adam_y
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- Comment on Is the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 actually bad? Let's fix these to find out. | Adrian's Digital Basement 1 week ago:
That’s a superb trajectory.
I went on to the +2A and then an Amiga 500. Loved that machine, but always the fondest memories for me were typing in code out of magazines on my ZX.
- Comment on Is the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 actually bad? Let's fix these to find out. | Adrian's Digital Basement 1 week ago:
“People make fun…”
Do they? They were massively popular in the UK and are generally remembered quite fondly by people who used them as kids.
Learning basic, playing games.
Sure, we griped about stuff, but folk gripe about everything.
This sort of retro-focussed content that makes weird assertions about how people felt and feel gets recycled way too often.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 4 weeks ago:
The only part that’s unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.
I wish this wasn’t as true as it is.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think k this is a gaming problem.
It is a discourse problem.
People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There’s no nuance.
And it must be made to cater for them, there’s no expectation that it will contain choices they don’t approve of.
And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.
You see it in films and books… Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.
People don’t accept that, perhaps, something isn’t just “not for them”. That’s why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children’s shows they used to watch.
And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.
Audience error.
- Comment on SNP MP calls for Trump state visit to be scrapped 5 weeks ago:
Nah, let him come here and make sure his motorcade gets stopped on the streets.
- Comment on Current chain of command 1 month ago:
Going to guess you aren’t European and you aren’t aware of what Putin did to our gas prices at the start of the Ukrain invasion.
You’re out by a million miles (sarcasm, not exact figure).
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 1 month ago:
The Britain’s invaded Britain. Power move.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
Been using Lemmy for a couple of years, not seen this once.
Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.
These people are just stakeholders in Reddit. They are afraid of change, or losing any rep they have. They sit on a pile of useless upvotes.
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- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 months ago:
"If it was easy, it wouldn’t be a shortcut, it’d just be the way. "
Modding varies from game to game, but having been doing it for nearly 40 years now, I can say it has generally become easier in the titles that want you to and harder in the ones that don’t.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 2 months ago:
We are currently witnessing falling numbers in the primary phase
So there’s no population boom.
Most of this article is talking about a speculative boom that might happen and what that could mean.
Meanwhile all of the current problems are attributed to not enough staff and chronic underfunding.
What an awful shitty article posing as journalism.
- Comment on Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits 2 months ago:
Here’s that vague statement in full:
“We believe in giving proper credit for anyone involved in making or contributing to a game’s creation, and value the contributions that all staff make during the development process,”
- Comment on Don't let the smoke out 2 months ago:
This is why we say fog in the theatre.
Fog is fine. Smoke is a situation.
- Comment on Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox 2 months ago:
Yeah. No thanks.
Just please don’t make this compulsory.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 are getting movies plus a Ghost of Tsushima anime is coming 2 months ago:
Starship troopers > hell divers > hell divers movie > hell divers movie the video game > hell divers movie the video game extended universe books
Can’t wait for the franchise to get massive, overblown, ubiquitous and then die off in subsequent TV spin-offs.
The Marvel Way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“I’m a little bit upset with the person of low IQ that lives down the road. He’s always fussing around his car as if it is more impressive than it is. He is certainly full of underserved confidence”.
Also, Scots is a distinct language. Not an accent.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 months ago:
Deeply unserious man.
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 3 months ago:
If it is behind a paywall, it isnt news, it is an asset.
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 4 months ago:
Don’t mean to make this all serious but sure you could talk about how god or a designer was just playing around or you could think about how the environment and the selective pressures were different during this period of the planet’s history.
- Comment on Feral Science 5 months ago:
Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.
- Comment on Like Fleetwood Mac? Get ready for 5 months ago:
Fleetwood Mac and cheese.
Yeah, OK. I’m in.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 5 months ago:
I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.
I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.
The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.
That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.
- Comment on Probably 5 months ago:
This is so on form for UCLAN.
- Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses 6 months ago:
Influencers are just fleshy billboards for whoever wants them to shill.
It isn’t a job, it is a resource.
And honestly, I think we are all getting tired of seeing their burning faces and hearing their vapid takes.
