MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Please tell me I'm not going nuts 1 day ago:
‘Ah-ha! You’ve stepped right into my trap!’ they cried, as the dagger pierced their heart.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
I think the Atari XEGS probably wins the battle for ‘ugliest grey box’
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
Similar to how the NES was made to look like a VCR, the PlayStation was made to look right at home as part of a fancy 90s home hi-fi setup. Functional/industrial grey was the aesthetic du jour, and gave it a look that said this isn’t just a toy; it’s the future of home entertainment.
- Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items for $10 1 week ago:
Besides Tunic, there are still several good to great games in the first dozen (and no doubt a bunch more if you’re willing to dig into the smaller indies):
- Cook, Serve, Delicious - Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 3,631) all time
- Hoa - Very Positive (89% of 2,098) all time
- Tangle Tower - Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 4,760) all time
- Octodad: Dadliest Catch - Very Positive (93% of 8,480) all time
- Whispering Willows - Very Positive (81% of 1,166) all time
- Hidden Folks - Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 7,333) all time
- Eldritch - Very Positive (88% of 1,673) all time
- They Bleed Pixels - Very Positive (84% of 2,014) all time
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 1 week ago:
a vital defense against having your phone stolen is having an Android phone to begin with
Sorry, but this is just a laughable claim to make. Phone thieves aren’t going to hold back and try to figure out if the small slab in your hand is an iPhone 14 or a Pixel 9, they’re just going to take it and figure out what they’ve taken after the fact.
If anything, if they were paying attention to what targets were carrying, they’d be more likely to go for Android because they can still strip them for parts.
- Comment on Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline 1 week ago:
No, it’s integral to the show and most of the characters and only becomes more important as the show goes on.
I’m sure someone could assemble a list of episodes where the prophets/pah wraiths aren’t important, but it would just be a list of random filler episodes devoid of context.
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 1 week ago:
The sea will throw it back
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 1 week ago:
Unfortunately even then the M.O. is to flatten half the country, dismantle any existing government, then half-heartedly declare victory before leaving any survivors to clean up the mess.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
Also a lifelong Windows user, but have to use a Mac for work as of last year. I was expecting it to be a nightmare, but honestly 99% of the day to day stuff is either identical or similar enough that you can figure it out in a minute or two at most.
Things get a bit trickier if you’re trying to do more complex power user type stuff, since there are different paradigms at play, but even then a quick search will easily point you in the right direction.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
I’d consider myself an average ublock user on desktop, and as a point of comparison I’ve yet to run into anything on iOS that wasn’t blocked just as well by AdGuard for Safari, plus the distraction control feature for hiding one-off annoyances.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
All good points, but the restrictions on alternative app stores and browser engines are no longer true (although the latter only in the EU for now)
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 week ago:
Knowing Shatner’s ego, this project will never see the light of day unless it’s a vanity project.
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 2 weeks ago:
Congrats on missing the entire point of what the guy is saying.
The people losing their jobs are not the ones making the decisions that created a (subjectively) bad product.
- Comment on HowLongToBeat.com | Game Lengths, Backlogs and more! 3 weeks ago:
That’s why HLTB splits playtime into play style categories, depending on if you just want to see credits, if you’re gunning for 100%, or something in between.
- Comment on If Kodak came back with a Camera tomorrow, what would you be awaiting from a company like them? 4 weeks ago:
Shooting film is actually a growing market again these days, so I would want them to release an affordable new film camera.
They already license out the Kodak brand for the Kodak H35, which is a fun half-frame 35mm point-and-shoot, but it’s cheaply made and very light on features, so there’s still a gap in the market for something more advanced.
Pentax has recently reentered that exact market with the Pentax 17, but at ~£500 retail I believe another company could undercut them and gain a following.
- Comment on 1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support 4 weeks ago:
Genuinely never heard of this one before. Anyone played it?
- Comment on Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024 2 months ago:
Getting harder and harder for new games - even good ones - to find an audience.
I don’t think an abundance of releases is necessarily a bad thing, because more art is more art, but I also don’t know what a solution might look like to help prevent otherwise great games from vanishing into the masses immediately on release.
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 2 months ago:
Pretty sure that’s the model Apple News+ uses, but the price has always seemed pretty steep to me compared to other subscription services.
- Comment on Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunners 3 months ago:
Barely a bug IMO - Valve wanted an invisible wall to block players from being able to skip a small environmental puzzle, but invisible walls are a lazy solution. If the player can find an alternate route to climb up into the pipe, more power to them I say.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 3 months ago:
Yes, because the developers working on hair physics were definitely the same people that would have otherwise been working on narrative design.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: The Definitive Edition trilogy on PC gets a classic lighting update from the mobile version 3 months ago:
Great! It’s a shame the remasters still suck.
I wouldn’t even mind that much, but they removed the actual originals from sale completely, so this crappy cash-grab is the only official way to buy them now.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 3 months ago:
Where does it say they want to ban vaping outside schools & hospitals? This is specifically about smoking.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 4 months ago:
Because improving visuals is an easily quantifiable task, but improving gameplay requires creativity and risk-taking, neither of which are compatible with the AAA business model.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 months ago:
Yep, early 2000s in the UK and everyone was using MSN. I didn’t know a single person using AIM or ICQ!
- Comment on Let's talk about the birth of multimedia with Windows 95 and its weird and excentric media players! 4 months ago:
This was lovely! Are there any other communities that share interesting posts from small blogs like this?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down 5 months ago:
Fuck you, Nintendo. You used to be cool.
Nintendo have always been like this, even as far back as the NES days. They were super protective over who was allowed to make and sell cartridges, and repeatedly filed lawsuits against companies making unlicensed carts.
They’ve always been ultra-protective over their IP and hardware, and will happily sue fan projects and emulation into oblivion any chance they get.
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 5 months ago:
Those are exactly the fees they’re removing in the uk:
On Tuesday, eBay said its move, which has taken effect immediately, meant private sellers would no longer pay so-called final value fees or regulatory operating fees when they sold on the site.
- Comment on Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials 5 months ago:
So do you think this research is invalid, or are you just being snarky for the sake of it?
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 5 months ago:
I have a lot of fond nostalgia for A Final Unity, but the two TOS point & click games are way better designed. Plus they’re far easier to get hold of, since they’re sold on GOG while Final Unity isn’t available digitally anywhere.
That said, Final Unity is still good and if you prefer TNG then find a way to play that!
