MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK 2 days ago:
You’re confusing design failure with failure in the broader, catastrophic sense.
As Picard said, it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad take, but it’s worth pointing out that lots of games miss internal deadlines and waste time ‘spinning their wheels’ but still turn out good or even great. The difference is that you don’t usually hear about it, whereas here some of the team are obviously pissed enough about the crunch that they went to the press.
Crunch is always bad and is an indication of poor project management, but issues with scope or major reworks aren’t always a death knell either.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
Demo in this context isn’t a consumer-playable ‘demo’ in the sense that most people understand; it means a playable internal build with specific targets for what must be included. Internal demo milestones are often linked to project funding and approval to move forwards, so there is a tangible risk if they fail to deliver.
Presumably the current state of the game is behind where it needed to be to deliver that demo, so they’re now crunching to finish it on time.
- Comment on “They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle 1 week ago:
Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, I’d imagine. Probably other reasons too, on occasion.
- Comment on “They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle 1 week ago:
Except there won’t be much of a consumer market to come back to, due to the aforementioned economic devastation.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say it’s suitable for kids - there’s a lot of innuendo and crude visual gags. Mid/late teens probably fine, but it’ll depend on your tolerance.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 week ago:
I’m with you - celery is horrid. Right up there with coriander for me as something that completely overpowers and ruins anything it’s used in.
- Comment on Day 516 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
ShaderGlass should allow you to run with a CRT shader without interfering with anticheat.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 3 weeks ago:
If/when the bubble bursts we’ll have bigger problems than the price of RAM.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the other option that started appearing during COVID: having to send a message to your GP via their surgery’s website, which they won’t read properly.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 3 weeks ago:
Are you seriously suggesting they deliberately got their game banned from Steam?
No developer is out there voluntarily withdrawing from the biggest games market just for the sake of ‘clout’.
- Comment on Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too. 3 weeks ago:
You can buy a kit online and do it at home with a guide or video.
- Comment on Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away 3 weeks ago:
Too young. RG won’t be the same without him.
- Comment on Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of 4 weeks ago:
Hope it works well - best of luck with the project!
- Comment on Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of 4 weeks ago:
Infrastruction?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Inbox zero just means handling your emails in such a way that you keep your inbox empty. Sounds like someone named a shitty SAAS product after the concept.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
The weirdest thing to me is how some people brag about how many tabs they have open as if it’s a competition. Like, it shouldn’t be a point of pride, it just shows you don’t know how to use bookmarks.
- Comment on Christina Chong Has a Wild Idea for a 'Doctor Who' and 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Crossover 4 weeks ago:
Well I don’t know about another musical episode, but the muppets are definitely coming in season 4 of SNW.
- 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 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
For reference, the SLS reportedly costs $2 billion per launch.
