PatheticGroundThing

@PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS hospitals gear up to get cyberattack systems back online • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also hospitals in general are loath to replace any digital system that still works. That’s time that their already overworked personnel have to dedicate to learning new systems, potential new bugs and quirks that might have actual severe consequences for patients, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really think it’s a problem at all. It’s on the level of game mechanics being taken too seriously like “why does a sword in my backpack weigh enough to slow me down but not a sword in my belt?” or “how come these vegetable merchants are willing to buy random crap I found in a cave?”

  Fallout 1 has a hard timer you have to obey before it is too late to do your main objective and you lose the game. That shit stressed me out so much I just didn’t continue playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eurogamer: It's been 12 months since Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard, so what's changed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is one year really that long considering the dev cycles of big video games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese company busted showing off humanoid robots that actually have humans inside⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So nobody actually claimed they were robots. This article is just sensationalist clickbait garbage for people who really want to see a chinese company get “BUSTED!” for something. Twitter replies are full of racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese company busted showing off humanoid robots that actually have humans inside⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait a moment, did anyone actually think those were robots? Did anyone claim they were actual robots? I saw the videos going around and people were generally just impressed at the makeup and costume work.

  Replies in the twitter link make me laugh though.

  @VicBeeSee: Full on idiotic post, the company didn’t pretend they were robots.

  @Byron_Wan: It did… it didn’t tell others that those were human beings.

  This either sounds like someone trying to make an issue out of nothing, or someone who got momentarily tricked and is embarrassed about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting that the boomer wojak meme started as “That 30 year old boomer”. It was never about actual Baby Boomers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if someone took the concept of spaghetti code and applied it to an entire company.