JBloodthorn

I would make video games. I’d even do some adult ones, since I’ve noticed the existing ones aren’t super great.

That Basil Poledouris soundtrack is amazing, too. I love that they still sample it for games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfE682mm3c

Skyrim’s default UI sucks, and mods make it better. I’m hoping the same for Starfield.

Only the finest porcelain stolen imported from Ukraine.

D-brand could make a LTT screwdriver wrap so that people can cover the logo, instead of dremelling it off.

“Asking to get hit by a car”

I’ve found that used to be more true than it is lately. I think they’re making an effort now.

Sometimes it’s as simple as something like “firefox doesn’t support import maps”, but now they do (in 108+) but nobody has the time or inclination to go back and validate that the site now works in firefox.

What’s extra stupid about these, is most of the time just using a user agent switcher to make the site think you’re on chrome or opera makes it work just fine.

Something updated and made a lot of plugins/addons/packages incompatible is my guess.

Like when Wordpress used to update and suddenly 20% of the internet would look funny because their themes were no longer compatible. Or when the guy who made left-pad got screwed and retaliated by deleting it, and so so many things stopped working.

Downside of modern programming using so many plugins, is eventually they will start becoming incompatible. So you need someone on staff who can identify and implement new solutions when that happens, and they seem to have fired whoever that would have been.

I like holding my wife and daughter too much for this to be truly tempting.

I am on chapter 907. According to the Royal Road page estimate, that’s over 10,000 paperback book pages equivalent. It’s a helluva ride, and the price can’t be beat.

Vuxten appears around chapter 50, iirc. He’s not the first to recur, but he is a fan favourite.

I tend to read it in bursts. I catch up about once every 3 months.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33726/first-contact

First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne (no relation)

Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a post-scarcity society based on consent and enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the "Great Gulf", events and history collide to draw the Terran Confederacy into war against a hundred million year old empire that has always won and believes it always will. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galactic Arm Spur will be wracked by warfare the likes of which have not been seen. Cracked, harried, wounded, and damaged, Terran Descent Humanity willfully throws itself against the universe itself.

"The universe hates you and will take away everything you love, laughing while it does so." - Terran belief.

I still use the IR blaster on my s5 when I go out. I never have to get stuck with fox news playing when I have it with me. It’s from 2014 and still kicking.

It also works on a lot on window mounted air conditioners, weirdly.

And to stop it from guessing what it thinks you really meant, change it to “Verbatim” search mode under the Tools button, bottom right below the search bar.

Siralim Ultimate on the deck while my daughter is awake, Fortresscraft Evolved on the pc when she’s asleep.

Neato. Soon we might be able to muon from gps.

Does using a spare tire to get to the tire store also seem short sighted to you?

Meta joins, and makes it super easy to onramp from instabook
Meta slowly starts not following the protocol, forcing the protocol to adapt since they have 90%+ of the users
Eventually, Meta decides to abandon the protocol, and from the perspective of their users, we just went offline
Same playbook Google used (XMPP).

I really wish kbin had user tagging just so I could tag you as a “leopards eating faces” party member.