SpaceScotsman

joined 1 year ago

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

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 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

England really needs to get right to roam legislation like Scotland. It would make it more difficult for companies to make claims like this and make it clear that everyone has a responsibility to keep nature clean as its a shared resource

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instead of arguing about 0Mg vs 0mg - use the best of both and upset everyone: 0ᴍg

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

Begs the question - can the shed skin still change shape?

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It does matter. It's safer for everyone if cyclists travel side by side in one lane because then the car driver has to spend less time in the oncoming lane to complete the overtake. A long string of bikes takes more time to safely pass.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

At this point the web is about as complex as an operating system in terms of complexity. That needs really strong specific standards in order for it to work, and in turn projects like web browsers are huge and complex.

If someone wanted to build a web browser that only followed the simpler parts of the specifications, it wouldn't work for many websites* and people would not use that browser.

*Whether or not sites need to be so complex is another question entirely, but the reality right now is that they are

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 79 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Answer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 17 points 11 months ago

Knife Rain? Wasn't expecting an adventure time reference on star trek, but I'll take it!

There's a lot of references linking back to nova squadron here, but I've got no idea how it all fits together. Looking forward to the finale.

It was a froidian slip

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a good change. I think we could be in a much better place if companies that owned both production and streaming were more open about licensing.

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