JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on PSA 1 day ago:
Yeah a lot of people find stress to be a blocker for arousal. I imagine gender dysphoria very stressful. My first thought when reading that was how do they account for that?
- Comment on Memory Express trying to claim a 2TB ssd is "$470 off" 2 days ago:
I haven’t ever seen Lovense’s products not at ~50% discount. I was buying something on Christmas and rushing to beat the sale in case another wasn’t for a whole, but as soon as midnight rolled around, lol and behold the Boxing Day Sale went live.
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 2 days ago:
NI!
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 2 days ago:
NO RULES!
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 2 days ago:
The sound of a balloon inflating.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 5 days ago:
The AI push right now is crazy. Where I’m working all teams have to show how much they’re using AI and where. Rather than being measured on their success they’re being measured on how they’re doing it.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 5 days ago:
macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 6 days ago:
If I type
*blah*it shows it as something like blah, but I want it to not format until I send. It’s difficult for me to write in WYSIWYG editors. I want it to show*blah*. - Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 6 days ago:
It’s really easy to forget, but yes, Steam was annoying back in the day. I hated it so much I bought Borderlands 1 from somewhere else in protest. My friends bought it through Steam. The patch dropped and they got it, I didn’t, and I couldn’t play anymore. It finally came later, though. This pushed me to give it a second chance. Now it’s amazing. Apart from some gripes about the UI of Steam itself, there’s not really much to complain about.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 6 days ago:
I’m on Mac and I dislike it too. No flashing cursor to let me know I’ve selected the chat window to type. The app insists on changing to a different view when I switch windows, making me lose it. The share screen ribbon always manages to be exactly where I need it to not be. Doesn’t allow any sort of Markdown-esque formatting in chat, only WYSIWYG.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not saying they’re realistic, just that it has some of the flood/farming mechanics the blog author wanted to see in a game.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is a great article! It’s really interesting.
I have two comments to make, and I hope nobody thinks this is me trying to disagree with the article or something, I don’t want it to come across as defensive. In explaining some of the challenges medieval cities go through and saying Banished is a pretty accurate game, I think this might just be a genre issue. I consider Banished a colony management game, not a city builder, and indeed, in colony management games your people’s health and safety are usually a much larger concern than in a city builder.
The second comment is that the writer suggests a game with flood mechanics and arable farm land. I don’t remember if it was out in March of 2020, but Timberland is out now. It’s a beaver based colony management game that includes a lot of fluid dynamics. It has flood mechanics like described. It’s unrealistic, of course, because they’re beavers. But also because flooding isn’t the end of the world if it gets into your buildings, I think it’s more of an inconvenience. Regardless, I think it’s a cool game to check out.
- Comment on I was there... 2 weeks ago:
wait lol, if she thinks her address is so valuable for strangers to steal, wouldn’t that make tossing it somewhere other than home more risky? Not that there’s much thought going into this routine.
- Comment on Two-shay 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trying to “gay you” but you could easily be biromantic but heterosexual, ya know? As in romantically attracted to people of all genders but only sexually attracted to the opposite gender.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Somewhat same, but for me I’m just trying to cook more at home. Not necessarily save money. (Though it’s still nice.) Have you compared the costs? It could be that even if you throw out half it’s still cheaper, ya know? Or maybe closer to breaking even than you realize.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
The point is that both are the same as “save money” when they should be giving more specific advice. Two pieces of good actionable advice have been given. “Just save money” is not a useful tip for “how to save money”
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Choosing to stop eating out is a way to reduce your standard of living.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Also this is pretty stupid to say because it basically just means spend less money. Yeah, no shit.
- Comment on Anon visits New York 2 weeks ago:
Fake: OP talks in public
Gay: OP is catcalled
- Comment on dating 2 weeks ago:
I’m probably being too generous with what I’m calling community center, I should edit it. As an example, in my head I was picturing a local park which my city has folks come and perform at and such. It’s just a stage in a park but there are events there.
- Comment on High value 2 weeks ago:
That’s a perfectly fine thing to do at 15. Cuddling while watching a movie. I think you’re just looking through it through a different lens now that you’re (presumably) no longer a teenager.
- Comment on Anon tells a true story 2 weeks ago:
They’ve both said it’s better to be alone than with a terrible person and that they don’t have a choice to be with anyone, so I don’t think they’re really thinking this stuff through.
- Comment on dating 2 weeks ago:
Unitarian Universalist churches exist, but things like community centers are probably more what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 2 weeks ago:
Never played Bully so I can say this without you thinking it shaped my world view: Just admit you’re wrong.
- Comment on royalty free emoji 3 weeks ago:
Built like Robotnik
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 3 weeks ago:
I had a typo. Reread it. It’s the “my (gender age)” part that annoys me. “My boyfriend” is a person, “me” is a person, but “my” is not a person.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 3 weeks ago:
Aside, but I hate that people say “my (F 21) boyfriend (M 53) prevents me” instead of “my boyfriend (M 53) prevent me (F 21)”
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 3 weeks ago:
- Games should have some way to take notes in game.
- External wikis are great and I love them, but they aren’t an excuse for not explaining how your game works within your game. There needs to be good in game guides.
- All games need some way to save and quit. Looking at you, rogue likes. People have lives. That’s more important than protecting some weird form of honor by making the excuse that it’s to prevent save scumming.
- Comment on Onion 3 weeks ago:
Everybody loves cake!
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 3 weeks ago:
I hate this so much. There are plenty of aesthetically pleasing ways to avoid it. Windows 8 was particularly bad, my recollection was they literally looked exactly the same there, no difference at all. Luckily I only had to use it for a very brief unpaid internship.
![Bully (released in the PAL region as Canis Canem Edit; Latin for “dog eat dog”)[1] is a 2006 action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Set in the fictional town of Bullworth, the single-player story follows juvenile delinquent student Jimmy Hopkins, who is involuntarily enrolled at Bullworth Academy boarding school for a year, and puts his efforts to rise through the ranks of the school system to stop bullying.](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/d752d472-39e8-4515-9e64-db6f03d8893b.png){kind=link}