My HDTV is unplayable (in dark or poorly lit games) in my room with any strong ambient daylight. Looks great at night whether the room lights are on or not. How common a problem is this?
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Extremely common, I think. I think the website RTings even has a category in their TV reviews for how visible content is with light reflecting on the screen, and a whole article about TVs that work best in bright rooms.
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Even on my old set with a fairly matte screen I have to close the blinds during the day to see anything
maybe this is a dumb question, but what about blackout curtains?
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it is pretty widely understood issue right now that a lot of professionals making videogames and movies and TV shows are a little too in love with lighting and sound that has an extremely high dynamic range and can be much more annoying to see and hear in non-ideal circumstances compared with like, watching a VHS tape on a regular TV 30 years ago when it would all be normalized to a narrower band for most people
most devices have different ways of compensating for this – you can disable HDR, crank up the brightness floor (this is usually better than having to blow out the primary brightness value if you can help it), enable auto-ambient light adjustment, adapt your viewing habits so you only watch certain stuff on certain screens at certain times of day, etc
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I think this might be “blowing out the primary brightness value” but I’ve learned to always go several notches above the instructions for the “barely visible gray logo” calibration screens
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is there a program i can install on my pc that would let me connect my phone via usb and capture video from it?
note that it requires being able to turn USB debugging on, your phone may be locked down enough to not allow this depending on brand/model
also, as the github page indicates, you can technically use it over network instead of using a USB cable
also! you can use it to just use your phone with your keyboard and mouse. you know, play dumb phone games on your phone on your computer.
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I have a friend who’s an adjunct professor and wants to pull clips from movies to show their class. They have no video editing experience and I’m going to help them do this. What’s the best free software for them to use to just cut short clips out of feature films and stick them together? I don’t think they need to do anything more sophisticated than that. They’re on a macbook.
I know DaVinci Resolve is the popular free video editing software these days, but will that be overkill in terms of UI complexity and such? Maybe they should use, god forbid, iMovie?
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in order of complexity: DaVinci, iMovie, Lossless Cut. all probably the best options in their respective categories
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I was trying to remember the name of this one the other day! I bet it’ll work well for them. Thanks!
How much do i lose if I just play the diablo PS1 port?
Also is it still mouse based because if so F-That idea.
if you just want to play diablo with a controller, devilutionX is a modern port of the game that includes really good controller support. The last time I played was with a controller and it worked out great
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you may or may not know about it already but when i want to pull quick clips from larger stuff to upload to social media i use avidemux and it has been pretty good to me so that’s an option too
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devilutionX is the answer
if you have a hacked vita you can play it on there
the PSX port is sorta semi passable but the framerate is utter dogshit. it’s not worth it
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Diablo PS1 is not mouse-based, you use a standard controller and aren’t even moving a pointer around. Also it’s got enhanced lighting that’s kind of colorful and pretty. ^ _^
My desktop is connected to a 60hz 4K but I want to stream to a 120hz 4k. Can…. I do that?
Yes, Virtual Display Driver lets you do this with relative ease
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How do you come up with campaigns when playing some of those small indie TTRPGs that probably don’t have pre-written stuff? I know the big RPG systems have campaign books that give you pre-written flows for a story with encounters along the way, but do you have to go through the process of writing up and planning a whole thing whenever you want to just try out a new TTRPG system? Or are there faster ways of just playing things? There are so many small TTRPG systems out there that I imagine there must be a method to being able to dip your toes into various games to try them out without putting that much effort of planning a whole campaign. Like for example, is it possible to buy that new Phantasy Star TTRPG as a curio and just try it out with friends for a night just to get a feel for how the game works, or do you have to put some pre-work into creating a campaign every time you want to try something new?
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