what is the name of the Christmas short film from YouTube where a child rides with his grandma on a train to a frontier town then gets abandoned and then taken in by a kind brothel owner? Cameo of Connor o malley
also starring Amy Sederis? why isn’t this on IMDB…
ok it’s Cole Escolas “Our Home Out West”
Hamster’s just released the 1992 Macross shmup.
What do people think about that game, is it worth going through the JPN eShop credit dance for?
I assume it most likely won’t be getting released outside of Japan thanks to the Harmony Gold nonsense
Was there a thread where you make a list of what games you’re going to play next year? Or was it a dream…
How on Earth do the The World Ends with You remakes work without the DS’s second screen? From the trailers I’ve seen, it looks like the simultaneous control of the two characters…is just gone? Or at least has been fundamentally changed.
Semi related to video games and can’t find the normal questions thread: Can anyone think of a piece of media that successfully shows how internet social situations will happen on multiple fronts simultaneously? Like there will be a public chat conversation, a forum conversation, and several PM chats happening at the same time? It’s like one of the things that I thought Homestuck did exceptionally well showing how online socialization worked in the 2000s.
Guess some adaptions of Densha Otoko also did this well for 2002 internet. But again I am an old and not up todate on modern examples which I guess would also include some group chats and a live stream and a twitter timeline?
Gatchaman Crowds did this pretty well. There’s livestreams with live chat, different forums, and a persistent virtual world people walk around and chat it.
This feels like a dumb question but I’m looking at my comcast/xfinity bill to try and find some place to lower it and I’m apparently signed up for their gigabit plan, yet when I test my speeds I only actually hit about 170-200mb depending on the testing site via a wired connection. If I were to switch to the cheaper 300 mbs plan does it feel likely that I wouldn’t even notice a difference, or am I misunderstanding something somewhere?
FWIW beyond my own personal usage the only other in-house use would be someone browsing the internet and watching a youtube vid, no other gamers or streamers beyond myself.
I think they give you even worse upstream speeds (non fiber upstream is terrible in general) if you have sub gigabit but double check that. if it doesn’t matter feel free to step down a tier
also you should be able to get that full gigabit with a better router
Not the same thing you’re asking for, but this reminded me of the anime Zettai Shounen from the mid-00’s that was the first time I saw a tv show aware of just how much communication occurs on cell phones (and maybe still one of the few pieces of media I’ve seen that portrayed it so accurately). Like, those characters were always, always talking to each other on cell phones. Any time anyone wanted to talk to someone else, the showed didn’t really contrive a way for people to meet face to face, or have character try to find someone to have a conversation. They’d just call each other right away on a cell phone and talk about what was on their mind.
The upstream is halved from 20 mbs to 10 but I don’t think I use it for literally anything (no video calls, no online gaming).
The hilarious thing is that it is their router/modem, I’d replace it but my options are poor in terms of ones they “officially” support as I am the increasingly rare house with two different needed landline phones >_>
you can typically disable the router functionality on a provided combo modem/router if you want to use your own, or ask your ISP for just a dedicated modem with no router functionality, or just plug your own router into a combo modem / router without changing anything and put up with a dual NAT.
either way, 10mbps upload is, I’m afraid, really bad. my local cable ISP only offers 40 up which is much worse than when I used to have fiber (they’re expanding here again apparently so I might get it back!!) which is more in the ballpark of “you won’t notice except when you have to upload video of some kind,” but 10 is like, barely enough for 2 people to use zoom
Literally no one in the house uses zoom so I think I’m in the rare edge case where it won’t really matter.
FWIW I think I have a router somewhere in this tangle of wires, I have no idea why as it is only split two ways and there are like 4 ethernet ports in the back of this thing (I know why: the old modem only had one and when the new one came everything was just unplugged from one into the other), part of me ponders what sort of ISP chaos I might cause switching everything up but it might be worth checking out.
(Yes I am very computer hardware dumb).
How much are you looking to save going down to 10mbps?
It’s incredibly slow and will only feel slower going forward.
fwiw, the Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (SP?) cinematic universe(???) had a character that almost exclusively communicates via text messages (iirc, she’s called Meru Meru, for obvious reasons)
you can disable routing to put the CPE into ‘bridge’ or ‘modem’ mode & then run your own router behind it. getting auth working might be simple if they are sane and use PPPoE, might be a pain if they use MAC or DHCP Client IDs.
double-NATing is a recipe for endless headaches. you then have two places where buffers can cause latency, two configurations for QoS to keep in sync/turn off
10Mbps up is fine, you could run a 720p 30fps video stream and not affect download speeds in the slightest. Felix is an outlier and his use cases are atypical, and his heuristics idiomatic.
weird bottleneck. that’s not a DOCSIS or Ethernet limit. the modem might be a piece of shit and not have dedicated networking hardware & is switching in software with a paltry CPU. but you’d probably notice it getting hot. it might be set up with a million firewall rules, which would make it run slow. have you hade the modem for a while? your connection might have been upgraded without sending you a new one that supports the higher speeds properly
speed test sites can be pretty hit and miss, try a couple and compare (take the fastest), and try at different times of day to eliminate congestion (other subscribers using the shared backbone bandwidth). downloading stuff from Steam is the best measure for my connection
most likely your connection is throttled. if you were planning to keep the gigabit connection, moan at Comcast to get them to check your account has the appropriate quota, and that the signal-to-noise ratio & voltages on your cable line are normal. though this is already a hard task when you’re familiar with networking and technical support
Yeah if you’re paying for a gig and only getting 200, call Comcast and complain until you actually get a gig.
unless you value your time and blood pressure more
Okay so here is where everyone yells at me: everything was run from the comcast/xfinity modem router thing through a D-Link… something that originally was there to split one ethernet into four and give the house a wireless signal. It’s probably been there 15 some years at this point and has just been kept there despite the comcast modem being able to handle both those things now simply because it kept working.
Anyways I took the ethernet wire from the back of my PC and connected it to the modem itself and the speed jumped up to about 780 mbs which isn’t a gig but seems close enough >_>
FWIW going down from the gig plan to the 300 one is seemingly $25 cheaper a month, I’m dropping HBO Max as well so that’d net me about $40 per month which still leaves me with a bill that is still high but, you know, $40 less so.
It depends on your tolerance for hassle and bullshitting, but if you’re not already on a promotional price you can usually threaten to switch providers and get at least a few bucks a month taken off.
I was on the phone with them today and considered this, but I didn’t feel like trying to play semantic games with someone who clearly spoke english as a second language.
