The one thing that really sticks out is the chin.

I see what you did there

Looks like the goal has been met!

It’s not ideal, but compare that to the toxic nature of most bigger studios… might be the lesser of two evils. And I strongly suspect that the donor insertion isn’t going to compromise the vision or quality of the game.

It’s definitely a bit weird, but probably better than the shenanigans of AAA studios.

And I’m pretty good at it.

“But this time the guy was white rich Republican innocent!”

His supporters already believe he’s innocent, and literally nothing will change their minds (if anything would, it would have happened already). The man could start carrying around a pitchfork and surgically implant horns and people would continue in their delusion.

My main hope from all of this is that he sees jail time, and is less able to campaign. Getting him out of the news is probably the best thing for the country.

Someone in another comment said just under 12 hours.

The company should have lost its business license and had its IP released to the public domain. Someone might actually care.

Don’t forget removing competitors! Gotta remove those competitors. That’s what healthy businesses do. /s

My description of the perfect controller:

• nice size and hand fit
• left joystick is “up” at a natural spot (sorry PS enthusiasts, those low sticks suck)
• buttons are “chicklet” style (Xbox round buttons feel awkward)
• one set of trigger buttons are “throttle” style
• sits on a flat surface without any buttons being pressed

Not sure if there’s one out there that meets all of those. But I have a certain fondness for the GameCube controller. Always felt comfortable, and I actually liked the asymmetric button layout.

If the high-ups at Arrowhead knew and made that decision anyway, it’s squarely on them, full stop.

Yeah, this really seems like a win-win (assuming any reasonable Americans have had plenty of time to get themselves and their shit out of Russia).

###SAD

One of the things you’re seeing these days are apps made with bloated frameworks, so they’re cross-platform and easy to develop. In theory it’s great that anyone can make an app for any device with little-to-no code required, but it results in apps with absurd load times, ad bloat, and usability problems. And that’s across the board (though FOSS seems to buck that trend a bit still).

As an example, my kid’s school uses an app called Seesaw. It’s straight-up garbage. It takes several seconds to open, the back button doesn’t work, etc. At least it’s not littered with ads, but it’s a small mercy.

The web is experiencing the same thing. 60MB of ad services being loaded with every click, ads taking up 90% of screen real estate, slow everything, etc. I use some older hardware, but even websites that are mostly text are unusable without a strict adblocker. Not just annoying to use, but completely unusable.

These big frameworks were developed for large, high-traffic sites like Facebook. In theory, they’ll work for your AI-generated blog, but they’ll suck to load if you host them with a $5/month hosting plan and load 300 ad-related things on each page.

The solution is to create native apps and websites, or at least use frameworks appropriate to the task. But that would require people to give a shit, so I don’t see that happening often outside of FOSS projects (which are often a labor of love).

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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Maybe we’ll get a sequel to Lee Carvalo’s Putting Challenge II.

Damn, Louisiana got a whole fleet of orphan crushing machines.

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Nah fam, that roast looks good. Looks like it got a nice sear, and those taters are gonna be flavor bombs.

Relevant classic story (from the old site).