theskyisfalling
@theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker' 2 days ago:
I realise you are having health issues from reading your other posts and you should always prioritise that!
I really have so little interest in that short form twitter esque posting that I actively reject it so if I’m being completely honest I doubt I will go there.
Don’t push yourself to post the long form posts, get better and the best of luck with your upcoming appointments. I will look forward to your return to the long form post and hopefully with accompanying info of how well you are doing physically in the future :D
You are not an imposter, you are the fediverses premier gaming journalist and I’ll fight anyone that says different xD
Have a good day!
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker' 2 days ago:
I’ve always avoided games based “journalism” (and all journalism really) as in my experience it tends to be full of over opinionated bullshit however your posts are different.
I genuinely enjoy your posts, they are well written, clear and succinct. You offer your opinion on things you genuinely enjoy but usually as a side note rather than baking it into the news or subject you are writing about and it is generally clear you are just passionate about the things you are writing about.
Where can I join the PerfectDark fan club?
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 2 days ago:
Absolutely. They don’t like being called out on it either. I am very vocal towards them and their blocking of cycle lanes and consequently I have had multiple drivers try and knock me off my bike. I had one guy when I was on foot try and run me over and then get out and try and fight me.
What also really pisses me off is that they are allowed to use bus lanes. Bus lanes, in my opinion, should be there the encourage use of PUBLIC transport by making it quicker for buses to get through traffic. They should not be benefiting these private businesses and encouraging even more entitled cunts driving taxis.
Honestly I could rant all day about taxi drivers, I fucking despise them.
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 3 days ago:
As a cyclist this is even worse, the amount of people that pass dangerous close and then I catch up to them and they are sending a text in their lap is absurd.
The deliveroo type food delivery riders on scooters are even worse, they drive around my city permanently looking at their phones with one hand on it tapping the screen, passing me as close as they can it seems. I also see them driving on foot paths and down cycle lanes to cut between two roads so they don’t have to go around more and more often in the last year or two.
And worst of the worst, taxi drivers. They are arrogant, entitled cunts who think they own the road just because they drive as a job.
I fully support these idiots being banned as they are all menaces on the road and are endangering countless peoples well being with their irresponsible driving. I don’t care if “that’s their livelihood” they should consider that before driving like pricks.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Fair. Bonus for you :D
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
But isn’t your pay pro-rata? In the UK (unless it has changed, which I doubt) then they get a pro-rata wage, so yes they still get paid in those months even though they aren’t working but the money they are getting paid in those months is taken from the pay cheques across the other months to make it all balance out.
So really they aren’t getting paid for those months as they don’t work them.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 6 days ago:
Sadly I don’t use any of those platforms and with a cursory view their website and etsy page don’t cover the actual materials and methods used to produce them (which is a bit weird for a passion project). I may have missed it though and will look properly once I’m not working.
Have a good day!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 6 days ago:
That is fine, I didn’t expect you to be as interested in the printing side but thought I would ask anyway. Thanks for the link, I’ll have a look around and see what I can find. :D
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 6 days ago:
Do you have any more information on those manuals in terms of how they made them? (Or a link to where I could read the info) Things like printing process, materials used etc. I work in print so that kind of interests me and from the photos they look of an OK quality so I was just curious.
All the best with your health, I enjoy reading through your posts even if I am not commenting every time but health is always more important so I hope things take a positive turn for you!
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 week ago:
Following a curated list of people on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
Listening to mixes and hearing something I like then tracking down what it is.
You could also check things like the beatport or juno charts to see what other people are buying in specific genres, just don’t buy your music from them.
Listen to radio?
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 1 week ago:
I mean if you want to be pedantic then;
Wheel: “a circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles or parts of machines move”
So a rim or alloy can and is a wheel with or without a tyre ;)
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it can’t be scuffed, I’m saying that personally I wouldn’t use it in that way because like you say I’m from an island that spells tyre with a y :p
- Comment on Remembering those times 1 week ago:
We used to do the same in HMV circa 98-00.
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 1 week ago:
I mean I disagree. A gouge would be a big chuck taken out, a scratch would be a more surface level line where as a scuff would be a patch of surface level damage. I doubt I would ever use scuff in terms of a tyre either.
That is the wonders of language though, everyone uses it differently :D
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 1 week ago:
Wheel, not tyre. So I presume they curbed an alloy or similar.
- Comment on Advice on moving my Spotify library to Navidrome 3 weeks ago:
Soggfy was just the first thing I tried that worked without crawling for shitty yt downloads of the same things and so I stuck with it. If the audio quality is the same then I really don’t see what difference it makes in the grand scheme of things.
I will try out zotify so thanks for the name but it isn’t like it will be any quicker as I’ll still do everything in “real time” as I want to maintain my account and not get banned as it is a family plan and I don’t want to negatively impact the other people that use the same plan.
Also I know people love to use command line but soggfy is just a modified Spotify client so I can just open it up and start what I need in a couple of clicks
- Comment on Advice on moving my Spotify library to Navidrome 3 weeks ago:
You are only going to be able to get 320 mp3s from Spotify at the very best, I use soggfy to intercept the audio and rip the tracks so you need to let the playlists run (although you can up the speed they play at) and there will also consequently be some organisation needed of the files afterwards so it is far from automated but works fairly well.
A lot of the tools around take your playlists and find what it thinks are the correct tracks on YouTube and then rip from there so be wary of the quality you might get from those.
I compared a track I ripped from Spotify with a 320 mp3 of the same track I had bought with a spectrometer (I think that is the correct name) and they looked identical
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised the police actually came out at all, they usually don’t give a fuck.
As someone else said you need to go to the council, they will have a department specifically for noise complaints and anti social shit like this. You will probably need to fill out a form online and then they have officers for this specific problem who will call you and probably come out to visit. They will be your best recourse to finding a solution to this.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 month ago:
I am an adult male who goes to the park / beach to play with and practise my levitation wand (flow toy) which is way less “normal” that just juggling.
Aside from the fact that who gives a fuck, it is a public park and anyone who thinks a man juggling is weird is the one with the problem the opposite is actually true in my experience.
The majority of people ignore me and the ones that don’t are genuinely interested in what the fuck I’m doing or how it works. Some people will watch from a distance, some people will engage and ask but no one tells me it is weird.
Go practise your juggling man!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 2 months ago:
Couldn’t agree more with your take on Early Access bullshittery. I too refuse to pay for anything that is “released” and described as much. It is just another thing after micro transactions that have further ruined gaming and despite a personal boycott of these practice’s still gets ever more common :(
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 months ago:
That is how I felt about Dave the Diver, was really enjoying the first part of the game and was excited to keep playing but they kept adding more and more shit on top that seemed unnecessary and it just made me lose interest entirely.
It could have been great but turned out to be a bit Meh for me.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 months ago:
That is a blast from the past! I absolutely loved ‘Z’ when I was younger but had forgotten about its existence!
Shame Atomfall decided on denuvo otherwise I’d have liked to have played it but I will not support games that include that trash.
- Comment on Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist. 2 months ago:
I don’t even like working with my co-workers, I don’t want them to ruin anything else!
- Comment on YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels 3 months ago:
Wow they have a dubstep channel and judging by the last played tracks listed they are actually playing proper dubstep as well as the more commercial american style sound.
No DnB though.
- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 3 months ago:
Just share the folder on soulseek. Probably not advisable for any sensitive information though xD
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 months ago:
Sanderson is such a beast, everything he has written that I’ve read is solid gold!
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 3 months ago:
A few titles that I never really hear anyone mention:
Mister Mosquito
Wetrix
Steambot Chronicles
Auto Modellista
XIII
And then some of my favourites that everyone knows about:
Burnout 3: Takedown
Smugglers Run
State of Emergency
NFS: Underground
Manhunt
Shadow of the Colossus
SOCOM, specifically the online MP
To name but a few, I don’t want to write an absurdly long list which is just too easy to do.
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 3 months ago:
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage or Need For Speed: Underground
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 3 months ago:
Thanks for the additional info. I am generally not super knowledgeable on politics so I will go check out your links :)
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 3 months ago:
There was a vote in 2011 to change the voting system that the idiots of the UK voted against changing. I was a kid then and that was the first time I voted but even as someone who has almost zero interest in politics I could see that moving away from fptp was the (what I thought) obvious choice.
Apparently not.
After the absolute farce that was brexit as well I don’t believe the the population of the UK are able to make a good decision that benefits the country and general populace. The majority of the population aren’t able to employ critical thinking and are just easily lead towards shitty decisions.
I don’t believe that even if we did get another vote to change this terrible system that it would actually pass unfortunately. I have no faith in the ability of this population to make good decisions.
