Author Archives: baudattitude

In which, I try Stadia and it’s actually OK.

Posted on November 25, 2020

Kinda giving the whole post away with that title, but you can keep reading if you want to spend a few more minutes of your life reading my eloquent prose. Since my ego won’t allow me to conceive that anyone … Continue reading →

Posted in gadgets, videogames | 2 Comments

Making an iOS Shortcut for Apple Pay

Posted on November 23, 2020

So I guess this is a gadget blog now? Because apparently that is the stuff I am posting.  I have come a long way from the days when I would write posts about my attempts to get upskirt shots of … Continue reading →

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Brand Disloyalty

Posted on November 22, 2020

So, in the fifteen years or so since I bought my first modern Macintosh (a first-gen Intel Mac mini), our house has turned into a bit of an Apple Shrine.  We have four Macs, an iPhone each, a few iPads, … Continue reading →

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Apple TV for consoles is here, and it’s …eh.

Posted on November 15, 2020

So, I’ve had an AppleTV of one sort or another for a bit over eleven years now.  The very first model, basically a stripped-down Mac Mini in a squashed box, was purely a way to rent movies from iTunes and … Continue reading →

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On Green Bars

Posted on November 13, 2020

So, no posts here in ages and it would be kind of embarrassing if the last thing I wrote was a tediously boring bit about extracting audio tracks from mkv files. Instead, let’s have a tediously boring rant about healing … Continue reading →

Posted in MMORPG, videogames | 1 Comment

Editing Audio and Subtitle Tracks in .mkv Files with ffmpeg

Posted on September 25, 2020

I have been trying to consolidate a bunch of servers recently, and one of the ones that I am looking to sunset is a box that has been used as a BD ripping and media encoding box.  The reason it … Continue reading →

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I Am Afraid of a Certain Number of Ghosts.

Posted on September 9, 2020

A few days ago, I mentioned that I had celebrated my lack of a games backlog by buying Luigi’s Mansion 3 during the Nintendo eShop sale.  I hadn’t played the first two games in the series, but it looked fun … Continue reading →

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Phantasy Star Online 2

Posted on September 5, 2020

The final F2P game I’ve been trying out recently is JUST a little larger in scale than the mobile games I talked about over the last couple of days.  Phantasy Star Online 2 is one of those games that was … Continue reading →

Posted in MMORPG, Xbox One | 2 Comments

Fire Emblem: Heroes

Posted on September 4, 2020

OK, so I am somewhat late to the party on Fire Emblem: Heroes, being as it’s a mobile game that launched in February 2017.  At the time, however, I hadn’t played an actual Fire Emblem game (we will set TMS#FE … Continue reading →

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Pokémon Café Mix

Posted on September 3, 2020

Now that I’m out of backlog*, I have been playing around with a few f2p games that had been on my radar but that I hadn’t wanted to delve into while I was trying to play games that I’d actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Switch, videogames | 1 Comment