MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy? 2 days ago:
Personally, I find the memorable weirdos are part of what makes Lemmy fun. I only tend to block the blatant spam or bot accounts. But each to their own!
- Comment on Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras 3 days ago:
I’d guess by your use of ‘licence plate’ that you’re not from the UK? There’s no need to justify them - they already exist everywhere here as speed cameras and low emission zone enforcement cameras.
They’re just saying the company that already operates them is testing a new type of camera that can read plates deliberately designed to be unreadable by the old tech.
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
Humans are awful at probability, so yeah - there would be an entire highly-profitable industry centred on hand detection and protection products.
- Comment on Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people 1 week ago:
That can’t be right - just yesterday people on Lemmy told me the Lib Dems don’t have a stance on anything!
- Comment on Only 25 per cent of children walk to school alone compared to 86 per cent in 1971. What went wrong? 1 week ago:
As the article points out, rates of child murder are so low that it makes as much sense as not walking to school for fear of being struck by lightning.
- Comment on Only 25 per cent of children walk to school alone compared to 86 per cent in 1971. What went wrong? 1 week ago:
I walked to school alone starting in year 6 (10 years old, for any non-Brits visiting the community) back in the 90s. Look at the crime rates and you can see it was more dangerous back then than it is now, but we seem to have gone backwards.
So many parents drive their kids from door to door now, and for what? The sheer volume of traffic on the roads during term times vs. school holidays is crazy, and of course they’re all massive 4x4s.
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 1 week ago:
Probably because the actor’s name came more readily to mind, and if you’re already discussing the movie then you know who they’re referring to.
- Comment on Hyper Light Drifter Studio Forced To Lay Off "Nearly Everyone" As Publishing Deal Falls Through 1 week ago:
Not to be a party pooper, but a studio is only as good as its staff. If they really have laid off ‘almost everyone’ then any creative vision they had is likely lost along with them.
They can claim continuity with a skeleton crew and a few design documents to use as reference, but it won’t be the same. Once you blow up a team there’s no going back.
- Comment on With all the bad news hitting the states all of a sudden, is there anywhere I can go online for good news? Instead of mourning all this stuff? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why does watching or partaking in mainstream media make me uncomfortable? 5 weeks ago:
Congratulations, you’re a hipster.
- Comment on Study of 3,400 children links London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) with improved lung growth 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure the car-brains will continue to argue that the ULEZ is a draconian scheme of oppression.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 1 month ago:
There were months of warning about the emergency alert system when it was introduced for exactly that reason, including widely-publicised instructions on how to turn them off.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all' 1 month ago:
Physical deterioration is another reason to focus on DRM free rather than physical for the sake of physical.
Classic ROM-based cartridges have proved pretty resilient so far, but older games on CD are already experiencing a culling due to disk rot. Thankfully almost all of them are backed up somewhere, but those backups are in a precarious legal position and could be lost.
- Comment on 'Star Trek': Holly Hunter Teases 'Starfleet Academy' Season 2 After Cancellation 1 month ago:
I’m still mad they canned SFA so fast.
Disco somehow stumbled its way to 5 seasons and a spin-off movie but they didn’t even let Academy finish airing before pulling the plug.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You know, I’m starting to think maybe they’re milking this whole GTA VI thing…
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 1 month ago:
Apple killed physical PC games
Valve, sure. But this is a leap of logic that I have to hear more about.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 months ago:
Ain’t that the truth. I’ve worked in games for about 15 years and almost every job I’ve had has been because I knew someone at that company already.
Not saying regular applications without a referral never work, but the odds against you are astronomical.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 months ago:
I don’t envy anyone trying to break into the games industry right now - you graduated at exactly the time all the investment left, layoffs hit, and jobs dried up.
It’s hard enough trying to find positions right now if you have years of experience, let alone as a fresh grad with none.
- Comment on Why do Britain get to send three teams to the World Cup? 2 months ago:
This is it exactly: the UK is made up of separate nations, and each nation is allowed to be separately represented.
Another example is the Faroe Islands, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark but has their own World Cup team.
- Comment on Why do elevator's have that Kenny G like music? Why not something with a little beat to it? 2 months ago:
It’s all thanks to the Muzak company and studies in the 50s/60s that suggested bland music made people work better.
There’s an article on it here to get started.
- Comment on Jamaican man who has lived in UK for 26 years facing deportation 2 months ago:
Seems like a bot
- Comment on Fingies 2 months ago:
Testicular torsion might be a closer comparison. Sometimes it just happens.
- Comment on Bob Vylan to sue BBC for defamation over Glastonbury coverage 2 months ago:
It’s possible to support the BBC as a cultural institution without agreeing with every decision made by its current leadership. Those aren’t conflicting values. In fact I’d argue that holding both those thoughts simultaneously is the only way to seek institutional change, as opposed to the nuance-hating ‘burn it all down’ crowd.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
A rare inverse example of Poe’s law in action!
- Comment on How are you liking the Star Fox 64 remake? 2 months ago:
So far I’ve played the first level and not gone back yet. Not the game’s fault; it’s just been a stressful couple of weeks at work and I’ve not been in the mood to get into something new.
Not a particularly useful perspective, but there we are.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 3 months ago:
Sadly, I predict a repeat of this classic:
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 3 months ago:
To play devil’s advocate: physical disc releases are a security nightmare.
Pirate groups pay big money to get access to disc images before release so they can have a crack ready on day 1, and leakers would love to get early access so they can drip feed information for social media cred. The bounty for an early iso of GTA VI would be astronomical.
I do however agree that releasing a ‘physical edition’ that’s just a code in a box is a waste of everyone’s time and money, not to mention materials destined for landfill.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 3 months ago:
They found out with GTA V and RDR2…
Not to be pedantic, but Rockstar have always staggered their PC ports all the way back to GTA III. Their strategy is literally 25+ years old at this point and I don’t see it changing.
- Comment on Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. 3 months ago:
Well yeah, sort of. Phil Spencer got replaced.
- Comment on Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. 3 months ago:
If they close Double Fine I’ll… well, I won’t be surprised, but I’ll be sad.
