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by zemo 4y ago
I’m pretty excited for Palia, an upcoming cozy MMO, although I don’t think there’s much in the ways of combat planned. https://palia.com/
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by zemo 4y ago
I too wish for Sim Ant II, what a cool game. I tried playing Sim Ant the other day, the UI does not hold up at all.
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by zemo 4y ago
for 1, some games that I haven’t seen mentioned here are Manifold Garden and Superliminal. Neither are very difficult but both are very satisfying and well-crafted.
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by zemo 4y ago
have you played Proteus?
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by zemo 4y ago
a lot of that is a function of the matchmaking system. Your MMR (matchmaking rating) goes up or down only based on win/loss, not any characteristics of how you played that game. If you do phenomenally well but your teammates are terrib
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by zemo 4y ago
hmm, maybe City of Gangsters?
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by zemo 4y ago
you might like Wargroove but I'm not sure if anyone is still playing the multiplayer. It's a turn-based tactics game.
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by zemo 4y ago
> someone who has heard mechanical keyboards are cool but is daunted by doing any research into what mechanical keyboard options exist out there. honestly I was into mechanical keyboards for a while, I put together a few kits, I bought i
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by zemo 4y ago
> what is the US gaining here handing out jobs to Canadians? workers? Finding good engineers is hard and most people don't care where they come from.
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by zemo 4y ago
it's probably the fourth time this article has been posted and people are tired of it
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by zemo 4y ago
ZZzzZzzz I'm so bored of this article and I'm so bored of this author picking out extremely specific arguments about how things aren't exactly perfect for exactly his need, but moreso than anything I'm so bored of th
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by zemo 5y ago
Jira requires a person to tailor it to your org. It can be pretty good if you have people who configure it correctly and have a workflow that suits your team/org, but that's kinda the problem: making Jira be good is a full time jo
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by zemo 5y ago
It’s just fine. I’ve grown weary of how it seems to be the only game that gets discussed on HN.
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by zemo 5y ago
I played 40 or so hours of the Witness, I think it’s one of the most beautiful and beautifully rendered video game environments, but as a whole found the message of the game to be unconvincing and juvenile. It tries to be deep but in the en
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by zemo 5y ago
dogecoin was invented as an intentionally inflationary currency as a joke on financial speculation; it was literally designed to stay worthless. THAT was the joke. The doge was a reflection of laughing at overly serious people. Dogecoin at
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by zemo 5y ago
ah so you're very in the weeds. I considered getting rid of nginx and writing the proxy layer myself but found nginx to be good enough for my needs so I avoided it. I might have been better served by HAProxy, which to my understanding
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by zemo 5y ago
you don't. That requires new nodes, so you have to drain nodes and replace them with new nodes that have the upgrade installed before adding them to the pool that hosts games. That process sucked but how often are you upgrading nginx?
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by zemo 5y ago
> it seems like redeploying a server without machinery to do things like dynamically allocate ports/service discovery for an upstream load balancer would be tricky like most things with running servers, it's not that hard, ther
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by zemo 5y ago
when I was at Jackbox we ran the multiplayer servers without containers and handled hundreds of thousands of simultaneous websocket connections (a few thousand per node). The servers were statically compiled Go binaries that took care of th
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by zemo 5y ago
huh? For people that actually experience seasonal affective disorder, the damage is already done by 4pm, your day has already been ruined. People who actually deal with this typically use a SAD lamp first thing in the morning.
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by zemo 5y ago
> I am not sure I know a single person whose morning wake-up time is dictated by the rise of the sun. people with dogs. Dogs don't care about clocks and they will totally wake you up so they can poop and have breakfast.
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by zemo 5y ago
people hate Go because Go is unapologetically designed from the framing of programmers being members of a labor class having differing levels of expertise. It's not the design itself; it's the design goals themselves that people
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by zemo 5y ago
> Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to share their knowledge. people post to Reddit (and here) not to share their knowledge but because they get a little squirt of dopamine from
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by zemo 5y ago
I've been using git for twelve or so years. In the last few years I've been working on more projects with non-programmers and more projects involving media and it has made me dislike git more and more with every passing day. I rea
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by zemo 5y ago
node js is a web software platform over a decade old that does not include a stable API for making a web request so there are a bunch of community libraries for making a web request, and which one is "best practice" has changed li
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by zemo 5y ago
> in the last ten years, something seems to have arrested this direction of travel and reinstated local bubbles of thought, insulated from outside challenge. ...you are using one right now
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by zemo 5y ago
if all the client needs is to see a 401, can't you just make a static /logout page that always renders a 401?
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by zemo 5y ago
having written a websocket game server that serves hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections, I find the tone of this article really frustrating, because the author is peddling a lot of FUD about websockets while at the same time bu
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by zemo 5y ago
> Not every system need to scale to many machines (ex. multiplayer games with limited number of players) the author writes a websocket board game server. Most, if not all, of these complaints read like the author isn't partitioning
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by zemo 5y ago
having played with generics over the past few weeks: my guess is that there will be a period of widespread misuse, the first six months or so after 1.18 is released. So... between February and August of next year I'm expecting a lot of

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