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aww damn Dick Butkus died
Friday, 06-Oct-23 00:58:58 UTC from web-
@scribus I know it's disrespectful to laugh about other people's names and dead ones but I've read that as "Dick Buttkiss".
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@adiwan Yeah; I'm sure it had nothing to do with his reputation as a "mean" player on the field....
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@scribus not that I really followed his career, but “probably deserved it” is one of my all time favorite replies to any angry tweet ever
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Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher
Tuesday, 03-Oct-23 04:57:38 UTC from web -
Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp
Sunday, 17-Sep-23 00:44:43 UTC from web-
@scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.
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@adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad
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@zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.
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Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.
Friday, 15-Sep-23 02:50:56 UTC from web-
@scribus game crashes if it has access to too many resources on this one minigame in this one version of the game so I have to throttle it to keep from going insane while I’m fishing.
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Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?
Thursday, 14-Sep-23 04:43:53 UTC from web-
@scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?
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@zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)
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If you played all the Yakuzas as they were coming out, starting from Yakuza PS2, by the time you get to Yakuza 0 it probably starts to look like Kiryu actually died and the games that followed (in order, a samurai spin-off starring a real life historical figure with Kiryu’s face grafted on where he meets other real life historical figures who look like his friends and enemies, a prequel set in the 80s, and a remake of the first game with stuff that didn’t happen in the original release) are just his brain coming to terms with death
Wednesday, 13-Sep-23 19:54:28 UTC from web -
There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.
Tuesday, 12-Sep-23 13:35:35 UTC from web-
@scribus In my city there are some but you have really look for them, as most of them are hidden. I used google maps today to look up where they are and I'm surprised that there are more than I thought. Even a place I regularly drove by had one and I didn't know until now. There are no big signs or like that. Most of them are near parks and they are hidden behind bushes.
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@scribus Haha. Nah. I think they are there to reduce the eye sore of the out of place looking buildings.
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IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything
Saturday, 19-Aug-23 04:32:55 UTC from web -
That’s Yakuza 3 out of the way, would’ve finished it sooner but due to the way combat works it takes roughly two hours to do one random encounter of beginner level thugs
Tuesday, 15-Aug-23 13:09:43 UTC from web
