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jtrek

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  • upgrades people upgrades

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  • I don't think the graphics are a big part of the problem. It's more the math.

    Pillars of Eternity, for example, has it so every point of Might above 10 is 3% more damage. This is a little hard to reason about - my sword says it does 17-24 damage. So if I have 15 might, that's 15% more damage , so the sword is now... 19-27? I had to use a calculator because I'm kind of bad at math. If I take one more point of might, my max damage becomes...28? Does it round?

    This is not very quick and easy.

    Now imagine instead of every point of might was just +2 damage. Or +5 damage. Much easier to reason about. If you want might to matter more for some weapons, slap a double might bonus on them. You might (pun intended) just need to scale the rest of the system around this new range of values.

    I accidentally swerved a little from "impactful stats only" to "easily understood stats", but they're kind of related.

  • The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen?

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  • It's the usual "there must be in groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out groups for the law to bind but not protect" thing as always.

    They wanted small government when it suited their desires. Their desires, as conservatives, are usually bad. Pollution, exploration, segregation, etc.

  • Transitliberationism: A Bicycle Anarchist Manifesto [OC]

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  • This article was good.

    Americans are shocked and terrified by the idea, I'm sure. “But they could be kidnaped.” That's kind of a car thing. When cars dominate the world, there are fewer people walking and cycling. Streets are empty except for drivers. There are fewer eyes on the street. With fewer eyes, fewer people together, it becomes more dangerous for vulnerable people.

    Jane Jacobs wrote about that in like the 1960s. It's really infuriating how unsafe car-centered spaces is, and how people erroneously think it makes them safer.

    You're much safer on a street busy with a mixed crowd of pedestrians.

    But, again, racism can't have that.

  • this absolute bullshit from reddit

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  • "request desktop site" usually gets rid of the app nag.

    I never post there anymore but there's a lot of useful stuff from the old days.

  • Bane Mask

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  • Some people are phenomenally bad typists. Even some people who use a computer all day

  • upgrades people upgrades

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  • I think if I was making a game I would really strive to make it so every upgrade is meaningful and easily noticed.

    I liked pillars of eternity, but I didn't like trying to think about if 3% more damage was even going to survive rounding.

  • Hard agree

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  • Can't tell if this is a pro-trumper speaking or anti-trump

  • Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows

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  • Many executives are also board members.

  • 9 people shot and injured in downtown Tucson early Sunday

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  • This doesn't even seem to be front page news. The us is desensitized to mass murder.

  • Why all the landlord hate?

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  • I think there's a difference between like a landlord and a property management company.

    Property management that fixes stuff, cleans up common areas, and such adds value. They do labor that's useful.

    A landlord that just gets money because they legally own the place is not adding value. That's what most people hate.

    You can, of course, have horrible people assigned to manage the property.

  • So much for the lawsuit

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  • Right? Emulators are pretty popular. Piracy is a service problem.

  • Expedition 33 takes it too far.

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  • I've only visited Montreal twice, but both times everyone was super nice. (My baseline is NYC)

    I think some people band wagon jumped onto the Simpsons bit about cheese eating surrender monkeys, and some Republicans followed their crowd during the bush era.

    For most people I just read it as a "look at me I'm part of the in-group" sad pandering, like when people would repeat "EPIC BACON" or other low grade memes. They just want to feel like part of the group.

  • So much for the lawsuit

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  • If they released PC ports of Nintendo games I would play a lot of them.

  • How Trump and his administration have mired the US in multiple crises

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  • Every Republican administration makes things worse. Yet there are so many idiots (of various kinds!) that vote for them anyway.

    My old boss is from Iran. Like, family still lives there. He voted for trump "to unlock the economy". He also laughed at ICE kidnapping people. That fucking moron. That cruel sack of shit. The only way it could be more leopards ate his face is if ICE kidnapped him too.

    But he's still chugging along as CEO, living large on his rich father's money and VC capital.

  • The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

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  • Paywall, but going by the headline: good

    The world is burning and these assholes are making it worse.

  • China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America's Frontier AI Companies

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  • Imagine a context where the reader is looking at the news for the first time that day. They think they missed news in the morning, perhaps the US starting aggressions, and now China has dropped another bomb.

    I'm sure you can imagine such a scenario

  • NY mayor says still mulling Netanyahu arrest during UN meet

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  • Amazing. I hope zohran does it.

    Netanyahu has accused Mamdani of supporting Hamas, saying on a recent New York radio show: “I think, secretly, he hates America.”

    Lol. Projection, perhaps.

  • Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn

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  • As others have said, many managers are kind of stupid and don't have good object permanence.

    There's a guy at work who's very visible but most of what he's doing is bad. He's like writing a linter from scratch instead of just using the tools we already have. But he's visible, and idiot managers that don't understand how computers work think he's doing great work. The engineers that actually get shit done competently are quietly whispering about how to block and delay this guy's nonsense.

    At my last job, whenever the manager and one of the guys would both be in the office together, by the end of the day they'd have cooked up some horrible idea. Then the rest of us would struggle to take stop it without losing all our social capital. Maybe if we'd all been in the office that would've been easier, but if they knew how to fucking collaborate it also would have been fine.

    Maybe that's your point. There are people who are incompetent at collaboration and communication. They will never get better. Being in office with them is maybe the only way to deal with that.

  • Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn

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  • Most managers are incompetent. Just stupid emotion driven large children.

    Making people go into the office is a pay cut and climate crime. The perpetrators should be punished.