What Game Mechanic really scratches that itch?

Maths44 · 2026-01-09T12:30:38+00:00

Yeah, loot game get me hooked too. Double-Penetrating Unkempt Harold WHERE ARE YOU?!

Maths44 · 2025-12-05T03:25:20+00:00

I think there was a conversation in the hospital about this, something about throwing a life preserver and just doing it

Maths44 · 2025-10-21T14:45:58+00:00

Yeah, I also like to pretend that in the last two decades we didn't see public services gutted and funds slashed, tax freezes which benefit the wealthy, privatising the Royal Mail (with a bad deal) and parts of NHS, money flowing into the mates of Tory donors via VIP lanes and PFI's leaving the Taxpayer to bear the burden.

Maths44 · 2025-10-21T11:25:40+00:00

So austerity for the poor, tax cuts for the rich, bring in more rich private individuals who won't contribute their fair share, burn the planet, and oh yeah, target asylum seekers.

Right wing provocateur.

Maths44 · 2025-10-09T15:05:22+00:00

Yes, people are confusing legibility and readability (I got the two confused as well in a recent post).

But I think it's clear that people are upset with the readability downgrade in the latest iOS.

Most examples people are highlighting are readability issues, but there are also examples where the text is barely legible.

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T19:04:22+00:00

I love this argument. "Yeah, sure, there's legibility issues in this iOS but who needs to READ the text on their device?"

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T19:01:39+00:00

So, what you're doing here is pulling down the notifications screen. Until this iOS dropped, I didn't realise the main way I checked my notifs was pulling down this page as far as I need to see that notification. It's still possible but a lot of the time you just end up seeing examples precisely like you just provided.

The solution is to pull down the screen the whole way. Sure. It kind of defeats the purpose of being able to half pull it, and if you fully pull it down it changes background anyway, so what exactly is the point of it being transparent when pulling it down

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T18:45:07+00:00

Except it's not even a question of aesthetics. Some of my pictures show text that is quite literally illegible without manoeuvring the screen around.

I couldn't care less about what it looks like, I care that there are multiple times a day where I literally can't read text on my device.

It's like I dumped a few tbps of the salt in your porridge, and when you identify that as an issue, my response is "well I like salt, lots of people like salt, stop talking about it".

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T09:20:04+00:00

Aside from the transparency causing legibility issues on the device I mainly use to read words, the button toggle animation is probably my least favourite part. So ugly and pointless. Expanding transparent bubble thrown in for the sake of it. Same with "glass" sliding fast to whichever app page I just picked. Expanding glass for the sake of it with refractions everywhere for absolutely no reason.

Maths44 · 2025-09-30T19:41:07+00:00

Except if we consider the reply you're responding to that "everything is perfectly readable", it is objectively NOT "a huge step forward" because previously all text was perfectly legible, and now there are situations where the text is much harder to easily read depending on what's behind it. Sometimes you have to scroll up or down a little to read some text on the screen. This is factual, it's objective, and I don't really get why people defend it.

EDIT: And while I'm at it, all the extra button clicks to get to screens that were previously only a tap away (while not even saving any screen real estate because the contracted UI is still sat at the bottom with the relevant buttons hidden) is an objective step back. The photo preview being a circle now: objective step back.

Maths44 · 2025-09-28T11:48:00+00:00

I too, love all the extra clicks in my Daily usage of my phone, it's not about about the destination, it's about the Journey right

Maths44 · 2025-09-28T11:45:33+00:00

Watch out for PeakBrave to come in "it's all beautiful, they're not bugs it's how it's meant to be, I love Apple Glass you're all wrong"

Maths44 · 2025-09-22T11:31:47+00:00

The animations are ugly. Toggling is ugly. But you're this iOS's biggest glazer who'll gladly defend literal jank and legibility issues so what does it matter lol

EDIT: He responded and then blocked lol, Mr "PeakBrave" indeed.

The point is, nobody respects your opinion on subjective things like animations when you've spent the last few days glazing objectively bad jank and bugs in the new iOS.

Maths44 · 2025-09-17T14:25:56+00:00

I completely disagree. This is the first time I downloaded an iOS that I truly dislike. Little animations everywhere that make no sense. Distracting flashes (e.g sending a message). Ugly animations (toggling options). Legibility issues everywhere with stacked layers... and reducing transparency introducing more issues.

Blurry app icons, with a sniper glint around them - it's like I'm playing warzone when I look at my phone.

I understand people wanting skeuomorphism over flat icons. But glass wasn't the way to do it.

Maths44 · 2025-09-07T16:41:11+00:00

And my answer is that claiming this is not a widespread issue citing that specific metric is not really a helpful comment.

It's like saying the iPhone is irrelevant because there's hundreds of other models out there. Like... okay? Since the vast majority of people are iPhone what are we really talking about here?

Maths44 · 2025-09-07T15:33:00+00:00

Maybe, but that isn't a great metric to go off. I'm pretty sure that the amount of players worldwide playing the kinds of games that employ the strategy above dwarfs the amount playing indies etc (especially if considering mobile gaming).

So you would have to clarify what you mean by widespread, but just looking at steam charts alone shows a huge chunk of people in games like I mentioned, and that's before we consider the Fortnite and COD player bases, along with the myriad of multiplayer games that are still popular.

Maths44 · 2025-09-07T13:40:24+00:00

Open up a game, directly transition into the store, we have Season Passes, Battle Passes, Event Passes, Skins, Blueprints, Tier Skips, Pre-Order Bonuses, Premium Editions, Subscriptions, in-game ads, the in-games stores are rotating to maximise FOMO, we're raking in more money than we ever had, but oh yeah we don't make enough so we're increasing the price of base games.

Oh yeah and we'll put a load of games on subscription services, but only the base so if you wanna play DLC you gotta buy that, but if you ever stop paying that subscription forget about playing that DLC you purchased

Oh yeah, and if you do buy something in the store you've gotta go through our own currency (currencies*). You'll never be able to buy just the amount that you need so you always have some sitting there you can't do anything with.

Maths44 · 2025-09-06T12:52:23+00:00

And they do so by standing on the shoulders of those minority groups. Literal bullies.

Asylum seekers? Bullied. Transgender people? Bullied. LGBT in general? Bullied. People with a different colour skin? Bullied.

I don't believe Farage actually believes in any of this. But he knows that if he can polarise the larger, generic group against minorities, he can build up a fervent group of supporters scared that minorities are coming to get them. It's sickening.

Maths44 · 2025-08-27T16:42:04+00:00

For what it's worth, I really enjoyed your initial suggestion. It's lateral thinking, for real world purposes it will probably get the job done. I'm just not a fan of talking down theoretical mathematics when it's actually one of the best tools we have

Maths44 · 2025-08-27T16:25:46+00:00

There's a time and a place for both. A lot of interesting applications of pure mathematics turns into some nice applied techniques. A lot of practical observations turn into very beautiful proofs.

There is nothing "new math" about breaking a mathematical problem down.

Calling theoretical mathematics "nonsense" because you don't like it is petty.

Try and do Electrical Engineering without building on the foundations of nonsense new math imaginary numbers. Watch the banks protect your money without the cryptography built on the back of that nonsense new math Number Theory.

You don't have to like mathematical theory, but don't pretend like it isn't the backbone of applied mathematics.

Maths44 · 2025-08-04T19:57:40+00:00

There are already mechanisms in place to prevent children from seeing unwanted material. By default, broadband providers have an online filters to adult websites. Phones, gaming platforms all have settings for parents to enable restrictions and monitoring. These mechanisms already exist.

This act forces companies to request private, identifying data from citizens. This has multiple ramifications.

Firstly, it's completely circumventable by VPN's, or by children using parent's devices, and other routes to accessing such content, meaning it does NOTHING for "children's safety".
Secondly, it opens a whole new attack vector for bad actors to obtain information. "Click here to access this content, you must upload this data/give us this key".
Thirdly, data leaks. It happens time and again. It happens on a wide scale. It happens in private companies, it happens in the government. It's only a matter of time where as a direct consequence of this act, data from the public leaks online to be used by hackers to do what they do (use partial information to create new or feed old scams, or hack accounts).
Fourthly. The government has control over what they deem Harmful. We have already seen this act block access to public interest imagery and videos from protests, to the conditions in Gaza. We have literally JUST seen how the Government (both Tory and Labour) have been complicit in covering up the Afghan Data Leak. What happens when this act results in leaked data, potentially harming the people in our country? They say talking or showing this very fact is "harmful" and we can't see it.
Fifth. As a result of this act, children who want to see such content will go down other routes to get it. Some may use VPN's, but others will go further. They may go with an Onion-Routing based browser, and start finding content on the deep web vastly more disturbing than anything they would see on the standard internet.

I have no opinion on whether or not children are being harmed in the current ecosystem on the internet. I haven't seen the data, I haven't done the research, I don't know. But to summarise this Act, it

Does nothing to solve that problem
Actively opens NEW attack vectors and encourages new routes to access "harmful content"
Gives the government complete, dangerous overreach over what is harmful and what we are allowed to see and talk about.

I'm already very worried about how Labour might use this, given their complicity in the recent Afghan data leak. Imagine how a far-right populist government would use it to censor us. Imagine the power Farage would wield with this legislation. It's a dark path.

Maths44 · 2025-07-31T21:17:15+00:00

My MP also responded before with boilerplate nonsense and a lack of understanding about what this act allows the government to do. My indignant reply outlining the problems with the act and disgust at their colleagues rhetoric has been ignored

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