MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google introduces Noto 3D, its new emoji set to make digital expression feel more tangible 20 hours ago:
The transition away from flat design back towards skeuomorphism continues.
- Comment on Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft 6 days ago:
‘Brought us’ is generous. The 8010 was prohibitively expensive, as the article says - over $16,500 in 1981.
Xerox might have invented the GUI, but it wasn’t for you and me. It was Apple and Microsoft who made it accessible to the masses.
- Comment on "They responded only to the press": Wizards of the Coast miss deadline for recognising Magic: The Gathering Arena union 1 week ago:
They don’t - this is about a deadline for the employer to voluntarily recognise the union as the entity representing their workers.
If that doesn’t happen, as may be the case here, the union can go to the NLRB to hold a ballot and, eventually, force the company to recognise them.
- Comment on As seminal oddball indie Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP hits 15 years of age, you can pick it up for less than a coffee 1 month ago:
Funny, I decided to listen to the soundtrack out of the blue just a few days ago!
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 2 months ago:
Yes, I agree on both of those points.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 2 months ago:
Okay but I don’t think it’s fair to criticise a product based on hypothetical enshittification.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 2 months ago:
The disposability sucks, but I don’t believe there’s any AI involved.
- Comment on The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1 2 months ago:
If you’re waiting for this but still looking for an offbeat chess game to play in the meantime, check out Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers with a big dose of hallucinatory gas 2 months ago:
It’s not slop, this staff writer just has a very idiosyncratic style that the RPS editors are seemingly happy to indulge.
- Comment on Bash Moto is an upcoming 90s themed beat 'em up motorcycle racing game 3 months ago:
Clearly a love letter to Road Rash (1994) but nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development 3 months ago:
You realise Blender is open source, right? If they pull shenanigans the community can simply fork the project.
- Comment on Heroic Games Launcher v2.19 released adding ZOOM Platform, AppImage updates and more 3 months ago:
Seems like they’ve been around for longer than I thought, but I rarely hear them get mentioned and the barebones site doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
- Comment on You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming 3 months ago:
Nope. Just useless profile decorations and people using reactions to troll on the forums.
- Comment on Support For The Sega Dreamcast's Web Browser Has Ended After 25 Years 4 months ago:
*Google support has ended.
Alternative retro-friendly search engines are available, and the article even gives a shoutout to frogfind.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 months ago:
I don’t think the bot will reply
- Comment on Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support 4 months ago:
Hadn’t heard of this but it looks fun!
- Comment on SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows 5 months ago:
What we’ve found so far is basically the inverse of what we found when comparing handhelds: Windows usually has an edge on SteamOS’s performance, and sometimes that gap is quite large.
Lemmy won’t like this
- Comment on Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears 5 months ago:
Right move, wrong reasons.
- Comment on Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities” 5 months ago:
In a letter, Valve have also reproached developers Flick Games for failing “to do your due diligence regarding where your game is allowed to be distributed, and to inform us of any territory where it cannot be” […] As of writing, Valve appear to be the only platform who have caved to Russian state requests to censor the game.
Surprised Valve are still operating in Russia given the optics, but I guess Gabe still needs another yacht or three.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 5 months ago:
- Comment on IWGB union file legal claims against Rockstar, due to GTA 6 maker allegedly refusing to negotiate over firings 5 months ago:
“We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting, and we will mount a full legal defence with our expert group of caseworkers, legal officers and barristers,” added IWGB president Alex Marshall. “Employers like Rockstar would do well to understand that private spaces such as trade union Discord servers have protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses do not supersede UK law.”
Yeah! Get ‘em!
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 5 months ago:
Yeah, when I was at school in the early 00s we were specifically told not to use Wikipedia as a research source.
- Comment on Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus 6 months ago:
He’s one of the OGs and therefore had a huge impact on gaming in general, but my god his maps for Doom and Quake are by far the worst parts of those games.
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first gameplay trailer and you can keep Tuvix 7 months ago:
They absolutely knew what they were doing when they put Tuvix in the trailer, and that actually gives me some confidence that they understand their audience.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 7 months ago:
it’s a huge fuck up by Valve
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 7 months ago:
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 7 months ago:
The headline and article repeatedly call it a ‘verified Steam game’ but at no point do they explain what that means.
As far as I know, the only verification scheme on Steam is Steam Deck Verified, but the screenshot of the offending game’s store page shows that it was rated as ‘Unknown’.
Do they mean verified as in ‘Valve approved it for release’? Surely not, because every Steam game is approved for release so ‘verified Steam game’ would be a tautology.
Either I’m missing something, or this source is just adding words for no reason.
- Comment on Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release 8 months 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 Xbox Is Investing In AI For Their Next Gen Console 8 months ago:
What do you think is powering the latest upscaling and frame generation tech?
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 9 months ago:
That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ as the most common euphemism, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.
