@herdingdata further recommendations along the story driven games line:
Venba, a game about cooking, and being a child of immigrants. It doesn’t quite hit the mark but got me thinking.
Unpacking, which unexpectedly made me cry. Did not see that coming when I started a game which consists entirely of unpacking boxes after moving.
Botany Manor, in which you play a regency(? maybe Victorian) lady solving puzzles to grow plants in her stately home.
I have once again been struck by an immense sadness that I’m probably never going to space.
@herdingdata also Citizen Sleeper, which I’ve only played a small amount of but keep meaning to go back to when I can approach it like a book at bedtime. Loved what I played but I can’t do visual novels on a TV.
@herdingdata I keep seeing this on Game Pass, might have to give it a go. Given the love of weird slightly dystopian worlds here you may enjoy NORCO (or you might hate it, it’s got a pretty unique set of vibes).
@fesshole unless you work for the Church of England, or a charity campaigning to outlaw porn, this is probably embarrassing but ultimately fine.
If you work for either of those organisations, well, bad luck I guess.
When did companies get so needy, and why? Now up to three emails from South Western Railway begging me to tell them what a good job they did since I went to London last week.
@grajohnt new Mission Impossible lead confirmed as Tom Cruise decided he’s too old to do it now.
Every time I think my son has fully dredged the well of irritating YouTubers he finds another one even worse than the others.
ITS STAYING OUT LADS!
This has been your one (1) football post from me until the next major final.
@gsuberland can we go back to delivery drivers being employed by the restaurant please? So many orders where I get the wrong thing or nothing at all and the only option is to get a refund. Unfortunately I can’t eat money.
@CatherineFlick I’m very happy with Monzo, with the caveat that I’ve never needed their customer support, so can’t comment on how good that is.
From where? Alpha Centauri?
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/12/nx-s1-5037684/united-nations-world-population-report
You know it’s bad when Goldman Sachs are saying a thing is overhyped and too expensive. Never usually stops them from selling a team of barely qualified people to work with it.
https://mastodon.social/users/bkastl/statuses/112774970783385412
“Hey Siri, turn on bedtime”
“Now playing Left Outside Alone by Anastasia”
I really want to know what went wrong to cause this chain of events. I can usually at least find some trace of a reason for the ways in which requests get misinterpreted.
@james@strangeobject.space @kestral (no, I don’t know why they can’t just measure things sensibly either)
@james@strangeobject.space @kestral in the case of US measurements like this its volume being measured rather than weight, so ml is the correct unit.
@LilahTovMoon the lights help the packets see where they need to go, meaning they have to spend less time trying to find the router.
@sbisson @CatherineFlick this is such a good move, and gives me a lot of hope for this government. Putting people in place who know about their brief, and have enough experience of it not to throw out glib quick wins.
A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.
For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
@pikesley they also quite boldly claim PCI-DSS compliance which a) I highly doubt and b) raises some quite troubling questions about what they’re doing with payment card details when there’s nowhere to provide card details.
@pikesley their biggest failing is that nowhere do they describe why I’d even want to consider using the thing. I assume it’s a DNS resolver? What do I gain by using it? Are they claiming anycast is AI somehow?