MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 9 hours ago:
I couldn’t stand Discovery but Academy very quickly won me over.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 12 hours ago:
She’s a guest star in a single episode.
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 1 day ago:
They make Coors, Miller Lite, and Carling. Safe to assume they don’t know and don’t care.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 4 days ago:
Safety. What else?
You can see a news report from when it came into force here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60203081
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 4 days ago:
I think that principle is intended to apply to staples, when people in poverty are forced to steal food so as not to starve.
Stealing bars of Dairy Milk and then selling them on seems like a different thing.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 4 days ago:
I’m fact, smoke alarms with user-replaceable batteries became illegal in Scotland a couple of years ago.
Still waiting to see if the same regulation gets applied across the entire UK, but anecdotally I’ve noticed it’s already much harder to find anything other than 10-year battery or hardwired models in my part of England.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
You’re acting like harassment of the sort in the article is some kind of unavoidable natural phenomenon, and the only possible course of action is for the victims to suck it up and take it.
Steam is a platform owned, operated, and fully controlled by Valve. They have the ability and the money to take steps to improve the situation, but instead they seem perfectly happy to let it continue. It’s gross.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 week ago:
Sega, I guess?
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
Once again, people who pirate the shows end up with a better experience than legit customers. Tale as old as
timedigital media. - Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 1 week ago:
The clearly and repeatedly say the website they ordered it on, to the point where the post feels like an advertorial.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers with a big dose of hallucinatory gas 1 week ago:
It’s not slop, this staff writer just has a very idiosyncratic style that the RPS editors are seemingly happy to indulge.
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 1 week ago:
Don’t trust anyone who unironically uses the term ‘fake news’.
- Comment on Confirmed: Comic Book From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Ep. 6 Was NOT Created With AI 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that they outsourced it and the outsourcer used AI but said they didn’t. It wouldn’t be the first time, even on high profile projects - Marvel’s Loki ran into exactly that issue before.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 week ago:
It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.
Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 1 week ago:
I’m afraid you’ve failed the Voight-Kampff
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 weeks ago:
Most people can’t tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and an uncompressed file, but hey if folks really want to waste their money on snake oil like gold-plated cables then I say let ‘em.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 2 weeks ago:
It’s a stupid decision but I don’t think the people in charge of this are the same people investigating blackmail by foreign powers.
Makes about as much sense as the people who say ‘why do we bother researching space when we have problems here on earth?’
- Comment on More Mac malware from Google search 2 weeks ago:
If you know what curl is, you’re not the target audience.
The people this is targeting don’t even know what ‘CLI’ stands for, but they absolutely will copy/paste random commands into their computer if they’re told it’ll magically fix something.
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 3 weeks ago:
I think this is missing one other crucial factor in GOG becoming established: they targeted a niche.
Seems like a lot of people don’t really know this any more, but GOG’s ‘thing’ didn’t used to be a focus on being DRM-free, it was a focus on making old games accessible again.
GOG used to stand for Good Old Games.
Until GOG came along, publishers had next to no interest in making their older games available - things like Doom, Monkey Island, System Shock, Star Wars Dark Forces, etc.
Hard to believe now, but none of these games used to be available to buy anywhere - if you wanted to play them you had to either find a torrent or visit a dodgy abandonware site. It was GOG who identified that gap in the market and established themselves as the store for legally owning digital copies of these old games for the first time.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 3 weeks ago:
We had to read manuals for tutorials, maps, and story exposition. Try releasing a game nowadays that does that and you’re going to get slapped with a 1/10 because people nowadays have less patience than a goldfish.
I kind of get where you’re coming from but it comes across as out of touch, ‘old man yells at clouds’ type stuff.
The shift has far less to do with patience and more to do with designers getting better at integrating tutorials into the games themselves. Games now are designed to teach you how to play through playing, so reading a manual became unnecessary. That’s not a flaw, that’s an improvement.
The only reasons this wasn’t done earlier was because the field of UX was still developing, and because cartridges limited how much text could be crammed into the games themselves.
That said, there are still well-received games that rely on manuals, but it’s now an explicit design or aesthetic choice rather than something everyone has to do to make up for limited tutorialisation. Check out Tunic, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, or TIS-100 as examples.
- Comment on Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Announced for February 5 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for fixing!
- Comment on Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Announced for February 5 3 weeks ago:
Please don’t post links that just tell me to download an app.
- Comment on Bash Moto is an upcoming 90s themed beat 'em up motorcycle racing game 3 weeks ago:
Clearly a love letter to Road Rash (1994) but nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 3 weeks ago:
Pretty fascinating! I would’ve expected the dongle to be doing something more complex but, as the author says, it’s possible that these developers underused it.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years 4 weeks ago:
Here’s an article detailing the methodology.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years 4 weeks ago:
It’s hilarious that you think game development is a ‘cushy corpo job’.
Ah yes, all those game devs famously enjoying competitive salaries and rock solid job security.
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years 4 weeks ago:
Yep. PC players tend to be very outspoken, but they’re easily outnumbered by the console market, and the mobile market dwarfs them both.
