Wakey wakey, hands off the snakey!

Honestly all those old myths are just… wild. I really want to know what “polite society” was like back when that was the kind of stuff religion was formed around.

Democrats “we can’t do things right, only dictators do that!”

You think dictators are doing things right by moving fast and breaking things?

Hmmmmmmmm yeah I’m done with this conversation. Best of luck with that.

It’s certainly true that the indie market is better about that stuff, but the indie market also generally isn’t considered the driver or trend-setter of the overall games market the way AAA studios are. It would be amazing if that trend shifts, don’t get me wrong, but until or unless it does, I don’t see this going well overall. It does, though, mean that people who care will still have options, and that’s good, so solid point.

I figure the digital-only consoles are a stepping stone toward this. I’d never consider one myself because if I don’t own a copy of the game that I can sell, I’m not paying for it just in principle. But a ton of people wanted the convenience over the practicality of resale. Digital-only consoles have basically killed the physical game market going forward, since it’s been basically dead on PC for ages. I see the same thing happening with the consoles themselves. I mean ps+ already has a streaming option and a substantial portion of their catalogue is only available to play that way. I’m sure Xbox has the same thing, probably with a similar portion of content locked behind streaming from their servers. I don’t even really understand why they would do this since the bandwidth to stream is far higher than to download and play offline, so I have to assume there’s something behind it like a push toward that model. Get people used to it as an option, then make it the only option.

And there’s nothing indie studios can really do about those big trends led by big studios/companies, except to quietly keep doing what they were already doing, and make a huge fuss about it when they get their 15 minutes like larian has done. Wake up as many people as you can sort of thing.

I hope you are correct, but I don’t think you are.

I don’t think game devs (or web devs or any dev really) even remember what optimization means, at this point. They sure aren’t going to start prioritizing it now, especially if major companies continue to be out of touch about what gamers actually want.

I mean we have microtransactions, we have games as service, we have single player games with online connection requirements, we have games that need logins to other services, etc etc etc. no gamers want these things, but it doesn’t matter because companies do. And companies aren’t going to care if you can’t afford to play their game on your own equipment, they’ll offer you a subscription to stream it from theirs.

If you don’t already know this, you should look into used solar from solar power plants. They cycle out their equipment on a schedule, so it’s still got most of its life left, but for like half the price of new solar.

Downside is you have to figure out all the parts you need yourself, and get the whole shebang shipped, which can be expensive if you don’t live near where they originate (still less than new solar, ofc). You also need to arrange to install and hook them up. The install portion can easily be done by anyone if they are relatively handy, and then just have them professionally connected, which saves even more.

Yeah heaven forbid someone wants to do things right instead of doing things like Trump. Do what you like and who cares what you fuck up along the way, right?

So when you get a new job you go in within the first two weeks and make huge changes that impact everyone served by the company, without fully understanding the systems you are working with? That’s what you are asking for here.

Cuz he’s in transition. Training. Learning his job and how to do it. And running an entire city probably takes a bit more transition than some dumb corpo job where you can slot into many similar jobs.

I was told the first line repeatedly as a teenager, and stopped wearing makeup a few years later as a result. Then I’d hear intermittent comments about how I look tired because I have thin skin around my eyes. I look tired no matter what I do. But whatever because I save a bunch of time every morning and evening, not to mention money. Holy hell is makeup expensive!

Now as an adult nearing middle age who stopped even using hair dye, I’m starting to hear that I’d be prettier if I did my makeup/hair better… and I just go “yeah, probably.” And shrug. I’ve accepted there’s no winning, someone will always comment, so I just do what I like. Not my problem if that makes you feel insecure enough to try to change my behavior.

I also don’t recall if I ever did the stabby thing… probably.

But I did get my hands on one of those weird putty erasers that artists use for fine point erasure or whatever they are actually for (didn’t work very well, anyway). I used to use that stuff to make little sculptures in class. If it hadn’t been slightly elastic it would have worked very well for it.

True blood. I knew some people who were just obsessed with it and I watched a lot of it and just couldn’t stand it.

I don’t think I’ve seen that, do you have a link? I’d really like to 😀

I feel like a lot of this is due entirely to the shift away from generational/communal living.

If you live with a bunch of other people, and those people actually contribute to the environment you all live in, the daily tasks get split up such that they are much easier to maintain, for everyone.

Say you’ve got a set of parents, 2 kids and their spouses, and whatever offspring under that. Sure you need a bit more space than your average single family starter home offers, but if only one house is needed, that frees up a lot of money elsewhere so I feel like that’s an OK trade.

But beyond the added space, you could have one person who cooks, one who cleans common areas, one who does dishes, one who does laundry, one who pays bills and manages appointments, and one who makes sure the kids are handled. Rotate those jobs as desired, or assign them to whomever likes doing them most of the time, and all the big major draining tasks are handled. EZ.

With individualized living, everything falls to one or two people, and yeah that’s an absolute ton. Especially if one of the two can’t or won’t pull their weight.

Yeah, that’s why I said if there is one when I’m ready to get a new phone. That’s likely several years away, because I don’t plan to buy more stuff if I don’t have to, so one might exist by then. I know there’s been some progress on that front, just not a ton.

Some phone apps do display the link url below the post body. I use voyager and it looks like this

Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?

Sure, if there’s one available that can function as a daily driver and is user-repairable when I need a new phone. Or if more devices get support for alternate privacy-focused OS options, a used phone could be a real possibility.

But I might not bother with a smartphone at all if there aren’t better choices than now. I have a host of other things I can use to browse the internet and do most stuff I presently do on this tiny screen, and I’ve cut way way back from how much I even use this. Only issue would be GPS, but old devices work for that just as well as newer ones, as long as you download the maps.

Cool. Idk why you are ranting at me about it tho. Like I don’t even like my phone outside of a few neat or well-done things it can do.

Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

I assume the bolded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

So there’s like 3+ types of annotations and… that’s confusing…

Ok. I mean sure. But since it’s there, I like the workaround. It makes useful space that’s seamlessly integrated and thus doesn’t feel like wasted space. I don’t feel like there’s a camera cluster there wasting my screen space. Because that part of my notification bar has always been empty (I genuinely hate notification clutter, so on android my top bar was always basically empty just like this is)

I’m willing to make sacrifices as long as they are done well, and compared to every phone I’d had before this one, it’s nice to see it used. It compares favorably to my past experiences.

I’m not an apple person, this is the only Apple device I’ve ever had, other than a first(?) generation 2gb iPod way back in the day, and I don’t plan to get another walled garden device. So not fanboying or anything, and I have far more complaints than praises for this pos, but it’s a good way to wrestle back a bit of space without having to make any major design changes. I’m ok with that.