fenwick π² @fenwick67@octodon.social
Engineer, Developer, Person. I boost almost any retrocomputers and burds I see. http://fenwick.pizza
uspol, google Show more
Omg Hulu thinks Super Hans in Peep Show is named "super hands"
Politics Show more
Big Mood (courtesy https://www.flickr.com/photos/seat850/3341460975/)
The modern web experience (via /r/aboringdystopia)
My #cat Pippa visiting me this morning
USpol, activism, police violence Show more
in the past. A thread on police less-lethals, how to spot them and how cops use them. This is going to include a lot of imagery of weapons, and descriptions of how they can injure or kill someone.It's so interesting to me that people would prefer an app over a website on their phone, but prefer a website over an app on a desktop. What's the cause of this?
@masklayer I'm picking up what you're puttin down
I'm watching a weird scifi show from the 60s called Land of the Giants, and basically these people get teleported to a planet where everyone is 12x as tall and the cops chase them around.
The effects are mostly "shoot the big people from below and shoot the regular people from above" and the occasional giant paper machΓ© hand, or a prop is a cheesecloth in one shot and then a giant net in another. It's fantastically cheesy and amusing.
me: wow! that thing is, pretty cool, how did you do it
you: oh, did it on my computer. just normal computer, thats how i did it
me: how on computer??? how did you do that??
you: there's an app specifically, a application for specifically doing that thing, on computer, i got the app and then i did it because thats what it does
me: oh okay, ummm, can i uhh, can--
you: yes anyone can do it. you just have to get computer. then you can do it too. and also the app. app and computer
Where's the Tolkien fans at?
Noticed my 1973 copy of The Hobbit has a message on the inside cover.
Can anyone translate?
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The non-discoverability plague isn't unique to Minecraft, but to me it seemed like it started the trend of "you can't play our game without looking it up on the internet".
My most recent game purchase, PUBG, has the same problem if you pick it up cold, even if you are a seasoned FPS player. "what are these blue and white and red circles on my map? Who is this running man on my HUD and what is the bar underneath him? What's that bar above my health?"
Minecraft's lack of discoverability is a problem in general, like how would you figure out how to make a portal to the nether without looking it up online?
The Minecraft crafting system is cute but annoying. I just want an axe I don't want to have to remember exactly how to arrange rocks and sticks in a grid to make one. Also how does it take 3 cubic meters of rocks to make an axe?
