MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- 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 4 days ago:
No need to speak for the USA, Rockstar North is British
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 days ago:
FYI you can just post the link without shilling for your preferred search engine
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 days ago:
People who came to Steam later on probably don’t realise that when it was new it barely fucking worked.
Downloads crawled, games refused to launch because of authentication issues, friends/chat was offline for literally months, etc.
The only reason it became widely adopted was because Valve forced you to use it if you wanted to play the latest CS or, later, HL2. Everyone hated it.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 6 days ago:
I feel like the people complaining here have no idea how much work is involved in compiling and maintaining the OED.
This is a full reference of the English language, not just a place to check spelling.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 6 days ago:
Yep, exactly this.
I use OED as my standard reference when writing - I can log in from anywhere with my library card number and get full access without paying a penny.
- Comment on what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge? 1 week ago:
Mandarins or clementines last for ages in the fridge, don’t bruise, and taste amazing when cold.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 1 week ago:
Bigger underwear, for a start
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
If you mod it enough, sure. Out of the box it’s dismal.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
Official internal chat will be either Slack or MS Teams. Using any other app to discuss matters relating to the business would be a contract violation.
Realistically, game devs do this all the time in private chats with colleagues that happen outside work, both online and in person. But of course R* either never knows about those or chooses to overlook it.
In this case, I suspect the fact they were unionising was the reason they actually took action on it. It’s not about consistency, it’s about having an excuse to fire these people.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
In this scenario I’m assuming they were talking about project specifics, which would absolutely be covered.
I’m not sure about other industries, but NDAs and similar restrictive contract clauses in games are extremely strict and often quite broad.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
We already know the affected workers were using Discord to organise. My guess is they were discussing work issues there, and Rockstar jumped on that as an excuse to fire them (as it would constitute a breach of NDA).
- Comment on Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good? 1 week ago:
For reference, the SLS reportedly costs $2 billion per launch.
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 2 weeks ago:
Amerie - 1 Thing
- 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 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure his godawful, stilted, hackneyed dialogue would’ve fitted right in too
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 3 weeks ago:
This is a BBC article about Pizza Hut in the UK, posted on the unitedkingdom community.
- Comment on Is holly associated with Christmas because it's a holly-day? 3 weeks ago:
No, holiday is just a corruption of ‘holy day’.
- Comment on Mass layoffs in the gaming industry continue - estimated 11k layoffs in 2025 and total 46k in the last 3 years 3 weeks ago:
That post is 2 months old. There’s a more recent update and projection here.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting! And thanks for actually reading the question properly.
If that’s true it might suggest Coke Zero tastes the same worldwide? In which case I wonder which original Coca Cola it’s closest to?
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
We love salt and vinegar in the UK. I think statistically it’s the second most popular flavour of crisps here, after cheese and onion.
Sorry to hear the US somehow ruined it, although I’ve had pickle flavour crisps from the USA and enjoyed them, so I think there is hope.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
This is interesting! But sadly does not answer my question.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I realise Coke Zero is not sweetened with HFCS or cane sugar. That knowledge is in fact central to my actual question: does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 20 comments
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 4 weeks ago:
Some of the best language-based games:
- Tunic
- Chants of Sennaar
- Heaven’s Vault
- I Mother (not released yet)
- Comment on Punch Time 5 weeks ago:
This is exactly why lazily throwing your game’s text into a machine translation tool is not the same as hiring an actual localisation specialist.
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 1 month ago:
Yeah, iPhone 4 was notorious for having antenna issues if you held it in a certain way
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first gameplay trailer and you can keep Tuvix 1 month ago:
They absolutely knew what they were doing when they put Tuvix in the trailer, and that actually gives me some confidence that they understand their audience.
- Comment on oh cool 1 month ago:
A word for this is ‘backronym’
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 1 month ago:
Given the state of the industry right now, there’s a good chance these games simply wouldn’t have been made without these deals.
If the choice is between releasing on GP or not releasing at all, I don’t begrudge them for taking the deal.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 1 month ago:
it’s a huge fuck up by Valve
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 1 month ago:
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.