jeff
@jeff@programming.dev
Software Architect turned Engineering Manager
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 4 weeks ago:
There are novels that don’t measure up to the writing of visual novels.
There are comics that don’t measure up to the art of visual novels.
There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.
Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It’s okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren’t for you. I don’t particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I’ve played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I’m playing Date Everything right now, it’s not exactly innovative, but I’m having fun with it.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 2 months ago:
Damn, what a wild take.
Nintendo might not be as innovative as some indie games but they constantly innovate and define new genres.
I mean, look at the consoles. Wii, Wii U, and Switch are all crazy innovative.
Some of their more innovative stuff might not be as popular, e.g., ARMS and LABO. Even their mainline series have some innovative mechanics for the genre.
Serious question. What company is more innovative than Nintendo?
- Comment on Cursed 2 months ago:
What? No. The divisibility of the side lengths have nothing to do with this.
The problem is what’s the smallest square that can contain 17 identical squares. If there were 16 squares it would be simply 4x4.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 2 months ago:
Mad Men: I feel bad for you. I don’t think about you at all.
Similar vibe, but I think about this scene/meme a lot as well.
Likewise, Don Draper is being an asshole in the scene. But, in reality most people don’t think about you.
They could say something that offended you. They are going to forget about it. So there is no need to be upset, chances are they forgot about it.
You could say something dumb or embarrassing. People are going to forget almost immediately.
- Comment on Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan Answers DnD Questions 6 months ago:
They upload a ton to YouTube, but it’s mostly on their shorts channel. I’m sure they upload to TikTok and stuff also.
- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 7 months ago:
I have small hands and my kids use it without complaining. It’s bigger than a Switch, but not too much bigger. I’ve traveled with it plenty.
- Comment on Anyone know where this is from? 7 months ago:
Do you subscribe to A24 Zines? I just googled it.
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 11 months ago:
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 11 months ago:
+1 for Halls of Torment
It’s a really solid entry in the rogue-lite vampire-survivors-like genre that Diablo enjoyers could pick up really easily
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 11 months ago:
He did at one point. I think he’s said that he likes being in full control of the project, so he took back over the porting process.
It’s really impressive that a single developer does as much as he does.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 1 year ago:
Wow, I didn’t expect an expert to chime in.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 1 year ago:
The plural of moose is meese.
spoiler
/s for non-native English speakers
