Errr … I want to say it was in Captain America, but I was being vague 'cos I can’t really remember. I wasn’t expecting to be quizzed on it tbh.

These are pretty neat. Considering that close-up shots of hands are usually filmed separately (often with someone else’s hands*), you can probably do similar things with lots of other movies.

• my favourite one is in an Avengers film, where Black Widow presses a button, and the close-up is clearly a man’s hand.

It’s a bit of a ball-ache.

They’d have to sign up to the forums and then use a BitTorrent-like app called Resilio.

Replayed Uncharted 4 for the millionth time. Now on The Lost Legacy. Not enjoying it as much (it’s harder, for one thing). Interesting to see the developments that would go into The Last of Us 2 though (e.g. experiments with more open-world levels, and the attempt to redeem a character that’s previously been portrayed as a villain).

I think it’s difficult to know where we really are in the release cycle for this console, as it’s been disrupted so much by initial unavailability and COVID. Normally, we’d be due a Pro version this year, but it could be this year, it could be next year, it could be never.

Last generation I was happy with a standard PS4 until I played Control, and could see that it was struggling. I’m not sure there’s any PS5 games that are known to stress the hardware, and would do anything with the extra resources.

I’d buy one now if I were you. Worse case scenario: you’ll want to trade it in for an upgrade in a year or two.

MINUS: Ahsoka

PLUS: ‘Star Wars Visions’ or ‘Galaxy of Sounds’

I haven’t yet got a PS5 but I’ll likely buy the upgrade from the website, for the sake of a tenner.

Interesting that they’re advertising it now how they probably should have done initially (as a game with 2 protagonists).

Lots of opinions last week, not all of them good

As in not all positive, or not good takes?

David Tennant is doing sterling work as Huyang. I read that the drone is properly ancient - his tone reminds me of Culture drones at times, and “Ah, so standard operating procedure” was a great line.

I’ll limit my snarkiness to gently poking fun at the idea that the humans have to leave the room so the holograms can have a chat.

The little dedication to Ray Stevenson at the end of the first episode was nice.

I’ll watch the season, because it’s only 7 episodes, but it seems like something that’s more for the die-hard fans than me (any criticism I could come up with is probably true for any number of other Star Wars projects)

I can’t remember. It wouldn’t have been for emulation, because I’m never been that bothered about that. I remember it seemed terribly important that I get one, because I paid extra to skip the queue of pre-orders. I ported software directly on the device itself, but - yeah - I think it was mainly for audio/video stuff (using it like a fragile and cumbersome iPod touch)

I use to play around with a little device called Open Pandora (from when System-On-A-Chip really became a thing; it looked like a bulky Nintendo DS and was mostly used to emulate old games (including Nintendo DS ones, interestingly).

I made an alternative desktop environment for it (so you switch from using XFCE to Openbox).

Anyway, this wallpaper reminds me of that time:

Mastodon.art has 29k users, so it’s not nothing, I suppose

'Cos it marks the spot where he buried all his treasure, amirite?

I’m using it right now on new.endlesstalk.org

It’s beautiful yes, but it’s also kinda dumb. Lots of page elements (like the community banner and notifications section) need manually refreshing to show anything, and I need to press ‘Go’ after changing view (like Subscribed/All or Hot/New) like the web of ancient times. This may just be how it’s implemented at endlesstalk, but there’s other irritations like not having the option to upload a picture when creating posts, and it not actually doing anything if I change my settings to toggle ‘Show NSFW’

What, again?