twinnie
@twinnie@feddit.uk
- Comment on Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic? 10 hours ago:
People who have sun sneezes tend to sneeze a bunch of times at once. Sun sneezes are genetic.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 3 days ago:
Apps were still kinda new at the time and social media was shit hot. iPhones were still premium products and most people didn’t have one.
I think a lot of people don’t realise that when the iPhone first came out it didn’t have apps. They eventually released an upgrade so that you could pin webpages to the homepage. I remember Apple arguing that web stuff was so good now you didn’t need apps.
From what I recall around that time the Kin never really generated that much interest. It wasn’t being aimed as a product to replace the iPhone and was targeted at the kind of people who nowadays would sit on their phone and scroll TikTok. There was a lot of change in those days; social media was still pretty new, useful internet in your phone was pretty new (it’d been around for years but it wasn’t so expensive to this point nobody had used it, iPhone made constant internet connections a thing) touch screens were still new and sexy, and more I forget about. The idea that your phone was this little mobile computer that you carried around wasn’t really there yet and they were still mostly for communicating.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 6 days ago:
I think this is pretty normal as you grow up. You get kind of bored of playing games that use the same gameplay mechanisms and you just look for a change. Even if the mechanisms in these indie games aren’t as good, just being different makes the game more interesting.
Nowadays I’d much rather play a short indie games that a big budget game.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
They don’t need to court developers, they need to court consumers. The games will be sold wherever people are buying.
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 1 week ago:
Don’t know. No problems for me (UK).
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how I feel about this game. Seems like a less ambitious NMS.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. If the right wingers started posting pictures of the families of left wingers we’d be calling them out for it.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 weeks ago:
I’m all for posting pictures of him but don’t post his family.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 3 weeks ago:
I have a Samsung smart TV and apart from suggesting I watch stuff on their own Samsung channel thing I don’t think it shows me any adverts. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US?
- Comment on What a lucky woman 4 weeks ago:
ChatGPT says it’s just a guy who’s full of himself. I’m inclined to believe it’s correct on this.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 4 weeks ago:
It can never be too big, but it’s a problem if it’s a big city with nothing to do (Cyberpunk).
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 5 weeks ago:
I want to get Luigi’s Mansion as I remember really enjoying the first one. It’s just so expensive though.
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- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 month ago:
I honestly don’t mind as long as it’s down with permission. At least Microsoft are trying to do something interesting, computers are so boring nowadays. You could take any of the operating systems and wind them back five years and I probably wouldn’t notice.
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 month ago:
Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.
The newer one’s not too bad though.
- Comment on Serious Sam 2 was just updated after 20 years in celebration of its anniversary 1 month ago:
I always thought this was the weakest one. I loved TFE and TSE.
- Comment on Google Chrome to revoke notification access for inactive sites 1 month ago:
Has anyone ever let a website send them notifications?
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 1 month ago:
Can’t they just reduce the tax on drinking in a pub so they can take more profit from what’s spent? Most alcoholics drink at home now anyway.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 month ago:
I’ve been doing this for years now. Over the past ten years I’ve probably only bought about five games that were over £15.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve never been asked for any of this stuff but I think it’s literally because my email account is so old.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 2 months ago:
Labour tried to introduce it about 20 years ago but it got killed.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 2 months ago:
I’ve just been reading the BBC article on it and it says that every other party is against them being compulsory. I don’t think this’ll make it through.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 2 months ago:
Now Reform will start piping up about how they will block this and they’ll get even more votes. Between this and the age verification stuff I’m almost considering voting for them but I can’t stand the idea of Nigel Farage being PM and they keep trying to emulate Trump.
- Comment on BBC ignores funeral of 31 Yemeni journalists murdered by Israel 2 months ago:
What is this headline trying to insinuate? The BBC does loads of Israel coverage on the shit they’re doing.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 2 months ago:
This game bugged me, it totally missed the SCP vibe for me and it put me off. I also found the combat pretty boring.
I always liked the way that SCP is about a bureaucratic organisation trying to control and contain these supernatural entities. In Control they live inside an entity and literally let one control the organisation. That just seems so anti-SCP to me.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 2 months ago:
I was in France the other day and a restaurant on the beach started playing it. Not sure they understood English around there. You’d think they’d know the word Christmas though.
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 2 months ago:
I do this, it’s been one with other providers but I don’t use Netflix.
- Comment on Burkina Faso criminalises homosexuality in far-reaching family law reform 2 months ago:
Just a distraction from the shit state of the country.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 months ago:
Everyone’s scared of Reform getting in and yet Reform are the only ones promising to reverse all this. All this is done based off the back of a 2016 survey where parents said they were worried about kids watching porn on the internet, but the survey gave no indication of what a solution would look like and gave no online age verification and banning VPNs.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 months ago:
How do these sites even know ads are being blocked? What’s to stop the ad blocker just downloading the ads and simply not showing them?