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- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 3 days ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure either tbh. I can think of quite a few things that make a name forgettable (eg noun of proper noun), but I can’t think of anything that would make a name memorable other than it just being memorable.
Just as a aside, but I will push back on portal being an uncommon word. It’s more common than chess.
- Comment on Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names 4 days ago:
Duskfade is a perfectly pleasant 3D platformer with Kingdom Hearts-style combat that came out a couple of months ago. Once I’ve finished typing this paragraph, however, it will once again erase itself from my memory, because there’s nothing evocative about the name.
I feel that says more about the game than the name. Like I find (scrolls through Steam library) Bullet Witch is a more memorable name than say Portal, but I can tell you a hell of a lot more about the latter.
“Beyond that—I actually think that naming isn’t that important, since most people buy a game based on video footage, someone else playing it, or a recommendation. And we’ve seen in music and elsewhere that weird names are in no way a blocker to becoming successful.” Carless cites Steely Dan and Bananarama as examples.
Do people really look at the videos on Steam? I always immediately click past them to look at the images.
Failbetter’s next game is called Mandrake—the result of lots of collaborative longlisting, Flynn says. As well as encapsulating horticultural and sorcerer-type themes, it’s the name of the game’s main character.
This would be like if Esoteric Ebb called itself ‘Cleric’, though given Wizards of the Coast is publishing a game called ‘Warlock: Dungeon & Dragons’ I suppose it wouldn’t be that out there.
Good article though.
- Comment on Police to crack down on face coverings at protests 3 weeks ago:
Staffordshire Police also said it would ban the use of face coverings at a protest in Tamworth on Saturday, where Britain First is planning a so-called March for Remigration.
So you can match through town calling for ethnic cleansing and that’s peaceful protest, but a nan holding a sign is terrorism?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a Bluesky thread by another trans Green party memeber that I think is worth considering.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This is straight up misinformation, btw. There is no evidence that the Jewish Greens were involved with stalling the vote on this motion, David Miller (an actual antisemite) doesn’t provide any evidence. Their actual position on the motion is mixed.
- Comment on Llaneli man reached 140mph to 'get to gym after argument' and hit taxi 1 month ago:
Damn, I skimmed over the name. This is !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk material
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- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 1 month ago:
The BBC’s coverage on certain issues (asylum seekers, trans, disability, etc) has been inexcusably bad and has been for a while. I think it’s perfectly fair to hold the public broadcaster to a high standard. The Tories were able to stuff the BBC with their people and the quality of their journalism has plummeted since, the whole thing needs serious reform and Labour don’t seem interested in doing it.
I’m not a cynic, and as mentioned don’t have much of an imagination, so such thoughts don’t even cross my mind.
You wrote them out, so the thoughts clearly did cross your mind? I don’t even know why you’re trying to deflect this, it’s not unreasonable to think foreign intelligence would try to undermine trust in the BBC, they’d be dumb not to.
But again, those doing the most to undermine trust in the BBC are the people the Tories put in charge of it.
- Comment on We Lost Jason Arday to a Moral Panic 1 month ago:
A moral panic Novara were all too happy to play a part in.
- Comment on Just Think About It 1 month ago:
There’s a WW2 battle in the Pacific in the planes spin off film.
- Comment on The AYN Thor Lite Has Become Something Much Bigger Than AYN Built 1 month ago:
Good article! It’s always interesting to see the ecosystems that spring up around these devices, even if the Thor itself doesn’t interest me (my main console growing up was the 360).
Just a heads up, the first link in the article (the metrics one) 404s.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Burn 'em Burnham looked at the recent wildfires and thought ‘Yes, more of those please’.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 month ago:
This is such a weird use of this system. Months of wildfires and Labours first action is to send a phone alert that amounts to ‘only you can stop wildfires.’
- Comment on Harry Potter star Bel Powley says she 'strongly disagrees' with JK Rowling's views 1 month ago:
Every Harry Potter fan I’ve met already prerequisites any talk of the franchise with ‘I don’t agree with Rowling, but…’, they already know, they’d just rather support the eradication of trans people than give up their children toys.
- Comment on Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Real 1 month ago:
I mean, this is a blog post not a news article, and it is at least a well sourced Reddit comment. Good video though, very convincing, thanks for the link.
Text version of the video, with links: www.patreon.com/…/dobby-grave-is-166521289
- Dobby's Grave Not At Risk From The Greenlink Interconnector Project, Also Not Realwww.todayintabs.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Police and prosecution errors left proven sex offender free to murder two women in London 1 month ago:
OP is an infamous ban evader, they just spam post a bunch of from (mostly, but not exclusively) the Guardian, so I doubt this is OP’s agenda. The more concerning thing is the media, the BBC news homepage had 2 stories about this (and there were 3 this morning).
- Comment on ‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs 1 month ago:
who the people proposing these policies
Tories.
why they’re so opposed to fun, nightlife, and supporting long-standing traditions
Because they’re Tories.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 2 months ago:
Bait used to be believable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
!lemmydrama@lemmy.world probably fits to bill.
- Comment on Nigel Farage calls for Zack Polanski to be arrested over 'guillotine' Instagram post 2 months ago:
So now he believes you can incite violence over the internet?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Should be now, OP changed it to a link to Google.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
BTW, there’s a bug in Lemmy where editing out a URL won’t work over federation, you’ll need to change the URL to something else to remove it.
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- Comment on If the Minions were in Germany from 1933 to 1945.... 2 months ago:
- Comment on ZA/UM laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success 2 months ago:
Workers at ZA/UM once again facing the consequences of its managers decisions. Sad as ZP is by most accounts genuinely pretty good, though I haven’t got around to playing it myself yet.
- Comment on Amnesty UK self-reports to watchdog after calling JK Rowling women’s centre ‘anti-rights’ 2 months ago:
If you go to this centre for help, there’s a non-zero chance Rowling will tweet out to her 14 million followers about what you say.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 months ago:
Does this logic also apply to human corpses? Like if I go to a morgue…
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 2 months ago:
The friend did get stabbed though and was left with injuries from it. Fending off the brunt of the attack doesn’t make the attack less attack’y
I haven’t seen anything saying he actually got stabbed, only that there was an attempt and he sustained minor injuries feeding it off. That could mean anything from the knife grazing him to him breaking his nose in the struggle.
The guy is mentally ill
Mentally ill people are still capable of hate crimes.
- Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities 2 months ago:
Source? Reports say he got stabbed but got off with minor injuries. It is sill proscecuted as attempted murder.
It is alleged Suleiman was armed with a knife and “tried to stab Mr Hussein” in his upper body, but his friend “fended off the attack”.
And I just quickly looked it up and it seems it’s a direct subway line from Northern Line Borough to Brent Cross station. He essentially stepped out of the station and was at the next attack location.
He tried to stab his friend at around 8AM and didn’t arrive in Golders Green until after 11. Did he not see anyone for 2-3 hours while taking the London Underground on a weekday?
