MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on RIP Mac Pro, I guess. 1 day ago:
In no world has Apple ever been the cheaper option
- Comment on If a trunk at the front is called fruck, then a trunk at the back should be brunk. 3 days ago:
Am British, can confirm: the bonnet is the door you open to access the engine bay. The space for luggage is called the boot, and the door you open to access it is called the boot lid.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
No need to speak for the USA, Rockstar North is British
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
FYI you can just post the link without shilling for your preferred search engine
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
People who came to Steam later on probably don’t realise that when it was new it barely fucking worked.
Downloads crawled, games refused to launch because of authentication issues, friends/chat was offline for literally months, etc.
The only reason it became widely adopted was because Valve forced you to use it if you wanted to play the latest CS or, later, HL2. Everyone hated it.
- Comment on IWGB union file legal claims against Rockstar, due to GTA 6 maker allegedly refusing to negotiate over firings 1 week ago:
“We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting, and we will mount a full legal defence with our expert group of caseworkers, legal officers and barristers,” added IWGB president Alex Marshall. “Employers like Rockstar would do well to understand that private spaces such as trade union Discord servers have protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses do not supersede UK law.”
Yeah! Get ‘em!
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 1 week ago:
Yeah, when I was at school in the early 00s we were specifically told not to use Wikipedia as a research source.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
At killing batteries faster - the wasted energy creates heat, which degrades the battery.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
Non-magnetically-aligned wireless chargers are far worse than fast charging.
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 1 week ago:
Hey, it worked for Sega
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 1 week ago:
No they don’t? The games are only sold on physical cartridges (or built-in in some models).
There’s no online store or downloadable games, besides the ‘game of the month’ trial thing they occasionally run.
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 1 week ago:
Mandarins or clementines last for ages in the fridge, don’t bruise, and taste amazing when cold.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 1 week ago:
Bigger underwear, for a start
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
If you mod it enough, sure. Out of the box it’s dismal.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
Official internal chat will be either Slack or MS Teams. Using any other app to discuss matters relating to the business would be a contract violation.
Realistically, game devs do this all the time in private chats with colleagues that happen outside work, both online and in person. But of course R* either never knows about those or chooses to overlook it.
In this case, I suspect the fact they were unionising was the reason they actually took action on it. It’s not about consistency, it’s about having an excuse to fire these people.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
In this scenario I’m assuming they were talking about project specifics, which would absolutely be covered.
I’m not sure about other industries, but NDAs and similar restrictive contract clauses in games are extremely strict and often quite broad.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
We already know the affected workers were using Discord to organise. My guess is they were discussing work issues there, and Rockstar jumped on that as an excuse to fire them (as it would constitute a breach of NDA).
- Comment on Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good? 2 weeks ago:
For reference, the SLS reportedly costs $2 billion per launch.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 2 weeks ago:
In the UK they’re called crotchets, but I’m not sure that’s any less confusing.
- Comment on Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus 2 weeks ago:
He’s one of the OGs and therefore had a huge impact on gaming in general, but my god his maps for Doom and Quake are by far the worst parts of those games.
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 2 weeks ago:
Amerie - 1 Thing
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure his godawful, stilted, hackneyed dialogue would’ve fitted right in too
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 3 weeks ago:
Børnich admitted that much of the work will be done by teleoperators in the beginning. Owners will have access to an app where they can schedule when the teleoperator can take over NEO and where they can specify the task they want the machine to do.
Those teleoperators are gonna see a LOT of dicks.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 3 weeks ago:
Why would I want this?
Bold of you to assume there aren’t plenty of folks out there willing to overlook any potential privacy concerns for their very own robot butler.
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 3 weeks ago:
This is a BBC article about Pizza Hut in the UK, posted on the unitedkingdom community.
- Comment on Is holly associated with Christmas because it's a holly-day? 3 weeks ago:
No, holiday is just a corruption of ‘holy day’.
- Comment on Mass layoffs in the gaming industry continue - estimated 11k layoffs in 2025 and total 46k in the last 3 years 4 weeks ago:
That post is 2 months old. There’s a more recent update and projection here.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting! And thanks for actually reading the question properly.
If that’s true it might suggest Coke Zero tastes the same worldwide? In which case I wonder which original Coca Cola it’s closest to?
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
We love salt and vinegar in the UK. I think statistically it’s the second most popular flavour of crisps here, after cheese and onion.
Sorry to hear the US somehow ruined it, although I’ve had pickle flavour crisps from the USA and enjoyed them, so I think there is hope.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
This is interesting! But sadly does not answer my question.