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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Relevant discussion, I wonder if the post is directly related to the news
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 5 days ago:
Exactly, someone spoofing the biometrics to unlock my phone relies on them having physical access, whereas spoofing the biometrics on an account that can be accessed anywhere in the world is quite a bit bigger of a threat
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 5 days ago:
That’s unlocking your phone, this is unlocking your entire Google account (e.g. on a new device)
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 5 days ago:
Let’s hope it encourages a few people to think a bit more critically about other companies too, even if some others don’t get beyond “this directly affects me”
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 5 days ago:
I can only assume that people who think Nintendo are somehow worse than the likes of Sony and Microsoft have never looked at a single thing those companies have done that isn’t directly related to video games
- Comment on I made a game. It is short adventure about bying bread during the war. It is free to play. And i am looking for feedback. 1 week ago:
FYI you’ve not posted a link to the game! You can edit your post to include the link to the steam page.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They’ve never made a comment either, which is not exactly normal human behaviour
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think you’ve answered your own question
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 3 weeks ago:
The hairy frog is also notable in possessing retractable “claws”, which it may project through the skin, apparently by intentionally breaking the bones of the toe.[5] These are not true claws, as they are made of bone, not keratin. In addition, there is a small bony nodule nestled in the tissue just beyond the frog’s fingertip. When sheathed, each claw is anchored to the nodule with tough strands of collagen. When the frog is grabbed or attacked, it breaks the nodule connection and forces the sharpened bones through the skin.[6][7] Although a retraction mechanism is not known, it has been hypothesized that the claws later retract passively, while the damaged tissue is regenerated.
This type of natural weaponry appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, although the Otton frog possesses a similar “spike” in its thumb.[8] An alternative hypothesis is that the broken bones could provide a better grip on rocks.[9]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_frog
Yep, pretty horrifying, accurate name.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 weeks ago:
I think “Robot Cache” was a company that claimed to do this sort of thing. The only reason I had even heard of them is because they gave away a game for free, and ironically now they’ve gone out of business and I can’t even access the game anymore!
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 4 weeks ago:
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
- Comment on Is Britain's Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve not ever heard the name “Josiah” here before
- Comment on Wowee!! 1 month ago:
We can rebuild him, we have the technology. But I don’t want to spend a lot of money.
- Comment on On cats 1 month ago:
Their office is in the physics department but their actual job is managing the unix lab
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t like it when they remove what are essentially accessibility features in the name of their artistic vision. A classic is something like limiting when you can pause the game.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I guess it’s a design decision so people don’t save-scum, but losing your whole game highlights a pretty massive issue with that design
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That makes sense. OP mentioning save slots made me think they were habitually duplicating their entire save file after each save or something!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How would multiple save slots have helped a random bug which lost all your progress?
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 1 month ago:
Red Dwarfs (Dwarves?)
Dwarfs if they’re in the sky, dwarves if they’re under the mountain
- Comment on Built a free British social chat site — would love 2 months ago:
Bold move to stick the Irish flag on there
- Comment on GameSir Tako: A vertical phone controller for retro games. At $21 in China, is it worth it? 2 months ago:
Software: Their app is clunky. Screen scaling is manual to avoid blocking content.
Do you need their software? Is it not just a controller which can be recognised by games?
- Comment on Old Nokia, lost mobile games 2 months ago:
I had a Symbian Nokia as my first smart-ish phone, having a web browser that could run real websites (even if you had to move the cursor around with a dpad) was absolute sci-fi. It could also run flash games, I remember getting a flash version of pacman from a games website, copying it to my phone, and being able to run it right from the file browser.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Good to know, thanks
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Thanks, I’ll treat that like an instruction manual
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I bought this game at least a decade ago but I still haven’t given it more than half an hour of play, and it clearly deserves a proper go. Is this a game I can just pick up and play or is it one of those where you really need to have a wiki open to vaguely understand what’s going on? I generally don’t like looking stuff up until I’ve completed (or otherwise got most of the way through) a game but if some prior reading is actually required then I want to know in advance.
- Comment on The Rise of the Bullshittery 2 months ago:
I guess some of those people you knew at school who just couldn’t help spouting any nonsense that would make them seem cool never grew out of it
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Support for other versions of the game is planned in the future.
You might still be in luck
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
Oh nice, how? Wilbrand?
