marlowe221
@marlowe221@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
Star Trek interfaces are great…. If the tech is there to back them up.
In this case… not so much.
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 5 weeks ago:
The Genesis version is the best one, too!
- Comment on Eastshade, where screenshotting is elevated to an art form. 5 weeks ago:
I loved that game. Would really like to see a follow up too.
- Comment on Do you want Control Ultimate Edition for 90% off? -Nah, I'll just get HoMM 3 at full price. 1 month ago:
You can never go wrong with HoMM3
- Comment on I've been on GOG for more than a decade and HoMM 3 is always on bestsellers 1 month ago:
It does? Huh…. I guess I’ve had it installed so long that I forgot what the steps were.
- Comment on I've been on GOG for more than a decade and HoMM 3 is always on bestsellers 1 month ago:
I also highly recommend the HD mod too
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 1 month ago:
Subtitle: _An Autobiography _
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 months ago:
If only there were some easily identifiable common denominator…
- Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows? 2 months ago:
Related question based on the image for the original post… Is the Vanguard series good? I grew up reading my dad’s collection of TOS novels and I have always thought that era is f Trek translated well to a novel format.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 2 months ago:
The real question is…. WHY DOES AZURE DEVOPS STILL EXIST?!?!?
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 2 months ago:
Personally, I use the very technical method of listening for the buzzer to go off…
I hate that everything has WiFi for no reason…
- Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself 2 months ago:
Which is why I often look at my 6 year old son and just say “Behave!”
He knows who I’m talking about.
- Comment on Native Arch Linux Games - Share Your Favorites 2 months ago:
Battle for Wesnoth
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Widelands
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 3 months ago:
“Kirk to Enterprise…”
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 3 months ago:
Any laptop made in the last decade will run basically everything from the GBA back to the Atari 2600.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 3 months ago:
I think it does a good job of showing the Star Trek approach to science fiction.
You have a human on the planet interacting with an unusual alien. There is some action, but the primary problem of the episode is not solved by violence. The audience is taken along with Picard in the process of figuring out communication with the alien captain.
Its main weakness is that you don’t get much ship-based stuff in this particular episode. There is a little, but…
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 3 months ago:
Darmok
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 3 months ago:
Amen
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 3 months ago:
It’s not just a shitty disease…. It’s a shitty disease that the Social Security Administration really, REALLY does not like to pay out disability for. Mostly because, unless something has changed recently, it’s hard to prove that you actually have it because it defies easily quantifiable medical testing, among other things.
Source: I used to be an attorney who fought for people who had been denied benefits.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 4 months ago:
I assume you mean fascist propaganda over and above the right wing rabbit holes that already exist on YouTube….
Ugh, this is terrible.
- Comment on Bruce Horak On Catching That Carrot On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ And Painting Over 600 Portraits 4 months ago:
I would have loved to see Hemmer mentoring a young Montgomery Scott…
- Comment on Day 296 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 5 months ago:
I maintain that Morrowind has the best lore and main quest story Bethesda has ever written.
- Comment on Hard Vacuum - a retro styled indie RTS has a stable release version 6 months ago:
This looks pretty cool!
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 6 months ago:
And is only ONE of the reasons Yar’s Revenge is awesome!
- Comment on After years of hearing about it, I finally started playing Timberborn. Great chill city builder. 6 months ago:
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking about picking it up.
- Comment on After years of historical 4X games, Endless Legend 2 is a much-needed flight of fantasy for the genre 6 months ago:
Those games are so good
- Comment on Any babies born this week or next will have two easters before their first birthday 6 months ago:
Yep, my birthday is very early in April. Having two Easters in the same year of my life happens from time to time.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 6 months ago:
I’ll take my Motorola Razr back from the early 00s.
Whether I do Captain Kirk impressions with it in the privacy of my own home is my business…
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Well, the bar was low…
- Comment on Tech Guidelines For Europeans 7 months ago:
I agree, but knowing it’s from Norway makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of using it than if it was made in the US…. (And I’m American…)