smeg
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- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 3 days ago:
×𐠒×PONTIF×𐠒×
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 1 week ago:
The BBC have preempted your joke
It might be tempting to reach for a conspiracy theory or two, not least because it’s hard to hear the name “Skynet” without thinking of the malevolent, self-aware artificial intelligence (AI) system in The Terminator movie franchise.
But there’s no connection other than the name and, in any case, real life is always more prosaic.
- Comment on Games to play with my late 40s brothers? 1 week ago:
There’s loads of Worms games now though they’re all the same sort of thing. I think they just announced an “anniversary edition” of Armageddon, which looks basically the same as the Steam version but ported to modern consoles. Still a banger 25 years on!
- Comment on Here are the patents Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are suing Palworld over 1 week ago:
The one thing about patent law I know is that you can’t patent something that already exists in the wild (“prior art”), so surely that can’t be the case, and if it is then it’s open-and-shut, right?
- Comment on Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them 1 week ago:
I am pretty sure I picked up the Android version for free a few years ago and it had The Offspring but I installed it just now and it’s gone. It’s also now talking about ads and data collection so I assume the original build has been unavailable for a while.
- Comment on Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor! 1 week ago:
The WiiU could run the entire Wii OS, so that’s pretty good for backwards compatibility
- Comment on Quantum 1 week ago:
Looks more like a quick Photoshop job with that healy clone brush tool
- Comment on Toothless is real!! 1 week ago:
I’m no expert in Chinese pronunciation, but if you and your colleagues all had rhyming names and could arrange them in a way that sounded like the Trumpton theme, wouldn’t you?
- Comment on Monsters 1 week ago:
Fair!
- Comment on Monsters 1 week ago:
Where’s the science?
- Comment on Do it. 2 weeks ago:
imported ladybugs generally are from California
I doubt they’re shipping them across the Atlantic when there are breeders all over the world!
- Comment on Do it. 2 weeks ago:
You’ve got to do it at the right time of day too, can’t remember when the wrong time is but if you release them then they all just fly away immediately!
- Comment on Sony shuts down Concord developer Firewalk Studios, game will remain permanently offline 2 weeks ago:
I was keeping in mind that they put that much money in, surely all that money has made something playable that would make some money, whereas throwing it all away makes nothing at all, right?
- Comment on Sony shuts down Concord developer Firewalk Studios, game will remain permanently offline 2 weeks ago:
“Certain aspects of Concord were exceptional,” Hulst continued, “but others did not land with enough players, and as a result we took the game offline. We have spent considerable time these past few months exploring all our options [and] after much thought, we have determined the best path forward is to permanently sunset the game and close the studio.”
But why? Did they actually think it was going to cost more money to keep the servers running than it would bring in? What’s the opposite of the sunk cost fallacy?
- Comment on Kamala Harris Dropped a New Custom 'Fortnite' Map 2 weeks ago:
This is the most !nottheonion@lemmy.world headline I’ve ever read
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a rough size comparison
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 3 weeks ago:
This reads like a No Such Thing As A Fish fact
- Comment on sometimes it's just easier 3 weeks ago:
don’t forget the censoring of the weird “porn”!
- Comment on Just Terrible 3 weeks ago:
Arrays start at zero, just like floors on a building
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Do you think there are no vegans in Europe?
- Comment on Thanks Jupiter, You're a real one! 4 weeks ago:
Probably the bloody pope
- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
Do they his in opera? I’d say imagine they’re little jazz musicians going tsss-t-t-tsss-t-t
- Comment on My markup has my cat's contributions. 4 weeks ago:
Other way round for me.
The markup was neat and logical
ƚon ƨɒw ƚuqƚuo ɘʜƚ
- Comment on Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more 4 weeks ago:
Whoops, I meant “passkey”, I’ll edit my original comment
- Comment on Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more 4 weeks ago:
Using a security key as a password manager seems to resolve this issue (I think?), but I guess the issue is more a problem for the casual user who wouldn’t bother with a security key!
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing the ISPs aren’t forced to share their cables with other ISPs then?
Over here we have “fibre to the kerb” for people whose houses aren’t fully supported yet, meaning it’s fast fibre-optic cable all the way to somewhere near your house, then it uses your existing copper wires for the last bit. It’s not at fast as proper fibre-optic but still a lot better than old copper wires.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
So why don’t other ISPs offer comparable speeds in the same location?
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
That’s mental
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
What exactly does that mean? I thought you had anti-monopoly laws?
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
Wait, so does a single company own all the cabling or something!? We have a despised-for-their-incompetence company called Openreach in Britain but the cables they manage cover almost the entire county and any ISP can use them.
