MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
The Truman How?
- Comment on Punch Time 1 day ago:
This is exactly why lazily throwing your game’s text into a machine translation tool is not the same as hiring an actual localisation specialist.
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 1 day ago:
I guess thieves found a way to circumvent it, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense
Even if they haven’t (yet), it’s still a recent development. There are plenty of old models out there without it, not to mention Android phones which hold the majority market share in the UK.
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 1 day ago:
(it’s British Broadcasting Corporation)
- Submitted 2 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 1 week ago:
It’s McCarthyism 2.0, as American as apple pie
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 1 week ago:
Yeah, iPhone 4 was notorious for having antenna issues if you held it in a certain way
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first gameplay trailer and you can keep Tuvix 2 weeks ago:
They absolutely knew what they were doing when they put Tuvix in the trailer, and that actually gives me some confidence that they understand their audience.
- Comment on oh cool 2 weeks ago:
A word for this is ‘backronym’
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t necessarily disagree, but this reads a bit like some of the comments on those old Slashdot threads clowning on the first smartphones.
‘these things will fail, I already have a camera, a cellphone, and an mp3 player, why would anyone want them all in one device?’
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 2 weeks ago:
Given the state of the industry right now, there’s a good chance these games simply wouldn’t have been made without these deals.
If the choice is between releasing on GP or not releasing at all, I don’t begrudge them for taking the deal.
- Comment on Sell or keep 2600 heavy sixer woodgrain? 2 weeks ago:
Heavy sixers are the most sought-after models of VCS iirc, but as you discovered, 2600s just aren’t worth much. I think it’s a combination of wide availability and limited appeal to modern collectors compared to later systems.
Personally I’d hold onto it as a display piece, but if you don’t have the space then I wouldn’t feel bad for selling it on or even giving it away.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 2 weeks ago:
it’s a huge fuck up by Valve
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 2 weeks ago:
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 2 weeks ago:
The headline and article repeatedly call it a ‘verified Steam game’ but at no point do they explain what that means.
As far as I know, the only verification scheme on Steam is Steam Deck Verified, but the screenshot of the offending game’s store page shows that it was rated as ‘Unknown’.
Do they mean verified as in ‘Valve approved it for release’? Surely not, because every Steam game is approved for release so ‘verified Steam game’ would be a tautology.
Either I’m missing something, or this source is just adding words for no reason.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Epic pulled the game from storefronts and then released it officially on the internet archive, fully for free.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
And I’m just providing additional context that might help them make an informed purchasing decision 👍
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Purchasing Escape from Tarkov directly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Good news - there’s a new, officially-sanctioned macOS port of UT99.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
Purchasing Escape from Tarkov directly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 2 weeks ago:
I love the series, but if downtime bothers you, like OP says, then Arma is gonna be excruciating
- Comment on Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔 3 weeks ago:
Because the things that seem like obvious best practices now weren’t known at the time; they had to be developed and improved through iteration, like every other technology.
- Comment on Nintendo wins $2 Million settlement against Switch modchip seller who previously denied wrongdoing 4 weeks ago:
“Typically, when a customer purchases a hacked console or the circumvention services, Defendant preinstalls on the console a portfolio of ready-to-play pirated games, including some of Nintendo’s most popular titles such as its Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid games.”
Yeah, that’ll bring the hammer down every time.
- Comment on England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, I too remember the part of 1984 in which Big Brother improved Oceania’s outdated train ticketing system.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
The GDPR applies to any professional or commercial activity which involves the processing of the data of EU citizens.
There are a few caveats, but yes - the GDPR does apply outside of the EU.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 1 month ago:
Weird that worker exploitation is so amusing to you
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 1 month ago:
Sorry but I don’t believe you.
A quick web search for relevant keywords (‘uk legally registering entry immigration border small boat’) immediately brings up not only the supposedly impossible to find link, but also a guide from the Royal Yachting Association that tells you that you need to register in advance and links directly to the form.
- Comment on I went to the UK last week. Nothing about my trip was legal. 1 month ago:
The ‘beta website’ for announcing your arrival says right at the top that its been live since November 2023, so it seems more like you just didn’t bother to do the proper research before arriving?
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 1 month ago:
Unfortunately this was added to the gamescom b2b meeting platform, used by actual game developers and publishers to organise actual meetings with each other at the event. It’s not a throwaway marketing email to be sent straight to junk; it affected everyone using the system for genuine business purposes.
- Comment on new Star Trek Voyager videogame: Across the Unknown 1 month ago:
A previous press release says they have the licenses for TNG, VOY, and DS9, and they plan to ‘deliver a deep, story-driven game that puts players into the captain’s chair’ 🤔