I fucking love dwarves, I'm all for a dwarf tag.

What's with the boomer ellipsis? It's so consistent among the older folks I see. I don't understand why every sentence needs to be trailing off.

Good for gramps though! Power to him.

Meme post cards are a great idea actually.

"some of them were holding Trump flags" says all you need to know.

Personally I only dislike the horror that's purely for jump scares/shock/gore. I find it cheap and not engaging.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Normally I wouldn't try to be an armchair game developer, but I'm leaning towards agreeing with this. the article does say:

Epic’s incredibly popular engine reportedly could not support the team's 100-player ambitions

which is a surprise to me, considering how robust it generally is. It's superficial, but I can point to Fortnite as a game using Unreal and supporting a hundred players in one lobby along with being able to spawn custom buildings on the fly.

The closest analogue I can think of is FrostGiant using Unreal for presentation, sound, and inputs, but their custom Snowplay engine for everything else in Stormgate. This makes sense to me given they're trying some tricky and somewhat novel things (at least) on the networking side that Unreal doesn't support.

All that to say: I'm very curious about the details on how Unreal was unable to achieve what they wanted at the number of players they were targeting. I'm also curious why reducing scope (either in number of players or feature set) wasn't a viable option, especially after so long in development. I don't mean this as a "they're obviously dumb and wrong", I am genuinely curious what was planned and not working. I hope we get more details because cancelled games (and the development process as a whole) is fascinating to me.

Big fan of Sumatra.

Why would a kid come out to a teacher when they didn’t tell their parent?

Only reason I can think of is because the kid is afraid of their parents

Seen this second hand via my partner who's a teacher. The parents eventually found out and suddenly the kid wasn't trans anymore. Can't imagine why that would be.

We shall never see its like again.

Or maybe we will and all will be well. Probably not though.

Thankfully this is happening! https://smractionplan.ca/

I'm pretty excited for this. Looks like a combination of Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. Which is pretty much what they were going for I think, so looks good! Can't wait to play.

What's this about Docker not being free on MacOS? I have it installed and use it for dev work and it didn't cost anything.

I used to be on Distributel proper, not as bad customer support as Rogers but it was pretty bad. Currently with Coextro (I know nothing of their corporate structure though) and their customer support has been as good as Teksavvy's in my experience.

I could feel all my interest evaporate.

I hate the knob. I can't decide if that or the Nissan "orb of motion" as Garbage Time put it is my least favourite. I miss my manual car, but I'm on the electric train now, as computery as it gets.

Ah right on thanks for the info, I had no idea. My company is less than 10 people with single digit million revenue so it appears we're not violating anything. I knew they had a paid service, but none of that seems unique to MacOS.

My biggest reason for not liking calls is that I often very much struggle to actually hear what's being said. I'll take talking in person over a call. Text mediums also have the benefit of being able to be referred back to. Great to double check something, or to cover your ass. I'll take a paper trail any day of the week.

That said though, in my professional life I have encountered a surprisingly huge number of people who just cannot write clearly. It baffles me. Ultimately, to each their own, and I'll try to meet people where they're at. But I much prefer written formats.

Thanks for the heads up, I've got very loud spinners I wouldn't mind replacing.

What recent actions have they taken? I'm out of the loop.