SpaceScotsman

joined 1 year ago

It'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.website 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'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.website 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

magic 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.website 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.website 2 points 2 months ago

looking 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.website 8 points 2 months ago

I 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.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 16 points 2 months ago

That 2012 one looks like I've focused it as a UI component. I need to get out and touch some grass.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

According to the 3 criteria mentioned in the article, YouTube wouldn't need to be banned, logging in to YouTube would be banned. YouTube is still functional (mostly) when logged out, and wouldn't violate those 3 criteria. The other services mentioned, like gaming, would be banned.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

I misread that as prefix and, honestly, forthwhence doesn't sound half bad.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 32 points 9 months ago

100% 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.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you use Organic Maps you may be interested in https://streetcomplete.app to help fill out the map

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