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- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 7 hours ago:
I’m seeing this slightly unusual arrangement:
but pressing
Add to Libraryseemed to work with no further hoops to jump through! - Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 4 days ago:
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not?
- Comment on Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer 1 week ago:
When I last played them Dolphin really struggled, but fortunately you can buy a Wii and the discs for a few quid each!
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 week ago:
I don’t know if things are different at Microsoft or across the pond in general, but from people I’ve spoken to who’ve been given similar “mandates”, they’re not as compulsory as they first sound. If you’re reasonably good at your job and your manager is keen to keep you then you can get away with just ignoring these rules. More what you’d call “guidelines” and all that.
- Comment on have some standards 1 week ago:
Ah, so FIFA but for Americans?
- Comment on Britain’s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers – and unthinkable danger 2 weeks ago:
The issue is, says Ford, that these illegal e-bikes are in effect motorbikes. “These people have passed no test, have no road training and don’t have the road skills. They just get on and ride around without insurance, tax, the bike not conforming to lights and everything else it should conform to, it’s not registered with the DVLA, all these things.”
Obviously “unthinkable” is one person’s opinion, but you get their point
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really a “plot” sort of gamer so probably don’t have a huge amount of experience to choose from, but Undertale really sounds like it fits the bill. It’s all laughs and jokes until it’s not.
- Comment on here there be lions 3 weeks ago:
I think bad::5 is IPv6
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 3 weeks ago:
Looks realistic to me!
- Comment on Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? 4 weeks ago:
The thing about Arsenal is they always try and wank it in
- Comment on Me too. 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t either til I looked it up!
- Comment on Me too. 5 weeks ago:
In a vegetative state would be more accurate:
The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function.
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 5 weeks ago:
The escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you’d have to be throwing it pretty hard
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that from Buckaroo Banzai? Wasn’t he still a scientist in that one?
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
Jeff Goldblum is the worst example, he’s always a scientist!
- Comment on I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him 1 month ago:
This was quite literally an episode of Black Mirror, I’m sure nothing can possibly go wrong
- Comment on Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles | 404 Media 1 month ago:
I saw a similar story about how open source software projects (I think it was curl) have cancelled their bug bounty programme because it’s being overrun with LLM-generated reports and they don’t have enough volunteers to verify them all. The relevant bit is that while many were doing it for the financial reward, some do it for reputation and some genuinely do think they’re helping by adding info they think is missing but not realising that what they’re posting is unreliable.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
Also birds fly, meaning they tend to disperse the seeds further
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 month ago:
Sticker Star kind of ruined Paper Mario for me. Super Paper Mario had already gone quite weird, but in a good way - the combat was completely different but it still felt like the original and TTYD in terms of the levelling, exploration, and plot.
Sticker Star, Colour Splash, and Origami King are very linear in comparison, their lack of experience makes battles largely pointless, and the obsession with giant household objects and nameless toad NPCs is getting tedious.
The latest three games were all still enjoyable, but they’re really nothing on the first three.
- Comment on The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry 1 month ago:
- Comment on Bird 1 month ago:
I see you’re a follower of catholic doctrine
- Comment on The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry 1 month ago:
That’s not really part of the film though. Just go a couple of hours without eating or bring your own food if it’s that expensive, right?
- Comment on The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry 1 month ago:
What’s going on with your cinema pricing, I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than £6 for a ticket
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
This reads like a Look Around You narration
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 month ago:
I think frying that guy’s brain was a lethal option, but the worse one from that level is the brothers who have their tongues torn out and get thrown into their own mines as slaves. Corvo’s blade really is the kinder option!
- Comment on kingdom come 1 month ago:
- Comment on High on snus in school: The hidden nicotine pouches shredding teens' gums 1 month ago:
FYI it’s “cigarette butts”, cigarette buds are the pals who join you on your smoke break
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Bit of a clickbait, the full quote is:
At Ubisoft, the golden rule when developing premium games is to allow players to enjoy the game in full without having to spend more. Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly, however this is always optional.
So still sniffing their own farts, but not quite as deluded as the out-of-context quote makes it sound.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 2 months ago:
Now you can install the homebrew channel just with developer mode. There’s also an app to automatically refresh the timer but I was a little hesitant about the access it wanted so I’m just doing it manually for now.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 2 months ago:
You don’t even need to root it, developer mode is relatively simple to set up and that lets you install whatever. A pihole is good for stopping it phoning home though.
