pinball_wizard

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else having issues with YouTube?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick, vibe code it back to stability!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. It has helped me, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “eliminate fraud”

  ROFL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a two rules that help me:

  1. I never move between rooms of the house without carrying something back where it belongs. Every trip should make my house a tiny bit tidier.

  2. When I pick up something random and it doesn’t obviously belong anywhere, I drop it into my “probably should give this away” bin.

  When the “probably should give this away” bin fills, I’ll rescue onr or two things I changed my mind about, and give the rest away to empty the bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Existing franchises are missing the young people because they’re about squeezing pennies out of nostalgia, rather than making good games.

  The Indie developers of today are creating tomorrow’s lasting franchises.

  It’s a tale as old as game development.

  It’s all there from day one in the history of Atari and Activision.

  Atari’s CEO decided that game developers should wear ties, keep standard work hours and be happy with a salary instead of any equity. This brilliant leadership vision led to the founding of Activision.

  Atari went on to become a brand husk company.

  Activision went on to become Blizzard / Activision and get bought for more money than I’ll ever see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. If folks would text “can you talk this afternoon?” more often, I would take more phone call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the plot points in “Undiscovered Country” is that the crew were coasting out the last three months until their retirement, when the Klingon crisis happens.

  So it makes sense that the set team tried to make the ship look worn in and ready for some time off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that first screenshot. Sometimes possible ads for his service still pop into my head:

  “While not everyone can spend every waking minute with a flea the size of an elephant, you can experience my joy for just a small fee.”

  “Not encountering enough nightmare fuel during your arduous journey through the wilderness?! Why not experience a relaxing ride to your destination, with ample nightmare fuel right below your saddle?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m out of the loop, I haven’t bought an EA game in a decade (or two). Did they already go full platform exclusive or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So what the fuck is he going for?

  There’s a few more election results left in influencing some of those old people. I’m sure that fetches a decent price, assuming Putin can find the money to keep buying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They should be. LoL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great guide!

  I would add that searching for a “SteamDeck” guide for a mod set tends to find a more complete guide for running that mod on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Baba is You” is a brain bender more kids should get the chance to try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that the harder they work to brand something is “mine”, the more they are stealing with their other hand while I’m distracted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Xbox, Obsidian Entertainment Is Trying to Reinvent Itself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any publicly traded company, at least. Some privately held ones behave better.

  But Microsoft gets the special shit list here because they have been specifically doing this to game studios.

  Lack on anti-trust law enforcement, specifically against Microsoft, is why many rightful delightful game series are now locked away in Microsoft’s vaults off instead of getting sequels, this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Xbox, Obsidian Entertainment Is Trying to Reinvent Itself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft aquisition Phases:

  1. Purchase game studio
  2. Set unrealistic expectations
  3. Use unrealistic expectations to drive away talent
  4. Use failure to meet expectations to justify layoffs.
  5. Various Tax write-offs
  6. Claim that nothing could be done to avoid having bought out and eliminated another competitor.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That bitly link looks really spammy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! This is just silly. But if it were magic the gathering cards, I would understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s give Picard some credit, it spent most a season giving us a look at the challenges of building a community while evading immigration officers, and the heartbreak of losing someone whose only crime was being “illegal” or undocumented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But Microsoft pinky promised that allowing them to breach anti-trust law would not result in layoffs.

  Game studios purchased by Microsoft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but I really don’t like My Little Pony :)

  Ooh. Then you might be one of today’s lucky 10,000.

  For a children’s show, My Little Pony has no right to be as good as much of it is.

  And they basically got John Delancy to reprise the role of Q, because his granddaughters were fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I push people away if I'm so lonely?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had eras of my life like that. I thought I was being antisocial, but it turned out the people I was surrounded with were just exhaustingly petty. Then my situation changed who I had surrounding me, and suddenly I was a social butterfly.

  It is wise to look inward, and work on ourselves, because we are the only ones we can change.

  But it is also wise to give ourselves a break, because it might just be the situation that sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Turing if he existed today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Food for thought: Alan Turing was born in 1912, and Grindr launched in 2009. So there’s an outside chance that Turing could have lived to see (or helped found) Grindr, if the world had been gentler to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually not sure I can afford to keep playing “buy an indie game every tone Ubisoft does something evil or stupid”.

  But I’m down for a few more rounds, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the wind speed of an unladen swallow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Barring that, we at least need to find someone who can pass a captcha test…

  Then I think we’re doomed. I don’t think there’s anyone left who can pass captcha better than a computer can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We could all give each-other Turing tests, or Vought Kompf tests, but I think both have to be administered by a known confirmed human. Maybe there’s some set theory math we can do on the results to find at least one human…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were in your shoes (and I am), I would start trying to blindly use AI to do various aspects of my job (and I have).

  The results are laughable.

  There are things that I do that AI can do. Stupid, boring, uninteresting things. In particular, AI excels at doing things I already wrote a simple Bash script to do for me a decade ago.

  Seriously, I encourage everyone to give it a try.

  Let’s all build that passion project we’ve been dreaming of and host it for the world to enjoy.

  In the best case, the world has a happy little passion project chugging away being useful.

  In the worst case, we learn what AI cannot do yet, and realize we can still keep charging people for our labor for a few more years (and decades and centuries).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the shoe fits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Prince actually knew he re-found his true love when he saw her badly scraped knee and shin.

  (Sadly, she doesn’t land the trick shown here.)