You should check out the BBC guidelines for subtitling. They are really good and include preserving the intent of the program, avoiding ambiguity, and not spoiling jokes with bad timing.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I thought it was a trick by sign writers who charge by the letter.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It wouldn't be impossible that 12 is an improvement. 10 was an improvement on 8. I think, as always, it'll never go back to a truely good OS, we will just get used to the crap bits.

I think windows is too entrenched in it's own version history to make good again. You'd need to start from scratch which simply won't happen within the windows brand.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

10 was already deep into hiding settings and fragmenting the control panel.

11 is much worse.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Because touch screens are cheap and put the onus of design onto the programmers of apps.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the person thought that you thought this was a generic cyberpunk genre comm and he was trying to shame you for shaming someone for not posting in the cp2077 comm. This stems from an issue with the Reddit cyberpunk genre subreddit.

There are three problems with that:
This is the cp2077 comm.
You know that.
And this isn't Reddit

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I would imagine it covers eSports events

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That was when the credits happened at the start of the film. Now that the credits are at the end, most people would walk out before the trailers could play.

 

I'm looking for things like Amazing Race (all the spin-off countries), Survivor, Gladiators, Ninja Warrior, etc.

If I dip my toe into the Usenet thing, will I find this sort of stuff? Do I have to look in a certain spot? By this I mean do different servers tend to store different styles of catalogues, or do they network like a P2P system?

Apologies if I'm not making sense, I don't really know the correct jargon.

 

Is there a way to automatically create a playlist of more than 2 shows in broadcast order.

For instance, shows like Stargate (or I think Arrow/Flash/Supergirl) have alternating episodes. I really don't want to do it by hand; my Stargate playlist will have over 300 items.

 

Mixing Movies and TV: Stargate started with a feature film. Then a bunch of TV shows. Then some of the TV shows had TV movies.

At the moment I've just named the TV movies seasons 11, 12, 13. This fixes that specific instance, but doesn't allow me to put the feature film first (naming something season 0 creates a specials season). What about the X-Files? Seasons 1-5, movie, 6-8, movie. How would you fit that in to one section?

Documentaries: I've got a bunch of stuff. Some are traditional cinema movies, some are series, some are mini-series, some are TV shows. How can I have one library called "Documentaries"?

Collections: Collections are great. Can I keep them separate to the movies/TV? I don't think I want them in with the movies themselves. Can I mix and match movies and TV in a collection?

Concurrent Series: Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis overlapped seasons 8-10/1-3. Can I make a watch order collection? Have them in the broadcast order in one list? Including the movies?

Thank you. Plex is great.

 

I really want to get started.

I have a big library of files on a HDD. I will run it off my home computer, and it will be exclusively for my home network.

Question 1: Is it fine to run my desktop computer as a server and a client? I don't actually know how Plex works yet, so I may be describing it wrong. Currently I watch things on my Desktop Computer. I want to continue this but through Plex instead of just using VLC. If I do add more clients, only one will be viewing at a time. I do have a Raspberry Pi available, but was hoping to use it as a client at a later time instead of a server,

Question 2: Can I scan my media folder in Plex to get started, and then later rescan my Plex library after I rename files? I haven't reorganised all my files yet, a lot of them should be fine but I don't have time to do it all now. Some of them I may never bother renaming or reorganising. I don't mind Plex having to do all the posters and stuff again.

Question 3: What does Plex do for the re-encoding? I think I read that Plex encodes the video files. Does this create new files on the HHD? My drive is pretty full. I don't have enough space for duplicates in another codec. Does this process replace the files? Will I have to have my Plex drive only contain converted videos? Is there a process to encode from my storage drive to my Plex drive without disturbing my storgate drive? Space is at a premium and I don't want to risk Plex altering my media on my storage drive.

Thank you.

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