Jetrel

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by Jetrel 5y ago
One reason some folks gravitate to mild-altering substances is "transcendent understanding"; drugs put the mind in enough of a different mode of operation that very frequently, it can enable you to understand things you can't
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by Jetrel 5y ago
IME as a US resident, it's not fake, for most of your audience. It's fake for the natural slice of the audience that are on the selfish/narcissist spectrum - they're forced to parrot it as a broader cultural norm, but f
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Personally, I'm holding out until scientists finally isolate the ingredients of Bestchestershire sauce.
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Apple apologist here, but uh, really the M1 isn't a first-gen product, it's more like a TENTH-gen product. It's a direct evolution from the A4 chip series, and apple only did the big sexy "we mean business" rebra
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by Jetrel 5y ago
This pretty much hits a bullseye.
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Ironically, having been a huge WC3 fan; I felt like reforged was great. I bought it, loved it, and am still routinely playing it (in fact, I've picked it up as a semi-regular routine, whereas I'd kinda mostly stopped playing the
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Speak for yourself; I can't stand SC1 after all the quality-of-life features they added to 2. There's nothing dumber and more immersion-breaking than watching 15 dragoons get stuck in a small opening because the game's pathfi
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by Jetrel 5y ago
One of the big deals with electron-et-al is that we're not married to JavaScript , really; we're married to "the DOM and css" as our gui, and things like FF/Chrome/Safari devtools to develop that gui. Most jav
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah - now that a legacy of flash apps exist, having a runtime for them is important. But as you say - back in the old days, the truly important thing had nothing to do with the runtime, and had everything to do with the authoring program.
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, you, also, absolutely nailed it. By the time they could have mustered any serious effort to save it, the web had already won.
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by Jetrel 6y ago
One point of comparison that's a hell of a point in favor of fiat currencies, is the that because fiat is just based on a really nebulous 'general consensus' rather than any sort of 'hard store of value', the same t
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Agreed - one of the other things to consider is that the vast bulk of i.e. abolitionist momentum in the US came predominantly from the church. What slavery was doing, from an industrial and economic standpoint was wonderful for the owners,
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by Jetrel 6y ago
To try to chip in on this with something useful: I like the atheist movement, but there definitely is one major logical inconsistency in it. The whole driving motive behind atheism is that folks have looked at existing religions, where peo
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Coke was a business success because they're probably the best-tasting cola when you've already drank at least half of a can. Lots of other soda makers, especially the bargain-bin "generic store brand" stuff, taste pretty
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, the open-source project I'm on moved all of our dev communications (†all of them) to discord, several years ago, and gladly left IRC without the dignity of a burial. † Email and mailing lists were something we forbade from day 1.
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Yeah, there's sort of an "expanded set" like you describe, but there's definitely a thing where there's a very standardized subset of "normal fork, normal spoon, normal knife". (Which is to say you're
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by Jetrel 6y ago
The main (and dangerous) difference with the NFT stuff is that society doesn't agree any of this stuff is valuable. It's a bit like what happens when a conquering power comes in and existing land titles become meaningless. A goo
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I'd point out that one thing about "con job" art like that is that, compared to craftsmanship art, where there's a steady paycheck for skilled work, "con art" is, well, the lottery. Tons of people try, and the
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by Jetrel 6y ago
It was probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_of_Ra I was going to link screenshots, and then I realized, holy jesus, I can just link the actual running game to you on the web archive: https://a
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by Jetrel 6y ago
If I had to hazard a guess, our table cutlery (i.e. the stuff people eat meals with) has somehow managed to get really bizarrely standardized. There are basically only two sizes of spoon in the normal set - a regular spoon, which has a fai
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by Jetrel 6y ago
Speaking as a fairly serious indie dev who's got a non-gamedev day job, actually having it as your day job tends to destroy most of the things that would make it desirable as a career. If you're AAA, the obvious problem is one of
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by Jetrel 6y ago
> As for the actual point: I see no reason to venerate C. Nobody should labor under the false pretense that we, as an industry, are brilliant enough to reliably write safe, cross-platform C. We haven't managed to do it for the last
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I do suspect that a lot of "our CI says this compiles on platform X" situations, for quite a few programs, are targeting arch/os combos that genuinely aren't getting tested, with only the occasional hobbyist poking at it
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I really want to know how we can work Banelings into a hilariously extended metaphor here. :P (Rule 5: if you haven't played SC2, Banelings were a super in-character addition to the zerg unit tree. Zerglings are able to morph into a
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by Jetrel 6y ago
To piggyback on what you're saying - the thing that makes Nintendo do so damned well - even beating iOS for games, is that their market is carefully curated to produce a "middle class" of game developers. Specifically ones wh
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I'm also just an armchair intellectual speculating here... Not "per se" a knock against greenhouses, but definitely one of the things you're looking for is a closed system rather than the sort of greenhouse you'd ge
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by Jetrel 6y ago
This. This right here. If it didn't get forcibly put into people's hands, it probably would have died on the vine. One of the things apple's always understood is the idea of "across-the-board" availability. Take s
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by Jetrel 6y ago
In a lot of cases, it was probably something more insidious, as indeed is the case for a lot of acqui-hires in the software space: most of them probably didn't have anyone using their stuff (relatively speaking). A lot of these compa
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by Jetrel 6y ago
From my observation point as a gamer who plays a lot of strategy games, he did actually come up with something quite novel (when it was new). However, what he built is now extremely common in the strategy genre - practically every game out
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by Jetrel 6y ago
I mean, to step past the common dodge of moral relativism, the whole thing behind this is a tacit agreement amongst a lot of tech-inclined folk that quite a few cultures (including powerful, western cultural movements, past-and-present) are

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