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Overprotective Internet Browser
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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I use a website to help me download video's from Youtube. It's free and easy to use and can get a decent copy of any video I need. Obviously as it's a free service the website makers need to make money so they always have annoying pop-ups and lots of adverts. I can deal with that, I know not to download anything or install anything from these dodgy websites as I'm fairly internet savvy. The downloads I get from the site are either an audio or video file, never a zip or .exe file that could contain harmful malware. Today google chrome has started treating that site differently. I can still use the site as normal but just as I get to the download file point (whi…
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PSN Connectivity Issues
by Jaggy- 1 follower
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Is anyone else having issues staying logged into PSN ever since Friday? This afternoon was the first time I tried logging in under my name on PS3. It worked and I was able to play GTA Online for about 20 minutes. I got signed out of PSN, but was also getting the "Saving Failed" message from Rockstar while parachuting. On Saturday & Sunday, Torrid was having all sorts of issues staying connected to PSN. I think he said he got signed out every 5-10 minutes from PSN. We've never had these issues before and they only started happening since "maintenance" on Friday night. I'm kind of at a loss and not sure if it's just our PS3 having these issues or if others …
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Thrustmaster T500/T300RS Racing Wheels
by DavidCore89- 1 follower
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Today I sold my trusted Logitech G27 as it's not supported on PS4, Logitech have also stopped making and supporting racing wheels. For a long time this wheel was the benchmark and almost nothing could rival it on PS3, but now I'm looking at Thrustmaster as their wheels seem very good and the high end products have interchangeable parts and upgrades. So, I'm really looking to buy a new racing wheel set before the upcoming release of F1 2015 and Project CARS and naturally I look at the top of the range . Does anyone have the Thrustmaster T500RS Racing Wheel? http://www.thrustmaster.com/products/t500rs. If you do have it or have used it, what are you opinions of…
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PS4 Default headset - Any Good?
by Nazrill- 1 follower
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Afternoon guys n gals! So the good news is I finally have a PS4 Bad news is that I'm still waiting for Amazon to get my copy of GTAV across to me so just a quick question in the interim. There's a 'default' headset which comes with the PS4 (well, an ear bud with a mic built into the line) Whats everyone's experience of this like? Will it do the job or should I look at spending the extra on a new one? (I'd like to avoid this if poss, but if has to be done then so be it) Thanks & see you all in LS soon Nazrill
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Broken PS3
by Lann- 3 followers
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So I have had a fat ps3 since they came out, and many years ago i put a 500GB in it. Everything has been working fine until recent. First the cd/dvd reader died last year, solved it by buying and downloading digital gta Now it will just give me a blinking red light when i try and turn it on. Took it apart removed all dust, still same problem. Now, my real concern is all the family video and pics that I still have on there (yea. i know, backup eh). Does anyone have had a similar issue, or even a solution to this problem? I have been told that a disc cant be moved to a new system (Fat or slim) without formating. Thanks for even reading this far! /La…
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PS3 Youtube App
by PapOiteE- 0 replies
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Hello everyone I have a little question about this app. Does it support 60 fps videos?
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PS Vita?
by JustHatched- 15 replies
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I was just curious who has one, how often do you play it? I do have one and it is an amazing little handheld. I don't game on it often, issues with my right hand prevents me from hanging on to it for very long. But I do use it quite a bit for music unlimited and skyping with my daughter.
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Spotify for Playstation
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/30/8303279/spotify-sony-ps4-ps3-launch Spotify comes to the Sony consoles. For PS3 this is just a separate app to be used but on PS4 it can be used in the background so can listen to music while gaming. Goodbye car radio!
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PS4 Software 2.50
by rofur- 1 follower
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So a new software update comes tomorrow with some interesting new features. Here's the Playstation blog post with details: http://bit.ly/1Iue1ek Looks like we'll have the ability to join friends directly from the What's New tab on the XMB. Could come in handy.
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PS4 deal at U.S. GameStops
by SeymorScagneti- 1 follower
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Get $175 credit when you trade in a 120+ GB PS3 or 250+ GB Xbox360 towards a PS4. http://www.gamestop.com/weeklyad
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Now it's been a while since some of you moved from the PS3 to the PS4 I'm interested to hear what your views are on whether you still think it was a good move and why, and if anything, what you miss about the PS3 (although I know some of you have done what I'll do and keep the PS3....in my case it'd probably live the rest of it's life as my Son's Minecraft machine). My reasons for not moving just yet is I only play a very very small number of games (mainly GTA V) and would probably just end up buying and playing the same games, so whilst there are still some great Crew members on PS3 I'm not sure I'd notice that much of a difference.... although I do miss playing with…
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Playstation TV
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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http://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationtv/ I was in Walmart today and I seen this, didn't know what it was till I googled it. Anybody have it? How does it work?
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Fragfx shark
by iriekine- 2 replies
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I'm old school. The mouse/keyboard combo is my wheelhouse. The sixaxis PS3 controller always seems to be a struggle (obviously!). This Splitfish fragfx shark is intriguing but kinda spendy. Thoughts? Anyone used one of these, or something like it?
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No mic? Tesco got you covered for £4.
by Shinsou12- 1 follower
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Seriously. That's ridiculous. £4 online for a mono wired. It's going to be utter crap but it will allow for comms for the budget conscious buyer. http://www.tesco.com/direct/gaming/other-acessories/cat29730027.cat
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[For Sale] Capture Card
by JustHatched- 0 replies
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I am selling my capture card if anyone is interested. Soon (not real soon) I will be parting with my PS3 and I am no longer in need of this device, rather than have it sit around I will make a deal with a crew member What is it? Elgato Game Capture HD https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/gamecapture-hd It will record PS3, PS4, XB360, and XB1 game play, you can use it to live stream from a PS3 (and the others) as well. I have not used it much, and the reason is that while it is and HD capture card, some deal with Sony (legal shit) the PS3 can not be hitch to it using and HDMI cable, you have to use the supplied AV cable (graphic are effected). (there is a software update…
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Gaming Glasses
by markt112- 1 follower
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Was just wondering if anyone has any gaming glasses and if they are any good? I can barely manage an hours worth of gaming now without my eyes becoming strained and headaches. Can anyone recommend which are the best to get? Was looking at a pair of Gunnars for around £150 - not sure if these are any good? Thanks
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Joomla website help
by ScottyB- 9 replies
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Hey Guys, I have a very basic website for my business and was wanting to know if anyone knows a good free plug in that i can use to display pictures. I dont have any coding experience but would be able to slightly edit stuff if needed (through the help of google) but would rather not. It will be a portfolio of current work and i would like a layout to have a main picture that you click on and then it will go into the other pictures for that job. If any one can point me in the right direction i would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!
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PS4 Controller Stick Condoms
by ronin- 1 follower
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As you can see in the pic below, the left controller stick cap of my PS4 controller, the rubbery thing, is already worn out completely and it is getting worse by the day, though I only have it for not even 4 months and I don't bite it nor do I have a dog ... Was thinking about replacing it or put a little cover on top of it. I heard it mention in one of the PL's so I was wondering if anyone had any advise on what was the best solution. I did google a bit and noticed there are two methods: replace the cap or put a 'condom' on top of it. Are these PS4 standard caps that you put on top of he existing ones any good or am I better off replacing the whole rubber?
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Ps4 problem
by grjkie- 1 follower
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Hey guys, since you all probably have the ps4 system for longer than I've had mine I'm posting my issues to see if any of you have already had similar problems. I've had my system for a couple of months now and this morning when I turned it on it wouldn't respond. I would hear one beep but no lights or anything else. Unplugged everything, it booted. Just to turn itself off a couple of minutes later. Googled a bit, unplugged everything again and booted in safe mode. There was a system update, did that, played gta for about 2 hours and the issue reappeared. Now it only beeps, no lights or anything... Faulty unit perhaps? It sucks to have a new system die on me like this, n…
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Playstation App/Sending messages over PSN 1 2
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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I didn't know this existed until yesterday and I assume they they something for the iOS stuff Anyway if you do not have it you should get it. Best thing IMO to use it for, if you do not have a Vita or PS4 then thru this app you can have more than 100 friends on your list. I always used my Vita to accept new requests, but now can do it from my phone as well. You can also send PSN messages, shop the PSN store and link to your PS4 from it as well. Check it out, it's free so why not. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scee.psxandroid&hl=en
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Broadband Help
by markt112- 1 follower
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We are switching over to BT infinity tomorrow. Ive noticed on the setup instructions it says to connect to the master socket. Does anyone know if this really matters? I also haven't got a clue which socket in our house is the master socket - a friend told me you can tell by the face plate but a while ago we changed all the face plates to brass so all 6 look exactly the same. If it does matter about the master socket is it easy to move? Cheers
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Party Chat
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Just curious what you think the pros and cons are of using, I see many crew members do use it, even when in a crew playlist so I am wondering what is better than being in game chat?
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Play with any controller
by Smurf- 1 follower
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So I ran across this little innovative USB device recently called 'CronusMAX' an as my title states play with any controller I would emplore you to check it out on your own because I am not sure if Its allowable be pasting links in here but I am sure I will probably be getting one in the near future. Leave comments below of how you think it would help you and or what features stand out.
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Guys, make sure you use your one-time 10% discount in the Playstation Store this weekend. We are getting a 10% discount and a five day extension to our PS+ membership from the downtime at Christmas. Here's a link to the article with the discount code and what's included: Discount Code
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Microsoft HoloLens
by SeymorScagneti- 4 replies
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #173 (Apr 21-27) South dir. Chantal Akerman/1999/1h11m This documentary sees Chantal Akerman travel to Jasper, Texas in the aftermath of the brutal lynching of a black man, James Byrd Jr., who was dragged behind a truck for several miles, an act so brutally violent that he was decapitated during it. This is not a crime documentary that seeks to explore what happened, but rather a portrait of a town and the people who live there and how they are trying to process what happened shot in Akerman's distinctive style. Like a typical documentary there are talking heads interviews with people close to Byrd Jr., but Akerman's use of long takes and silences allows us to really absorb what they're saying. These static shots are juxtaposed with extended tracking shots where Akerman drives through the community, filming people going about their lives with this tragedy still hanging over them. This is something she did in News From Home in New York, but the context here makes it feel like a funeral procession. The most effective of these shots is the very last one, the view looking out of the back of a truck as it drives down the road where Byrd Jr. was murdered. It just keeps going and going and forces us to imagine the unimaginable torture he went through. Incredibly powerful filmmaking 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Meetings of Anna dir. Chantal Akerman/1978/2h8m Akerman's follow up to her revolutionary Jeanne Dielman, The Meetings of Anna is a deeply personal semi-autobiographical film about a female director, Anna (Aurore Clement), traveling around Europe promoting her latest film. This is a melancholic film about isolation and even when Anna is talking to other people there is a disconnection there that always makes her feel alone. Like Jeanne Dielman this is heavy with repetition and routine, with each different hotel room blending into the next, each conversation being interchangeable with any of the others. This culminates with the ending where Anna returns to a home just as anonymous as any of the other rooms she has inhabited and, lying expressionless in bed, she listens to messages on her answerphone. People are reaching out to her, but she doesn't return the call. Akerman's style really lends itself to this story, with the carefully composed shots feeling almost like a prison trapping her. The feeling also comes through in Clement's performance. Her detachment from other people growing over the course of the film, that is apart from the scene with her mother (Lea Massari) in which she is able to revert to an almost childlike state of vulnerability. 8.5/10 The Black Hole dir. Phillip Sansom, Olly Williams/2008/3m This comedic short film stars Napoleon Ryan as an office worker putting in some overtime when he prints out a black hole (though technically it acts more like a portal than a black hole, as that would immediately destroy the planet). At first he uses it for trivial things like free snacks from the vending machine, but his greed leads him to a darkly comic end. It's very simple with an obvious message, but I thought that the ending moves it up a notch, making it feel like a mini episode of The Twilight Zone. 6/10 The Platform 2 dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia/2024/1h41m This is a prequel to what I thought was a fairly decent dystopian thriller set in a prison where the cells are stacked on top of each other with an open hole in the middle. Every day a platform loaded with food is lowered down cell by cell, with nothing being left for the prisoners at the bottom. This adds nothing to the concept with totally forgettable characters who I didn't care about. There are a few scenes of quite grisly violence but again, it's nothing that the first film didn't do better. I did enjoy the small appearance from Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor), one of the main characters from the original film, memorable because he actually had some character. 4/10 Three short films from Georges Méliès: A Terrible Night 1896/1m The Vanishing Lady 1896/1m The One-Man Band 1900/2m These three shorts from Georges Méliès really highlight his earlier career as a stage magician whilst also showcasing his evolving cinematic techniques. A Terrible Night is the simplest of the three where a sleeping man is harassed by a giant spider. There's really nothing of note here other than the fact that this is the first creature-feature. The other two are much more interesting and entertaining. The Vanishing Lady gives a macabre twist to a classic trick where he makes a woman disappear beneath a sheet, but not before she is transformed into a skeleton. The final film is the most playful and experimental and it sees Méliès using what were at the time cutting edge editing tricks to duplicate himself several times over, creating the titular one-man band. These films, while charming, all feel like Méliès honing his techniques in preparation for his magical longer films starting with 1902's A Trip To The Moon. I'll give these a combined score of 6/10 Inside Out dir. Pete Docter/2015/1h35m Going through all of the Pixar films in order I've finally come to the point where I've not seen hardly any of them going forward, having gotten burnt out by all of the sequels. I knew nothing about Inside Out going in and I can't believe it's taken me ten years to watch this, it's fantastic. It tells the story of 11 year old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) who has just moved to a new city with her parents, leaving behind all of her friends and everything she loves, stirring up her emotions. These emotions are personified and live inside her head, with Joy (Amy Poehler) doing everything she can to keep Riley happy. But lately it seems like Sadness (Phyllis Smith) keeps making things worse. When the two are accidentally expelled from HQ they have to work together to make it back and save Riley's mental health. This is a brilliantly simple concept well executed with a strong message that's not just for the younger viewers. The fact that it can be unhealthy to want to be happy all of the time and that you need a healthy mix of emotions, even negative ones, for good mental health. This is also a really funny film, with the juxtaposition between Joy and Sadness's personalities making them a great double act. There's also good support from Lewis Black, Bill Hader, and Mindy Kaling as Anger, Fear and Disgust. The instantly recognisable voice of Richard Kind also appears, playing Riley's forgotten imaginary friend Bing b*ng who ended up as my favourite character. I wasn't really looking forward to this run of Pixar films, but if they're even half as good as this I'll be satisfied. 9/10- 2
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236Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bladerunner (1982) dir Ridley Scott For me, this is one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. It's a film that has be re-released at least twice. I have seen the original theatrical release, the 1992 Director's Cut, and the 2007 Final Cut. The 1992 version, I think, set the trend for other director's to release Director's cuts of their films. It's certainly the first one I ever saw. However, despite the name, Ridley Scott did not have complete control over that version. He did over the 2007 one, and it's that one that I am reviewing. I could not remember the differences to the 1992 one without looking them up, but both of the later ones get rid of a voice over (a bit like a 1940s detective film) and different ending that got added to the original after feedback from test audiences (I think). It's based on the Philip K. d*ck novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. The basics of the plot is the same as the book, but the specific story is very different in places. I would recommend the book to anyone who is a fan of serious sci-fi, but it's the sort of book you need to really concentrate on. It was written in 1968 and set in 2019 when that seemed a long way in the future. The world the story is set in is way more advanced than we are now. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a retired LA cop, a Bladerunner, who specialises in tracking down and terminating rogue androids, called replicants. These are indistinguishable from real humans to all but the experts. Even people like Dekard can only tell for sure by lengthy interrogation of suspected replicants that is designed to show up lack of emotions that real humans have. Replicants are banned from Earth, only supposed to be used on off-world space colonies. Any that do get found on Earth can be killed on the spot. Deckard is brought back by his boss Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh) and his assistant Gaff (Edward James Olmos) because a group of replicants hijacked a ship that was later found abandoned on Earth. They are believed to be in LA seeking their creator, Mr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel). The replicants, at least those that have not already been eliminated, are lead by Batty (Rutger Hauer) and others are played by Daryl Hannah, Brion Jones and Joanna Cassidy. William Sanderson plays Sebastian, a lonely man with a premature ageing disease who makes his on androids (not realistic or dangerous enough to be classed as replicants) and Sean Young plays Tyrell's PA Rachel. The cast are, overall, good, but Rutger Hauer gives the best performance I ever saw of him as Batty varies from charming, to psychopathic, to child-like fearful naïvety. There is a big plot element to do with Deckard and Rachel that I won't spoil, and various things thrown in that have kept some fans speculating as to the true nature of the various characters. If you know the film you will probably know what I am referring to here. I will say that I don't see in the film all the things that some claim to clearly see, but I see enough to agree with the consensus. Also some of the theories about that do not apply to all versions of the film. The sets and cinematography are stunning. It still looks to me well ahead of its time, as does Ridely Scott's Alien, so to me it shows what great film makers could achieve well before they had access to sort of CGI and AI tech available today. It also has a pretty good modern score from Vangelis. The best scene is the penultimate one, just with Batty and Deckard and includes the famous “tears in the rain” monologue that, apart from a few hundred years of technological development, would not have been out of place in a Shakespeare play. 10 / 10 The theatrical version I would only give an 8 to because, although I have only ever seen it once, I do remember the voice-over annoying me and the altered ending, a little bit added on, pointlessly changes the story.- 2
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