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It would certainly be weird, after their recent games were so story-driven. You can’t tell a good story, if you need to always keep the end open for possible expansions.

Yeah, and they often launch with loads of systems where future content could be plugged in, but the actual content itself is typically bad or at the very least incomplete. The publishers try too hard to build a platform rather than a good game…

Yeah, theoretically the exact model for monetization isn’t as important, but many publishers are hoping to get players to pay subscriptions indefinitely.

And here I would argue that the Rust library is strictly better, specifically because it will come with an automated or precompiled build of the C library. Compiling C is such a pain.

Fucking hell, man, with how many very publicly visible security problems they had last year, you’d think the stakeholders would be on board with doing security for a bit.

Yeah, sometimes I even then can’t download the picture, even though I was looking at it just then, because the server can apparently tell the difference and returns an error code instead.

Excuse me, I believe, you mean qu\ntumr\ndomnumbers. You see, it’s the Windows path equivalent of /dev/random.

Nah, sudo is fine. I can create users without touching the domain stuff. 🙃

I am currently finding that out, too. 🙃

So far, I’ve had them in a vegetable curry and in a sort-of-East-Asian style dish (rice, chickpeas, teriyaki, sriracha, peanut sauce) and I threw them onto a toast where I had a tomato-hummus spread on there.
I feel like that generally works quite well, if your base food is already quite rich in either veggies or spices, then you can just throw chives into the mix without it poking out too much. Lots of those dishes might use leek anyways, and chives aren’t too different from that.

Yeah, gotta newtype it up to make it even more relentless.

Our power companies hold the stance of no-fucking-way-lol, when it comes to restarting the reactors. It would require quite a bit in terms of repairs/inspections, and in particular hiring+training all the personell is insanely expensive. At this point, just plonk down more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. It’s a lot more cost efficient.

A game I play has this as the quote for the Haste spell. 🙃

I think, a big part of the problem is that much of the cost is sunken into things that don’t really teach you too much. The basic game concept prototype can probably be developed for less than $10m. You do still learn some things by making really nice graphics. But then making those nice graphics as well as sounds, voice recordings and world design for your massive open world, that’s when you’re just doing more of the same at quite the scale.

I could never get over how boring the gameplay of Infamous looked. Comparing it to a third-person shooter is pretty apt. Like, you’ve got these crazy lightning powers, but 90% of the time, you just use your hand buzzer to give folks a bit of a zap. Riveting.

There’s rumors of Bethesda working on an own Oblivion remake…

It runs in the Skyrim Special Edition engine, so should work wherever SSE works. And SSE does work in Proton under Linux.

Well, forget for a moment everything you know about webpages and now you want a form where the user can create an account. The sales person tells you that the user has entered the data for us, so it just needs to be sent with a request to the backend, which always looks the same. And then it just needs to be put into a INSERT INTO, which also always looks the same.
All of that stuff can clearly be auto-generated by the framework. And 70% of the boilerplate code does exactly that, so that obviously means 70% of the workload of your devs disappears, which means you can get rid of 70% of your developers.

It just makes it really easy to scam people, when they don’t know the technical side…

The darkness creeps upon me,
A suffocating cloak.
The world outside is cruel and cold,
And I’m a fragile, broken yolk.