kartoffelsaft

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human rice cooker⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the reason it happened, in short, is that Take2 (the publisher) were really obsessed with the release being a surprise, at the cost of far too much.

  For one, this meant that basically every job listing for the game never described what the game you’d even work on was. Most of the devs they got were juniors who:

  1. were willing to sign more restrictive contracts without the confidence to push back
  2. did not necessarily know much about the game, or even the genre (supposedly, besides Nate, only 1 dev was an active KSP1 player and another was aware of the game but never really played)
  3. this game was their first sizeable project

  For two, it meant that a lot of management roles were taken up by people from Take2 to enforce the secrecy (who also saw KSP as having franchise potential, but that’s a rant for another day). Few of them intimately understood what makes us dorky nerds enthusiastic about KSP.

  This is also part of the reason they avoided talking to the KSP1 devs; they were afraid of some of them even hinting that a sequel was in the works. As to why they continued to not talk to them after announcing the game I’m not sure. Perhaps they were afraid they’d tell the uncomfortable truth that the game was making the same development mistakes as KSP1 and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon expects more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually whan people make this argument with BG3 as evidence it comes with the implicit assumption that Larian is a AA developer, not a AAA one. I haven’t done enough research on what constitutes AAA vs AA and where Larian fits in that so I don’t know if that’s reasonable, but that’s the argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's NOG SEASON boys and girls!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And black gloves of course⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Left because it filters out the other hacker’s viruses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lichens are things⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no biologist, but I’m pretty sure that this photo I took a while back has a lot of lichen:

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  That flakey & coral-looking stuff growing on the branches should be lichen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An informative martial arts infographic⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uganda ain’t blue enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two slightly off centre parallel universes⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly assumed I was colorblind in one eye (I am diagnosed, at least)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, having two primes sum to a power of two is undeniably powerful in my experience. The number of times a calculation goes from tedious to trivial from this sum is incalculable. The lowest I’d put it is A.