Yeah, in particular, anything close to 100 million users presumes that non-gamedevs will use this. For anything beyond simple variations of existing games, like e.g. “Skyrim with spears”, you need to have an actual understanding of game design. It is not enough to have cool ideas.
So, I really don’t see many non-gamedevs using this. Especially when they can pay less to play a properly designed game.
Damn, I’m seeing the ads for the first time, but have heard multiple times already of people calling them confusing, and I definitely understand why.
Imagine telling your mum you want an XBOX for Christmas and she buys you a laptop…
No worries, I find plenty opportunities to remind myself of that. Currently playing a troll of Xom, because I’m dumb. And one time, the jackass teleports me into the middle of the fortress in Elf:2. Had to read 3 teleport scrolls, because they kept teleporting me just to different parts of the fortress, since I guess that fortress is quite large.
Apparently, I was too panicked to take a screenshot of that, but here’s another fun one from Xom’s teleportation shenanigans:
The most brutal part is that he always teleports you a variable number of times and you never know for sure, whether he’ll stop there, so I also have a version of that screenshot with --more-- at the bottom, where I still had hopes that he’d port me back out of there. He did not. 🫠
To be honest, the main reason I linked to that wiki page is that I had opened it to try to find out whether orbs of mayhem are still in the game. 🙃
Would not have surprised me, if they tweaked the design a bit with 0.34 and then gave them a different name, but at the same time, well, I did just describe that they have upsides and downsides, which is how the devs like to design things…
I’ve kind of stopped opening crystal doors until I’ve cleared at least another floor. I’m not sure, if you still get the same total XP when you do that, but just died a few too many times from crystal vaults…
For monster infighting, there’s also orbs of mayhem. But yeah, somewhat of a risky option. You can’t really control which monsters are affected and they can still decide to attack you, and the affected monsters get buffed. 😅
One time, I got delivered teaspoons instead of spoons, because I couldn’t tell the difference from the picture (and the description did not bother mentionuing that at all).
Another time, I got delivered light bulbs the size of a toddler’s head, because the manufacturer decided to use a picture of a regular-size bulb. Well, and in the online store, the size only got mentioned as actual width/height values in the details.
But yeah, we do already have the technology to place a banana next to your product, and to take photos from all angles. Manufacturers and stores just don’t see enough of a benefit from actually doing that, so have a singular picture in a white void, which shows a different product. You’re welcome! 👍
With RickyRigatoni’s idea, it wouldn’t be a videogame. It would be a separate program you launch specifically to order things online. It just happens to use a game engine for its implementation, because game engines are the most advanced simulation tool humanity has developed…
I think, their point (and also my experience) is that you get taught about it in university a lot more than about simple loops, so it feels more important even though you rarely use it in reality.
Same thing goes for linked lists and inheritance…
Yeah, I’m not saying that the term is well-defined or that some usages of the word don’t typically refer to classical algorithms after all.
And yes, obviously even the currently trending meaning of what “AI” might mean, i.e. generative AI, still involves lots of algorithms, for training, for executing the model, and tons of auxilliary scripts that ideally take over all tasks as soon as the statistical model has decided what to do.
And yes, maybe non-techies really just don’t care. My post wasn’t supposed to be snide commentary on that. It was more just an “oh fuck, there’s folks that hand out bags of money solely based on whether a program uses a butthole as a logo and says that it’s thinking for its loading times”.
Oh man, I fear that this is genuinely what lots of people take as their clue as to what’s AI and what is not. I’ve seen plenty people refer to algorithms as AI. They’re probably wondering why this AI is so reliable compared to the others…
I do enjoy how many number sets are referred to as “normal numbers”:
A rebase rewrites the history of your branch, so that it’s as if you just branched off and then coded all your changes in one sitting.
It will go through each of your commits and try to apply them one after another. If something changed on the base branch that conflicts with your changes, it will prompt you to adjust your commit. You adjust it so that looks as if you just coded it on top of the base branch.
When you have lots of commits on your branch, this can mean that while you’re rebasing, you have to then also change your following commits which happened to touch the same lines as a previous commit. This can mean additional, stupid work.
As such, a workflow using rebases (“trunk-based workflow”) works best, if you can rebase often and merge back early. You won’t get merge conflicts when merging back, nor merge commits, because you resolved these while rebasing.
In particular in smaller teams where you have tight-knit communication, this workflow is absolutely stellar. It completely bypasses so many pain points that folks have with Git.
Merge conflicts are significantly reduced when you merge often and a trunk-based workflow removes the ceremony that typically prevents teams from doing just that.
In a less extreme sense, I find there’s also an inverse relationship between skill and marketing effort, because:
Marketing activities take time away from honing your skills. Even if you “just” (in very fucking big air quotes) build something useful that you release as open-source, you’ll still spend time answering user questions, reviewing PRs, writing documentation, ensuring backward compatibility etc…
These are also useful skills, but they still prevent you from exercising your coding skills.
The most popular platforms for marketing yourself are also the most rapey platforms. People with high technical skill will be aware of this. The most privileged of them may not need to care.
But those that worked their asses off, because they had to start from an unprivileged position, those need to care. Because they will be disadvantaged and harassed, when people see that they’re from a minority or women.
You miss out on those with the highest work drive. You miss out on skills that people build when they need to protect their privacy. And you miss out on a culturally rich workforce and get a fragile monoculture instead.
Yeah, it didn’t have CI runners or complex project management features. Pushing code can be done later. Looking at open-source issues can be done later.
Ah, I guess that makes sense. Kate automatically detects available LSP server executables but then prompts you before starting them for the first time, in case you did not install that and it’s malware, or I guess, in case you just placed a script there which happened to be called the same, but would be very bad to run.
Neovim could theoretically do that, too, but then you need a way to block executables, so that it stops prompting you every time, which you’d probably want in a separate config file.
So, it’s definitely a simpler solution and perhaps moreso what one would expect from a TUI editor, for you to just list the ones to run in the config file.
Here is the default configuration: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/addons/lspclient/settings.json
If you do need more LSP servers or a different one for a language, you can specify your own custom configuration in the same format.
Is the LSP support a plugin in Neo-/Vim ?
In Kate, you just install the LSP server, which is typically as simple as apt install marksman and then Kate will automatically start it when it encounters an appropriate file.
Kate also has a Vi Mode, if that’s what you’re looking for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Personally, I find Kate is decent enough for most coding tasks. It does not have an open plugin ecosystem, so I guess, maybe it wouldn’t work for you. But aside from plugins, whenever I see people using VS Code/-ium, I wonder why they keep raving about it.
It just looks like a bogstandard editor with LSP support to me. And Microsoft may have gotten that LSP ball rolling, but it’s supported in lots of editors now…
Hmm, is the last staff thing just the death message from Sif Muna? I seriously don’t play often enough with Sif Muna, because Heplhjdtfhxhdh always seems so good… 🥴