FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars 1 week ago:
Just promise this time you really will increase petrol duty and suddenly everything is affordable. Until you bottle it again
- Comment on Waypoint Writers Quit Over Removal Of Articles Related To New Steam Policy 1 week ago:
I had to do a double take at the idea waypoint exists after they fired the entire team (by accident) a few years ago
- Comment on HS2 was doomed to be a mess, say insiders - because of a 'problem in this country' 1 week ago:
It’s a good article but can someone please tell the bbcthey don’t need to do click bait headlines
- Comment on Opinion: Keir Starmer’s “Island of strangers” speech was right 2 weeks ago:
An article about how starmer was right to blame immigration for real problems like house building, employment apprenticeships etc by showing those real problems are real.
No shit.
Crazy idea but maybe he should’ve done a speech about building house? Even mcsweeny knows you get one point from a speech into the news, they choose immigration and lost the opportunity to get press on the others.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 3 weeks ago:
No the game has a much, much worse anexoty time crunch in trying to 100% it before the end of year… 2 ( I think) when grandpa shrine first measures progress.
- Comment on Deadly heatwaves are the new reality – we need to transform the UK’s cities and towns to survive them 3 weeks ago:
Getting rid of the car fumes and tarmac wouldn’t hurt either
- Comment on UK must 'actively prepare' for potential of war in the 'homeland', review warns 5 weeks ago:
I find it very difficult to believe Russia could resupply an invasion force, even if it could technically manage the initial push. I’ll have to read the article properly but the sea and air logistics involved, without invading every cou try between the UK and Russia, seem insurmountable.
- Comment on The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’ 1 month ago:
They were specifically worried about race riots.
Look at the London riots years ago, that was caused by going after a gang member and escalates by gangs.
The police forces in these areas were absolutely right to worry, it wasn’t just about causing offence but the real threat of organised criminal members of a community mobilising that community against the police.
- Comment on The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’ 1 month ago:
Some of it still looks a little like corruption to me.
There’s a huge report on this with more detail than anyone could reasonably read, somewhere way back in my comment history on Reddit. The way the problem was moved off to cross force specialised teams and then sat on is very odd, but could just be disorganisaton
- Comment on Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot 1 month ago:
It’s not that I don’t believe them, but anything coming from spooks has to be looked at a little sideways.
Thanks for the reply. I just couldn’t figure out how they had enough intelligence to find all these telegram groups, maybe that’s easier for a nation state than I thought.
- Comment on Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot 1 month ago:
There were reports (claims I suppose) that the fsb were using telegram to organise the stochastic gig job sabotage across Europe.
Joining a neo fash telegram group, pretending to be a rich neo fash who wants to help the cause but not risk themselves and paying people for putting up posters, damaging equipment etc.
Does what has been found here shed any more light on that? I’d guess it would allow them to find these groups to target them very easily? That was the bit I couldn’t quite understand from the original report, if so this all makes more sense.
- Comment on dual immunity (see body) 2 months ago:
Maybe you shouldnt have eaten their porridge and slept in their bed.
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 2 months ago:
Has she never cooked anything?
- Comment on Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10 2 months ago:
Except there are no kids, you did it all to yourself. Making us twice as crazy
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #16 2 months ago:
Yeah, the section headlines are huge and that’s exactly right to make this readable while skipping past stuff that means nothing to me
- Comment on The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East 2 months ago:
And by a modder turned dev, so, professionalisation? :)
Though the way wube works the whole team will have been involved in some way. And they’re a student so it’s part of a fairly normal pipeline for gamedev.
- Comment on Genshin Impact will require US players to verify their age to play 2 months ago:
I haven’t logged I to it in years but I’m still bitter MS took away my Minecraft account without me realising. I better log in
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 2 months ago:
Not in a multiple choice test
- Comment on Tempest Rising review (PC Gamer: 85/100) 3 months ago:
He had a career spanning dozens of stone cold classic movies, incredible performances all.
And I will always first remember him corpsing over SPAAACE!!!
- Comment on Ubisoft Leamington UK, responsible for development of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull & Bones, officially closed. 3 months ago:
Shadows is great tbh. Can’t speak about sales figures but it’s the most fun I’ve had with AC in ages. The jumps being ninja roll jumps is perfect.
Valhalla was far too serious, a schlocky Japanese revenge flick is much more on target.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 months ago:
As a curved blade I think they’re all already banned, so this law does nothing to you
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 months ago:
Collecting them isn’t much of a reason to be carrying them around.
I don’t think the police would let you off if you claimed to have just bought it. I’d expect them to demand some kind of proof.
The law is so when they raid a gang members home and find five swords they can do something other than compliment them on their awesome ninja sword collection.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 4 months ago:
But network rail don’t run any trains
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 4 months ago:
It peaked at 4 with the fall from heaven 2 mid
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay" 4 months ago:
The draw from Skyrim and other ES games is wandering around and stumbling on cool stuff.
They both removed wandering by having you fly your ship to a planet, and removed the cool stuff by making the planets procgen.
It’s good fun exploring the cities and space stations but then that’s it. They designed out the entire game in favour of more procgen content.
- Comment on WWYD 4 months ago:
As a good virtue ethicist I walk away from the lever and live my virtuous life
Probably by trying to beat up Persians. Or some other city state. Or slaves. You know, virtuously
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 4 months ago:
Aside from the unacceptable violence, the story here is far more complicated than that.
They were just impossible to work with.I think PeopleMakeGames did a good YouTube video on it if you’ve not seen it.
- Comment on Do not stand at my grave and weep 4 months ago:
The flickering of them in the atmosphere is her so it’s just justified enough for a poem
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 5 months ago:
Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?
(I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 months ago:
Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.
It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.