Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 1 hour ago:
Some fuckwit VP needs fired over this decision. It was a simple game: pickup fairs, earn extra time, unlock stuff as you progress. If a publisher want extra cash, do more levels, or different jobs (delivery driver addon anyone?). And a fun soundtrack
Should have been able to bang it out for a million quid, and then reap the rewards. But nooo, now we have a game nobody wants to play, costing 20mil and will have servers shut down 2 years after launch
Everything that is wrong with gaming in 2024
- Comment on Thought's on this Raspberry Pi Rival? board handled 20 open Chrome tabs and 4K video playback smoothly ,board has Rockchip 8-core ARM processor, 32 GB of RAM, Mali G610 GPU, competing with top OOPS. 17 hours ago:
More than double the price. Not sure what it’s xompeting with, but not a pi
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 6 days ago:
Me too Shyfer, I buy 2nd hand a lot
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 1 week ago:
Noy hugely surprising given next gen consoles to all be without disc trays even
- Comment on Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over? 2 weeks ago:
Surely the absence of nine indicates our model of gravity is off. Combined with lack of Dark Matter, is Einstein wrong?
- Comment on Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded 1 month ago:
Now of f-droid too!
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 1 month ago:
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
- Paul Muad’Dib - Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 1 month ago:
Am I taking crazy pills? Discord and Slack suck just as much imo. They are all a shitty web app repackaged for the desktop. And they are all fine, barely anything to chose betweem them. Teams is probably the best as the calendar integration with outlook and hosting ad-hoc drop in meetings in a room is good, no really, the virtual office is fantastic for pairing and team work.
IM peaked with IRC though, the simplicity was excellent, Matrix the closest thing to it imo. I do wish more stuff integrated with it to offer the same business experience as teams
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 1 month ago:
Beyond all Reason in a similar space
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 2 months ago:
And 8
- Comment on BepiColombo Detects Oxygen and Carbon Ions in Magnetosphere of Venus 2 months ago:
Yup. Combined with phosphene it’s looking more and more likely. But still faaar from proven
- Comment on UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that 2 months ago:
That’s the post office, not royal mail, but really any large company could make this fuckup
- Comment on UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that 2 months ago:
Yes, but the stamps have mostly been bought from the post office, who get it from royal mail. Given how few people even bother with stamps these days, what’s more likely? An organised gang infiltrating supply chains with undetectable forgeries, or an IT malfunction that means the codes are not being registered properly in the first place? I know where my money is!
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 2 months ago:
Archer returns!
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 2 months ago:
This is a fantastic upscale. Laserdisc obviously a great source too. Maybe one day we’ll see some releases…
- Comment on TIL that NodeBB is working on implementing Activity Pub compatibility 2 months ago:
Fuck yes, networks of forums are fabulous, as we on lemmy have to all agree. Welcome to the threadiverse NodeBB!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 2 months ago:
So good to have trek back!
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 3 months ago:
Reddit is almost certainly going to throw your old comments to them if you edit stuff. We’re pretty fucked. And if you think Lemmy is any different, guess again. We agreed to send our comments to everyone else in the fediverse, plenty of bad actors and a legal minefield allows LLMs to do what they want essentially. The good news is that LLMs are all crap, and people are slowly realising this
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 3 months ago:
Someone didn’t read the TOS
- Comment on Former PM Gordon Brown slams ‘obscene’ levels of destitution in the UK, criticises ministers for ‘moral outrage’ of ‘systematically shredding’ social security system 4 months ago:
When the messager doesn’t say ‘I advocated for all of this’ then he just needs to shut it
- Comment on Former PM Gordon Brown slams ‘obscene’ levels of destitution in the UK, criticises ministers for ‘moral outrage’ of ‘systematically shredding’ social security system 4 months ago:
Really? You don’t see how indy is related to the Tories? He’s a total hypocrite and is responsible for the mess in his own backyard
- Comment on Discovery returns to screens April 4th 4 months ago:
Bonus trek for you!
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- Comment on Former PM Gordon Brown slams ‘obscene’ levels of destitution in the UK, criticises ministers for ‘moral outrage’ of ‘systematically shredding’ social security system 4 months ago:
Broon has to stop getting air time. Britain literally voted for this time and time again. Scotland had a chance to change course ten years ago, and he was instrumental in stopping this. This is happening in his backyard because of him, and until he owns his failings he can shut right up
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 5 months ago:
Until a robot can hang up my washing, my machine is staying off any networks
- Comment on Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI 5 months ago:
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter
Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that ‘en’ means that you make something else shitter I think
English is weird en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
- Comment on Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI 5 months ago:
enshitification continues
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
Weekly. And I’ve got bluetooth drivers on daily too. Drop the 3.5mm and you drop my purchase!
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Classics FPSes included Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 3. Both scale from 1 on 1 to 16 players well, meaning days of fun. Xonotic the open source clone, which is also very good
Worms is a hoot, can hotseat or LAN, armageddon I think the high point of the series. Hedgewars a more than worthy OS reimagining
RTSes are soo many, Warcraft 3, C&C series, or Total Annihilation all modded, all great. My choice is Balanced Annihilation or OpenRA for 2023 and OS
4X have classics like civ, but Stellaris a worthy choice too. Open source here includes unciv
Racing games are often a hoot too. You can get far too serious here if you want, but I recommend SuperTuxKart for some mariokart like action
Scorched3d another option for artillery fun. But generally Open Source all offer LAN gaming!
- Comment on Combined Arms, the big free retro C&C and Red Alert combo 1.0 is out now 6 months ago:
Missed dune 2k integration
Not even playable /s