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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the other thing is that design work doesn’t scale the way art does. You can’t throw 1000 game designers at a project and expect them to create a coherent game design.

  So you end up with one or a small team of game designers and they need to get the major parts of the design done early since everyone else follows from that. This leaves you with so little room for experimentation that you end up with a cookie cutter game design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh okay. That sounds a lot better than I thought!

  I think to me the crank seems ideal for a fishing game. Has anyone made one of those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tough sell then. I did a search in the article for the word crank and got a lot of matches but it was too long for me to read. I would have preferred some short video clips to demonstrate exactly how it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh that’s annoying. The crank looks like it makes the whole unit much more awkward to hold, especially for larger hands. The fact that it’s just a control gimmick which doesn’t really add anything to classic Game Boy games makes it a hard pass for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution is not our friend. Evolution favours reproductive fitness, not happiness. Happiness is just one of many tools in the toolbox for getting us to reproduce.

  The current situation with low birth rates due to the availability of contraceptives is a temporary blip. Right now you can witness a wide range of forces arrayed against that status quo. Note that for humans, evolution operates not only at the genetic level but also at the cultural level since parents can pass their culture on to their children.

  We’re witnessing a major backlash and reaction against secular liberalism, a return to authoritarianism and a revival of religious membership. Religion has always been one of the most powerful of evolution’s cultural weapons for increasing reproductive fitness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Swap out the car exhaust fumes for gas stove fumes and the baking sun for the heat of a kitchen and you pretty much have what it’s like to work in a restaurant! Right down to the fake money that’s actually church pamphlets!

  I guess it’s probably not very common for people to yell “get a job” at a restaurant server, though they do yell lots of other things (and bring screaming children with them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, I dunno what country he’s from but in my country (Canada) there are loads of jobs for math grads. The one thing you have to give up on is pure math. No business is interested in paying someone to write proofs.

  I did a major in computational math with a joint pure math. I took a lot of pure math courses and loved them but there’s no practical use for them outside of academia. It’s like learning to write poetry.

  However, the skills of a mathematics grad and the broad applicability of mathematics to many areas of business, engineering, and science are undeniable. Even someone who has only studied pure mathematics has a huge advantage over someone who has an unrelated arts degree, for example, all else being equal (personal hygiene, social and communications skills).

  All else is rarely equal though. But that’s another matter entirely!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t get that from AAA studios: that’s largely indie territory today.

  The issue with creating novel and interesting gameplay is that it’s not a straight-line process. It takes a lot of experimentation and failure. That doesn’t match with the large teams and assembly-line process of AAA game development.

  An indie game developer, especially one who just works on the game in their free time but otherwise has a day job, is 100% free to experiment and redo their game design hundreds of times. Often this doesn’t mean throwing the game away but instead making lots of small games for game jams or just to build a portfolio of projects.

  Couple that with the fact there aren’t nearly as many AAA studios as there are indie game developers working on hobby projects and you can see why AAAs are at such a disadvantage when it comes to experimenting with novel and innovative game designs. Indie game don’t need to all be successful to make it hard on AAAs: out of thousands of indie games only one needs to be successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s hard for me to say what your professor really meant. If he meant “there are no jobs paying math undergrads to write proofs” then yes of course, no one but professors or rich parents would pay for that. But all he said was “there are no jobs for undergrads/masters/PhDs” which to me implies that math grads are no better off than high school grads at getting a job, with which I would strongly disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a math degree. I am far from independently wealthy. There are plenty of math-related jobs out there if you’re willing to stoop from the lofty perches of pure math. Statistics, data science, risk management, actuarial science, finance, accounting, operations research, optimization, computational mathematics, machine learning/AI.

  The list goes on and on and on. Many of these jobs might be quite boring for someone who just wants to work on difficult proofs all day but they’re generally a lot better pay than any academic job below the tenure track (and way better pay than Starbucks).

  Life is a lot tougher if you’re into physics or chemistry or biology. There you really do need a PhD to do anything and the research positions are extremely competitive to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I graduated in 2024. I have been in the exact classroom described by the greentext countless times. It wasn’t every single class but it was many of them. All those NPCs/zombies you describe are people in the same boat as greentext. Everyone is wondering when someone else will step up to dip their toe in the water. The moment is fleeting though because soon all the phones are out and people are texting their friends, oblivious to the horror around them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t hate Valve fans at all. I have a Steam account myself with a decent library that I play on my laptop.

  I had no clue whatsoever about the hacked 3DS ecosystem until my friend basically dragged me into it by buying the consoles (refurbished actually)! Once I started learning about the scene I really got impressed with what the small homebrew community accomplished. In addition to emulators and some homebrew games, there are also a number of utilities in the scene. You can run an FTP server on the hacked N3DS and just bulk copy over files via wifi rather than having to pull the microSD card and sneakernet it to your PC. There’s also a program called universal updater which is a package manager of sorts that makes it easy to download and install emulators and other apps quite easily.

  Of course none of this is as smooth and convenient of an experience as installing Steam games would be on a Steam deck, though I’m sure if you’re into emulators you’ll have to use other tools to get those installed anyway.

  My friend and I are currently playing through some classic NES RPGs which we’d previously overlooked. The N3DS has pretty good battery life, lasting about 10-12 hours on a full charge; far more battery life than I have time to spend gaming in a day anyway (due to my job). The standby time is good but not great. Lastly, a big plus for me is that replacement batteries are available through iFixit. I bought 2 of them and the install process is very easy (just a couple of screws and you’re in).

  My hope is that iFixit will continue to make replacement batteries available long term. That could potentially allow my N3DS to last decades into the future, barring premature capacitor failure or some unfortunate accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one I have is called the “New Nintendo 3DS XL” and it has a much faster CPU (804MHz Arm 11) compared to the original 3DS (268MHz Arm 11). While the CPU difference doesn’t matter for running DS or 3DS games (apart from a handful of games written specially for the New 3DS) it makes a big difference running the more intensive emulators (such as the PS1).

  When I got mine it had the very last version of the 3DS operating system installed (Nintendo still maintains the update servers even though the eshop is shut down). Yet the instructions for the hack were easy enough to follow and I had no trouble getting up and running.

  The Steam deck is an attractive option too though. The main reason I got into the 3DS is because my friend bought 2 of them and gave one to me so we could both do the hack and play lots of games and discuss them. I think the main reason to really prefer a 3DS comes down to form factor: if you really like the folding case, the stylus, and the dual screen setup (which really shines for many games in the massive DS/3DS library) then you’re not gonna get an optimal experience with the single-screen Steam Deck. I think in particular the stylus really matters for puzzle games which demand higher tap precision than you can comfortably achieve with a fingertip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard for me to imagine anyone buying brand new AAA games these days. Between the huge back catalogues of previous gen consoles as well as the PC and the insane prices for new AAA games which don’t innovate very much anymore, I can’t see much reason spend that kind of money.

  I have a hacked New Nintendo 3DS and it can basically run every console emulator up to and including PS1 as well as natively run GBA, DS, and 3DS games. The library for the thing is enormous and with a 128GB microSD card you can store a ton of stuff on it.

  Oh and it can also run DOSBox and SCUMMVM games though I haven’t tried them so I can’t vouch for the play experience. I should think the stylus would make a decent mouse replacement but I’m not sure how well it works in practice. Arcade-style DOS games that use the keyboard only (Duke Nukem, Crystal Caves, Commander Keen) should work great though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget to paint over those cracked weld joints!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Snek⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hawaiian bunker hobbies!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Snek⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook has lots of interesting groups for hobbies and other interests. Yes, you can find groups like that outside of Facebook but they’re often much smaller and less active (unless you go to Reddit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not smaller but it is faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would get old fast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this show! Ted Danson punts a little dog into the sun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a quirk of LLMs, it’s a quirk of human cognitive biases.

  See: Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just dont seem to ever learn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds very cozy! I suppose you could also simply carry the carafe to your coffee mug and pour it there, as though you were working at a diner with you as your favourite customer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just dont seem to ever learn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Move your coffee machine to your desk so you can make and pour coffee without having to move the mug!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t use it on glass or enameled cast iron either! Great for carbon steel and cast iron though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get out of my head⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I saw the pink as the foreground and the forks as some kind of weird, wet background. Then I noticed the shape of the forks and everything flipped!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s the thing. People compare Valve to Apple all the time but it’s not a fair comparison. Apple controls the hardware platform while Valve does not. Many devs publish their games on multiple platforms including their own websites as well as Steam. Gamers are free to buy on any platform yet many choose Steam. If a dev decides not to publish on Steam that’s fine but they’ll have a harder time getting visibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s not really giving everyone in the world an exactly equal share of resources. Not to mention there’s a natural component to inequality that’s independent of resources: location. A 10 m^2 per person shack is a lot more bearable on a beach in Southern California than it is in a desert or an insect-infested swamp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prison in a hot climate with no AC. No thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resources⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other question is: where are we living? It takes a lot more resources to live in Canada than it does to live in a warm climate to the south. Does that mean we all have to abandon Canada and crowd ourselves into the hot equatorial regions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chinese food with baijiu.

  Korean BBQ with soju.

  Yakitori with sake.

  Pub/bar snacks with beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously! Just buy a used 3DS and hack it to run every game, emulator, etc. You can actually play DOS games and ScummVM games on it!