More importantly: don’t make games that rely on runaway success.

If your game is fun even if only a dozen people buy it, great! If it requires ten thousand global players right out the gate, and will cease to function once that number drops, you are fucked, by design.

Damning comments from 2023.

I do not need lossless copies of an image someone didn’t even draw.

Wanking is about the emotional connection to a JPG, said someone I deeply pity.

Everyone’s convinced their thing is special, but everyone else’s is a done deal.

Meanwhile the only task where current AI seems truly competitive is porn.

– Michael Scott

Ehhhh.

Every system is perfectly designed to produce its observed outcomes. That is enough to say, if we wanted anything else to happen, we would need to change that system. But we cannot infer intent from outcomes alone.

… not like there’s any shortage of other evidence for this fuckery in particular.

The US led the allies against Germany, which means it’s their fault Germany invaded Poland.

Apparently.

[Allegedly socialist country does one thing right] “CRITICAL SUPPORT!”

[Democrats do one thing wrong] “How dare you support those monsters.”

They’re just shuffling cards.

Did Nintendo recently buy EA?

Wait, this might free me of some brain crack. I’ve considered building a “synthetic guitar” - like an electric piano. Same action, different mechanism, no tuning.

The simplest version looks like an electric guitar with no pickup. There’s a piezo sensor on each string, at the bridge. These sensors can also cause vibrations.

All sound comes from a model of a string, not the string itself. Induced vibration is needed to find the current tuning of the physical string - but only to detect what portion of it has been picked / strummed / tapped / whatever. Induced vibration also means you can always detect when the string is later muted. Which means the model can have infinite sustain.

The major benefit of all this is that the guitar itself can sound like shit. It might work with twine.

So… is a Synthaxe anything like that? It kinda sounds like the frets detect contact electrically.

Oh hey, video. Yeah seems like the strings just touch the frets. There’s a whole second set of strings that just take “velocity.” I guess it’s vaguely similar. It just cost ten thousand pounds, instead of being possibly an aftermarket conversion kit for a thirdhand Yamaha.

Never give Nintendo money.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers through episode 8 of Daredevil: Born Again season 1.]

“Foggy died” is the entire second sentence of this article.

This is why you orange-box. Make the game fun when it’s just cubes and math. Unless your game is above all else about telling a story, the presentation must exist in service to player understanding and entertainment.

Why put in this much money and effort just to be told no?

You can ignore a DMCA request. It’s not “do this or go to jail.” It’s a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can’t sue you if you do the thing. You can just… not… and then they’d have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.

What’s the use case for case insensitive file names?

Human comprehension.

Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.

And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!

… y’all know there’s other countries, right? And that in those countries there’s cops? A lot of those cops genuinely do not carry guns, because neither does anyone else.

Police in Iceland shot a guy for the first time ever in 2013.

Even in US-adjacent Canadia, the Parliament Hill shooting saw a mountie go back to his office, retrieve a gun from a locked safe, and return to the scene to kill the shooter.

We can have police who aren’t eternally three seconds away from putting a bullet in someone’s brain. In what universe is that less achievable than abolishing them completely?

The C++ feature set is a giant tome written in an unsteady hand and bound with suspicious leather. You’re supposed to study it deeply, use as little as possible, and ideally have a backup plan if things go wrong for this plane of existence.

Recently had someone argue Palestine isn’t genocide because the Arab population in Israel is going up.

Any obsession with birth rates is a red flag for brain worms, as surely as talking about skull shape.