MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on How to play old CD-ROM games on a modern Windows PC 14 hours ago:
The sheer amount of finagling required to get older games working on modern Windows is a big reason why projects like ExoDOS and ExoWin9x are so important for game preservation.
Getting these games to play from their original media is only going to get harder over time; eventually, playing archived/preserved digital versions will be the only way to experience them.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 days ago:
I imagine they’ll try to make this increasingly difficult; maybe even impossible.
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 4 days ago:
You’re confusing design failure with failure in the broader, catastrophic sense.
As Picard said, it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.
- Comment on Support For The Sega Dreamcast's Web Browser Has Ended After 25 Years 1 week ago:
*Google support has ended.
Alternative retro-friendly search engines are available, and the article even gives a shoutout to frogfind.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad take, but it’s worth pointing out that lots of games miss internal deadlines and waste time ‘spinning their wheels’ but still turn out good or even great. The difference is that you don’t usually hear about it, whereas here some of the team are obviously pissed enough about the crunch that they went to the press.
Crunch is always bad and is an indication of poor project management, but issues with scope or major reworks aren’t always a death knell either.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
Demo in this context isn’t a consumer-playable ‘demo’ in the sense that most people understand; it means a playable internal build with specific targets for what must be included. Internal demo milestones are often linked to project funding and approval to move forwards, so there is a tangible risk if they fail to deliver.
Presumably the current state of the game is behind where it needed to be to deliver that demo, so they’re now crunching to finish it on time.
- Comment on “They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle 1 week ago:
Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, I’d imagine. Probably other reasons too, on occasion.
- Comment on “They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle 1 week ago:
Except there won’t be much of a consumer market to come back to, due to the aforementioned economic devastation.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 week ago:
Yep, and the option to filter them is already in settings and has been for some time.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
I don’t think the bot will reply
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say it’s suitable for kids - there’s a lot of innuendo and crude visual gags. Mid/late teens probably fine, but it’ll depend on your tolerance.
- Comment on i'm gonna have to stand up aren't i 2 weeks ago:
Bad news: I got cream cheese everywhere
Good news: this smoked salmon has never been cleaner
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
When you think about it, it’s not really that different from learning to read faster, which is a valued skill.
(There’s an argument to be made that for many things you’d be better off reading rather than watching YouTube vids at 4x but let’s not focus on that.)
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you - celery is horrid. Right up there with coriander for me as something that completely overpowers and ruins anything it’s used in.
- Comment on i'm gonna have to stand up aren't i 2 weeks ago:
Are you eating bagels in the shower?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
When they say ‘faster playback speeds’ they don’t mean faster connection speeds, they mean watching at 1.5x normal speed (or faster).
- Comment on Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support 2 weeks ago:
Hadn’t heard of this but it looks fun!
- Comment on Day 516 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
ShaderGlass should allow you to run with a CRT shader without interfering with anticheat.
- Comment on Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs 3 weeks ago:
JP Allard says his company uses AI to create adverts with authenticity, heart and emotion
hahahahahaha
- Comment on SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows 3 weeks ago:
What we’ve found so far is basically the inverse of what we found when comparing handhelds: Windows usually has an edge on SteamOS’s performance, and sometimes that gap is quite large.
Lemmy won’t like this
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 3 weeks ago:
If/when the bubble bursts we’ll have bigger problems than the price of RAM.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the other option that started appearing during COVID: having to send a message to your GP via their surgery’s website, which they won’t read properly.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 3 weeks ago:
Are you seriously suggesting they deliberately got their game banned from Steam?
No developer is out there voluntarily withdrawing from the biggest games market just for the sake of ‘clout’.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 3 weeks ago:
The company I used to work for switched to 4-day weeks during COVID and everyone was much happier, especially those with children or other caring responsibilities. Productivity was the same or better.
But, predictably, 2021 rolled around and they forced everyone back to 5-day weeks. The justification given was ‘some’ people weren’t always taking the extra day off. No figures given, no other reasons.
I, and everyone else, strongly suspect it was just C-suite not liking the idea of people getting the same pay for one day less.
- Comment on Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears 3 weeks ago:
Right move, wrong reasons.
- Comment on Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too. 3 weeks ago:
You can buy a kit online and do it at home with a guide or video.
- Comment on Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away 3 weeks ago:
Too young. RG won’t be the same without him.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 3 weeks ago:
people want a keyboard on a phone not more folds
I don’t give a shit what most people want
🤔
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 4 weeks ago:
Sales figures and market trends suggest most people do not, in fact, want a keyboard.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 4 weeks ago:
It’s possible to clarify your position without first insulting the person you’re replying to, fyi
