UKFilmNerd @ UKFilmNerd @feddit.uk

A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometime

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If you like NewPipe but want your videos to skip the annoying bits, there's a fork called Tubular that incorporates SponsorBlock.

Having used PowerAmp since Android 1.5, I switched to Musicolet last year and it does the job just as well. It's not open source but it proudly claims that it has no network permissions, so it cannot send any data anywhere.

Even though I paid for Nova years ago, I went back and downloaded a modded version of 7.0.58, the last version before they were bought out and the code was changed.

I really wanted to like Lawnchair but I always end up back with Nova. It does exactly what I want it to.

This was the first computer I ever played on, it was at my cousin's house. I was convinced there was a loop of film in the cartridge but couldn't figure out how that would work with player interaction.

When my cousin got a screwdriver and opened the cartridge to reveal a couple of black chips on a circuit board, my mind was blown.

These are just overpriced toy stores now. More toys than games. They haven't been a real gaming store for ages, in my opinion.

I discovered this after giving up on the BBC weather app because it wants me to sign in.

It's been really good, I love the details and it's been getting regular updates. Recommended.

That's the problem. I think Amazon have been locking the device down. Rooting maybe the only way if that's still possible.

We have a standard 4K stick and yesterday I looked into replacing the launcher. Unfortunately it seems that Amazon have stopped users from accessing ADB or an ADB shell making it almost impossible to customise it. It may still be root-able but I wasn't that desperate to change it.

Crazy Taxi was fantastic.

Metropolis Street Racer was utterly brilliant and I remember being annoyed when I heard the sequel was going to that new Microsoft console called XBox. That was of course Project Gotham Racing.

And Rez which I love so much I bought it remastered on Xbox360, again on PS4 and one final time on Quest 2.

I tried copying a friend's copy of Rebel Assault to my hard drive. It technically worked but the video playback was stuttery and terrible

My first CD-ROM was a quad speed for £120 and that was very cheap at the time. I then switched over to the CD edition of my favourite monthly of magazine and was adjusted by the new games I could play.

Ooh! LucasArts adventure games with full speech!

I was a sucker for FMV games on the PC. There was the X-Files FMV adventure game, that was six CDs. So was Ripper, another adventure game that starred Christopher Walken, Karen Allen, John Rhys Davies and many more.

I also had Star Trek: Klingon, Star Trek: Borg and a thriller about a nuclear submarine called Silent Steel.

I've really enjoyed many of the IP based games over the years, Star Wars, Marvel, Indiana Jones and even Lego GTA. Oh sorry, Lego City: Undercover.

The one that really disappointed me was Lego: Worlds. I thought it would be fun to build with unlimited bricks virtually but it's just not for me.

I like to have physical bricks in front of me which give me ideas as I build. Finding different bricks in the pile gives me new ideas as I build. That's not something than happens with the game.

On the flip side, playing with the 80s Space sets was a huge nostalgia kick for me.

There is OpenRA. An open source engine to get those classic C&C games running on modern machines but it only supports C&C, Red Alert 1 and Dune 2000.

They are working on the next engine with Tiberian Sun currently under development.

If you're interested in Dungeon Keeper, I highly recommend a similar project called KeeperFX. Play the game on modern systems, in higher resolutions, with game fixes as well.

As a younger man, I used to always get an upgrade after two years but I finally broke out of that cycle and finally got a SIM only contract and bought a decent mid range phone. It's now three years old, still working fine and I don't see myself changing it anytime soon.

I loved the FMV cut scenes in Westwood Studios games. They always managed to get a minor celebrity as the games got bigger.

They also made a really good Diablo style game called Nox.

Thank you for updating that little nugget of trivia in my head.

There's a bit of trivia I've remembered about this game and I hope I'm right. If the Saturn clock is set to Christmas day, the games graphics are Christmas themed.

If I'm wrong, I apologise. 😊

A couple of years ago, I played through Burnout 2 on the Wii. It's still a fantastic racer. I'm sure I had Burnout 3 on the original Xbox but I can't remember much about it.

I've settled on Thunder. The only downside is that they haven't implemented replying to direct messages yet, you can only view them but apart from that, it's good.

I played through several GameCube titles using the original Wii along with the Wii2HDMI dongle. I thought the games still looked great even on HD televisions. Burnout 2 is still awesome.