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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th
  • I've downloaded some old PS2 era games. Some of the gameplay is quite dated, but I really enjoy the retro feel of the environments and graphics. Perfect photorealism isn't always necessary to enjoy a game. I've been playing Burnout and Ghost in the Shell SAC.

  • Krampus
  • If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don't trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.

    In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.

  • Some people just defend the status quo.
  • To all the people saying they should release server source code: You don't even need to do that (as nice as it would be). At the very basic level all that is needed is:

    • remove DRM (which probably cost more effort to add in the first place)
    • a description of the API for any online components (which any decent dev team will already have internally documented)
  • The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma
  • looking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems

    i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams

  • Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' renewing calls to ban their public sale
  • I find it immensely infuriating that the article's byline shows they are reporting from 'London' when in fact this happened not just in a different city, Edinburgh, but in a completely different country, Scotland.

    Sad about the pandas, there are far too many people that simply can't be trusted with fireworks. Limiting it to a single night in dedicated display venues run by licensed organisations wouldn't remove the noise entirely, but it would reduce the frequency and would probably help all animals.

  • Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x01 "Space Babies" and 1x02 "The Devil's Chord"
  • I could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.

    But the devil's cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didn't feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.

    RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far we've had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.

    So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.

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