MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 11 hours ago:
Proper grammar means shit all in English, unless you’re worrying for a specific style, in which you follow the grammar rules for that style.
Standard English has such a long list of weird and contradictory roles with nonsensical exceptions, that in every day English, getting your point across in communication is better than trying to follow some more arbitrary rules.
Which become even more arbitrary as English becomes more and more a melting pot of multicultural idioms and slang. Although I’m saying that as if that’s a new thing, but it does feel like a recent thing to be taught that side of English rather than just “The Queen’s(/King’s) English” as the style to strive for in writing and formal communication.
I say as long as someone can understand what you’re saying, your English is correct. If it becomes vague due to mishandling of the classic rules of English, then maybe you need to follow them a bit. I don’t have a specific science to this.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 4 days ago:
Obligatory Lemmy is social media response
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 1 week ago:
Council pop
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
I’m in the same block built boat as you. I always vehemently defend this game since finding out the general gaming public don’t like it.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Same, as a kid i had no idea if the controversy to and was still waiting on a sequel for some time after. I thought it was a novel idea and it was my first proper foray into Norse mythology.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
The worst part for teams is if you do contact work and need to be a part of multiple teams instances… It’s a MASSIVE fucking pain. Microsoft’s login processes are absolute infuriating and even more so if you have to log in to multiple different accounts that all somehow have the same email address but different tenants without letting you know which account version is for which tenant.
We had to use slack for our internal stuff so we could always be in contact with each other because you could only be signed into one teams instance at a time without jumping through crazy hoops.
I initially wanted us to move to teams but that hurdle stopped us. I’m kinda glad in hindsight.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 3 weeks ago:
I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the wiring for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn’t mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 3 weeks ago:
I’m still in the early stages in my current playthrough. I’ve not yet caught up to the intro
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 3 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy Tactics on my RG34XX and Repo almost nightly with the buds
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 3 weeks ago:
My gaming rig was the first thing to go full Linux because I was sick of dealing with windows for a HTPC and wanted bazzite for the steam gaming mode. Not had any issues yet.
- Comment on After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series 4 weeks ago:
Dirt 2 is still one is my favourite racing games. It just gives me the right vibes. 3 felt lonely in comparison
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 5 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity what are the 16 dev preserved ones?
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 5 weeks ago:
Why do gpus need tracking?
- Comment on Common British L 5 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of British-created curries or ones that have been heavily modified in the UK. If you went to India and wanted a tikka masala. I imagine it would be pretty hard to find one, and if you did it wouldn’t be like it was in the UK.
Personally I do prefer Indian curries because they get more interesting with the veggie ones though.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 5 weeks ago:
The best one is a Chinese only one that is a massive struggle to get GApps on it. It can be rooted now, but still not exactly an easy phone to set up for Western use without caveats.
Boox Palma was so close. It just needed cellular capability.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 5 weeks ago:
America is headed for an age of dumb.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 5 weeks ago:
I got locked out of my Xbox live account for like 5-8 years with no way to recover it because my @live email was not my main email and their recovery prices and for endless you may have been sent.
I somehow ended up having a temporary email attached to it that came with a game server hosting site that I no longer had. When I found this out I resubbed to that service and hoped i could get the same email address and I did and was finally able to get back in.
By then though I had moved to the PS3 and have stuck with Sony since (for consoles). But getting my Xbox account back allowed me to redownload all of my rock band 3 dlc again.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 5 weeks ago:
Loads of people still don’t realise that on a numbers basis, PS3 “won” that generation. But I think culturally it’s understood that the 360 did and because of that people are usually shocked at the PS3s sales figures.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 5 weeks ago:
All of those games’ characters are essentially just mascots though (other than samus). So they’re not really an applicable comparison for continuing a character long term in a story focused world that tries to be somewhat grounded in terms of consequences and passage of time.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 5 weeks ago:
I also don’t think Spotify’s High setting is as good as an mp3 of the same stated bitrate
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 5 weeks ago:
I’m just saying that in this thread you seem to be the “angry fucker” you describe, rather than the other way around.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think Spotify’s High bitrate is as good as it says it is, though. That’s what I’m getting at. Sort of like how YouTube’s encoding for whatever setting you pick is never as good as a local file with the same specs.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 1 month ago:
As an outsider looking in with only this thread for context. I feel like you’re gazing into the mirror a bit there and also need to chill.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 1 month ago:
You absolutely can. It’s not massive. But Spotify does sound muddy in comparison. And I’m not some crazy audiophile either. But I’ve definitely heard more clarity in some of my favourite songs and noticed certain powers of them that I’ve never noticed before just because I was using a FLAC vs using Spotify where I used to listen to it.
At a certain point, you’re right your not going to notice a difference on shitty speakers but there’s something about Spotify’s lossy compression that even at high you’ll notice the difference between the two.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #16 1 month ago:
As someone from the UK, where most of our spines were standardised like the PS1 and PS2. And having personally collected hundreds of the latter. I’ve always preferred consistent standardised spines. A full bookcase of PAL PS2 games looks so much nicer to me than the messy look of one filled with NTSC games in my opinion.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 month ago:
I don’t hate times exclusives that much because that’s done extra cashflow for the dev to be able to either finish their game or polish it further. I still don’t think we’d have gotten Alan Wake 2 at least the version we got without that epic deal. I also don’t know if square would’ve bothered even entertaining the idea of porting all of the kingdoms hearts games either.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 1 month ago:
You don’t need that much special equipment to tell the difference. I have a lil shitty Jelly Star. I can tell the difference between Spotify’s High and a FLAC from bandcamp with it’s speaker, Bluetooth headphones (Sony Link Buds) and my Car speakers.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 1 month ago:
It shouldn’t get fucked by MS they’ll just stop adding things to it to prevent outsiders from fucking it up. You’ll be alright for now, but keep an eye out for any potential vulnerabilities that get found after end of support. Then that’s when you can start thinking of disconnecting it from the internet. That is if you can’t risk yourself being patient 0. Then in that case you should disconnect as soon as end of life comes around.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 month ago:
I think they did bring back Doom RPG best phone game ever
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 1 month ago:
I must’ve heard wrong then. I swear I saw that they got shut down and then a different team came in to do those extra fixes on the shitty trilogy collection