Th4tGuyII

Absolutely the language any day. Knowing the language is the hardest step

Is it good that anyone exists over anyone else?

Unless you’ve knowingly caused some irrevocable abhorrent harm to others then you’re just as deserving of your existence as anyone else.

We’re all here without our consent, some even by complete accident - might as well do something with it, even if its just living a quiet life surrounded by those who love you.

Wow, today I learned. That’s a rather interesting story.

A bit of a sad ending, but a perfect example of why we can’t have nice things - someone will always find a way to abuse it.

The text on that board looks AI generated as hell, but pretending it’s not for a moment…

As someone from Europe, a 40% tip is fucking madness.

If I saw that here, I’d turn on the spot and leave - find somewhere else that paid it’s servers properly.

Improvements in development/debugging tools definitely explains part of the puzzle - but I think your last sentence is actually a much better explanation, because I absolutely remember games where cheats weren’t just in the game, but were explicitly available to the player through menus (the Ratchet and Clank quadrilogy comes to mind).

The culture around cheats has kinda just changed. People much more value either a vanilla single-player experience, or a truly modded one. Plus the prevalence of multiplayer games has increased exponentially since cheats were popular - and of course outright cheating online is a big no-no (though I wish that were the case with P2W)

Honestly, I imagine a combination of all of these things. Some will probably be abandoned, some liquidated, some bought up by other keen companies. Whatever is most economically viable at the time.

Tell you what that Rsync thread is just a goldmine.

While I’m generally not one to complain about something I’m getting for free, and I do understand the dev wanting to make more efficient use of their time…

I don’t think people are wrong here expressing their annoyance at what was previously feature complete and stable software being vibe-code updated into a buggy mess.

… And that’s without mentioning the ethical and security issues posed by vibe-coded software.

Critical reception was polarised, with praise towards the performances and Noé’s direction, but criticism towards its graphic portrayal of violence and rape. American film critic Roger Ebert called Irréversible “a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable”.

Yeah, I think I understand where you’re coming from on this one. Definitely not for the feint of heart.

My hot take - if you’re not playing with stacking draw cards, you’re playing Uno wrong

For me it was an album, “Nothing is True & Everything is Possible” by Enter Shikari.

There are multiple songs I absolutely love from this album, but when I went to look at more of their songs, they had a completely different vibe.

Because it is much less mentally taxing to believe that the world is meritocratic and fair, than to realise that your outcome in life is oftentimes just as dependent on where you’re from, who you know, and pure dumb luck.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek.

In its current state, no… Saying its terrible for the environment and wider economy is an understatement, and the tech industry is so desperate to recoup their money on AI that they’ve allowed it to work its way into everything - often enshittifying things in the process.

When this bubble eventually reaches its limit and bursts, I imagine these AI tools will be forced to recede into their actually useful and profitable niches - and that’s when they’ll start being justifiable to me at least.

Excluding first setup, if it takes me longer to prep the big screen than the time I’d spend watching on it, then the phone wins. Otherwise, I’ll find a bigger screen.

Yeah, the real answer is that they’d just ignore it- because even though what they’re doing is flagrant copyright abuse, unless you’ve got an army of lawyers like Disney, you’ll go bankrupt going after them.

What you can do is play dirty. If you have your own website, make an AI Tar Pit. Make your website not just useless to AI, but actively malicious towards it.

I’ve been using protonmail basically since its inception for money-related stuff (due to it being secure), and the one time I’ve had a fraud flag appear while using it was due to being on a VPN at the same time.

… But I’ve had that also happen when I used to daily drive Gmail, so I can’t imagine the Proton part made the difference.

Obviously anecdotes aren’t very good evidence, and maybe in your experience it was your email - but if that is the case, I’d be weary of any provider that automatically flags non-“big tech” addresses as fraudulent. That likely means they’re rather lazy about their cybersecurity.

It ia very much an English speaking world thing, but I wouldn’t say US-centric as we have basically the same greeting in the UK.

Yeah, that wouldn’t fly as much here either - if somebody asked how my day was, I’d be inclined to think they want a summary at least.

As others have pointed out, the problem is “How are you?” on its own is generally a greeting not a question.

As such the answer is largely irrelevant - so while it doesn’t have to be outright lie, the answer shouldn’t be longer than a single statement and shouldn’t make the other person feel like they need to be concerned.

If you want a slightly less beaming answer you could go with “Alright”, “same old, same old”, “same as always”, or “Eh, could be worse”, or any of the other suggestions already made.

I’d be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.

There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.

By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.

My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife’s cheating, I’d hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn’t diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.

To be fair to the developers, they do elaborate a little further in the comments:

Hey everyone, We appreciate the sudden enthusiasm for our game. When we launched it in 2015 into early access and 2016 into full, we were at the vanguard of asymmetrical games. It was exciting, but it was also our first step down the Dunning Kruger curve. QL has bugs that we cannot fix, shaky net code and overall sloppy design. We left the game up for this long so that players who had friends that wanted to play, could still get a copy. However it has been 9 years with minimal to no activity. So we felt it was right to remove it now.

I don’t know enough about this game or it’s community to comment much, but the devs don’t seem to be bad guys - seems like a story of naive developers making a mistake, but doing their best for their community with what they had. For a niche online game with no DLCs, 9 years is hardly a bad run.