emptyother @ emptyother @programming.dev

A classic nerd from Norway.

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TOML does look good. Wow! I havent looked at it at all before.

I'm no fan of XML. It looks messy and the schema is difficult to write, imo. XML works best as a markup language.

YAML could have been okay if it were stricter with what they consider strings, and used tabs instead of spaces.

JSON if it also has an online schema, and a reference to it in the JSON file. That way some editors can check for errors and hint to the user about it.

But the good old flat text-data, the ini format is consistent, readable, and easily understandable by less-technical users.

Stop giving them ideas!

Nah just kidding, I think they have been working on this idea for a long time already. It just isn't feasible yet. When it becomes possible to stream a screen in high quality, high resolution, relatively low bandwidth, to most of their customers, all big cloud providers will jump right on it. And I think it can be possible soon, if someone figures out how to make an AI-based streaming compression method that works better than streaming compressions we have today.

I've seen a bunch of good games being ruined by microtransactions and battlepasses. At least I believe that they could have had so much better sales and reputation if they didn't include it.

For example: Shadow of War. Deus Ex Mankind Divided. Good games. These had microtransactions hooked on as an after-thought. It didn't affect gameplay at all and could be completely ignored. Still they received so much hate for it. And then there are games adding microtransactions and nobody care. Most Ubisoft games for example. I think it has with who their target audience is. Though I can't see what DX and SoW audiences has in common. Do they have less casual players than Ubisofts games? Idk.

They'll shut down their Bing AI too, as soon as they fail to make it an advertising platform. Doesn't matter if customers find it useful, if it cant earn them ad money.

Oh. Of course. I didn't open it on my first playthrough. Gave them the finger and left. Great game.

A portal gun?

Well thats Jedi Survivor.

This box you are describing is now the most interesting box in the universe. I dont know if I want to know whats in it because that would ruin the mystery of whats in the box.

You know all those government conspiracies the tin tops are spewing? ITS ALL TRUE! And you are a robot that dont know he's a robot. Another conspiracy within a conspiracy!

I should probably post a picture of myself. I don't have count on how many times people have asked me for help but figuring it out while explaining it to me. Or me to them probably just as often.

Would love if multiple authors could create a shared open IP, where anyone can create commercial works derived from it (as long as they dont copy and re-publish the work itself), without needing permission from an IP holder for every work. And canon and fanon is the same thing, if an author writes a plot, that work would gets rejected or included by other authors opinion of it.

1632 series did kindof that, I think, in that they publish fan-fiction and refer to it in main stories. But thats just through one publisher. And did the fan-authors get royalties for that book sale? Idk.

The most important thing, which DA:O shares with Mass Effect, is that it gives the player an illusion that choices matter. That dopamine effect, together with a good but mostly linear story, and interesting companion characters, is a recipe for success with many people, like me. I mostly only play it once, rarely replay, so the illusion of choice isnt as easily ruined.

And companions is a big comparable thing between DA:O and BG3. Larian has really focused on that in this game, so of course it would make people compare it to DA.

The AI uses it a bit TOO well and too much, imo. It always find some impossible angle to fire at me.

Also got annoying with surface magic effects. AI covered the battlefield in it. Particularly that super-fire that one needed a limited spell to remove. BG3 has a better balance between combat and surface elements. At least so far in the game.

Cortana was pretty good at understanding me. Was much faster to use my voice than touch, for stuff like setting reminders and alarms. Or starting music (it understandably sucked at changing tracks, unless you had headphones).

I was excited for what else they would make it do. But it became clear MS only goal with it was to advertise stuff. And to US only. And when they failed that, they ripped out any useful features from it.

Oh, I do. Probably for years longer than necessary.

But for such a thing as the "Not now" button and there wont barely be software left.

Well those hides every button. I would like to just hide the downvote button myself. And still show the "save" button.

Save you a click: The skill in question is first person drone piloting.

One of the 10k? https://xkcd.com/1053/