Ah man, that sucks.

They may have been in your world for a short time, but they have gifted you a lifetime of memories.

Be kind to yourself, friend.

"Hey, I don’t work here "

Shame really.

DMA Design were literally at the cutting edge of game design and new ideas. Their implementationz were pretty fucking awesome too.

Money got involved. Publishers got more leverage. The name changed to Rockstar. And it all went to shit.

Shame.

edit: that mistyped “s” is a banging typo, I’m keeping it

Jesus, the gamesradar site is absolute ass

The data: https://weloveit.io/developers/steam-revenue-report/

I take my eldest son out running with me. He plays sport at a national level (not yet near the international stage) so it’s nice to go out to bang in five kilometres every now and then - it’s a great bit of cardio for him, and it drags me out to keep me healthy.

Honestly, 25 of those minutes are robloxrobloxrobloxrobloxrobloxfortniterobloxrobloxroblox and it can get draining… but it’s important to him so it’s important to me.

Honestly, it’s just time spent alone with him that makes the difference for me. He’s got some big changes coming up in life and I want to be there for him, so if he ever drops that little breadcrumb into conversation that he’s got problems with his boyfriend or girlfriend, or if he’s getting a hard time off someone, or if the studying and sport is getting him down - then I’ll have hopefully made a space safe enough to chat freely and openly, and his mental health doesn’t take a battering before it’s too late.

One can dream.

Was it not just an collaboration of SomethingAwful forumites that founded Goonswarm?

Isn’t this just Twitter with more steps?

Yeah in fairness (and I’m not defending anybodies practices here, about 50 pence of that is fuel taxation, along with 20% on top.

The actual cost to the consumer of the fuel itself is probably “only” around 70p.

It’s kinda fucked to be fair - I’m all for reducing our reliance on car transport but the interim step of EVs is getting hosed as well now.

I remember back when I started to drive, it was just shy of 50p.

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In pennies, yes - around £1.60 per litre.

It varies across regions but it’s a pretty good indicator for 2026.

That dude sliding across the table fifteen seconds in is the coolest motherfucker in the room.

I’m not it’s biggest fan either, but both terms are commonly used in the United Kingdom, and without inherent malice for the most part.

I agree that we should be trending towards “the unhoused” or other more dignified terms, whereas counterintuitively “the homeless” is a perfectly acceptable term elsewhere in the world but stigmatised in the UK.

In short: 🤷‍♂️

It’s tough, bro. You’ve forged your own path though, and you’ve made a life for yourself.

I was quite popular in my youth. Knew loads of people, was rarely on bad terms with anyone, and Saturday nights out on the piss were brilliant - I could mingle between different friendship circles and have a great time.

Things change though, and my life took me in a different direction. I moved six hundred miles away to a different country, but still stayed in touch with folk, even if that contact naturally dwindles away. I used to visit my hometown every few months, walk round, and invariably bump into someone I knew for a gas and chat bollocks like it was 2000 again.

A big big gut punch came about ten years ago when I went back, walked round, went into a few shops, got a coffee, and went back to the car. In that time I had seen nobody I knew. Nobody I recognised. No trace of the social life I had worked hard to build in my youth.

That’s when I knew that it wasn’t “home” anymore.

I’m not mad about it. I look back and remember the amazing times I had, but now I look forward to the amazing future in front of me a family and a lifestyle somewhere else.

It’s a big boot in the feels, but life goes on. Nothing lasts forever. And that’s cool.

(like and subscribe for more random anecdotes from someone you’ll likely never know)

I mean, that’s largely on the educational establishment like the college or uni too.

My education provider uses that TurnItIn bollocks - but even if a script is flagged as high risk for generative AI or plaigarism, it just gets marked for review rather than graded.

A human in the loop is absolutely essential for these tasks. It would appear that tools like TurnItIn will only really catch the most egregious of Ctrl-C Ctrl-V’ers, but any establishment that grades using AI only deserves all the shit they get.

My provider already uses overworked and underpaid lecturers to provide substandard feedback on my assessments as it is, I’d hate for the boat to sink any further.

yaaasss feddit.uk #5 spot come on lads get in

I was lucky enough to grow up on this system and there are some absolute bangers out there:

Mission: Shark (or Misja on the European continent): arguably one of the best games on the systems. Silky smooth animation, great gameplay loop, fantastic music. Janusz Pelc at his best.

Rescue on Fractalus: fantastic foray into faux-3D. You’ll never forget the first time you picked up your first “pilot”…

H.E.R.O: finely balanced, a great time killer.

Encounter: far beyond it’s years, the precursor to open world games

Fred: another J Pelc masterpiece. Great platformer.

Star Raiders II: beautiful shooter. The space shoot em’ ups of today can trace their combat gameplay directly back here.

Lode Runner: one of the best and smoothest implementations of this game, along with…

Chuckie Egg: the original and best.

Zybex: a competent shooter with some of the best chiptunes you’ll ever hear.

Blinky’s Scary School: bastard hard, but full of British humour.

Fort Apocalypse: fantastic shooter, with stunning graphics and a blue doppelganger helicopter that will give you nightmares.

Rally Speedway: takes the top down racer formula, tightens the controls, makes it prettier, and gives you a level editor too. Brilliant.

River Rescue: River Raid but better, and if you disagree then you’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

Have fun!

Hey this is magic information - thank you for your reply.

Genuine question for those with experience of VMs and virtualisation…

Is this not really inefficient? Like, running a VM on a platform like Windows or Linux introduces some mega overheads… surely having another level of abstraction would make things real slow, even on decent hardware?

I’m just someone with a surface level knowledge so happy to be educated.

Weird Dreams was as mental as it was hard. Cracking animation, horrendous controls, but leaves a definite memory on anyone who has played it.

Does the day end in a “y”? It does, so it is!

Enjoy your day.