Carighan

Carighan , 5 hours ago

Religion doesn't belong

That one is enough, IMO. It's an archaic concept we really don't need any more. (Note: That's not me saying we don't need belief or belief systems. We don't need religion.)

Carighan , 6 hours ago

Question: If you had to design a bridge, and you did, and it was built, and then you noticed it sways in the wind, would you tear it down?

And if you answer yes: This is normal. Bridges are designed with a certain level of flex in mind, and they have redundancies to allow for this. Too much is a problem of course, but a certain amount is normal and budgeted for.

And it's similar here: The helium leaks were not planned to be there, but there's a certain redundancy in the system which means that a certain level of helium leakage is not an issue.

Carighan , 6 hours ago

It's almost as if someone could have learned something from the fact that NASA struggled hard without institutionalized deviation whenever their budget was constrained and they were pushed for results.

Also, it's almost as if there's a reason no good government should let any corporation go un-controlled. Ever.

Carighan , 1 day ago

Also the strip stops midway through as Waterfall was an invented thing just for a paper. And during your UP work you actually had the customer put in that input and hence it was like in this cartoon strip.

Carighan , 1 day ago

This is depressingly accurate. 😓

Carighan , 2 days ago

Yeah, I decided to nope out after the beginning, too. Seen too much shit in the one year I volunteered at the hospital, don't need a reminder of those. What the fuck...

Carighan , 3 days ago

Do you mean the lighter parts from the top side?

Carighan , 3 days ago

Yeah, parts of this article feel like they've been written by a GenAI. Which... might have been the point, I suppose.

Carighan , 3 days ago

And the hounding if you don't get a Bambu. Somehow "Bambu printing" and "3D printing" seem to be two different things now, given the cult-like fervor.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Do the models appear finished before you even start printing?

Carighan , 3 days ago

This is exactly what was expected.

After all, it's called Vertical Tabs, not Nested Tree Tabs.

unless extensions can add that functionality

I guess that's the idea. Most sidebar extensions need reworking with the new sidebar, but now addons wanting to add functionality to the tab strip no longer have to first also "invent" the whole vertical tab strip. They can just start from the existing one.

Carighan , 3 days ago

I honestly hope they do not. The base implementation should be something utterly basic - I mean, quite literally the horizontal tab strip, but vertical. And then present an API for extending them, allowing consumers to bolt their own functionality on top as needed for their specific use case.

Don't stuff the browser full of stuff only a tiny minority uses, tbh.

Carighan , 3 days ago

And if you have this replacing the tabs at the top, then you might as well move the window buttons down one row and remove the top bar entirely

Yeah that part is weird. But it's early in development and this sounds like something you add late, tbh.

Still, it's kinda ... well ... the point. Use the readily available horizontal space with a vertical tab strip to free up the precious vertical space by removing that entire bar. 😅

Carighan , 4 days ago

Bobby responded that the desktop PWA prototype that Mozilla built a few years ago got “some pretty negative feedback” in user testing and they didn’t have the bandwidth to take another crack at it.

I love how much people forget about this. PWAs were not liked when they came out. And that's putting it very very mildly.

And morover, at the time, people in general did not like PWAs as a concept. Independent of the browser. It's a bit funny when nowadays people always ask for PWA support, considering it was once yelled at until it was axed, and the whole concept ridiculed.

Carighan , 4 days ago

No they choose to ask they audience. You go where the people are if you want to ask them, you don't make them come to you.

Carighan , 4 days ago

In fact, many do. As soon as a minority group gains power, they tend to first execute the people who opposed them, and then start executing the people who didn’t stop the opposition.

Yeah in fact, this is the big one. This is just an observation of how power struggles purge those who opposed the victors.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Ugh, I know the games are divisive, but for me they really did not work at all. I can't even truly say why. They were below-expectations, yeah, but not terribly so. Just didn't connect.

I got the same issue with FF16, tbh. While FFX worked for me (even though I'm weird, and think FFX-2 is better 😅).

Carighan , 3 days ago

Nah, it's not that old.

*looks it up*

Fuuuuuck I'm old! 😭

Carighan , 3 days ago

I'm not disagreeing, although I will say that as I have aged, I started to prefer either of:

• Turn-based
• Real-time-with-pause (granted, this is mostly RPGs)
• Pre-submitted concurrent turns (ala Frozen Synapse)

I don't know. I just no longer find the extra stress from the real-time element engaging. I used to love it, but preferences shift of course, and now I prefer the relaxation of taking my own time to figure out what I want to do, then checking whether I "solved the puzzle", basically.

Carighan , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I think one possible resolution for increasing the popularity of RTS is to take a hybrid real time approach. You can build and do things in real time, but under the hood battles and the economy operate in discrete chunks of at least several seconds.

Come to think of it, I saw two approaches that were similar to this before:

1. In Frozen Synapse, you plan your turn, eventually commit it, then it plays out at the same time as the enemy planned turn. You can even move enemy units while planning to simulate possible movements and attacks they might make.
2. In the fourth Battle Isle game, Battle Isle The Andosia War, you did your strategic turns with your units, then in real-time as everyone else did those turns, built your production base and produced units. So the longer you take for your strategic turn, the more time everyone else gets to work on their economy.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Yeah I was about to say, imagine this tiny Velociraptor purring in your lap sleeping off the murder of the chirpy-chirpy flap-thing in the garden.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Damn this looks amazing. Like Papers Please but with a cannon instead of two stamps.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Costs 16.99 here. Which locale is this in?

Carighan , 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Oooh, finally a sale on the Shadow Gambit DLC. Time to get both, I heard a lot that while Yuki is of course the "cooler" DLC since well, it's Yuki, the other one is mechanically smarter as the new unit is overpowered but also quite different.

On that note, cannot recommend Shadow Gambit enough. It's the perfection of the Commandos / Shadow Tactics / Desperados formula.

Carighan , 9 days ago

Isn't there a requirement for mental sanity among elected officials? (in the medical sense) Because can't this easily be constructed as a sure sign that she suffers from dementia? Or well, her colleagues do?

Carighan , 9 days ago

Quite odd that this is supposed to come to Switch just about when the next console will probably release. I wonder whether this will be the switchover (ha!) title akin to Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild.

Carighan , 9 days ago

Finally got around to playing Oxenfree II after finishing Dave The Diver. Slow progress as I'm getting distracted left and right and center by other games, but I like how they kept the semi-creepy atmosphere from Oxenfree. Really neat presentation, and I love the voice actress for Riley, she did great work.

Just wish the game had more characters than me and my sidekick, atl east so far.

Carighan , 9 days ago

This recycles the graphics from the Link's Awakening remake, for which it was already divisive, yeah.

OTOH, it's a great way to make it look teensy-tiny, especially with the built-in tilt-shift.

Carighan , 11 days ago

I mean considering that single skins cost 20 in Overwatch or Dead by Daylight, 7 for an actual mission is almost generous.

Fuck gaming is fucked...

Carighan , 12 days ago

Of course it is.

All those large online action/claim sites are commercial in underlying nature. When you saw all the small farmers protest in Germany it was primarily driven as an action by about 5 large farming conglomerates because they are the ones getting ~85% of the grant money that was being cut. The whole point of the cut was to not funnel money that was supposed to go to small farmers to large megacorps after all. Who in turn instrumentalized the small farmers to protest it.

Probably what's going on here, too. You can bet somewhere deep deep down, this is something Tim Sweeney cooked up.

Carighan , 13 days ago

It’s a strict and strongly opinionated language by design.

So it's a nice language.

Carighan , 17 days ago

Ha, 460k to create a modern huge scope game. Uh huh. Very trustworthy KS this is.

Carighan , 16 days ago

Yeah, Daggerfall was cool. I can't really tell nowadays whether it impressed me more than Arena did or not because obviously the first one got me when I was younger and it was my first experience of an open adventure game, constrained as it was.

Carighan , 17 days ago

Ah.

That leads into my thinking of why it frankly doesn't matter whether god exists or not. Either way, we would be unable to know one way or the other, and hence concerning ourselves with the question is inherently wasted effort.

It's like asking what is behind the edge of the universe. It does not matter. By definition we cannot perceive or interact with it, as the very concepts that make up our space of perception and interaction terminate at the edge. Likewise if there did exist a higher metaphysical entity, by definition it would exist outside of our sphere of perception and interaction, and hence it is exactly the same for us whether it does exist or not.

Or, to quote Futurama:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eae03a35-9976-4a25-b692-57850bc7a034.jpeg

Carighan , 17 days ago

And it's a nothingburger even for a teaser. Peak Ubisoft.

Carighan , 17 days ago

Vollpfosten!

Carighan , 18 days ago

You might however be watching ads. And probably not realize it.
(Although, to be fair, right now we're probably much too small for anyone to bother doing much astroturfing)

Carighan , 18 days ago

Hrm, not sure what to make of this.

From a vibes-level, this is "We got Wolfenstein at home", UK edition.

Carighan , 18 days ago

This isn't Dontnod doing this, but Deck Nine (Dontnod no longer owns the rights to the LiS name). So after how well True Colors worked, no, I don't think it's that. Was my first thought too though. 😅

Carighan , 18 days ago

Ah yeah I remember that. Did we ever hear whether it was actually one dev and they caught them and got rid of them, or whether that was the cover story?

Carighan , 18 days ago

Yeah sadly absolutely no clue so far.

Although, to be honest, that just means I'm neutral so far. Could also be awesome. The vibe is definitely there and unlike South of Midnight, they do their low-FPS motion well here by contrasting it against the super-smooth camera.

Carighan , 18 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Yeah it seems like a remaster. Or more specifically via a re-implementation as a sort-of official mod for Age of Empires 3 (thanks for the correction) I imagine, and judging from the graphics.

Excited! This bodes really well for AoM2.

Carighan , 18 days ago

Oh, 3 even not 4. TY

Carighan , 18 days ago

This looks... fantastic. Especially from a small studio. Love the setting they're going for, something quite fresh.

Carighan , 18 days ago

Probably done with the console version I'd assume.