Modder, programmer, and all around tinkerer. Yes, I’m that New Vegas and Deus Ex guy.

You can also find me over at lemmy.sdf.org under the same username. Also kbin.social if it ever comes back from the dead.

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  • It is, yes, at least the first season. They spliced together existing footage with some minor edits as necessary (e.g. lipsyncing, position edits) and dubbed it to make something new. That kept the show cheap since the animation costs were almost nothing.

    It wasn’t the only Cartoon Network/Adult Swim series to use that approach either: Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast used a lot of recycled animation from the original Space Ghost, though mostly in the form of individual characters edited over/into new backgrounds and animations (e.g. the set of the show).



  • Plenty of other great launchers mentioned (Projectivy is damn good) but I thought I’d put in a vote for FLauncher. It’s blood simple: here’s a screen listing your apps. THE END.

    You can change the background wallpaper, make different sections for different apps, hide/show specific apps and sort them as you will, but that is it. Perfect if you only plan to go back to the home menu when you’re switching between apps (like me).


  • Yeah, fair. That’s how I feel about most of my devices. If I don’t have root access at a minimum I don’t feel comfortable.

    Even for the units you can’t install a CFW on though you can still get in via ADB and exercise a lot of control. You can’t run apps as root but you can disable and purge any of the even remotely undesirable apps and block any of the paths used for forced updates and the like.


  • Android TV boxes are the way to go IMO. Lots of replacement launchers and ways to remove all the baked-in ads and the like, even if you can’t root the device.

    If you’re stateside, Walmart’s ONN brand devices are the absolute best bang for your buck you can find. They’re not locked down, so you’re able to get into the proper Android system menu and disable apps and so on (including telemetry). You can even activate ADB and tinker that way, though you don’t need to if you just want to install a more simple (read: ad-free) home screen and turn off all the tracking garbage.