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Ngl, it'd solve a lot of bugs

Imo it's more the other way around, but that's not necessarily bad. Arch (and Linux in general) gives you a lot more control, while windows tries to block the user from touching the internals. In my experience Arch breaks more often though, but when it breaks I can usually fix it. In Windows things usually work, but when they don't work you might be kinda screwed because the internals aren't that easy to reach.

Yeah I only played with friends. Alone it seems even harder because it becomes permadeath. With friends you can at least continue as long as one player makes it. Any favorite playstyles? Personally I like being arcanist and then trying to pick up tinkering at some point to get a cute helicopter buddy, or starting as tinkerer but also doing some magic. Basically (cross)bow + magic + tinkering.

This also goes for many things in general, not just gamedev. I used to be a teaching assistant at the University that I was studying at, and this was the main thing people seemed to get wrong in their projects. Instead of going for the basics and building from there, they just went for all the fancy cool features, or the most optimal algorithm. Then, when the deadline inevitably came around, they would have basically nothing working correctly. Sometimes I even warned them, and yet it still went wrong.

Barony doesn't need an end life button. Just walk around for a bit and get smacked by a random boulder. It's a fun game though, just quite hard and unforgiving.

I wouldn't say that my mental state is perfectly optimal at all times, but I usually don't experience any of these. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the world, when life feels like a treadmill going faster and faster and I just can't keep up. Usually that resolves at some point though, and then I can be somewhat happy and cheerful again in the here and now. Nowadays I tend ro try and dissociate a bit from what's happening out there.

There's war, famine, and crisis in the news every day, but I just have to accept that I can't change the world on my own. I tend to ignore the news mostly, apart from the headlines every now and then, because it just constantly got my mood down. Me being sad about it doesn't help anyone.

And life may be meaningless once you start analysing everything. In 200 years there will be barely any trace of me. The more reason to just do the things that make me happy, even if it ultimately doesn't matter to anyone else.

I've found that the ability to be happy is something subconscious that can fail from time to time. In 2019 I wasn't doing great and everything just felt empty. I did fun things, but didn't truly feel anything from it most of the time. When I recovered in 2020, I felt a weird happiness that I didn't understand. The world was going to shit due to COVID, and yet here I stood smiling at 2 birds fighting over food. It's like I got a sense back that I didn't realize was lost. Since then I try to remember this "irrational" happiness whenever I feel down. At some point it'll always come back again, and the exact same situations will suddenly feel happy and worthwhile again.

Yeah because everything in the world is binary and there can't ever be nuance.

I'm reducing my meat intake, but I do still eat meat every now and then. When I do, I tend to consider the impact on animal welfare and the environment. Eating meat from an animal that has lived relatively free and happy life is a lot better to me than one that has been locked inside for most of it's life.

Nah, at worst I'm just searching for things I should reasonably know like "do I need to cook X before eating" or something. Why would I ever search for something weird with my search history on?

I'm not sure what the best approach would be, but for reading docx you might be better off using something like Apache POI. Docx may be XML, but it's imo absolute abuse of XML. POI shields you a little bit from all the nonsense happening in docx. I could see ANTLR working for Typst since there's probably not another interface for it.

I don't think it'll support it, but you could also check if this can be done with pandoc.

I don't have the data to back it up, but as someone who lives in the Netherlands I can tell you that e-bikes definitely seem like a problem. People who ride a normal bike to go somewhere definitely don't go faster than 15 kph on average. You totally can do so if you want, just like you can run everywhere instead of walking, but then you might arrive sweaty and out of breath. E-bikes allow people who don't usually have the physical strength to cycle that fast to suddenly go 25 kph without much effort. Especially children and elderly are a problem. The bikes are heavy, meaning that they're hard to control for these groups. And children and elderly also both often lack the awareness of their surroundings needed for driving this fast. I've seen many dangerous situations where these groups on an e-bike yeet into a crossing, suddenly have to brake due to other traffic that they failed to account for, and then almost fall over or crash.

E-bikes have a way too large speed difference with normal bikes, and imo they're definitely a danger. Anything that makes them slower is imo a good thing.

When you have too many people working somewhere, it becomes impossible for one person to oversee everything. So you get multiple managers managing more specific groups, and then managers who manage the entire segment without knowing all the details or people. When a company gets even larger you'll need even more layers. There's only so much time and mental capacity that humans have, so at some point you need some multi-threading by involving multiple people.

To me it kinda makes sense, and I don't really know how I'd do it differently if given the chance, but the higher level management does always seem to feel like some people making decisions high up in their ivory tower without knowing what is actually going on.

I tend to use screenshots from games that I'm playing, especially pretty games like Jedi: Survivor or Cyberpunk. Currently I have this Cyberpunk screenshot:

If it's in a language-specific community or instance then it makes no sense to downvote imo. I personally do downvote unlabeled posts in communities that aren't language specific though, because they clutter my experience.

That really depends on the how it affects you and what you consider fulfilling. I'm autistic and I think things are going pretty well. I work as a programmer, which I usually like and where my qualities can shine. Because of this I managed to buy a place to live and never really have to worry about money too much. Compared to many NTs my life may look boring, because I tend to stay pretty close to home and usually spend a lot of time at home, but it's how I function best. I enjoy my hobbies and "charge" my energy for the occasional event where I do leave my "bubble" for a festival or something. I'm not sure how the future may look, and I definitely don't have everything perfectly managed yet, but overall I think it's definitely going well.

I mean, fair enough. It was a decent bet to make imo. Safety cars are common in Saudi. If he and Lewis had succeeded they would've been praised through the roof.

I still play games, but I did definitely notice a change in the way I do play them.

When I was young, there was a magic to everything. Most of the things in life are pretty new to you when you're young. There's so much you don't understand, so much new stuff to explore. I didn't know that the guests in Rollercoaster Tycoon were just some simple algorithms, to me they seemed like people. People who'd enjoy all the crazy things I'd build. I didn't know that the AI in Age of Empires was just a collection of some rules, to me they felt human-like.

Over time, especially because I'm a programmer, the magic got lost. I started understanding how these things worked. And because of that it started feeling pointless. Just something I do to waste my time and nothing else. The guests felt nothing, the AoE AI are just some if statements.

However, somehow I also kinda outgrew that phase again. After dealing with what could be called a "quarter life crisis" I've kind of found a more creative and open minded side of myself. One that doesn't always try to resolve everything to cold hard facts. One that pretends that the guests in RCT have feelings, even if I damn well know that they don't. I've started finding plenty of new games that filled me with wonder again, whether they are large games like Cyberpunk or Jedi Survivor, or smaller games like Celeste, Hades, or Cassette Beasts. Coincidentally I also stopped playing live service and competitive games mostly. There's plenty of fun to be had beyond all the lootbox and battle pass grindfests.

Oh awesome, I haven't checked the other 2 out yet. Thanks for the suggestions!

Shit, another existential crisis. At least I'll forget about it soon

Ridiculous. How can someone write "we value your privacy" and then share data with 807 partners. If I share anything with 8 people I pretty much consider it public information already, unless I have a very good reason to trust them. Sharing something with 807 companies is probably less private than taking all that data, putting it up on a billboard, and placing that billboard next to the busiest place in town.

There's still some stuff going on, but it's quite dead yeah. In the broader scope of RTS games you still have stuff like Age of Empires 4 and Beyond all Reason, both of which I find a lot of fun. But neither are really much like C&C. What is like C&C is Tempest Rising, which is currently under development. I played the demo and it did feel very C&C like, which is good, but time will tell how polished it will be on release.