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SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressmanEnglish15·14 days ago-
No job, grind away the entire waking day with a low paying zero hours contract while filing job applications, No videogames, no relaxation, more stress, costs healthcare providers more
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No job, spend some of the day working while filing job applications, Yes Videogames, relaxation, lower stress, costs healthcare providers less
Yet another case where if the politician seriously thought about the issue for just half a minute they’d realise their attitude makes no sense.
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SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•This is the coolest pricing gimmick I've ever seen: the colder the weather is in London, the cheaper this videogame getsEnglish151·2 months agoThis clever pricing system is only available on Itch.io, […] It is also on sale on Steam until March 7, but that price doesn’t fluctuate.
I thought steam had some sort of t&c agreement where you had to price all copies of a game the same no matter the store they were on. surely this would violate those rules. or am I misremembering that?
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•Warner Bros. is closing Monolith, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, and has cancelled its Wonder Woman gameEnglish3·2 months ago“Key franchises”? And they don’t think WW is a key franchise? Out of all their films from the past few years, the WW ones have been some of the best. If they don’t want to do anything with it, they don’t deserve the IP.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Europe@feddit.org•Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealthEnglish271·3 months agoThe biggest challenge with an “owned wealth” tax is how do you actually measure it? It’s easy if it’s held in cash in a bank, but most billionaire’s wealth is is land, property, and how do you measure the value of a Picasso stored in a vault if they can slip the valuator a grand to say it’s worthless?
Closing offshore money transfer loopholes, heightened tax on luxury spending (100% VAT on private jets and yachts?), making fines income-based, and treating capital gains the same way as income, are all more achievable.
I’m totally on board with the sentiment though.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•What gameplay systems or game mechanics do you enjoy?English2·3 months agoI’m not sure if this counts as gameplay mechanics or rather narrative structure, but games like Outer Wilds, Fez, Tunic, where the exploration and discovery of the game is the end goal of playing the game, not just getting to the game’s end state.
I’m not sure if there’s an accepted term for these games, but I’ve always thought of them as “archaeology” games. There’s a bunch of stuff, both plot and gameplay, that is hidden (sometimes in plain sight), until you discover it and find out what meaning it carries.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Gaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th1·3 months agoIt’s honestly not amazing. It’s a third person shooter across multiple different levels of built up environments, offices, corridors. The enemy AI is pretty terrible, and although there are different tactics you can use to “hack” and take over enemies or melee, it’s usually just easier to shoot.
But the parkour style navigation stood out. You can do wall jumping, which I was not expecting, and there are hidden pickups you can explore and find. And the open environments are nice (the corridors can feel a bit samey after a few levels).
It feels like one of those tie-ins that, had the dev team had more time to explore, balance, and really make it into its own game, might have been really good.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Gaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th7·3 months agoI’ve downloaded some old PS2 era games. Some of the gameplay is quite dated, but I really enjoy the retro feel of the environments and graphics. Perfect photorealism isn’t always necessary to enjoy a game. I’ve been playing Burnout and Ghost in the Shell SAC.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Games@sh.itjust.works•Avowed entire community section on steam has been nukedEnglish7·3 months agoJust use PCGW for that https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Avowed#Game_data
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Hideo Kojima Says His New Game Is Now In "Crunch Time," Wonders How Much Longer He Can Stay Creative - "Every day feels like I’m racing against the clock."English29·3 months agoMaybe if he wans to be able to make games for longer, he needs to dial it back and get a manager that can plan to reduce the amount o crunch needed, ideally to zero. The attitude that crunch should be normal in creative projects is atrocious and needs to go.
If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don’t trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.
In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)English3·4 months ago“The two models, the 30TB … and the 32TB …, each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk”. Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto memes@lemmy.world•Some people just defend the status quo.15·5 months agoTo all the people saying they should release server source code: You don’t even need to do that (as nice as it would be). At the very basic level all that is needed is:
- remove DRM (which probably cost more effort to add in the first place)
- a description of the API for any online components (which any decent dev team will already have internally documented)
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•FBI offers $50,000 reward for information about gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO5·5 months agomagic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat
Open Street Map has entered the chat
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma2·5 months agolooking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems
i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution16·5 months agoThat 2012 one looks like I’ve focused it as a UI component. I need to get out and touch some grass.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Lord of the memes@midwest.social•Additional clarification requiredEnglish11·6 months agoI thought elvish meant someone who likes rock and roll music
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Quark's@startrek.website•Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"English31·1 year agoI could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.
But the devil’s cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didn’t feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.
RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far we’ve had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.
So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Gaming@beehaw.org•It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state.32·1 year ago100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.
A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.
The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn’t asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.
Users need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications