Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on Why are a lot of statues vandalised with traffic cones in Scotland? 3 weeks ago:
It started with the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow afaik. And the council would send someone up to take it off. And so a local would stick it back up. And so on. So mostly just a laugh, I don’t think anyone really had much to say about Wellington in the 20th Century. And it just kinda spread. Glasgow City Council don’t bother removing it these days, too much faff
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 3 weeks ago:
Anyone actually playing 7? I know of no one personally, and I’ve played them all religiously
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna bet he’s not massively experienced and thus could be a bit nervous too. Airflow, hydration, you could go on top some more, try more positions, and most importantly, have plenty of fun!
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 5 weeks ago:
I’m also not saying LLMs and Markov Chains don’t have a use. Just it’s a dead end towards general artifical intelligence
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 5 weeks ago:
They are basically just giant markov chains. Knock your heart out
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 1 month ago:
Xonotic still has a few servers running and 385 players yesterday
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 month ago:
Me too. I don’t regret the Series X either, the SSD is great for online loading times and play
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 month ago:
SSDs - they are very nice. Series S is very affordable too if you aren’t a disc gamer
- Comment on Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ 1 month ago:
Doesn’t sound like a Labour government to me
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
I have no weapon but nonviolence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
See, I can quote things too
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
Sometimes you gotta pick your battles. What’s gonna be easier long term, giving up your guns or fighting this in the courts?
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
This is so American. Just give up the damn guns!
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 3 months ago:
Clearly never played proball, a quake3 mod which was a fucking hoot and laid a lot of groundwork for Rocket League. Did hours of this at LAN parties
Soccer tournament for unreal was also excellent. Deathball for 2004 for was also brilliant. I’d love to see CoD or Fortnite do a modern fps take on the concept
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 3 months ago:
Blood Dragon. Best tutorial ever
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 3 months ago:
I am whelmed. Never been the biggest mobile gamer, will skip
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 4 months ago:
Baba Yetu is also great
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 4 months ago:
When the ends of our jeans looked all freyed and hemmed
- Comment on The Original Gears of War Is Being Remastered For PS5, Xbox & PC 4 months ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Gears_of_War:_Ultimate_Edition
They have literally already done this job!
- Comment on ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Series In Works At Amazon From Jason Ning, Ron Moore & Sony TV 5 months ago:
As a big fan of the film, here’s hoping
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 7 months ago:
Free to air. It’s how we all got hooked
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 7 months ago:
Spoilers: it’s the weekend and some hard drive is full. Japanese uptake of the cloud was lagging, and I fully anticipate that PSN isn’t utilising any big cloud providers scalabaility and we’re now waiting on Jim, who is on a long weekend (and well earnt!) to reboot/add more storage/logrotate
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to receive its final update 8 months ago:
I’m just starting my first playthrough. First hour introduction was solid
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 8 months ago:
$700m to market the same game year in year out
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 8 months ago:
Finishing Mass Effect 3. Multiple times :)
Smashing and being smashed with my mates at worms with couch-coop
Multiplayer halo 2 across the LAN in my house
LAN party instagib ctf 1 hour 0-0 and winning it in overtime
Rocking a battlefield 2/3/4 server online with a squad of mates all using voice comms, and nobody playing a sniper
I love gaming
- Comment on TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59] 9 months ago:
6 replies and no Shazbot! Glad I got that sorted
- Comment on OC, my dreams coming true 11 months ago:
Lol, sure, that happened
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 11 months ago:
DRM infected files mean that you as a consumer don’t own anything. As someome else can destroy it.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 11 months ago:
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
DRM violates this principle. Atreides forever
- Comment on Is Lemmy Dead ☠️ 1 year ago:
Found it’s niche may be a better way to put it. Technology is very active, programming is full of good content. A good few meme communities. And the daily comics are great too. Plenty more examples. But plenty of communities pale in comparison to reddit, and this is likely due to the normie effect.
Techologists lead normies by 2 to 3 years, so give it another year yet before people migrate in bigger numbers