MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 22 hours ago:
Personally, I’d rather have a robust and up-to-date set of consumer protections rather than leaving everything up to ‘buyer beware’.
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 1 day ago:
Nowhere in the article or the original report does it say this is specific to Apple devices.
- Comment on Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK 3 days ago:
So is McDonald’s and their UK profit doubled in the last year, so sadly I don’t think BDS is having much of an effect.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 1 week ago:
Directed by Frakes too!
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 week ago:
Does 400 charge cycles really amount to just over a year of use for most people? I’m assuming one cycle means a full power cycle, not just a top up.
For reference (and I understand it’s a bit apples to oranges) I’ve had my iPhone 15 since Dec 2023 and charge it every night and it’s currently showing 125 charge cycles.
- Comment on Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester 1 week ago:
Yeah, he was treated poorly but the concern is understandable IMO
You can’t walk around in public with what looks a lot like a combat knife and then act surprised when the police show up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sounds about right. 41% of game devs got laid off last year, and there have been more since.
Statistically, this is a terrible time to try and join the industry.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t about you, America.
- Comment on Rising rocket launches linked to ozone layer thinning 2 weeks ago:
The billionaires’ various acts of performative space tourism are dumb to be sure, but they’re just a drop in the ocean for this specific issue.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to get my head around someone who just got into Star Trek starting with Picard.
I mean, fine - if you enjoyed it that’s great! But it’s a show explicitly about exploring the later life of a franchise figurehead. If you didn’t watch any of the earlier series or movies first you’re missing 90%+ of the context for what’s happening, surely?
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 weeks ago:
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 weeks ago:
Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
- Comment on 12ft.io down? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just down, it’s gone:
- Comment on Would you considering watching playthroughs of a game the same as playing that game? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely not the same.
The key defining characteristic of a game is interactivity: the ability to affect the outcome in some way. Some games allow for less freedom than others in that respect, but watching someone else play and make those decisions for you is always going to be fundamentally different to playing it yourself.
Not to diminish the value of streams, especially if you find enjoyment in watching them, but you should understand that it’s not a comparable experience.
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard enough finding one job - how in the hell are these people getting five?
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 weeks ago:
That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ as the most common euphemism, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale because they didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.
- Comment on Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover 3 weeks ago:
Why save 2 clicks when you could save 3?
The menu item in question reads as follows:
Chicken Pops
Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
I have 6a
- Comment on Frame of preference | A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 4 weeks ago:
Very interesting - and charmingly presented with the little demonstrations!
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 4 weeks ago:
True, but many indies do rely on funding from investors of one sort or another, be that angel investors, startup funds, or even just small business loans.
Many of those investors have lost their appetite for games, making it extremely difficult to pay the bills unless you’ve already got a sizeable cash reserve to cover costs.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
Tell that to all the smaller studios that have already been decimated and forced to close because of their publishing/funding deals falling through over the last couple of years.
It’s comforting to believe that only the biggest companies are struggling, but the industry as a whole is currently in active collapse from the inside out.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
I wish that was true, but funding has dried up across the entire sector and that affects the viability of smaller studios more than it does the mega corps with bottomless warchests.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 5 weeks ago:
Loving this little nugget from the article:
the translucent CD, which was pitched as an environmentally friendly option
Ah yes, the environmentally friendly option of producing thousands of plastic disks that don’t work.
- Comment on Sources: Everwild has been cancelled as Xbox layoffs hit Rare | VGC 5 weeks ago:
Founded in 1985, Rare is one of the UK’s most historic game developers, best known for Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007, and Banjo-Kazooie.
Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, and it has since gone on to create titles such as Kameo, Viva Piñata, Kinect Sports, and Sea of Thieves under the Xbox banner.
Says it all, really. Rare has been mismanaged into the ground for the past 20+ years.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. Permanent hardware bans have been a thing since the PS3/360 era.
I’m not saying it’s a good thing that they can unilaterally disable hardware you purchased (although I certainly understand the reasoning wrt cheaters and pirates) but the author here is acting like the idea is some completely new idea from the diabolical industry villains du jour.
- Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing? 5 weeks ago:
No, I mean the completely unfounded claim that discord’s typing indicators are somehow a tool for analysing users’ writing styles and selling that on to data brokers.
- Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing? 5 weeks ago:
It’s kind of impressive that you managed to squeeze in so many links to references but without including any that actually back up the accusation you’re making.
- Comment on Trial GOV.UK App launched today 5 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for the inevitable controversy when the official government chat bot tells someone to do something illegal, or gives dangerous advice leading to a death.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 1 month ago:
So this will affect Reddit and Lemmy too, presumably?