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I saw the picture the BBC used of Trump in their headlines on the left hand side (I'm from the UK) and thought he looked a bit too serious, so I used what MS Paint photoshopping skills I fail to have:

If this is the in the wrong thread or whatever then sorry, let me know, I couldn't see a valid reason for starting a new thread.

If ripping discs isn't your thing, then I've used Leawo on Windows 10 which is free for playing Blu-rays. Some of the website just mentions it works with Windows XP up to Windows 8, but the top of the blu-ray player download page says it's Windows 10 compatible and it worked fine on my PC. They sell other software but they've never tried to contact me about that - I don't remember giving them my email address either.

I wish Ryan and his relatives all the best. It's not going to happen, but I'd love to see more TANG and he was a fantastic host - "It's Tuesday/Thursday/Friday" etc. Loved his Christmas GOTY segments too.

@vaiz I'm not sure how I missed this thread, but full marks to yourself and to everyone else who posted. I read this all the way through from the beginning, and I was laughing so hard, especially the bit about concrete. Glad that you got the game that you wanted as did I (and others).

Where I can't do the PC trick of editing a config file, I think I use the time to try to remember the last thing I did in a game and which button does what because I jump between games too much. (I did manage to finish a couple in the last couple of months so there's hope yet for my designs on my backlog).

This happened to me, so if it helps: I had a PC that was running well for a few years, but it started shutting itself down (not cleanly), a regular few minutes after boot up. I replaced the PSU since I thought the power draw might be borderline since I'd added/updated a few cards and maybe added a HD since it was built, but nothing changed. The airflow through the case looked like it should be ok, and it was also happening when the side was off, so I took off the CPU fan (stock, nothing fancy like watercooling). I found that whilst my air canister had blown all the dust off the surface and immediately behind the fan, the heatsink itself was choked with dust since it had nowhere else to go.

Unfortunately the O/S was fairly damaged by that point owing to the sudden shutdowns and I had to rebuild it, but before that I noticed it was immediately stable after the heatsink was sorted out (sadly by this point it was taking 10 minutes to log in though). That was when I had a carpeted floor with the PC sat on top of it, nowadays my PC's are on my desk (home) or fibreless flooring* (work). Just thought I'd also mention not to use a vacuum to suck out the dust, or even anywhere generally near PC components, it builds up a lot of static electricity. If you need 6 packs of air duster cans then I think CostCo are probably a lot cheaper than Maplins (at least in the UK), use them with your PC outside of where you live/sleep, since dust will end up everywhere.

Edit: *fibreless flooring - I can't remember what the floor is made of at work specifically, probably something like tiles. I won't have to look at it for the next four days since I'm on holiday, woohoo!

I enjoyed taking part in the chat test, but I think it would tire/spoil my memory of the best of the QL videos which I like to revisit if they were on random rotation. If there's nothing new on a day when I'm bored and too tired to play a game I just look through the old quick look videos on a random basis which helps to keep them as a new experience each time.

For example, I watched the QL of Cook, Serve, Delicious two nights ago because I wanted some good natured banter before I went to bed. I randomly clicked on a page of the QL archive (44 I think currently) thinking that there would be something funny to watch and there it was. There's some fun to be had in the finding. Having it offered on a random basis would ruin that fun for me, also it's possible it could lead to accusations of bias if certain games appeared often even on an accidental basis.

If playlists I defined were a feature (that I haven't found yet) then that could be great. For example if you find the first Persona Endurance Run vid in either of the series, then it would be nice if there was an option to have the list so that you can choose which of the next episodes to download prior to watching them.

Edit: It just occurred to me that it wouldn't be forced on me to use the feature, so do whatever's good for everyone else I guess.

I backed it a while ago and I'm impressed with the ship's motion at this early stage and the graphics, have to wish them good luck.

I'm hoping that they can get rid of the Vive cables without too much latency kicking in. I think there's a growing number of people who don't have the space (or ability) to walk around a room for a number of reasons, and they'd usually be sitting down in front of a TV or at a desk with a monitor. If Kinect and Move were a good attempt last time around, they failed on unrealistic promises. If they can make it work for games and apps for people with limited space then it could sell.

If gaming doesn't kick start VR then I'm hoping applications in industry will get it going this time around. Astronauts are using it which is a start, but it needs to become a tool that can be used in the work place. An example would be that if you're having a part of your house (e.g. kitchen) worked on, you could select placement of units such as storage, dishwasher, cooker and then have a design that is open to scrutiny if there's a contest about the requirement afterwards. (Obviously those are basic things, but finishing touches would be the detail in question).