galmuth

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[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Christ, chill with the venom. Fair enough, you like those flavours, but there are ways to avoid marketing them as desirable to children.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 13 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Who's trying to stamp out vaping entirely? All I'm reading into this article is just "Kids shouldn't start vaping, especially if they have asthma."

The suggested solutions I've seen in the news recently are things like keep the vaping displays away from kids, stop kid-friendly flavours, and make packaging less enticing - all things that they currently do for cigarettes, and all perfectly reasonable IMO.

No-one I've seen is proposing taking them away from adults.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What's wrong with the trackpad? I find using the trackpad to look around in FPS games is much better than the right stick.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You're not technically wrong, but it's a nuanced issue and people should treat it as such rather than black and white.

Sunak saying "no one can change sex" without any qualifying statements is just designed to inflame and divide people.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They were clearly referring to online foreign disinformation, not domestic disinformation.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Valve are a private company, so Microsoft can't just barge in and buy it up.

Considering the investment Valve has poured into Linux because Gabe doesn't trust Microsoft enough to have his business rely on Windows, I'd be pretty shocked if he decided to sell up to Microsoft.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I've played both, although it's been a while since I played it now.

The controls are much better.

The graphics are only mildly improved. The character models are improved but they kept the same pre-rendered backgrounds of the original game, which were all made for old 4:3 screens. So on a widescreen monitor you can either have it stretched or with borders on the left and right.

I think everything else such as the audio is the same.

My partner ran into a weird bug and couldn't progress further, but Doublefine sent me some save game files to work around the issue. I think those issues have since been fixed.

Still a great game!

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I second Three Bean Salad. It's Mike Wozniak (from Taskmaster and Man Down etc) and two of his comedian friends having some lukewarm banter.

I wouldn't say it's overly surreal, but it's a conversational mostly-improvised comedy podcast with some surreal and fantastical humour. Starting from the beginning helps you to understand all the in-jokes.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

the RM "installed gravel on the bridge to a depth of 13 to 16 inches with an average depth of 14 inches, which far exceeded the specified load."

WTF, why the hell would they go and dump 16 inches of gravel on the bridge? That's an awful lot of weight.

Clearly this guy couldn't have stopped them dumping gravel after the bridge was completed, but allowing the client to save money on critical safety measures is inexcusable.

[–] galmuth@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(

Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn't autistic, there'd be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She's a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.

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