thowaway91234

It was always a sewer.

the last one killed me "chef of unecessary meetings" got me rolling

When Kojima announced Death Stranding 2, he joked about rewriting the entire thing after the pandemic because he was trying to avoid predicting the future again. The guy has some kind of super power it seems.

Metal Gear Solid 2 was especially prescient, it's even more relevant today than it was at the time. It seemed like crazy babble at the time but now it's just like, "wow, ok, this all came true wtf".

So this isn't replacing the main implementation? They just funded a new project written in Rust that is compatible?

I love fish. Switch from ZSH+Prezto to just plain Fish and I'm not missing anything and it's way faster. All the servers have bash and I still write bash scripts, but for day-to-day terminal stuff it's Fish all the way for me.

We have developers of various experience and skillsets that come and go, sticking to a subset of language features with minimal magic has made it easier to onboard and get people productive. We have massive codebase, and sprinkling these new sugars around in arbitrary places to be lindmines for them isn't worth it to me. From a business perspective, we're not too concerned about pushing the language forward, we're focused on creating value for our customers - the language is just a detail.

Super Mario is also a kids game and those games run flawlessly with nice graphics and innovative gameplay.

Kids like to play good games too.

whoa, had no idea this existed - looks fantastic thanks for sharing

Delete this before you give someone ideas.

Don't you just level up as high as possible in bioware or bethesda games? Not what I would consider "minmaxing". Skyrim is fun because I can get everything to 100 at whatever pace I choose but there is no "min" involved there for the most part. I haven't played one in a while but there really isn't an incentive to keep your level low in those games. There's only "maxing" with no "min".

Souls games have the community agreed level cap of ~125 for PvP matchmaking, so minmaxing makes sense here - but there barely ever any RNG involved in making a Dark Souls build and you just level up and beeline for the things you want while playing the game "normally" (beating levels and bosses, sunbro'ing to get additional XP along the way, etc..). That said, there's an argument to be made that when ignoring the multiplayer aspect that getting to level 300+ to beat NG+7 is way more fun than minmaxing a 125 build and trying to beat NG+7 that way (my preference, of course).

If there was additional RNG involved with weapon stats or anything like the EV/IV system in a souls game I would never play it, for sure. It's simplicity is what makes it amazing. It's why I hate the bloodgem and chalice dungeons in bloodborne, despite it otherwise being my favorite souls game.

RTS and Tower Defense games I'll give you, since the meta strategy is efficient resource management and maximizing damage to obliterate your opponents with as little resources used as quickly as possible.

As a lifelong rubyist, this is definitely what I would say "useless". Maybe it's just because I've been stuck in Ruby 2.6 ~~hell~~ land for so long but I remember seeing a colleagues leetcode challenge for a job interview that used Ruby 3.1 and he used a bunch of these new syntax sugars and I was really rubbed the wrong way by them. Code the omits arguments is neither more readable (what exactly is getting passed around here?) or maintable (what happens when you have some condition that may apply to one of the arguments, then you just need to unwrap all the "nice" things and do it more traditionally).

The elipsis ... especially rubs me the wrong way because multiple periods either .. or ... denotes range types, but now we have a special case where ... is something completely different. Bah humbug.

They seem nice in clean blog scenarios with trivial examples, but in my experience they are not conducive to writing readable and maintable code.

Thankfully I can just disable their use in my projects (for the most part) with rubocop. All the hip young kids can write their magic code, I'll stick to more straightforward constructs that anyone can figure out.

Minmaxing in almost any game is excruciatingly unfun though, it's not unique to Pokemon. I can't think of a faster way to kill the enjoyment of any game than to try to minmax.

The game was such a technical mess I couldn't get passed it, even though I thought the new gameplay was decent.

and the newest games keep getting worse and worse. barely playable junk and people still buy it like crazy, sad

Culex uses the Final Fantasy 4 boss battle music, so some people mistakenly think he is from the game but it's just the music. I've played through FF4 over 10 times and he definitely is not in it ;)

Tangentially related:

7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

https://youtu.be/HOuZyOKa91o

None. He's original to Mario RPG. The allusion to Final Fantasy is just an easter egg.

Coding was hard when I was coding for the sake of coding.

Turns out after you spend a decade solving problems and creating/maintaining products that “coding” is probably the least difficult part.

These days I’m relieved when a task involves just some rote coding rather than racking my brain stuck in a debugging breakpoint for 3 hours to change 5 lines of code to get it to work correctly.

Another christmas approaching, another depressing realization that I'll probably be stuck on ruby 2.6.9 and Rails 5 until I change companies.

Craig Ferengi is too busy massaging his own ears

FTFY

Abraham Lincoln, I'm pretty sure.

Not with that attitude.

It’s either more time or less features. Less testing is non-negotiable.

Definitely a very bad idea. The first 2 or so weeks felt euphoric to me but after that it was pure hell for months and months.

Thankfully I wasn’t on Benzos, but my mother has been and they definitey can do a lot more harm than good.

At the time, very. In hindsight, nearly 10 years of being numb to the world was worse.

I tried this once, Family Doctor actually ended up giving me a dose that was twice the maximum anyone is ever supposed to take. Thankfully the Pharmacist told me that was an extremely bad idea and he just gave me my normal dose and I continued on for a bit.

After that was when I ended up cold turkey because I lost my doctor and psychiatrists during a big move and couldn't get a refill at any clinic in the new town.

It ended up working out, but it took about a year of absolute torture and probably about another year of just "weirdness". But these days I'm "normal" and off the drugs and never been happier.

I'm totally off the SSRIs now and will never go back. Rebounds used to be frequent, then like 6-12 months apart now - now I don't remember when my last one was...

Going cold turkey was absolute hell, but it worked out well for me because of my excellent support system.

Would not recommend at all for anyone else though, absolutely not: tapering with a doctor is 100% the best course of action.

I recently was forced off of SSRIs after nearly ten years because I lost my psychiatrist and couldn't get a new one because the waitlists were ridiculous.

After 10 years on them, the next 6 months were absolute hell (i legit thought at one point I might go full Joaquin Phoenix in Joker) but I made it through, no small part thanks to my wonderful amazing wife.

Rebound depression have been an issue - though in general I feel like I am much better off without the antidepressants now than with them - and I've also noticed that pulling an all nighter would actually fix the rebounds for a bit. A small dose of melatonin before bed worked wonders for me now. I sleep better and the rebounds are extremely rare.

I’m so confused about American copyright law. I was always under the impression that copyright is granted automatically and you didn’t need to “register” it, contrarily to a trademark which must be registered and is only valid for its specific industry.