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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/41960577

After bouncing off the show a couple times over the years, I finally sat down and gave it an earnest try, and found that I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would (for reference, I could never enjoy DS9), and this episode in particular really got me hooked to the series overall. I think it did a good job of showing the effectiveness of unions, and more surprisingly, went as far as to depict the government as wanting nothing more than to violently suppress it after delivering empty promises.

Apparently all the episodes are slowly being uploaded to youtube now due to the efforts of the creator of the show, with one new episode every 3 days. If you've ever been interested in trying Babylon 5, now is a good time to start :)

Here's a link to the season 1 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVW-aDczak&list=PLGTv90eS-e4I

Personally I enjoyed all of season 1, but the prevailing view is that it really gets its footing in season 2, but I have to say, season 1 has tons of great setup that pays off if you watch through it.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 hours ago

That's another series I slept on and only started watching this year. Loving it so far.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Damn, and even invidious is giving trouble with this one :(

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I also had some difficulty getting it working on my rig, and I'm not a big fan if Debian's documentation, as it often does assume knowledge, which makes it harder to follow along and feel confident you're doing the correct steps.

Ultimately I switched my only Nvidia system to standard Linux Mint to have access to their easy to use Nvidia driver installer, which makes upgrading or downgrading the driver a 1-click process (though it requires a third party PPA done by a canonical employee to access the latest 610 drivers).

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago

Personally my favorite is the first game, but I was overall disappointed with the second game. I felt it was a somewhat dramatic step down in writing quality, and though there were some amazing set pieces, the latter half of the game felt like a bit of a slog to me.

The 3rd game has even worse writing IMO (especially the colonel's dialog), but I was surprised that, for the most part, I enjoyed the gameplay most of the way through, and found the travelling aspect to be quite neat. I had more fun with it than the 2nd game, at least.

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After bouncing off the show a couple times over the years, I finally sat down and gave it an earnest try, and found that I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would (for reference, I could never enjoy DS9), and this episode in particular really got me hooked to the series overall. I think it did a good job of showing the effectiveness of unions, and more surprisingly, went as far as to depict the government as wanting nothing more than to violently suppress it after delivering empty promises.

Apparently all the episodes are slowly being uploaded to youtube now due to the efforts of the creator of the show, with one new episode every 3 days. If you've ever been interested in trying Babylon 5, now is a good time to start :)

Here's a link to the season 1 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGVW-aDczak&list=PLGTv90eS-e4I

Personally I enjoyed all of season 1, but the prevailing view is that it really gets its footing in season 2, but I have to say, season 1 has tons of great setup that pays off if you watch through it.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 points 15 hours ago

The Nvidia driver in the Debian repos is virtually abandoned, though thankfully the Cuda repos hosted by Nvidia support Debian now, and give Debian users access to the latest drivers, like 610.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

$50 can be a lot for some people, but certainly for the DS games and those remasters (along with Breath of the Wild), it could be worth it for many.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Personally I don't find the Wii U's catalog compelling enough for the higher price compared to a Wii, and apparently Wii games can look better on a soft-modded wii compared to running them on a Wii U, but for those who like the Wii U's catalog it probably is the ultimate version.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bear in mind that only the older revisions of the Wii have GameCube controller and memory card ports, the later revisions removed them (though they can still play GameCube ISO's from the SD card if softmodded, which works well with the Wii Classic controller).

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I feel I'm already at my limit with how many communities I moderate and try to post in, combined with being an admin on slrpnk.net. I would be stretching myself too far creating yet another community, especially one that requires original content to be created for it. :(

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Wii emulates all gameboy, GBC, and gba games if softmodded :)

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly, a Wii is kinda the ultimate gamecube for the average person, as that has 100% backwards compatibility, are dirt cheap, have widely available composite cables that are 20x cheaper than the rare gamecube ones, gives you access to the Wii library, and also the ability to easily softmod them to then access the high seas and emulation of 16-bit and 8-bit consoles.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

The closest to that would be hard sci-fi, where many authors were in STEM fields and used that background in their writings, or wrote stories based around their real life STEM field (this is often the case in Analog Magazine).

Some were punk in the solarpunk/cyberpunk sense, as they were often anti-authoritarian, and sometimes even anticapitalist.

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