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by zzalpha 9y ago
If you're really want a fun time, try having a conversation about "duck typing" some time... it was around the time that term became a thing that I realized no one seems to agree on what all these terms mean.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Eh, that's normal human behaviour. I've found that if you're engaging in a behaviour that has a positive value judgement associated with it (dieting or eating healthier, exercise, etc), if people find out and do not share tha
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'd say JSs biggest problem is that the surprising behaviours aren't mostly sitting in dark corners waiting to bite you. They're standing there in the open, where everyone is likely to encounter them.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Nope, that's pretty ridiculous!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Okay. Find an equivalently surprising example in... Let's use the other poster's choice, python. I'll wait. Edit: didn't have to wait long, way to go Python! Maybe I'll just claim it probably has fewer of these typ
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I really wish the industry settled on terms for this stuff but alas... The difference is python is strict about its types and doesn't do automatic coercion. So at least you get type errors at runtime and not magic implicit behaviour.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I'm perplexed by the logic here I'm perplexed that you're perplexed. The article does a good job of laying out their argument. In short: The claim is that Kim believes the US wouldn't "retaliate so savagely&q
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Click bait title, article is not actually suggesting Kim Jong-Un will instigate nuclear warfare Actually it does: This scenario to stave off an invasion with a limited nuclear attack on a U.S. military target is not irrational, although
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So you're just going to ignore the highly regarded puzzle solving component of Myst that formed the core gameplay element that drove people to it? Heck, if you're gonna argue this way, I'm surprised you didn't pick Super
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I don't think either camp is wrong, just different ways to tell a story. I really favor the later, and I really hate when my agency is abridged as a player because some writer wants to tell a story I don't care about. At the same
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The player gets to decide, specific motivation not required; the journey is the motivation. But you still need gameplay mechanics to support the user's activities. If the user is motivated by quests, you need good quests. If the user
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yeah, that's fair, I left that out and only noticed it later. Of course, AFAIK, NMS only added "building stuff" (e.g. bases) to the list of things you could do after the initial release.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Sure, but every open world game includes a gameplay loop of some kind. Virtually every open world game has the same basic loop: collect, craft/buy/sell, build. After that, it's just a question of how you motivate players to
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So what's your personal take on the posted article? The post article would suggest NMS is being pulled in a lot of different directions... it has a single player quest, but it's not a great quest-based game. It has sandbox elemen
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Actually, his most basic, underlying thesis is that it's impossible to determine what their priorities are . To the author, the game is incoherent. If you cleave to that view, then it's impossible to understand why the develope
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by zzalpha 9y ago
In other words, there will have to be (quite some) people in the know about this, which makes it likely to leak. And yet it was a decade before we knew Volkswagen was cheating on emissions tests. It's amazing what a few unscrupulous
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by zzalpha 9y ago
This varies. Some places do a 37.5 hour work week, 9-5 with a 30 minute lunch. Others do 9-6 with an hour. There's also no shortage of places (such as my workplace) that do 35 hour work week, 9-5 with 1 hour lunch. Well, assuming you
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Honestly, I figured that was the case, but, as my experience demonstrates, some people might actually take that suggestion seriously!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
My main disagreement with this type of quote is how do you account for R&D? You have to try things out, not all of them work out, you throw things away, things don't work out as expected. If you're in a true startup, money is
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Hey, at least they put the ad hominem right in the headline!
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I work at a company that's extremely supportive of good work life balance. We offer lots of flexibility on hours, facilitate working from home, and encourage people to work at a sustainable pace. That didn't stop one fellow, many
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Why do you believe money is being left on the table? TBH, I've never really understood this argument. Unless the argument is that the artist is being forced to set a lower face value, if all the tickets are sold at face value and sc
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well, that's not strictly true. By raising the price of tickets to what the market will bear, they force some people out of the marketplace, increasing availability of tickets for those who can afford them. And from the perspective of
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It's not imposed . Look, a scalper wouldn't command the prices they did if the demand wasn't there. In reality, whether we like it or not, the scalper is actually facilitating price discovery. It's very clear that thes
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Maybe ask others for your signals. For me, I tend to talk faster, raise my voice a bit, frown more, and generally behave more combatively. So basic things like slowing down, relaxing my expressions and smiling more (even and especially when
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Do you buy into the quantity theory of money? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_money If so, then a fixed money supply is necessarily deflationary in an expanding economy. Of course, by that same argumen
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For many people it's a way to stop being couch political activists and start actually implementing what they believe in. That's why so many people are angry about Bitcoin - they truly dislike what it represents and allows. Oh pl
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by zzalpha 9y ago
IMO it's a mistake to view cryptocurrencies as "money". If you view them as what they are, a commodity, you realize all you need is a buyer and a seller of that commodity. Whether or not you can trade that commodity for good
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Which is why Cryptocurrency is attractive in the first place. I expect if you did a survey, a very small, very libertarian group of cryptocurrency "investors" may be concerned about governments managing their respective currenci
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Or just diversify and wait. The returns will find you.

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