doesn't understand that this is a useful first step in debugging
reacts with anger when devs don't magically have an instant fix to a vague bug
Yep, that's a manager
I have a friend who was a classic Catholic libertarian in college--he held some views on trans rights, abortion, and economic justice that I find deeply disagreeable. It made conversations a little tricky because there were a whole set of topics I couldn't bring up unless I wanted to wade into a debate immediately; sometimes I did, but often I just wanted to hang out and chill and that was hampered.
It took him exactly one year of being out of college and working a real job to realize that his economic views were fucked, and the whole rest of it unraveled from there. He's now a staunch leftist, and it's way, way easier to hang out with him.
That's not, however, to say it's not worth having friends you disagree with. We remained friends because we were able to disagree productively, and I feel I understand my own political views far better for all those long nights discussing them. Still, it was a friendship that took unusual effort to maintain.
Haven't seen this one on Mlem
My big dumb orange boy loves to sit right in front of the subwoofer. I guess he's a metalhead at heart.
There are a few factors that I think make this year a standout for quantity of great games released:
- Tons of games that were delayed due to the pandemic released this year, giving us several years' worth of ideas and work all at once.
- The games industry saw massive layoffs this year--that's a ton of talent cut loose that now isn't going towards future games, and another step towards the inevitable reckoning over the abusive labor environment that games are made in. Whether that's a collapse or labor organization and the establishment of a long-overdue union, it's going to create a churn period that isn't going to produce a lot of games.
- The glut of great games has saturated the market, meaning that games are returning less per investment dollar. This makes investors less eager to put their money towards new games, which leads to fewer games being made.
"Different teams" = "my perpetually losing small market team"
~In a modern title designed to be played at 60+, definitely. I've been having a blast in dark souls 1 and GTA:SA recently, both of which are capped at 30. Older games are made to work at that FPS, and it takes remarkably little time to adjust and have it feel normal. If I tried to play armored core at 30fps, on the other hand, I think I'd rip my teeth out in frustration.~
Edit: misinterpreted the comment above as "unless it's VR (i.e., in all cases except VR), you are not having fun" rather than "unless it's VR, in which case you are not having fun."
Nuclear power isn't renewable. Joule for joule, our reserves of nuclear fuel and petroleum are comparable. It's a decent bandaid, but between the finite fuel supply and the nuclear waste problem it's hardly the future and should be used as sparingly as needed to get us off of oil and onto renewables.
In my experience refactoring lots and lots of crappy code left by devs long gone, a dev who can write useful comments is by and large a dev who can write code clean and simple enough not to need them. If the code doesn't have informative names and clear separation of concern, chances are a comment won't help because the dev didn't really know what they did that worked in the first place.
I presumed it to be a standin for just directly using Math.max, since there's no nice way to show that in a valid code snippet
Not using thief is professional incompetence unless you're doing something deeply cursed
"Never use a knife as anything but a knife or you'll end up disappointed and with a broken knife."
Not sure where I heard that first, but it's stuck with me.