[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 42 points 6 days ago

Japan has 3 writing systems and this comic seems to be conflating Katakana and Kanji together as "stabby", leaving Hiragana as "adorable". All of them are (long ago) derived from chinese, but only the Kanji still look similar.

I would have introduced Chinese first, and then in the Japanese panel present the stabby and adorable ones both being attacked by flying contraptions. (And a few floating around the korean one, too)

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 16 points 6 days ago

Netflix's short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.

In theory (big caveat) with enough time, effort, and determination you could reverse engineer your way around even the worst Denuvo has to throw. For simple streamed content like images and sound you can always analog-hole your way around preserving content.

But for anything where the key thing you want to preserve, like logic, that depends entirely on a server somewhere existing, that's a problem.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 21 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it's pretty good. I'm also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago

A true "Thanks Obama" for modern times

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 29 points 5 months ago

Maybe 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.website 22 points 6 months ago

The solution is clearly to set up sex toy libraries.

...They would never interfere with libraries, right?

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 46 points 8 months ago

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 32 points 1 year 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 79 points 2 years ago

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 31 points 2 years ago

Tendi just wanting to play in the sand is cute.

Boimler being completely fed up with the assignment is great - he knew exactly what he was walking into, but did it anyway (I'm glad it actually had payoff at the end).

Rutherford has finally resolved badgey, and seemingly learnt nothing.

I didn't feel like mariner had a whole lot to do in this episode, she just kind of tagged along.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 105 points 2 years ago

French and Portuguese at the convention, their arms open.

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