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- Comment on Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes 3 hours ago:
How would that work in the UK with the ring circuit? Won’t we just blow out everything else connected to that circuit.
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 3 hours ago:
Nuance, you no has it.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 3 hours ago:
I ended up buying hours from the local priest. Still don’t understand why he had one when all the stores were out of stock for months on end.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
Well yeah because they screwed up one of their main franchises. All they had to do was leave Budgie alone to make Halo games, but no.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
Everyone knows developers only have one good game in them.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
No that would probably make money. Microsoft don’t make sound business decisions.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
I literally have no idea what generation of console any of those names are from.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
Microsoft suck at naming things in general. It’s a problem across every single branch of the business, people keep calling Office 365 0365 because Microsoft insists on calling it O365 and people think that’s a zero. Also the name makes no sense anyway, why not call it Microsoft Office Online?
Then we have Microsoft Azure, except they renamed that to Entra despite the fact that both names are stupid. Then of course there is the entirety of the Windows OS lineup.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
I can’t see streaming games being anything other than a niche market. It puts the burden onto the streamer, in order to be competitive they look after constantly be upgrading their offering, they will have to have multiple server centres around the world, they will always be beholden to crappy ISPs who just don’t upgrade their infrastructure.
With local hardware you shortcut all of that, upgrading of your hardware is done by the user so they’re not going to complain if it’s out of date, you don’t have to have any server centres, and the ISP issues either don’t matter for single player games that were massively reduced for multiplayer games, now they don’t actually have to send video over the connection. .
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 hours ago:
What are you talking about you can buy the PC for less than the price of a PS5 and it will be better than the PS5. The advantage of gaming consoles has always been that it’s plug and play. You just turn it on and there you go.
Sony aren’t going to create a revolutionary GPU that’s only available in the PS6. They might try and charge $1,000 for it but they will always be other options. Where do you think they get their components from? They don’t have their own fab.
- Comment on Sony, owner of "Naughty Dog", is suing a small game developer "Naughty Cat" in HK for trademark infringement. 9 hours ago:
I guarantee that Naughty Bunny makes sex toys.
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 15 hours ago:
He’s forever saying stuff like that. He’s in utter lunatic.
I actually know a multi-millionaire and he’s exactly the same, they have convinced themselves that they deserve this money and so it’s totally moral and acceptable and therefore they don’t need to give it away to good causes. He is your stereo typical rich idiot, inherited his wealth but thinks he’s a big shot as a result, and cheated on his wife with his secretary.
He once said to me, “I would vote for labour but I have a moral responsibility to the public, so I vote for the conservatives because they are a better party for the people”, if I hadn’t been at work and didn’t have to be civil to him I’d have given him a slap for that.
- Comment on Sony, owner of "Naughty Dog", is suing a small game developer "Naughty Cat" in HK for trademark infringement. 15 hours ago:
The first, dominant element of the two marks, NAUGHTY, is identical,” Sony said. “The second elements, DOG and CAT, are highly similar in that both refer to house pets
That has to be the most flimsy lawsuit I’ve ever heard. Any lawyer that can win with that case is a freaking genius.
- Comment on UK Stop Killing Games Petition's Map of Signatures ✍️ 16 hours ago:
It’s not part of the EU petition but there is a UK petition which is separate. There was also one going in Australia if you know any Australians.
- Comment on UK Stop Killing Games Petition's Map of Signatures ✍️ 16 hours ago:
Nout else to do up there
- Comment on Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined 16 hours ago:
I swear to God Nintendo don’t play test their games anymore. It’s always something like this.
- Comment on Anon has been bullied 16 hours ago:
It looks to be corrugated iron not slayed. Corrugated iron would be a really weird roofing material in the UK, as it’s terrible for insulation. Also if he was from the UK it would be on the news because no one has air conditioning. It’s really hard to even find someone who knows how to install it.
It can’t be anywhere in southern Europe because they’d already have air conditioning, could be France or Germany though they tend not to have aircon by default.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 17 hours ago:
What’s an enormous brain he has, it’s a meeting that fits in his itty bitty head.
So living in the UK which has free healthcare I can tell everybody that it’s super easy to do this.
Obviously I don’t have a job so I can’t afford food, so I just starve myself until I nearly die, and then the NHS turn up and put me in one of those pokeball rehabilitation things and I’m good to go.
- Comment on Anon finds love 1 day ago:
No they found a buyer. So now they have all the DNA, yay
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 days ago:
Yes I’ve already signed it, and I signed the original. Although even back then I suspected that the petition was simultaneously too vague and too specific.
It was vague in that it didn’t really explain what it was asking to happen, and didn’t really make the distinction between a product being technically still functional and a product not working because the servers have shut down. While at the same time being too specifically focused on games rather than server run software in general. What happens if Adobe goes down, does everyone lose access to photoshop?
I just feel that this has a better chance of succeeding if they were to de-emphasize the games aspect, and allow politicians the wiggle run to focus on the corporate business side of things.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 days ago:
I hope the wording of the petition is very clear. The last time this was brought up in the UK the government of the time basically just brushed it off by intentionally misunderstanding the petition. You can’t give them any leeway to do that this time.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 days ago:
Oh come on you can’t actually be that dense. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there are these things called laws and companies have to follow them.
- Comment on They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes 5 days ago:
Standard fare is you get two 15-minute breaks and one 30 minute break. I’m guessing you now only get one 30 minute break which seems like it should be illegal but I’m assuming this is the US, so whatever.
- Comment on Anon’s a sucker 5 days ago:
Shit I’m colourblind too.
- Comment on Anon’s a sucker 5 days ago:
But you can actually buy black and white printers so how does that work?
- Comment on Rematch review 5 days ago:
I haven’t played any of the recent FIFA games but I remember the last one that played had truly awful AI. I never understood why they didn’t have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members. This game actually seems to have that. In fact from the trailer it seems that this might be exclusively multiplayer which is an interesting idea.
Although this game is a football game in the same way Balatro is a poker game
- Comment on Rematch review 5 days ago:
Works fine for me. What’s your problem with it?
- Comment on Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill 5 days ago:
Well at least some MPs understand the point of the party even if the PM doesn’t.
What’s the point in Labour if they’re just going to repeat Conservative talking points, who themselves are only repeating reform talking points.
- Comment on The UK continues to lag behind Europe for cycling-friendly towns and cities, new data from PeopleForBikes finds. 5 days ago:
You want to know the absolute stupidest thing. The main train station in my area is being redeveloped, which is great, but the problem is it’s taking forever and in meantime there are no services to the station at all.
So they have taken a functioning station, and under the guise of upgrading it, have shut it down. The only train service available now is the Grand Central to London, and that’s because they route it through a village station as its primary station, because that makes sense.
- Comment on The UK continues to lag behind Europe for cycling-friendly towns and cities, new data from PeopleForBikes finds. 5 days ago:
Have they tried actually doing anything about it?
The extent of cycle infrastructure in this country is limited exclusively to painting a white line on the side of an already existing road. Whenever it gets complicated just give up and start again on the other side of the junction, hopefully the cyclists figure it out for themselves. And of course everyone knows that potholes only improve the cycling experience so no need to worry about them.