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  • LG released a new version of its Magic Remote in January with a particularly limited button selection that is likely to confuse or frustrate newcomers. In addition to not having keys for individual numbers, there are no buttons for switching inputs, play/pause, or fast forward/rewind.

    One of the major features of this “EasyTV” is a remote with more buttons on it, because they removed most of them on the “Magic” remote.

    The rest of it seems like a pathetic attempt to enter a market they don’t really care about.

    To create the Easy TV, LG said it took its LG QNED Evo (QNED85A) and adjusted it to make the picture brighter and more color-saturated, and boosted audio for dialogue.

    You can also have it remind you to take medication, and apparently there’s a video calling feature.
















  • calliope@retrolemmy.comtoGames@lemmy.worldForza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed
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    It’s not just you! Forza Horizon has been the main series of video game I looked forward to. I loved 3 and 4.

    It didn’t take long for 5 to concentrate fully on the weekly bullshit and making the game more about puzzles and Hot Wheels-style excitement than driving.

    This is the first Horizon game in over a decade that I couldn’t care less about. It just feels like a sad shell of the previous games.


  • It’s such a funny example. He was so famous in the 80s!

    Never Gonna Give You Up was literally #1 in 25 countries in 1988. He was nominated for a Grammy but lost to Tracy Chapman.

    He’s sold 40 million albums.

    During the period between his debut release and his fifth single (in 1988), Astley outsold every other artist in the world. (From his Wikipedia article)

    I would argue he wasn’t accidentally famous at all, as he partnered with the Hit Factory. They produced Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” in 1985.

    “I knew, though, that when I got my turn, it would be a big thing, because Stock Aitken Waterman were becoming this big hit machine.”

    Having a big hit is why he started working at their production studio as a “tea boy.”