[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 32 points 5 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 15 points 5 months ago

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 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 19 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

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 20 points 10 months ago

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 10 months 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 17 points 10 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.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

It was a froidian slip

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 30 points 11 months 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 100 points 11 months ago

French and Portuguese at the convention, their arms open.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

This was a top episode

  • Story about more a sci-fi concept, and it made sense
  • Jokes that landed well
  • Characters not being totally dumb for no reason
  • Good resolution at the ending

Great finale

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