Martin Linklater

Long time gamedev coder.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@Sony With all due respect, a ‘mainliner chapter’ would feature Kratos as protagonist. This is an experimental spinoff. Good luck.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@YorchTorchGames I don't know who wrote it but I'm reminded of a line I recently read...

"Todays games are the result of decisions made 5 years ago."

If they don't pull it back in the next GoW game this IP is dead. Killed by 'progress'.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

A fatal game direction mistake is to replace wonder with spectacle. Wonder will pull the player through the game… spectacle will be uninstalled after an hour or two.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

Henry Nowak is a turning point in history. A defining event where the greasy smear of modern life is wiped from the camera lens. You see the stark reality of the world we have built and it horrifies us. Things will change. It won’t be easy or pretty, but things will change.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@YorchTorchGames Excellent analysis. ‘Performative enthusiasm’… nailed it.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Our country is run by people who believe that the best way to solve a problem is to pretend it doesn't exist.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@TimSweeneyEpic People use Steam because it's the best store. Even with Epic constantly giving games away people prefer Steam.

It's not difficult to work out why.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@PlayStation Looks perfectly fine, but without Kratos I’m not really interested.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@EdwardJDavey While you exploit his murder to have a go at Farage. Just say how sad it is and sit back down.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@PlayStation 4/10

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@PlayStation This is going to lose so much money.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

Any fool can write code a compiler can understand. What takes skill is writing code humans can understand.

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

in 2008 James Molloy wrote a free tutorial that taught people how to build a UNIX like operating system from scratch in C and assembly

it is called "Roll Your Own Toy UNIX Clone OS" and walks through building a real kernel step by step

bootloader, GDT, IDT, interrupts, paging, heap management, filesystems, multitasking and user mode are all covered

this is not just theory every chapter includes code you can compile run and experiment with in QEMU

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@theresa_may You may as well 'tackle gravity' for all the good this cripplingly expensive folly has done.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@TanDhesi I take it you will be campaigning for the removal of the exemption in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 which allows Sikh's to carry the kirpan then ? As you're so horrified.

One country. One law. Regardless of religion.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

New Copilot billing seems to have kicked in on my account. Suddenly it feels expensive. Watching money burn penny by penny as it chews away thinking about stuff is a reality check.

The high end models are good and all, but not at this price. They will be used sparingly from now on.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@LukePollard Delivering would be actually saving money and improving service.

Spending money is no achievement.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@LundukeJournal So it was always about control, not distribution.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

I’ve just read this opinion piece written by a man. I am compelled to reply. Not because he doesn’t have a right to his own opinion but that he forgot the most important part of the problem.

He seems to assert that more migration is the answer because women want working lives more than they want children. Yet he never once explores the position of women themselves.

What if large numbers of women would actually like children, sometimes more children than they have, but modern society has made family life economically, socially and culturally harder?

For decades, women have been told that being a stay at home mother is less valuable than having a job, As a result, it is now often presumed that women’s ambitions are the same as men’s.

For some women that may be true, but for many others the cost of living and societal expectations mean they cannot stay at home and be the one thing they may truly want to be … a mother raising her own children.

Pieces such as this let women down. They do not support women by asking what they actually want! instead they begin with assumptions about what women SHOULD want. The possibility that many women are suppressing their desire for a larger family because of economic pressures, social expectations and cultural attitudes is barely considered.

It is incredibly sad that while labels such as “toxic masculinity” have hurt many young men, we largely see women made to feel that traditional aspirations are somehow regressive or shameful. The words “trad wife” used disparaging.

There is nothing toxic about wanting babies and wanting to look after them yourself. It is natural, it is beautiful, and it deserves respect rather than dismissal.

And what’s more, it actually is the answer to falling birth rates in this country! A society that truly values itself, would value the huge importance of women who want to have babies but can’t!

You’re welcome.

[Martin Linklater @fizzychicken]

@jimthegiant Imagine how they will flourish not having the burden of public ownership. It’s not the BBC I object to, it is being mandated by law to pay for it.