MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why don’t tech bros wear suits? 2 days ago:
“In Silicon Valley, wearing a full business suit marked you as unsophisticated and not ‘with it’ in terms of tech and innovation. This caused the dress code requiring a suit to be inverted and it eventually reached the point where you can’t wear a suit and be taken seriously in Silicon Valley.”
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Well yeah - game development, a creative endeavour, benefits from continuity within the team working on it. Once you lose a certain percentage of that team, or even just a handful of key figures, the original vision and the lessons learned during its realisation are lost forever.
You’d think this was obvious, but apparently not to the c-suites, who see everyone as replaceable cogs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Have you looked into gardening? Healthy, rewarding, easy to get started, room to grow (if you’ll pardon the pun)…
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 3 days ago:
To add another: ‘pants’ means trousers in the US, but in the UK it means underpants. Can lead to some funny misinterpretations.
- Comment on How come on TV I can Oh God with no censor. I can say dammit and no censor. But if I put them both together and say GodDammit one of the words will be censored? 4 days ago:
Hey now, don’t rope the rest of us in with the USA’s bizarro puritanical approach to TV censorship. You can blaspheme to your heart’s content on TV in the UK.
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 1 week ago:
Because sports teams aren’t just indistinguishable entities; they’re complex organisations with histories, tendencies, and traditions, and that’s before looking at individual players and coaches/managers.
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 1 week ago:
Who dat! ⚜️
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 1 week ago:
People support teams for all manner of reasons. Hometown is one of them, sure, but you don’t have to live somewhere to support a team there.
I’ve known people who supported distant teams because they visited once and liked it, because one of their parents support them, or even just because they like the uniform colours.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
That original version still exists - it’s called Save the World and iirc they recently revamped it and made it free for everyone (it used to be a standalone purchase).
Last time I played it I didn’t find it all that engaging, so it’s hardly surprising they stuck with BR as the lead mode once it took off. But my point is they didn’t ‘throw out’ StW, it just got eclipsed by a far more popular mode. Can’t really blame them for backing a winner.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 1 week ago:
Cynically? Because what they want to do rarely aligns with what people actually want. It’s far easier to just push through unpopular legislation and spin it retroactively than it is to run a full propaganda campaign ahead of a referendum and still risk losing.
Politicians only run referendums if they’re sure the outcome will be what they want, or if their hand is forced by the opposition.
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 1 week ago:
And that’s not even close to a full list, either. There’s also Flight Simulator, Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush. Probably others I’m forgetting too.
There’s plenty to hate on MS for, and I’m not saying they haven’t squandered a lot of the talent they paid for, but to say they’ve released nothing great for over a decade is just ignorant.
- Comment on What would you call the genre of this song? It is common in a handful of indie games 1 week ago:
I’d call it a mix of jazz and trip hop.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 week ago:
Epic isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison with most other studios. They don’t just make games, they develop and support Unreal Engine for both games and film production, they operate EGS, a motion capture studio, ArtStation, Sketchfab, and a dozen other subsidiaries. It’s a huge company.
- Comment on Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion? 1 week ago:
Not really an answer, but the definition of a ‘regular-ass house’ is very different in the UK/EU compared to the US. American suburban homes are huge.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 1 week ago:
I don’t know about the Amazon, but he does own huge amounts of land in North Carolina which he has protected and/or donated to conservation schemes.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine being strongly influenced by the original pitch for Babylon 5 is a pretty famous, if variously disputed, example.
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 3 weeks ago:
No that’s not normal. Sounds like they’re incredibly insecure and emotionally manipulative.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Check out this fun little nugget from further down in the article:
Nvidia actually used two RTX 5090s for its demos: one plays the game, the other exclusively runs the DLSS 5 technology.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No you’re right - it’s 2:1, which is an unusual aspect ratio. But it looks like it’s intended to run games designed specifically for it rather than emulating other systems, so I guess it’s less a drawback and more a neat quirk.
- Comment on if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen 4 weeks ago:
Also fun fact: the ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.
It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.
I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies? 4 weeks ago:
I derive a great deal of happiness from how often this community lives up to its name
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.
I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 4 weeks ago:
Tried reading the article but it’s clearly written with AI. There might’ve been some editing but the stink of slop is all over it.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 5 weeks ago:
I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of heritage via ancestry as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.
I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant and/or fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it.
The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.
- Comment on ard 5 weeks ago:
See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!
- Comment on Anon watches a video essay 5 weeks ago:
Becoming? That channel’s whole vibe is ‘edgy teen plays shooters and makes Your Mom jokes’
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 5 weeks ago:
I couldn’t stand Discovery but Academy very quickly won me over.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 5 weeks ago:
She’s a guest star in a single episode.
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 5 weeks ago:
They make Coors, Miller Lite, and Carling. Safe to assume they don’t know and don’t care.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 month ago:
I think that principle is intended to apply to staples, when people in poverty are forced to steal food so as not to starve.
Stealing bars of Dairy Milk and then selling them on seems like a different thing.