MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 6 days ago:
Ah, one of the dozen people who actually liked the original Steam controller! A rare sight indeed.
- Comment on Does this count as 1 stop or 2? 6 days ago:
Ah, I didn’t consider that! It’s not a thing in the UK.
- Comment on Does this count as 1 stop or 2? 6 days ago:
You mean if there was enough traffic ahead of you at the lights that by the time you reached them they’d gone red again? In that scenario you still pulled forwards and then had to stop again, so I’d consider it two stops.
It’s only one stop if you stopped once and then didn’t move at all between one red light and the next (in which case I’d ask why).
- Comment on Driving game poll 2 weeks ago:
IIRC they’re adding this to American Truck Simulator. ETS2 is getting coaches, but not sure about cars (at least as an official option - I’m sure there are already community mods for it).
- Comment on How do people force themselves to write something, even if they're NOT inspired? 3 weeks ago:
I’m a professional writer and this is the way. You’ve just got to force yourself to write. Even if it’s nonsense. Even if you don’t want to. Especially if you don’t want to.
People ask what the difference is between a professional writer and an amateur. Some might say it’s getting paid, but that’s not true - plenty of professional writers don’t get paid. The difference is discipline. When you’re a professional writer you need to be able to turn it on every single day, even when there’s not an ounce of inspiration in your body.
- Comment on What OSes do Apple's servers run on? 3 weeks ago:
Which servers? (But the answer is almost certainly Linux.)
- Comment on Why are homes left empty in the UK and how can we fill them up? 3 weeks ago:
I think the issue is that there are two separate questions here that are being conflated:
- What are the circumstances leading to homes becoming vacant?
- Why are local authorities not able to effectively intervene?
The article deals exclusively in the latter, without addressing what the root causes might be.
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 4 weeks ago:
Thank Goodness You’re Here is quite possibly the funniest game I’ve ever played - good suggestion.
- Comment on 15 points to microsoft! 4 weeks ago:
Why is this meme sponsored by accuweather?
- Comment on Being Difficult 4 weeks ago:
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.
Both quotes attributed to Richard Feynman.
- Comment on Space Honey 4 weeks ago:
No, honey definitely exists
- Comment on Winning life 101 4 weeks ago:
Make a pond; even just a small one!
- Comment on Why don’t tech bros wear suits? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Who dat! ⚜️
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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?" 1 month 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 1 month 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.