As long as I don’t have to maintain it.
(Who tf downvoted this? The “legacy code” lobby?)
As long as I don’t have to maintain it.
(Who tf downvoted this? The “legacy code” lobby?)
The “solution” is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it
Hilariously, Google actually used to do this: they had a database called the “knowledge graph” that slowly accumulated verified information and relationships between commonly-queried entities, producing an excellent corpus of reliable, easy-to-find information about a large number of common topics.
Then they decided having people curate things was too expensive and gave up on it.
It’s also just an incredible deconstruction of the “modern warfare” shooter genre. It screams at the player, “hey, hold up a sec, think about those people you’re shooting”.
I think it’s part of why the only other shooters I like are TF2 and the Borderlands series, both of which frame the violence with a distinctly fantastical, escapist setting, intentionally distancing the game from reality.
I tried Disco Elysium, and I really appreciate everything it did/was trying to do, but I simply could not get over the pacing, long-winded conversations, and lack of guidance.
Don’t get me wrong, I love narrative-based games and open-ended exploration, but what amounts to turn-based game mechanics are too slow, and a complete absence of any obvious paths to take makes the game unapproachable.
Funny story about that one: my first time playing it, I actually found it a bit too… visceral, and had to stop after getting a couple hours in - I only came back to play it all the way through several years later.
In the intervening time, I learned that one of the developers, when asked whether the game had a “good ending”, said something along the lines of “that’s when the player stops playing in disgust”.
Guess I got the good ending.
Hey, in my defense, the explanation there was only added in 2022, and I’d already given up looking by then!
Roughly in order, I think:
Honorable mention:
Looking over this, it seems like I’m drawn to games that have either unusually good writing, very long skill curves, or (e.g., #1) both.
UT2004 sneaks in for being the absolute best LAN-party game ever (fight me). I think Link’s Awakening is mostly just nostalgia though. 😋
Edit: bumped UT2004 down to “honorable mention” because I somehow forgot the billion hours I’ve sunk into Satisfactory. Still very curious to see where that game goes story-wise after the 1.0 launch, though.
Thank you! You would not believe how long I’ve been trying to figure out where the term came from.
The best explanation I’d heard prior to now was that the practice of composing functions was akin to mixing ingredients for curry, (the food) but I’d never really bought that line of reasoning.
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
Or, if you like it more pithy: “The difference between theory and practice is larger in theory than it is in practice.”
There’s that old chestnut: “you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.”
RCS is an open standard, isn’t it? Are you referring to the E2E encryption that Google added to Android?
Bold of you to assume no one will come up with a replacement date library rather than just getting rid of JS.
Alien might be the scariest movie of all time, IMO, so this makes perfect sense to me.
I do use Kodi for local content, but this unfortunately doesn’t help with streaming services, and even dedicated steaming boxes have ads on their home screens now.
I’m not sure how an email service helps here…?
*Pi-hole
Already got one. A lot of devices seem to route ads over channels that can’t be blocked without compromising other device functions.
My dad used to sautee them with bits of bacon or prosciutto. I don’t eat pork anymore, but god damn do I miss those Brussels sprouts.
I kinda disagree here - I have no problem using smart lights, etc., as long as they’re controlled by a non-cloud system like HomeAssistant. This just doesn’t seem to be an option for more complex devices.
Instant sub, cheers.