Godort

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[–] Godort@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ive played in a few of these. It's an absolute blast once you get your settings dialed in and balanced to everyone else. If they're not, then the player in the smallest game tends to have a lot of downtime.

The only downside is that the participants need to be familiar enough with their chosen game to do a randomizer which means roping in casual players is difficult.

Also, there are a massive number of unsupported games that you can play like this that are not part of the main website. https://multiworld.news/apworlds.html

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Excel, Active Directory, and to a somewhat lesser degree MSSQL.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 301 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Good. This should be forced via regulations. Touchscreen controls are provably more dangerous than buttons due to the distraction.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This would be a double edged sword. Without regulation, the ISP will work in whichever way grants them the most money.

This means that they probably won't go after copyright claims unless the rightsholders pay them first, but they will ramp up data collection efforts to sell to brokerage firms and will also engage in rate-limiting on high-bandwith use cases like streaming or torrenting unless you pay extra.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago

They were pretty astonished when they heard that she had installed a GPU by herself (which most people here know is trivial). Which gave her enough confidence to fix her VCR by herself.

Anyone can learn any skill if they actually invest the time.

And regarding the older brother, you learn pretty quickly working help desk that users generally don't care what the problem is or why it happened. They just want to get back to work and not have it happen again. After a while you get conditioned to just be friendly and solve the issue without explaining what you're doing or why.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well of course it errors out, you're using powershell rather than DOS

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This makes perfect sense to me.

At the start of your career, you want to be important enough that people will care about your opinions, which means getting invited to meetings where things are discussed.

Stage 2, you've been there long enough and know how things work so you can offer input and help make decisions.

Stage 3 is the point at which people will come to you for input outside of meetings because that's easier. You just want to do your job and generally don't care about decisions anymore unless they bring sweeping changes.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ubisoft's bean counters had some trouble reading the market on this one.

They left Steam because they felt the 30% cut that Valve takes for sales on their platform is way too high, but didn't account that users of Steam are really entrenched into that platform and don't want to leave just for the chance to play an Ubisoft title. So instead of seeing 70% of Steam sales of their games, they saw 0.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You'll never see it coming~~

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I am not a material scientist, but I would wonder if molten metals would radiate too much heat to the environment causing an efficiency loss

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I love this place. Thank you for keeping it alive.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nintendo doesn't go after fangames like this

Unless you're like AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, Mario 64 online, or any of the the other numerous fangames, romhacks, or mods that Nintendo threatened to sue into oblivion.

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