Windows 11 recently had to start enabling some kind of turbo CPU mode just to open a right click menu on files, because otherwise it took more than 5-10 seconds. Same with File Browser.
I had to use Teams for a week because of a second jpb I do occasional contracts for, and it was baffling how extremely worse has it gotten in the last two years.
Three times! It has happened that the teams would load (after going through login loop twice times for some reason) that it would load and show everything as usuall. Only after like three hours of waiting for answer I've noticed that my message actually didn't send, without any error or indicator, and that everyone's, including mine, status is "Undefined" and nothing works - messages don't send, just appear sent, and I'm not getting any messages.
The only indicator was that everyone's status dot was a hollow grey circle, and that messages did not have the sent checkmark but just a hollow dot next to them. Even refreshing did not fix it and I had to relog it for it to start working.
My bachelor's was actually called Software Engineering (it was 10 years ago, so it migh've changed a lot), on Faculty of IT. It was mostly just applied programming (but also indepth - from assembly through smalltalk, to bash, C and Prolog), with a lot of courses about SDLC, UML, DevOps, and all that.
We also had a lot of advanced math, from integrals to logic, and some CS like data structures, algorithms and all that jazz.
It was not as theoretical as actual Computer Science on other faculties, and was more devops oriented, but I did learn a lot of fundamentals about every language I can imagine, including lambda calcul, and also all the math I could ever need. And I'm pretty glad I was forced to learn about proper processes, am able to read and correctly design an UML, and have some insight into various types of the SDLC - which apparently isn't that common, judging by my experience when actually working. Not that it ever matters - all it ever got me was being internally annoyed that people are using/doing it wrong, but it's not a big deal because everyone understands eachother, and there's no reason to point it out and be smug about it.
But yeah, CS was mentioned a lot, but the difference was mostly that CS is theoretical and way more math heavy, while SWI is pretty similar in most of the circulum, but instead of obscure theoretical proofs about big O of algorithms, you are learning about UML and SDLC.
Also, I got to do an Ethical Hacking optional course, which landed me a job in cybersec and started my carrier (before I moved to gamedev), so that's also nice.
In general, it gave me a lot of "technical soft skills", it was also team project oriented and asked us to have all the requirements and documentations and architecture designs 100% formally written, and that is a really good skill to have.
Ngl, I should update my personality rule.md to talk to me like Duo the Owl would when I'm missing my dailies.
I currently have SHODAN from System Shock, and it has been kind of fun, a little bit of harmless flavor that burns tokens I don't have to pay for (or have a reason to keep low), since I'm forced to use it anyway. Duo the Owl also sound like fun.
Oh, definitely agree with that. But for some reason I just feel like that's unlikely to happen, I just can't imagine a goverment doing something like this. It's just doesn't feel like something plausible, for some reason.
But yeah, even if it did happen, it's probably going to be the second option you mentioned at this point.
"Farms are becoming economically unviable even while driving up prices" is a pretty scary sentence. I wonder if they will get massive goverment bailouts, but I have a feeling that won't happen because it's not a trendy new billion-dollar buzzword, just "some farmers".
I mean, you reap what you sow. The rest of my life will probably massively suck, but the fact that the people who are archetypally climate-change deniers and voted the people unwilling to start doing anything about it into office are both a) prone to anger that consumes their whole life and b) lower income, so it will hit them first, is a little bit of shadenfreude solace.
Not much, though, I'm not that unempathic. But a tiiiiny little bit.
WEll, subdued or bribed. Especially for the die-hard fans of some billionaires, I would not be surprised if it has every single one marking of an actual cult.
I don't get it. ICC was made for one purpose, to prevent LITERALLY AND EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, and everyone is just... Ignoring it?
Like what the fuck. You might as well just cancel it at this point. Get your name into the history books as the fucks that decided that we don't need to persecute war crimes any more.
It semi-counts, but I'd also add Space Station 14 to the mix. Semi, because 14 is prety recent, but it is a modernized mostly 1:1 rewrite of Space Station 13, which is the game that I'd consider myself sleeping on.
It's my current obsession, that game is just so much fun. A disaster simulator where you throw 100 people into a ~2 hour long shift on a space station, and ask them to keep it afloat. From people doing engineeirng, atmospherics, science, medical, security, cargo and command, janitor, barkeep, etc. It's a great roleplaying experience.
The core design is that most of what you can do can fail spectaculary. Engineering powers the station with a contained black hole or a ball of tesla, better hope they keep the containment maintaned. Science is doing research on artifacts by doing randomly chosen stuff (touch, spill something on it, look at it, etc), which has a random associated effect from "create a monkey", "get radiactive", to "a thermonuclear explosion". Better hope they did scan the artifact before they touched it.
And to add to that, you also have a lot of different antagonist roles you can randomly get, from a blood cult that kidnaps and converts people to spill enough blood to summon their diety, through thiefs, terrorists that want to arm the nuke and destroy the station, to changelings or sleeper agents that are tasked with killing specific crew.
It's loads of fun, and the community is amazing, especially on medium RP server.
I've recently started and got through Death Stranding in the past month, and it was an amazing experience. I have not played a AAA game for a looong time, and having an actual motion-captured movie and animations to go along with your game, instead of indie animations and cutscenes, is pretty sick. Plus the game is gorgeous.
I also had no idea how cool the lore and setting is, from what I've randomly heard about the game, all I knew is it's about delivering packages and hooking people in remote areas up to Wifi, I didn't know
::: spoiler (only minor spoilers, it's in the first 20 minutes, so basically the first cutscene)
that you also have a rain that rapidly ages anything it touches, unburned corpses turnin into invisible monsters that eat people, which you can only see by hooking a fetus in a pod to yourself, and if the monsters eat anyone alive it literally nukes everything in 50 miles radius to a crater.
:::
Which makes deliver packages a lot more exciting than I assumed.
Some of the parts of the story were a little bit weird and a lot of people don't like it, but I like weird, and this had some pretty sick ideas. And the gameplay is also fun!
I'm now imagining a professional-level FPV drone racing controller/pilot just blasting it at 100mph (which iirc is about the speed they race at in corridors) through the shool to drive by pepper-spray someone.
I mean, I'm sure whoever came up with this idea imagined it exactly like that, and ngl it would look pretty cool :D
Kind of both. It's basically a frontend for emulators, where you are in a most archetypal 80s room, with a large CRT TV that runs the emulator, and you get all your roms as physical discs/cartriges on your shelf, with emu cores being actual consoles you connect to the TV, put a disk/cartridge in, and then you can sit in front of the TV and play.
It's extremely immersive, the games feel so much better on an "actual" CRT TV.
Windows 11 recently had to start enabling some kind of turbo CPU mode just to open a right click menu on files, because otherwise it took more than 5-10 seconds. Same with File Browser.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-11-low-latency-profile-cpu-boost
They are extremely incompetent.
I had to use Teams for a week because of a second jpb I do occasional contracts for, and it was baffling how extremely worse has it gotten in the last two years.
Three times! It has happened that the teams would load (after going through login loop twice times for some reason) that it would load and show everything as usuall. Only after like three hours of waiting for answer I've noticed that my message actually didn't send, without any error or indicator, and that everyone's, including mine, status is "Undefined" and nothing works - messages don't send, just appear sent, and I'm not getting any messages.
The only indicator was that everyone's status dot was a hollow grey circle, and that messages did not have the sent checkmark but just a hollow dot next to them. Even refreshing did not fix it and I had to relog it for it to start working.
My bachelor's was actually called Software Engineering (it was 10 years ago, so it migh've changed a lot), on Faculty of IT. It was mostly just applied programming (but also indepth - from assembly through smalltalk, to bash, C and Prolog), with a lot of courses about SDLC, UML, DevOps, and all that.
We also had a lot of advanced math, from integrals to logic, and some CS like data structures, algorithms and all that jazz.
It was not as theoretical as actual Computer Science on other faculties, and was more devops oriented, but I did learn a lot of fundamentals about every language I can imagine, including lambda calcul, and also all the math I could ever need. And I'm pretty glad I was forced to learn about proper processes, am able to read and correctly design an UML, and have some insight into various types of the SDLC - which apparently isn't that common, judging by my experience when actually working. Not that it ever matters - all it ever got me was being internally annoyed that people are using/doing it wrong, but it's not a big deal because everyone understands eachother, and there's no reason to point it out and be smug about it.
But yeah, CS was mentioned a lot, but the difference was mostly that CS is theoretical and way more math heavy, while SWI is pretty similar in most of the circulum, but instead of obscure theoretical proofs about big O of algorithms, you are learning about UML and SDLC.
Also, I got to do an Ethical Hacking optional course, which landed me a job in cybersec and started my carrier (before I moved to gamedev), so that's also nice.
In general, it gave me a lot of "technical soft skills", it was also team project oriented and asked us to have all the requirements and documentations and architecture designs 100% formally written, and that is a really good skill to have.
Ngl, I should update my personality rule.md to talk to me like Duo the Owl would when I'm missing my dailies.
I currently have SHODAN from System Shock, and it has been kind of fun, a little bit of harmless flavor that burns tokens I don't have to pay for (or have a reason to keep low), since I'm forced to use it anyway. Duo the Owl also sound like fun.
I just saw an academic peer review paper comparing Trump to alegories from Godzilla movies.
I would not be surprised if there is a lot of academic and peer reviewed papers comparing how cults compare to tech-bro billionaires.
Oh, definitely agree with that. But for some reason I just feel like that's unlikely to happen, I just can't imagine a goverment doing something like this. It's just doesn't feel like something plausible, for some reason.
But yeah, even if it did happen, it's probably going to be the second option you mentioned at this point.
"Farms are becoming economically unviable even while driving up prices" is a pretty scary sentence. I wonder if they will get massive goverment bailouts, but I have a feeling that won't happen because it's not a trendy new billion-dollar buzzword, just "some farmers".
I mean, you reap what you sow. The rest of my life will probably massively suck, but the fact that the people who are archetypally climate-change deniers and voted the people unwilling to start doing anything about it into office are both a) prone to anger that consumes their whole life and b) lower income, so it will hit them first, is a little bit of shadenfreude solace.
Not much, though, I'm not that unempathic. But a tiiiiny little bit.
WEll, subdued or bribed. Especially for the die-hard fans of some billionaires, I would not be surprised if it has every single one marking of an actual cult.
The whole tech-bro billionaires sector is a cult. AI is just the latest of their gospels.
This is actually a pretty good take, I like this, thanks for sharing!
That is admitting to a crime. I hope the organizations will sue.
...Oh, it's about programming, not mocking people.
This was a dissapointing click. :D
I don't get it. ICC was made for one purpose, to prevent LITERALLY AND EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, and everyone is just... Ignoring it?
Like what the fuck. You might as well just cancel it at this point. Get your name into the history books as the fucks that decided that we don't need to persecute war crimes any more.
It semi-counts, but I'd also add Space Station 14 to the mix. Semi, because 14 is prety recent, but it is a modernized mostly 1:1 rewrite of Space Station 13, which is the game that I'd consider myself sleeping on.
It's my current obsession, that game is just so much fun. A disaster simulator where you throw 100 people into a ~2 hour long shift on a space station, and ask them to keep it afloat. From people doing engineeirng, atmospherics, science, medical, security, cargo and command, janitor, barkeep, etc. It's a great roleplaying experience.
The core design is that most of what you can do can fail spectaculary. Engineering powers the station with a contained black hole or a ball of tesla, better hope they keep the containment maintaned. Science is doing research on artifacts by doing randomly chosen stuff (touch, spill something on it, look at it, etc), which has a random associated effect from "create a monkey", "get radiactive", to "a thermonuclear explosion". Better hope they did scan the artifact before they touched it.
And to add to that, you also have a lot of different antagonist roles you can randomly get, from a blood cult that kidnaps and converts people to spill enough blood to summon their diety, through thiefs, terrorists that want to arm the nuke and destroy the station, to changelings or sleeper agents that are tasked with killing specific crew.
It's loads of fun, and the community is amazing, especially on medium RP server.
I've recently started and got through Death Stranding in the past month, and it was an amazing experience. I have not played a AAA game for a looong time, and having an actual motion-captured movie and animations to go along with your game, instead of indie animations and cutscenes, is pretty sick. Plus the game is gorgeous.
I also had no idea how cool the lore and setting is, from what I've randomly heard about the game, all I knew is it's about delivering packages and hooking people in remote areas up to Wifi, I didn't know ::: spoiler (only minor spoilers, it's in the first 20 minutes, so basically the first cutscene) that you also have a rain that rapidly ages anything it touches, unburned corpses turnin into invisible monsters that eat people, which you can only see by hooking a fetus in a pod to yourself, and if the monsters eat anyone alive it literally nukes everything in 50 miles radius to a crater. :::
Which makes deliver packages a lot more exciting than I assumed.
Some of the parts of the story were a little bit weird and a lot of people don't like it, but I like weird, and this had some pretty sick ideas. And the gameplay is also fun!
In this case, it's more like this.
Yes.
Because their AI massively sucks, lol.
I'm now imagining a professional-level FPV drone racing controller/pilot just blasting it at 100mph (which iirc is about the speed they race at in corridors) through the shool to drive by pepper-spray someone.
I mean, I'm sure whoever came up with this idea imagined it exactly like that, and ngl it would look pretty cool :D
Oh, cool, TIL. Even though I had a lot of handhelds, I never actually noticed that.
Kind of both. It's basically a frontend for emulators, where you are in a most archetypal 80s room, with a large CRT TV that runs the emulator, and you get all your roms as physical discs/cartriges on your shelf, with emu cores being actual consoles you connect to the TV, put a disk/cartridge in, and then you can sit in front of the TV and play.
It's extremely immersive, the games feel so much better on an "actual" CRT TV.
https://youtu.be/73XVOeRuu9A?t=237 It's not as apparent in 2D without VR, but you can get an idea at this timestamp.