MrScottyTay

@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way".⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never thought about it like that actually, that’s good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way".⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But if something is “literally like” alleging else, does that not just equate to similar too since the literal definition of similar is to be like something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fantasy, not sci-fi though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s to do with pre-planned agreements with companies and that’s the end of the longest running contracts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the UK one it’s just tied to your email address to prevent duplicates, and you just input your name and physical address which will be used to confirm you’re actually a citizen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can still release their bespoke parts without any of the third party licensed stuff. Even without instructions on what needs to be gotten and put back in. It’d allow the smarter guys in the community have a headstart to figuring it out anyway. Most licensed software can be replaced, look at the recent decomps like the Lego island one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it not stop you from signing multiple times? The UK one tells you you’ve already signed it when you try again. I tried it again recently in case i was misremembering signing the second petition after the first one was misunderstood completely by the uk government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss fireworks. For me that was the best. I’ve never jived with Photoshop or is alternatives.

  I have since landed on krita, aseprite and inkscape. But i still miss the workflow I got used to with fireworks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swypo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory Lemmy is social media response

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cuppa Jill⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Council pop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do gpus need tracking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common British L⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  America is headed for an age of dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS3's comeback was insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just saying that in this thread you seem to be the “angry fucker” you describe, rather than the other way around.