MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo wins $2 Million settlement against Switch modchip seller who previously denied wrongdoing 6 days ago:
“Typically, when a customer purchases a hacked console or the circumvention services, Defendant preinstalls on the console a portfolio of ready-to-play pirated games, including some of Nintendo’s most popular titles such as its Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid games.”
Yeah, that’ll bring the hammer down every time.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
The GDPR applies to any professional or commercial activity which involves the processing of the data of EU citizens.
There are a few caveats, but yes - the GDPR does apply outside of the EU.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 weeks ago:
Weird that worker exploitation is so amusing to you
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Sorry but I don’t believe you.
A quick web search for relevant keywords (‘uk legally registering entry immigration border small boat’) immediately brings up not only the supposedly impossible to find link, but also a guide from the Royal Yachting Association that tells you that you need to register in advance and links directly to the form.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The ‘beta website’ for announcing your arrival says right at the top that its been live since November 2023, so it seems more like you just didn’t bother to do the proper research before arriving?
- Comment on new Star Trek Voyager videogame: Across the Unknown 3 weeks ago:
A previous press release says they have the licenses for TNG, VOY, and DS9, and they plan to ‘deliver a deep, story-driven game that puts players into the captain’s chair’ 🤔
- Comment on Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release 3 weeks ago:
Love Outlaws and hope this makes it easier to play on modern systems as even the GOG version can be temperamental.
That said, the trailer here looks rushed, which raises concerns. Notice how the player goes out of their way not to actually shoot any enemies, often actively aiming away from them before firing. Suggests maybe the damage/death sprites weren’t even ready?
- Comment on Star Trek: Infection VR - Official Release Date Trailer | gamescom 2025 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I think the sad reality of so many recent games being locked to the meta store is because meta are one of the only remaining publishers still willing to throw money at vr games, in exchange for exclusivity of course.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s impossible to get the execs to approve a 23-episode season of almost sitting these days, let alone sci-fi, and one of the (many) criticisms of Discovery was that it was lacking the more offbeat episodes and character pieces that helped define Trek’s golden age.
Rock and a hard place.
- Comment on Xbox Is Investing In AI For Their Next Gen Console 4 weeks ago:
What do you think is powering the latest upscaling and frame generation tech?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m from the UK and have visited much of Europe at one time or another. I’ve been to Munich a couple of times.
Germany is one of the countries where I would say I experienced the least culture shock - people in general seem to have very similar attitudes and social mores to folks back home.
- Comment on Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout? 4 weeks ago:
I always assumed Nintendo’s buttons are that way round because Japanese is read right-to-left.
You’ve got to admit it’s pretty funny that we’ve whittled the field down to three console manufacturers and they all put the ‘X’ button in a different place.
- Comment on Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout? 4 weeks ago:
Probably because it adds functional & mechanical complexity (and therefore cost) for a feature most people don’t need.
Are you really looking down at the buttons often enough that it would actually make a difference?
- Comment on Canon Connections: SNW 3x05 - Through the Lens of Time 4 weeks ago:
Much like Rick Berman
- Comment on Anon is Banished 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t something similar to this happen in one of Jack Vance’s stories?
- Comment on Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games 5 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine a way of remaking DA:O for modern audiences without losing what made it special to begin with.
- Comment on Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK 5 weeks ago:
So is McDonald’s and their UK profit doubled in the last year, so sadly I don’t think BDS is having much of an effect.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 1 month ago:
Directed by Frakes too!
- Comment on Anon earns achievements 1 month ago:
Speaking from experience: in many cases, they’re cliche because project managers, producers, and execs take over writing achievement names & descriptions instead of letting the writer(s) do it.
It’s happened on literally every game I’ve worked on.
- Comment on Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester 1 month ago:
Yeah, he was treated poorly but the concern is understandable IMO
You can’t walk around in public with what looks a lot like a combat knife and then act surprised when the police show up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sounds about right. 41% of game devs got laid off last year, and there have been more since.
Statistically, this is a terrible time to try and join the industry.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 1 month ago:
This isn’t about you, America.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 month ago:
I’m struggling to get my head around someone who just got into Star Trek starting with Picard.
I mean, fine - if you enjoyed it that’s great! But it’s a show explicitly about exploring the later life of a franchise figurehead. If you didn’t watch any of the earlier series or movies first you’re missing 90%+ of the context for what’s happening, surely?
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 month ago:
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 1 month ago:
Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Absolutely not the same.
The key defining characteristic of a game is interactivity: the ability to affect the outcome in some way. Some games allow for less freedom than others in that respect, but watching someone else play and make those decisions for you is always going to be fundamentally different to playing it yourself.
Not to diminish the value of streams, especially if you find enjoyment in watching them, but you should understand that it’s not a comparable experience.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ as the most common euphemism, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale because they didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 months ago:
True, but many indies do rely on funding from investors of one sort or another, be that angel investors, startup funds, or even just small business loans.
Many of those investors have lost their appetite for games, making it extremely difficult to pay the bills unless you’ve already got a sizeable cash reserve to cover costs.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 months ago:
Tell that to all the smaller studios that have already been decimated and forced to close because of their publishing/funding deals falling through over the last couple of years.
It’s comforting to believe that only the biggest companies are struggling, but the industry as a whole is currently in active collapse from the inside out.