MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
An almost 30 Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 day ago:
Not a lot of places do in person appointment booking now. They definitely don’t encourage it anyway and usually prefer it to be done via the NHS app if possible. Mines not on the app yet outside of applying for getting a recurring prescription sent to a pharmacy
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 day ago:
Not been my case. I had an issue where I thought I may have had ligament or tendon damage that felt like it was healing from the last few days of having it. Which I feel like would’ve been an easy “just go to A&E” situation is that’s what they favoured. But they just told me what I should do at home to help it out and said if it persisted beyond X more days, THEN go to A&E if you can’t get a GP appointment. Which was sound advice because it turns out I felt much better the next day haha.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 day ago:
No, not really. And even if there are, you’re not always guaranteed you can even get onboarded into a local GP surgery. So most people are stuck with whoever they are currently with.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 day ago:
My previous GP surgery, only did this. Which was awful. My current one usually booked appointments within the same week now which is way better.
In my previous one I would have to battle it out in the early morning phone queue hopping I get seen too before the window closes or what was more common, no more time was free that day so I just wasted my time in a phone queue.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 day ago:
They said “humane appointment systems”.
I see that as being a system where you don’t have to try and ring up as fast as you can in hopes that there’s still time for you to be seen that day etc.
One of my previous GP surgeries sold only take appointments between 8 and 9am bit appointments for the day would be filled up usually within 15 minutes. And they would never book appointments for other days.
My current one is much better now and wish other GP surgeries did appointments the same way. Because I know the prior experience is the common one in this country sadly.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 day ago:
It might not be what they planned but they’re now using it as an opportunity for more publicity to get something out of it especially now there are some potential sales they won’t be getting anymore.
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 5 days ago:
You’ll have to elaborate, sorry
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 6 days ago:
It wasn’t the majority of us because I don’t even think we barely made it over the majority of people registered to vote, to actually vote.
Same goes for brexit, (number out of my arse but) I think about 30+% didn’t vote either way, yet they treat it like the majority of the country overall wanted it.
Plus the current government were only voted in to stop a worse one from continuing, and they seem to be going back on the principals both what they campaigned for as well as what the party has been historically known for.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
And some games don’t let you use both at the same time!
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
This would be killer!
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 1 week ago:
A chocolate bar with caramel inside on the shape of a frog, it’s price often used as a way to contextualise inflation, like how a banana is for scale.
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t it have to be peddo not pedo, like a freddo
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
I have eustachian tube issues that make most headphones very uncomfortable. Not only that I’ve always seen it weird to do that when I have a TV and a good sound system in my living room to use.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
Games with ancient bird sounds. This wouldn’t be too bad if i could turn them down or off but because of this I can’t play some games or spend time in specific areas of some games because it make my birds go crazy because they think there’s another bird in the house.
I wish we could individually turn up or down all of the different elements if sounds not just music/sfx/voice etc
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 1 week ago:
Fuck plants! I’ll eat 'em all!
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 weeks ago:
Yawning is more about getting more oxygen in your system. Which sometimes can be for to you being sleepy and not breathing as well, but always to do with tiredness.
I think when you see someone else yawn, you do the same to make sure you’re just as on point as they are. Since more oxygen in your system means you’ll operate more efficiently.
I think that’s correct, anyway? If someone knows better, please correct me
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 3 weeks ago:
Minecraft doesn’t use JavaScript, it’s just Java but the way.
- Comment on "This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the union was official yet, i think they were discussing unionising
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
Not to mention the bombardment of phone calls and messages while trying to "mourn’. Awful pacing.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
The game is definitely too sparse and spread out. It should’ve taken more inspiration from the likes of yakuza than gta and made a smaller but more dense world to play in where every nook and cranny ACTUALLY meant something rather than giving the illusion of doing so.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
To me every non and cranny just looks bland with nothing to do there. Everywhere just had the same sidewalks and railings. There’s no way i could ever navigate that game without waypoints.
And with the acting the emphasis she puts on certain words in a sentence just don’t match the situation and the others she’s talking to, and it feels like she swaps between extreme emotions on the same dialogue and it’s like tonal whiplash to me. There was no nuance to lay in between, and nothing to unpack for the listener. You know when she’s angry because she has her 110% angry voice on and so on.
Unless the situation is heightened and dire, it just never fit in my opinion. Her performance fits a stage play more than what’s meant to be an immersive video game in my opinion.
Jackie’s and Keanu’s voice acting though was stellar.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk.
It’s okay, but it’s a far cry from giving me the feelings of a cyberpunk world in my opinion and I’m a massive fan of blade runner and the like.
Why am i spending so much time wandering at the street level where everywhere just looks and feels the same. Travelling is so boring.
And the voice acting of V (I played female) is so overreacted, it’s one of the cringiest performances in gaming, considering it’s meant to be all serious and whatnot.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 4 weeks ago:
4s driving and shooting was better than SA but everything else makes SA better. I wanted then to marry the two together for the best GTA possible but they never did and probably won’t ever
- Comment on Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other? 4 weeks ago:
This is often the other way round nowadays though. It definitely used to be the case during the 360 era. But now loads of games use a mouse like cursor in games, even on console. And sometimes if it’s not like that the UI still looks mouse driven looking like it expects you to click on buttons but instead that have added a PNG of the button you need to press slightly over the UI button. It’s awful.
- Comment on sushi delivery 4 weeks ago:
Coming with Teflon pans has loads of evidence of killing pet birds nearby though so I’m not too sure it’s as 100% safe as you say it is.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 4 weeks ago:
I preferred path of neo personally. It just played better in my opinion and i found the extra bits fun padding for a game i wanted more of
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 4 weeks ago:
Toy Story 2
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 5 weeks ago:
Probably, wouldn’t put it past them haha
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 5 weeks ago:
I ultimately don’t think he’s a bad guy so I’m rooting for him to show us wrong.
I think he always just believed in his vision too much and didn’t realise that he and his team couldn’t end up delivering on it. And then he’d be so excited about what he’s working on that he just couldn’t not share it with others. I don’t think he ever intended to mislead.
I know there’s the milo thing but with that I feel like he still thought they could do it in the end but Microsoft just needed something right there and then to show. I think that issue ends up more squarely on whoever sold him on what the hardware could do and he had not yet fully hit those walls of limitations enough to realise they weren’t coming down at all. (I also think this goes for Sean Murray too when he did the talk show circuit that Sony put him on)
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 5 weeks ago:
If you are able to i think ensuring they’re installed on different drivers alleviates most issues