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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • ...this shouldn't be possible!

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  • Thank you for saving me from having to look up Kirk's allergy. It was going to bug me all day, otherwise.

  • Pixel art test

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  • Very nice. What frameworks are you considering binding your game in?

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  • If one person has never used Twitter, I think they get all three antidote doses.

  • What fictional character do you wish was real?

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  • We are actually watching Brooklyn 99 right now!

    I hope you're having fun. Because I specifically requested it.

  • What fictional character do you wish was real?

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  • (and Blackboard Monitor)

    Still gets me every time. The best Dwarfs call each-other as each introduces themselves. And that Vimes introduced himself this way in an un-filtered moment implies it matters to him, deep inside.

  • Too often, Commander.

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  • If a bit too bold in the presence of his Imzadi.

    I figure Riker stopped holding things of that nature back in front of Troi, after he realized that between her empathy and knowing him well, he wasn't fooling her, anyway.

  • Which year was the most stacked for game releases?

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  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame

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  • That's a fair point. I enjoyed the game later out of curiosity - but it wasn't a "this is your only Christmas gift" kick in the gut, for me.

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame

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  • they're all some random platformer which sometimes alluded to they had a movie name.

    That's a good point. E.T. was not alone in this, and had more to do with it's movie that many games that followed.

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame

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  • I played E.T. relatively recently to remind myself what the fuss was about.

    The game plays fine (with average Atari bugginess).

    It just stands out as an early huge miss for a movie tie in. Almost nothing about the game feels like the movie, or is particularly anything a fan of the movie would seem likely to enjoy.

    I say "almost" because the exploring kind of fits. The same exploring that is constantly frustratingly interrupted by pit falls.

    It's really not that bad of a game, though.

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame

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  • I'd argue Superman 64 for the N64 is a worse game by all measures.

    I've spent some unfortunate time with both, and can confirm. Superman 64 is worse by a pretty large margin.

    E.T. is genuinely playable, after a needlessly awful learning curve. Superman 64 still continues to suck even for (shudder) players who have put in the necessary time to learn to play it.

    Edit: As others have said before: E.T. is a decent game, it's just a lousy choice for an E.T. tie-in.

    Fans of a beloved highly polished film masterpiece about gentle communication and wide eyed exploration discovered the Atari game was a nearly unfinished punishing high stress race against a merciless clock - which frequently abruptly ended any aspiration a player had of discovering anything beyond the same pit they fell into many times before.

  • Anyone have any favorite diffing tools?

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  • I'm mainly interested in making code reviews a little easier to manage.

    One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet, here: All future diffs become much easier to read if the team agrees to use a very strict lint tool.

    I know, I know. "Code changes should be small." I've already voiced that to my team, yet here we are.

    I understand from another Lemmy thread that the tradition is to toss the offending team members' laptop into the nearest large body of water.

  • The 1977 Coleco Telstar Arcade answered a design question that amazingly no one had asked before: "What if a game console looked like a Wild West take on the TARDIS console?"

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  • I cannot understand why we don't have a modern remake of this thing of utter beauty.

  • A Saints Row prequel going "back to its roots" might actually happen, as its original director [Chris Stockman, design director at Saints Row OG] works on a pitch "to get the band back together"

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  • I think many of us feel that way.

    The thing is, I adore Saints Row 4, but I don't think I want to play Saints Row 4 Part 2.

    So I do hope they return to the style of Saints Row 3 for the next chapter.

    Honestly, what I really want is Saints Row 3 again with some new plotlines and lots of car skins and dress-up options.

  • A Saints Row prequel going "back to its roots" might actually happen, as its original director [Chris Stockman, design director at Saints Row OG] works on a pitch "to get the band back together"

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  • Fuck it, make it saints row taking over a small island country for tax reasons and just roll with it.

    If they do this, that can shut up and take my money.

  • Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

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  • Okay, this is fun, but it's time for an old programmer to yell at the cloud, a little bit:

    The cost per AI request is not trending toward zero.

    Current ludicrous costs are subsidized by money from gullible investors.

    The cost model whole house of cards desperately depends on the poorly supported belief that the costs will rocket downward due to some future incredible discovery very very soon.

    We're watching an edurance test between irrational investors and the stubborn boring nearly completely spent tail end of Moore's law.

    My money is in a mattress waiting to buy a ten pack of discount GPU chips.

    Hallucinating a new unpredictable result every time will never make any sense for work that even slightly matters.

    But, this test still super fucking cool. I can think of half a dozen novel valuable ways to apply this for real world use. Of course, the reason I can think of those is because I'm an actual expert in computers.

    Finally - I keep noticing that the biggest AI apologists I meet tend to be people who aren't experts in computers, and are tired of their "million dollar" secret idea being ignored by actual computer experts.

    I think it is great that the barrier of entry is going down for building each unique million dollar idea.

    For the ideas that turn out to actually be market viable, I look forward to collaborating with some folks in exchange for hard cash, after the AI runs out of lucky guesses.

    If we can't make an equitable deal, I look forward to spending a few weeks catching up to their AI start-up proof-of-concept, and then spending 5 years courting their customers to my new solution using hard work and hard earned decades of expert knowledge.

    This cool AI stuff does change things, but it changes things far less than the tech bros hope you will believe.

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    if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?

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  • Are you considerimg turning down a promotion (with more pay or progression to more pay?) because a couple of coworkers talk too much?

    I would rather space out while they gossip and daydream about all the extra money I'm going to make.

    I would absolutely not raise this concern with my boss. Since my job includes needing to work well with all kinds of people, raising your concern would be career limiting, for me.

  • China-US to revive military channels but more steps deemed essential for trust

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  • AI scientists fail to impress human experts at one-of-a-kind online conference

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  • If I'm reading this right, AI was a disappointing highlight ... at an event explicitly organized to give AI a shot at being anything other than a disappointment.

    A less generous reading could be that the event organizers just didn't know any better than to expect AI co-authored papers to be largely slop.

    But to me this reads like an event organized explicitly to see how AI performs when it isn't laughed out of the room during pre-conference checks.

    That's a pretty interesting event.

    It is not an incredibly shocking outcome, but science marches forward. Water is still wet, and computers are still stupid in secret fundamental disappointing ways.