those kanji in that order are read as “kawaii”
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OK, but all the ticks can go die in a fire
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Depart, men of education.English43·1 month agoAbsolutely all foreigners - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o
ahem, that’s PROFESSOR Hanks, thank you very much
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 United Kingdom@feddit.uk•More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zonesEnglish8·3 months agoThere’s no need to be concerned because they’re never going to build 100,000 new homes, never mind the 1.5M target. Building enough homes to house people would cause supply to meet demand and make the housing market “crash”. And Labour will never upset those who’ve been tricked into thinking that home property is an investment.
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.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Reform UK councillors resign in protest over Nigel Farage12·4 months agoUkip, Brexit, Reform… What are the odds on how long it takes Farage to make yet another party?
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.15·4 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
In fairness, cheese from france is probably safer raw because they don’t have as many superfarms that are as prone to spreading diseases like bird flu
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto World News@lemmy.world•Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' renewing calls to ban their public saleEnglish91·5 months agoI find it immensely infuriating that the article’s byline shows they are reporting from ‘London’ when in fact this happened not just in a different city, Edinburgh, but in a completely different country, Scotland.
Sad about the pandas, there are far too many people that simply can’t be trusted with fireworks. Limiting it to a single night in dedicated display venues run by licensed organisations wouldn’t remove the noise entirely, but it would reduce the frequency and would probably help all animals.
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
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.