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For retro gaming in particular, the CRT just looks better. Thoughts? 10 Pictures That Show Why CRT TVs Are Better for Gaming - Wackoid WACKOID.COM Some retro gamers swear by playing video games on an old-school TV. See these 10...

@Plumbers Crack Dave and I managed to get for a couple of hours last night to start our journey towards survival. We started out at Outpost 42, a standard outpost with the basics to survive. Including some basic power, a small amount of digital storage and a couple machines most notably a pulverizer and electric furnace. We spent out first few days and nights completing the first handful of quest steps; gathering some basic resources and a few drops from mobs. The world is a barren place with only snow and notsogudiam stone but thankfully the notsogudium can be smelted in to basic ingots allowing us to make some basic armour and tools. Running the notsogodium chunks we got from mining through the pulverizer not only allows us to double our ingot production it also allows us to get additional silica dust which I'm sure will be useful later. In hunting some mobs we have had a few small creeper incidents We thankfully got away with our lives, though myself only narrowly getting back in to the outpost with half a heart of health remaining. Dave survived the creepers too right up until he uttered his final words "oh look an Enderman" for the death message to appear that Dave was killed by said Enderman. The left most hole in the snow in the above is our mine where we've been gathering the notsogudium to make our tools and start to expand our machinery to make life at this outpost better. The outpost is located in a frozen ocean, so I dug down and placed some water so we could gather some squid which I know we'll need shortly. We had a few basic rations but those went quickly once we started to take damage from mob hunting so the water also allows us to hunt some fish which are our primary source of food currently. We have managed to add a little to our oupost though, adding a few furnaces allowing us to smelt more items and with the aid of a couple of hoppers, semi automate the smelting of the mined notsogudium chunks in to ingots. This allowed us to collect enough notsogudium to make a singularity that produces infinite quantities of notsogudium chunks. We've fed this directly in to a chest and in to the pulverizer and furnace combo to automatically produce ingots for us. Tucked in the corner is also a coal singularity that produces infinite coal. It takes gathering several hundreds of any resource to make a singularity so it's going to be a while until we singularities for other resources. Due to the collapse of our home planet, we've been left with basically no resources so for now we're limited to the outpost. But we're working towards brining back organic life and growing our first tree in this barren featureless snow covered world. Once we have access to wood, our lives should become easier as we get access to apples to eat and wood to extend our outpost. It also open up our ability to produce more resources as we move from surviving to thriving but that will have to wait until next time.

I finished this one last night. It's a very disappointing ending IMO. I won't get into details, but if you play through it, you'll see what I mean. This is one example where I'm glad they didn't charge full price for this one. Getting through the story will take most roughly 4-8 hours, even with finding all the collectibles. We may end up talking about this one on a Dice to Pixels episode soon. If you're curious about it, wait for a sale or when it becomes a PS Plus monthly freebie.

We have reached the end of the current modpack so the server will be changing over to a new pack. As it's a co-operative quest based pack I am posting up and will put an event up for anyone that wants to join at the beginning. The event will be 20:00 Monday 25 July and the server won't be available until this time. What modpack is it? Cuboid Outpost Luxury edition (version 1.1.2) https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/cuboid-outpost-le What’s the story of ‘Cuboid Outpost’? You’re stranded on a barren planet, life as you know it has come to an abrupt end, and you need to recreate civilization. There are a few twists and turns along the way of course! You start off at Cuboid Oupost 42, with minimal supplies but some decent equipment, only to find out that the Science Division at Cuboid Corp have accidently started a chain reaction that very shortly will bring about the total annihilation of your home planet. Effectively, you’re standard! Luckily there was just enough time for your supervisor to put together a digital survival guide to help you survive, restart life, and even travel to new dimensions. What sort of modpack is it? A beginner to intermediate tech pack with a lot of quests, that are shared and completed co-operatively, for those looking for something not too hard or expert. The pack features a slightly different start to most packs and has a skyblock like experience without the skyblock. How to install the modpack? Unfortunately most modpacks can no longer be download using MultiMC so need to be downloaded through the Curseforge launcher. The Curseforge launcher though, like MultiMC, does take a lot of the hassle out of modded like installing multiple versions of Minecraft, installing the right version of Forge etc. Installing packs is reasonably self-explanatory; on the link above click the orange install button which will install the Curseforge launcher. Once installed, select Minecraft and search for the modpack "Cuboid outpost" and make sure you install the luxury version. It should take a few minutes to download the pack. Before launching it, click the settings icon in the bottom left corner, select minecraft from the list on the left and increase the allocated memory to 6Gb (6,144 Mb) at minimum but recommended is 8Gb (8,192Mb). Hovering over the modpack you should be able to select play, this should open the Minecraft launcher and you need to click the play button in the middle. Any problems, I'm happy to help or go through it on Discord or even make a video for installing packs. This is a relatively small modpack but will still take a minute or 2 to load it. Server details; IP Address: 62.210.41.17:25414 The server runs a whitelist so if you want to join, let me know your username and I will add you to the whitelist.

Howdy folks! @Rumelylady and I are pleased to announce our new podcast with our good friend Adrian called Dice to Pixels! Episode 1 is live on our youtube channel with audio versions coming to spotify and apple podcasts hopefully today. Give a watch, like, and all that fun stuff! 🤘

I think the key thing is that older games being designed for CRTs made the most of them. Upscaling those images as is shown in that article often makes things look more blocky (and often just bad). Pro gamers have been moving back to CRTs too due to the lack of input lag (though im sure i wouldnt be able to tell)

Ok, @GazzaGarratt, @G_dub52 , @Lurch , @Findmartin , @jordie1892 , @Baabcat and @Jason if you guys are all still up for it i can try to get this set up in the next few days so we can have a practise draft or two and get the real draft in before the season starts 🙂

I am yet to listen to the first 2, just waiting for my wife to go out (if she doesn't today she's out of the house tomorrow so give me a nudge tomorrow and I will have a list 🙂 ) I have followed it on spotify though so hopefully will remind me, I need a new podcast to listen to so it comes at the right time ^_^

Oooooh new podcast to listen to, will definitely have to give this one a go 😁👍

And boom. RSS feeds are available. Here's our Spotify link.

I've heard comparisons to Chrono Trigger but I believe there is a bit of some tactical RPG systems, like a grid, in there too. I may end up grabbing it.

Episode 3 is up on our Youtube channel. RSS feeds for previous episodes are being uploaded shortly and should be available through your favourite podcast apps soon.

Already got a Heavy Rain Jason mod😂

That's something that's putting me off a bit but I may just have to treat it as a walking simulator as opposed to Uncharted with a cat😂 It's actually a bit of a shame because some of the environments look really amazing to traverse manually and it would've been nice to have an element of risk to go with the movement flexibility of a cat.

Early thoughts so far... A lot of movement is very scripted. Every jump in the game is guaranteed and the only time you'll fail is if it involves a cut scene of the cat falling. All the little cat actions are there. Meowing a lot, clawing up trees, doors and carpets, knocking stuff off of ledges and shelves. It's a cat lovers dream. Yes, @Rumelylady did give the sad face at the start of the game when the cat was "hurt" but it's not graphically violent at all. There's a little robot companion you find that helps you along the way and you can find "memories" to help it remember who it is. No real combat to speak of. It's more avoiding the little enemies that look an awful lot like the face huggers from half life. Decent so far. I'll update as I go.

I made the fatal mistake of showing this game to my cat obsessed 5 year old daughter. Needless to say we’re playing it. When we aren’t playing it I’m getting asked to play it no less than 45 times a day. Seems kinda interesting. Definitely different. I’m not paying much attention though cause I let her go til she gets stuck and then help. It’s cool having your kid play shit though. Lol

I'm gonna pick this one up tomorrow. Since @Rumelylady and myself are cat people, this should be a fun one to play through.

You know him so well !! 😂😂

You’re always whitelisted….well except the times I forget when resetting the server but lets gloss over that. You better get on early then as Matt @Misneach_ will have dug a huge hole, jankily built every machine in said hole and have the pack completed in roughly 27 minutes 😂

White list me please Greeb and I’ll try to be more involved this time 👍

Episode 2 is live! RSS and Spotify are coming very soon. Enjoy!