Shhh don’t spoil it, that’s the plot twist for the season finale!

Adding a +1 to this, same situation. For the longest time, I had to keep a running totall in my head, down to the cent, of the few things I put in the supermarket cart to make sure I had money to pay for them.

Life has been kind, and gradually things got better and when it sunk in that I was OK was when I realized that at some point I had stopped counting the cents.

Nowadays I treasure my time and my wellbeing more than money - I won’t do something that takes away from that, even if pays more.

Clearly there’s people who won’t stop at a billion dollars, but for me, the freedom of adding whatever I want to my cart without having to think if I can afford it is all I need to live a happy life.

Yeah but at what point does it just become a pc with a controller…

The ex’s perspective is just a harem anime, where he gets bullied relentlessly by the girls who still don’t 100% believe the shape shifter story but are willing to look for it just in case.

Try finding a triple A game released in the last 10 years that hasnt been heavily designed around multiplayer

What? In 2024 alone, would you say games like Alan Wake 2, Baldurs Gate 3 or Elden Ring are “heavily designed around multiplayer”?

Sure you have your FIFA’s and CoD and a bunch of other MP games, but single player games are still a thing.

Yeah, especially stuff like “start/stop” or “on/off”, that universal language by now.

I love that you came back and added that edit, that’s some commitment to keeping us up to date on the latest scientific breakthroughs about ant brains (I mean, I’d they have one?) and I appreciate it.

Edit: ants do in fact have (tiny) brains.

TIL Godot has a better file explorer than windows…

I laughed more than I should have at “built like Zangief”, I’m going to hell.

I’m guessing that if someone needs to define tolerance on such a small scale, they probably weren’t going to depend on an “approximately equal” function in the first place.

Then again, if someone has been dealing with these sorts of comparisons for a while, they’d have their own way of achieving this, so I guess it can be a handy tool for people who are just getting into game development.

This really hits home.

If you ask me to list things, I’ll struggle to find more than 1 example of whatever. Even stuff that I know so well I could do a ted talk on, but my brain just violently opposes enumerating stuff…

It’s available on game pass, if you have it.

I played it there so much that I figured I owed it to the devs to actually buy it on Steam, and I don’t regret it, had a ton of fun

NMS is one hell of a redemption story, a really amazing job at persevering to follow through on their vision.

There’s now a new candidate for the same thing, a game called Techtonica that just released this month and totally tanked.

In the early access builds, the game was the lovechild of subnautica and factorio, two of my favourite games ever. It had the gorgeous and eerie alien open world exploration and compelling storyline, along with all the conveyor/inserter and min-maxing goodness that I crave.

It had some optimization problems as you scaled up, though, and I suppose sales in the early access must have been quite bad. My guess is that, with money running out, they opted to release on consoles for that extra buck, and completely gave up on solving the optimization issues.

Instead, they chopped up the world map into “levels”, that you unlock by constantly feeding this elevator/drill thing.

This totally breaks the open world immersion, the sense of scale from the big map, the unease one felt when running through all those miles of cavern, the thrill of finding gorgeous spots out there or hidden loot…

Plus, the dialog is at times incoherent with the revised narrative/progression path, and the factory production chains are a mess and the math doesn’t work, the balancing is just awful.

I mean, it’s still a gorgeous game and worth playing, but it has the potential to be so much more :(

But why would I use something that takes more effort and care?

I’m sure you’re right and it’s possible, but if I don’t have to fix another python project at work I’ll be in heaven.

But that’s just a happy little accident. Gabe is too much of a good guy, so he actually built a good distribution platform that also pushes for improvements for the whole ecosystem (like the Linux thing).

When he’s gone, capitalism dictates that enshitification must ensue in order to squeeze out every single cent of short term profit, and we’ll be screwed.

Oh I was wondering where you got the uranium for the glass…

Just wondering how that staff works, will they have to go picking through dragon poo to get all of meemaw, Dungeon Meshi style?

TIL thanks

Wow how did they get this photo of a moving subject in a camera from the 30’s. I’m impressed

While not as imposing as its larger AT-AT Ducker cousin (picture missing in thread, which is a shame), the AT-ST Ducker nonetheless served as a significant addition to the Imperial side of battlefields in the Galactic Civil War.