I loved the semi-open world concept, I still miss the radio DJ!

They made it feel like things were actually happening in the world of the game, which most games still don’t do well.

SSX Tricky and SSX 3. Both were quite fun to play and I’ve played them both in the past few years.

I would argue that “insiders” in this case are the people who listened to Jared Leto directly.

Jared Leto was one of the main producers of this movie, so he was the one selling himself as the star. “My cult will love it!”

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To me, Rockstar Games are cool as world simulators and storytelling engines. My issue is that they plop lazily-designed gameplay on top.

No one ever talks about the core gameplay loops of these games, the thing that makes you progress through the storyline.

They talk about the storyline, but they don’t talk about the mediocre gunfights you have to wade through to watch a cutscene or hear dialogue. Wave after wave of anonymous enemies, like videogames haven’t changed since shooting galleries.

They have to introduce essentially unexplained superpowers (slowing down time) to make it remotely interesting. And even then, I would argue most people are just trying to get through every single mission.

Or the terrible movement/driving/riding physics. I didn’t finish GTA4 (also a “10/10 game”) because some of the missions relied on the abysmal movement.

It’s like… a Rockstar game is like going to IKEA. You’re going to be led through a lot of stupid crap, just because they want to keep you there longer.

That way of playing Stellaris sounds really cool! It makes me want to install Stellaris again

Looking at Medusa turned things with sight to stone. Not her looking at things.

So it would have to be a Toy Story or Beauty and the Beast situation where she was delighted that her things came to life… only to be turned to stone because of how ugly she is.

Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.

Also about:profiles if it’s already running

Same for me! For niche hobbies, Reddit still has a lot of valuable older information. That might change though.

I would even settle for: what’s in the metal cup? Flour as a thickener?

Any time I see hand-shredded cheese I know I’m probably in for a good mac

“Jealous” implies that he wanted to be the ant executioner.

I guess it could mean “only I get to decide who lives or dies” but it seems strange for him to say that and then kill them all.

They kinda just meant “a wrathful god, strong in anger” or something.

Most of her hardcore fans are remarkably dumb. Even the ones who have finally seen the light, quoted in this article.

“I don’t expect celebrities to be political or foreign policy experts, but the past few months have felt like her only concern is selling us a plethora of vinyl variants.”

The past few months?!! She’s been hawking vinyl variants for years. The album before this one dominated the charts for months because they released so many variants.

“I’m a fan ― I even flew to Scotland for the Eras Tour ― but Taylor has felt out-of-touch lately.”

Oh yeah. Just lately. Keep using that brain of yours. You’ll get there.

The article above mentions that your foil packet should be air-tight to prevent this.

Otherwise you’re going to have really watery fish.

Reminds me a little of my favorite ack (a grep replacement) switches. There’s a Bill the Cat one (—thpppt) one that shows Cathy (—cathy), and Admiral Ackbar (—bar)

I agree with what NuXCOM said, but to add a little more detail in this situation…

For me, it’s a little different because of perceived influence.

DHH has always been the software equivalent of an Instagram influencer. He’s been selling himself as the mythical 10x programmer and wrote a corny business book with his co-founder.

Meanwhile, he was mainly working on Basecamp and racing million-dollar cars. A lot of his personal cars have been sold to YouTube influencers.

He has had a cult of personality built around him for years, and stupid people in some small software circles love him (clearly, by the rubygems takeover).

The Lemmy devs have no influence at all over software development. Just Lemmy.

As a former long-time Ruby developer who also used Rails (Ruby since 2006, Rails came along for me later), I’ve always known DHH was a total douchebag.

It’s nice to know he’s being super obvious about it now. He’s always been awful. He’s just been slightly quieter about it, other than buying million-dollar cars and pretending he’s still relevant.

Edit to add that here’s a presentation talking about “The DHH problem” in 2014. The updates are darkly humorous.

Huh! Apparently the main places you can taste castoreum nowadays (should you want to) are niche foods like Swedish liqueur. Otherwise it’s (understandably) quite expensive.

I was curious and found this article amusing as well:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-vanilla-flavoring-actually-come-from-beaver-butts-180983288/

That natural flavor? Vanilla.

This is correct, for me at least.

I don’t read the text out loud in my head. I can, but I’m able to understand and comprehend the intonation and text without “performing” it.