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by bluescrn 2y ago
The problem they may solve is ‘the real world is increasingly bleak’. When living in ever-smaller homes with minimal personal space and accelerating urban decay outside, with decreasing access to transport to escape the cities, escaping to
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> I don’t know if it’s (still) in service, but the USA had a rocket that would fly over the rocket fields and send the launch codes and fire the icbms. The fear was, that the soldiers were incapacitated and could not fire them itself. Th
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But instead, in the UK we're going for outright bans on tobacco. Even introducing a new form of discrimination to do so, where one person will be able to smoke, but a person born one day later will never in their lifetime be permitted
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's not just about tech. People simply don't care about freedom or privacy any more. They're happy to give it all up if it means that an ever-expanding nanny state will care for them and protect them from all harm, whether i
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by bluescrn 3y ago
After Win8 and it's attempt to push a locked-down touch-centric mobile OS upon users of a 'real Windows', Win10 was 'more than good enough'. A lot of the unwanted parts of Win8 lived on, but they could mostly be ign
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There’s a history of alternating between bad and good versions as they push bad ideas then back off and polish up the important stuff. Of course, there’s no guarantees that the pattern will continue
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And they expect people to ‘upgrade’ (downgrade) from Win10 to Win11? Win11 is clearly the new Win8. Still hoping it can be skipped entirely and that a more desirable Win12 will eventually be announced.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Battery tech is likely to prevent that within our lifetimes, even if the displays and electronics can be miniaturised to that level.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
In my teenage years, I couldn't care less about 'economic outlook'. Because I rarely paid much attention to the news, and when I did, it was usually fairly balanced BBC content, not hyper-partisan hyperbole/clickbait. Te
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Worse than that, there's sites where they can discuss suicide and get advice on methods. Now maybe adults should be free to discuss these things, but it's certainly something that young people should be protected from.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Let them have old Nokias. Calls and texts only. Inexpensive (not a theft magnet), durable, long battery life. No social media (or online gaming even?) until at least 16, if not 18 or 21, seems entirely reasonable given how much it messes wi
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Modern 4K games have almost 150x the pixels per frame of Space Invaders. And the framerate has increased by... erm, no, decreased by 50%, in many cases. Yet the push for 8K resolution, seems to be be getting started, with PS5 Pro rumors. Th
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's many conditions that must be met to make cycling a good option. Thie distance must be fairly short. You must be relatively young/fit/healthy/able-bodied. The weather must OK (not frequently too cold/hot&#x2F
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The cars may be awesome, but like most green tech, they're 'toys for the wealthy' at the moment, and not yet a solution for the masses. Even if the price of the cars comes down (and the used market grows and proves whether de
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Even if it’s perfectly synchronised, there’s likely no guarantee of deterministic playback. Perhaps a background process is dealing with some network activity or other OS task and throws the timing off fractionally. Or maybe a disk access (
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Alternatively, the Miyoo Mini+. Costs less then the shipping of an Analogue Pocket to the UK /Europe (when you add the import tax+fees to the excessive shipping cost) and gives a decent pocket-sized gaming nostalgia hit. Another alte
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Yeah, similar here. The brain seems to do a pretty good job of 'tuning it out' most of the time after a while. But as soon as you start thinking about it, it's there and louder than ever.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
No. It's about collecting/ownership. Most games that quality as 'retro' are easily obtainable and playable via emulation or ports (although not always legally...) Rental would be rough on increasingly rare/valuable
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by bluescrn 3y ago
C# is great, IMHO. It's one of the main reasons that Unity did so well and continues to be so popular with indie devs even after all their mis-steps, and despite Unreal Engine offering better tech/tools in other important areas. I
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Who needs a high BPM when you've got demisemihemidemisemiquavers?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Any game developer could have told them early on that Kinect was next-to-useless, despite the technology being interesting. Even operating simple menus was problematic. You could point, but had no buttons to click. It was never going to wor
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> using your phone makes financial sense We're talking about Apple devices here...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Game jams, when I was younger and had the energy to do a long weekend of coding after a week of work. Ludum Dare was particularly good fun in its early years (early-mid 2000s), when it was a fairly small community, when people were coding f
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Yeah, there's not much point bothering if you're limited to a touchscreen And if you're going to the effort of using a separate controller, you might as well use a separate gaming device.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Given the number of failed suicide attempts, not everyone is capable of committing it successfully. And they're often forced to use brutal methods that some unfortunate soul then has to discover or clean up (e.g. firearms, jumping, or
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's quite a difference between actually killing somebody and allowing them to kill themselves in a painless/peaceful manner - e.g. providing them access to drugs/devices that they have to choose to use themselves.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I don't think we should trust 'the state' to force people to do anything. We generally need them to force people not to do a few really bad things (e.g. some basic laws), but in recent decades it feels that the concept of fre
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by bluescrn 3y ago
A moment of of history that perhaps the west should learn from, before allowing 'culture wars' to escalate further.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Which is doing the most harm, though - the decline of religion, or the rise of 'virtual communities', replacing in-person interaction and community-building with something less real and more gameified?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It’s not about hate for Canva. It’s about love for Affinity. Who are now being gobbled up by a bigger fish, with the inevitable consequence being enshittification.

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