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by jghn 7mo ago
Exactly, Avatar was literally what I was picturing when I wrote that. They're not good movies. But damn they're fun to watch in 3D, on a giant screen, and with great sound. That's not to say that all movies in this category a
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by jghn 7mo ago
For a long time now I've felt that there's only situation where it makes sense. That's movies where it is something about it would make it much more enjoyable on IMAX or similar with a professional sound system. So something
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by jghn 7mo ago
There's also the question of authentic/traditional to which part of china, in particular in cases where dishes with the same name aren't made the same. But beyond that, just because there's a dish on the menu one recogni
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by jghn 7mo ago
My favorite is when people say they like "asian cuisine" or "asian food". China alone has several distinct cuisines. Why do we act like this is a monolithic concept?
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by jghn 8mo ago
October 97, not 94!
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by jghn 8mo ago
I use the GenAI tools all the time and I'll be the first to admit that cognitive debt is a real thing
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by jghn 8mo ago
> I thought programming was the same thing for a long time but have grown to find out that this is not the case. > The thing with being a PM or a designer is that this skill is learnable. This is an absurd take. Everyone looks at the
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by jghn 8mo ago
Aha, yes! And it looks like meteor swarm was Kal Des Flam Ylem). Its time to shine was short lived, I want to say it didn't even last the entirety of October '94. At the time it was out of reach of most toons anyways, but each ind
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by jghn 8mo ago
POTUS also does not have the authority to rename the department, so not sure that this EO is meaningful.
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by jghn 8mo ago
> The Secretary of War There's no such position. You may be referring to the Secretary of Defense.
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by jghn 8mo ago
Absolutely. Merely being a member of the business class does not magically mean one has the ability to specify business requirements much less product specifications. These are *not* the people I'm talking about now having superpowers.
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by jghn 8mo ago
Exactly. I was channeling the stereotypical dev that says they "just want to write code". To your point they're not literally *only* writing code, but this was the sort of person/mentality I was calling out. What it says
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by jghn 8mo ago
This is the point I'm raising. I agree with you, but what I'm saying is I think the skillset you describe is the next on the chopping block. The acquaintances of mine who are absolutely *killing* it with these tools are very exper
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by jghn 8mo ago
I think I see what you're saying and if so we're talking past each other a bit and I agree with what you're saying as well. The point I was raising is by the time an IC developer sees something, there's already been a pr
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by jghn 8mo ago
> It used to be every "coder" was an "architect" as well, and did their own legwork as needed. I disagree. I remember in the days before "software engineer" became the rage that the standard job titles had a
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by jghn 8mo ago
> A neighbor had much faster internet In the very, very early days I had a 6ms ping to my server on a then high bandwidth connection. This was when most players were at best on a 28.8 modem with multihundred ms ping times. I remember be
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by jghn 8mo ago
A big cluster of my in game UO friends had come from playing together on M59. Just like we view UO to have been ahead of its time, the stories they told me made it feel ahead of its time back then. It wasn't *that* different from the M
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by jghn 8mo ago
don't forget that Corp Por was not always the dominant combat spell. For instance there was the An Mani era of combat, and while i don't remember their names bot lightning bolt and meteor swarm were the dominant combat spell for a
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by jghn 8mo ago
That's great until a game designer discovers that grief chases away the majority of players, and the griefers themselves will leave if they have no one to grief. So from a philosophical perspective sure you're right. But from a do
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by jghn 8mo ago
Because this style of game appealed to two clusters of gamers. The first one is small and niche, and thus not profitable. The second one are the griefers who only want to play if they have victims available, which isn't going to happen
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by jghn 8mo ago
> unless you tell it in painstaking detail what to do and what to avoid, and never ask it to do a bigger job at a time than a single function or very small class. This is hyperbolic, but the general sentiment is accurate enough, at least
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by jghn 8mo ago
Perhaps in a year or so the AI will tell the human juniors what to do
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by jghn 8mo ago
Right. On my server I actually had one of those larger 2-room houses right at the crossroads as a vendor shop, so am familiar with what was there. But that's what I meant by "sort of", as it wasn't the pure simulation th
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by jghn 8mo ago
This is a big cultural issue. UO was not designed to have a goal. Most players demand they be presented with a goal. In an odd sort of way I suspect UO would have been better off had it come out a year or two earlier. It'd not have bee
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by jghn 8mo ago
I know Raph Koster has spent a lot of time since he designed UO thinking about this problem. I haven't looked at his current project but am curious to what extent he's licked this issue.
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by jghn 8mo ago
I remember spending so much time every patch day with other people on my server where we just tried out different combinations of spells, weapons, armor, tactics to see what worked this week.
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by jghn 8mo ago
The big problem that UO ran into was that it turned out the people who liked what UO was is a pretty niche audience. In a lot of ways Everquest was a direct rejection of the features that folks like me think of as the golden years. But to a
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by jghn 8mo ago
> UO had a real economy Sort of. They disabled big parts of the "real economy" in beta. Turned out that players didn't like it that NPC shopkeepers kept standard working hours and didn't want to buy their 5000 skullca
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by jghn 8mo ago
I don't disagree per se, but these are more or less the same tropes that we've seen over the last couple of decades, no? Especially the "hiring them on a trial basis is the absolute best if possible." part which has been
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by jghn 8mo ago
I always wonder when people tell these stories exactly what the metric is. I've been around the block for over 3 decades. I've had a number of high level positions across both IC and management tracks. These days I'm very han

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