the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

hmm, restarting seems to have helped it

okay, something is wrong with our new laptop

whenever there's video playing, something called "waves maxxaudio service application" starts eating up 15% of CPU time, which maxes out one core and puts high usage on at least one other

searching turns up nothing conclusive, but there are people complaining about it

any advice?

a civilization-like grand strategy game, but whenever a battle occurs it becomes a fire-emblem-like tactics game, but whenever a unit attacks another it becomes a street-fighter-like fighting game

this was going to have a second example in it but then i learned that temblors is actually a real word that makes sense in context, and not some kind of trainwreck typo of tremors

this game has a lot of typos in the random unimportant dialog

"I got a cut on my side that hurst like crazy"

hm. the xbox is hardware, not software. also famously huge. why is it called the microsoft xbox and not the macrohard xbox

now it *would* be weird if they translated german as though it were the demonym and not a personal name, but I strongly doubt that would happen

What do they call german chocolate cake in germany, i wonder

then again it's not named after the country so maybe it won't matter

you can tell that patty and flynn were added after the fact

their lines as party members frequently get pronunciations wrong

@connie since I think you might find this mildly interesting

got it! took like twenty tries but eventually it worked

it's not really a glitch, since the game seems to handle it just fine--it's just weird and not something normally possible.

actually i didn't save after so i can still try to reproduce it!! going to do that, hold on

augh i feel really bad about not thinking in time to screen capture that glitch, it's important for archival stuff

can someone please provide reassurances or something

for anyone interested in reproducing this not-exactly-glitch (which I would like to see since *dammit* I feel really bad about missing that screen recording): this was the knight at the top of the right-hand staircase in the room right past where you fight Yeager in Zaude. the cutscene that triggered was the one where Patty finds the Maris Stella

...should have screen recorded that but didn't think to until after posting this and it's been too long now

today we learned: it's possible to get a surprise encounter *and* an advantage encounter at the same time

by shooting an enemy with the sorcerer's ring the moment that you enter a cutscene area, while said enemy is near enough to the spot you spawn after the cutscene to trigger an encounter, on the rear of where you spawn, and get lucky that you get the dizzy effect instead of the angry or stunned effect

how the fuck did all that line up perfectly without even trying

Hmm, that's three times now we've had the switch port of Tales of Vesperia crash on us... hasn't caused much trouble so far since we save frequently but it's a bit annoying

got a weird double-right-angle 180° usb cable thing and let me tell you, it is really nice being able to hold a switch comfortably while it's charging

@Trinket it's good to see you here again!