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Sony Trinitron
I bought a RGB SCART from eBay for my Xbox. Not sure why Xbox specifically, maybe because I had plans to play Halo anyway? It turned out to be actually good, despite not being an expensive. Now TV actually turns on the correct input when console is connected, and the colours are good too. The…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
I decided to see Reed’s ending as well, disappointingly the only one DLC added. I couldn’t find a save just before Songbird’s shuttle, so I started from Hansen’s death. There is a surprisingly long Alien Isolation sequence, where you need to avoid an invincible spider bot that crawls into ventilation shafts. Yeah, exactly like Alien.…
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Halo Combat Evolved
Halo is probably one of the most remade games ever, with Anniversary / Master Chief Collection in 2012 and Campaign Evolved in 2026. But I decided to try the original on Xbox. I finished the PC port, but it was in 2004, so I barely remember anything. So far, it’s not very good. Lack of…
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Springbank 5 100 proof
After all the frustration with not getting Springbank 18, I still have two unopened Springbanks sitting on my shelf. So I opened the 100 proof. Got it for a fair price too. It’s not bad. But for 50GBP, you can get Bunna 12, you can get Arran 10. And despite cask strength, you are still…
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Sony Trinitron
I think I understand why TV only shows black and white image, and it’s the adapter’s fault. SCART is the connector, and it can transmit different types of signal. Of course it transmits the crappiest composite signal, instead of RGB. My suspicion is that the PAL switch doesn’t actually send a sync on the PAL…
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Springbank sale
Masters of Malt had a sale of Cambletown whiskies. It started at 3PM. When I checked 15 minutes later, almost everything was gone. Springbank 21 for 300GBP? 150 bottles gone. Springbank 18? 300 bottles gone. Kilkerran 16? 200 bottles gone. I managed to get Sprinbank 10 at a decent price, but considering that I also…
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Cyberpunk 2077
Completed Cyberpunk. I can’t complain much about the arsenal, there are plenty of cool and fun unique weapons to play with. Only category that puzzles me are the machine guns: there are just two types of LMGs, the second was added in the DLC, I think. And there is exactly one HMG type in the…
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Tropical Highland Fling, Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Received my second bottle from Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Tropical Highland Fling. This one is only 12 years old, which for 90GBP sounds overprices, but at least it’s 58% ABV, cask strength, so I’d say at the top of the price range. It is super interesting, though. I was guessing rum casks, because it is…
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Hereditary
This wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought it will be a take on haunted house. Maybe some commentary on how Grandma tries to control the family in her death, same as she did in life. Then I thought that maybe Grandma groomed the granddaughter to be her host. Then the car scene happened. And…
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Sony Trinitron
Struggled to understand why I’m not getting any picture. Turns out, TV doesn’t automatically switch to SCART, even when there is signal. As I didn’t get a remote, I was glad to find that “input” followed by + does the trick. I tried connecting Neo Geo first, but by the time I figured how to…
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Dragon’s Milk Tales of Gold, New Holland Brewing
I rarely go back to write about beer I’ve had before, but I’ve finished my second and last bottle of Dragon’s Milk Tales of Gold, and it’s still one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Maybe it’s the barrel aging, or the the added lactose, but it has this amazing creaminess and vanilla notes…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
Completed Phantom Liberty by siding with Songbird all the way, because I thought it will be the most difficult. You get number of options to betray her in the process, and then you can shoot Reed dead in a cutscene. It’s a good spy thriller, and the best Cyberpunk 2077 story, but every Cyberpunk 2077…
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Sony Trinitron KV-M1401U
I didn’t plan to buy a CRT. They are overpriced nowadays, since everyone is into retrogaming it seems, and nobody produce them anymore, and they degrade with time. Limited supply, growing demand. They are also very heavy and bulky, and most sellers refuse to ship them, or the shipping can be while not astronomical, quite…
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Pet Sematary, Stephen King
“Rachel looked on this, his only real hobby, with a wifely indulgence that held, he supposed, some elements of contempt; even after ten years of marriage she probably thought he would grow out of it. “ I have read a lot of Stephen King as a teenager, but not Pet Sematary. I wonder what I’d…
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CaDA Master C61505W Viva Hypercar (Ferrari La Ferrari)
3rd bag, 5.5 hours, over 2 months, though, with a break of almost a month in the middle. I wanted to finish the gear box in one go, as the gears aren’t held together by anything until fully assembled and simply fall out, so I spent more than one hour in a single sitting on…
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Lochlea Cask Strength Batch 2
Once you get deep enough into whisky, there are a couple of topics you start to encounter: “batches” and “rebuys”. Batches are relevant to cask strength whiskies mostly, because any blending diffuses the character, while making whisky more consistent. “Batch” is between “single cask” and “age statement” for me at least. People still rave about…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
The Brazilian spies sidequest is what I’d expected from more quests in this game. You’re asked to track a spy that was MIA half a year ago, but not his tracker came back online. Only it’s not the spy, but his interrogator who fell out of favour that activated the tracker. You’re asked to kill…
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HifiMan Ananda Stealth
Don’t laught, but I replaced my Hifiman XS with Ananda. I got an open box this time, and with a coupon, the price was the same I paid for Hifiman XS. The main visual difference is the metal headband with headstrap on Ananda. No more 3D printed crap. The sound quality is… the same, to…
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Myst 2021
Another point’n’click adventure that I found extremely obscure back in the day, this one a 1st person as well. First I tried the Masterpiece Edition, which, although it works, is basically unplayable. There’s a Windows 3.11 border, blurry prerendered graphics and discrete movement that induces motion sickness, because you rotate at arbitrary angles, depending on…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
The problem with Cyberpunk story that it’s gameplay is in dissonance with it. The story is that Relic is killing V, and he doesn’t have much time left, but in reality, you can play however much you want. Of they wanted death breathing down the neck, they could just do time limit like in Fallout…