Funny, the game I most associate with him is BoomBlox on the Wii. It’s a really great game, and I guess the wiimote is kind of mouse-like, particularly in that game.

He’s been involved in several games though, even had an office at EA for a while. Most famously, of course, is the original Medal of Honor. Arguably the success of MoH as a franchise led directly to Call of Duty and thus to the current state of gaming today.

The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.

Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can’t think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.

Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.

It’s so good! The purist expression of factory building: no costs, no distractions, just automation.

It has a great concept too in the space layer. The game is played initially on a grid like any factory game. But then you can zoom out to a higher layer where you can place chunks to define the build able area and build “space belts” which essentially codifiy the main-bus style of building. (You also get space trains, which are like trains in other games.)

I “beat” the basic campaign and hopped back over to Satisfactory since 1.0 came out, but I’ll go back to shapez when I finish there. I hope they add more complex and tricky buildings and requirements, the challenge of assembling an efficient build in shapez is just so interesting and fun.

I guess assembler is sumerien then, only still written and understood? And cobol or fortran? Linear a and b?

Knives are also made of atoms

Visit your nearest aquarium! They often have a petting tank where you can touch rays and small sharks. And if not, hey, at least the aquarium is still great!

Some alcohol cooks off when used this way, but not all. Be cautious when cooking for others to mention this so non-drinkers can make an informed choice.

It can be a delicious addition though: alcohol dissolves flavor and aromatic compounds that water and fat cannot, so you get a lot of unique flavors especially from barrel-aged drinks like whisky and wine.

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I don’t get it.

(I do tho)

((or do i?))

Don’t forget their “leadership team” wanted to let everyone know that they’re hiring scabs right now. What an offer!

Wow, hadn’t thought about that one in a long time. I thought it was an old Scott Hanselman blog and I was correct! I’ll have to reread it, been years now.

I’m not sure there’s much why to it exactly. I feel like a small fraction of people I’ve met in life were truly passionate and excited about the work they did. Most had some passion for an art, or a hobby, or for their kids very commonly, but people who really want to grow and master their craft are somewhat rare generally. Most folks just want to do well enough to keep their jobs and then go home to whatever they actually care about.

Consider that to go on a site specifically for programming questions and then take a survey about it, you have to be the kind of person that cares about getting their code “right”. The majority of programmers I’ve met would only go there to copy-paste a quick answer, and those people have all moved to asking chat-gpt for code now.

Hmm… what technology to bank on after AI pops? Smart hustle is probably on quantum computing, already a fair bit of snakeoil there, but honestly I want to go long on spintronics! It’s a cool buzzword, it sounds accessible yet high tech, and despite my best efforts I have very little idea what it’s about or how it works!

Time to write up a white paper like “Spintronic circuits are the future of quantum security” and see if I can collect some of that sweet sweet VC money!

toki! mi kepeken toki pona! wile sona li mute e sona.

All the "s"s do look very similar.

Source: I am the world’s foremost forensic handwriting expert

This person isn’t one of my usual YT watches, but I really enjoyed this overview of The Crow related media. I had no idea the series ran so deep, or had so much nasty Weinstein influence.

Its a shame, there’s so much potential in this series that our media apparatus is systematically incapable of making good on.

Ok but it does seem like people drive way worse now than just a few years ago. I have theories though.

Theory 1: Existential dread. People are so beat down by climate, endless war, failing economy, and more that they’ve gone completely insane.

Theory 2: Long covid brain.

Tried to last minute the EDD last night and we did not make it! We ran entirely out of ammo and nitra in stage 2 during the twins fight. Managed to finish them off with melee and then died trying to run for the droppod, which spawned seemingly miles from the dreadnoughts. Our scout dropped one room away, but I didn’t like our chances for stage 3 anyway. Hopefully this week is better!

Haven’t had this happen yet, what a nightmare!

On a recent escort, she did plow through a barrage though, which was pretty funny, until the other barrage and the spitballer locked on.

Alas, they finally fixed the core stone shield glitch. Now we have to actually do the fight. It’s still easiest to just set up criss-crossing zip lines and do the whole fight in the air, so gunner remains essential. Still a boring event too.