[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Post breaks rule 3

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Et tu, Tuvok? (lemmy.world)
[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Probably because there isn't a giant mini blind lobby, and people plastering stickers all over their pickup trucks yelling about their mini blind rights.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

At this point the screenshot thing needs it's own sub

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

I could see this leading to standardizing and outsourcing multiplayer services, which would be interesting.

That being said, before that happens, as a developer I'd be like: here's a zip file with all of our proprietary stuff ripped out. Have fun spending the next few months getting it to work well. Congratulations, you're now supporting a game that did poorly enough for us to drop it.

But seriously, go sign it. Long term it should be a good thing.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

I once took over an app that worked like this. Access to one thing? Access to everything! And they had a hard coded admin password in the server code. 🤦 The client wasn't happy when I proposed a complete rewrite. Eventually my manager begged me to stop working with them, so we did.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

I guess I'm a shit landlord, because I'm still charging the same as 5 years ago.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Omg, did you just invent MicroAI's? I love it. Huge potential.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Just tried this with my kids. I got broccoli and tomato. I didn't look cool at all.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Stupid question, but why not just target more immigration? It's not like there aren't enough people in the world. Having babies first taxes the economy, then eventually helps it. Letting immigrants in now helps now. And they'll probably have babies.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

There was a place on Venice beach called Rose's Thai Window which had the best pad Thai. You could get it mild, medium, spicy, or 'Rose spicy', which is how she made it for herself. Whenever we tried to order it Rose spicy, she would flat out tell us no. On the last day the place was open, before she moved back to Thailand, she finally made it for us. I lasted literally 2 bites before I couldn't taste anything anymore, except pain.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I sleep well at night knowing nobody will steal my thing I don't care about because I don't own any. I just wanted you all to know that.

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submitted 1 year ago by anakin78z@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the same is true for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

I'm sure BG3 is a great game, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the campaign, but so far it's not giving me the 'feels'.

Do you miss grids? Or did they only slow you down?

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After having a fantastic squash harvest 2 years ago, last year kind of sucked, and we never figured out why. This year things started great, but then started going south, with plants yellowing and squash wilting. Well apparently there's these asshole moths who lay eggs on the stem, which then produce these little effers that bore into the stem itself and eat the plant from the inside. Cutting into the stems I was able to find and remove a bunch of them. Cutting the stems didn't feel great... I tried to cut along the grain, but had to pretty much cut a chunk out of every plant just so I could even see inside and prod enough to find the squiggly things.

Hoping the plants survive and thrive 🤞. Apparently next year I should get a syringe and inject them with something called BT. I had no idea raising squash required a medical degree 🩺

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submitted 1 year ago by anakin78z@lemmy.world to c/wwdits

He gets very excited when we feed him

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