sirdorius @ sirdorius @programming.dev

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The deceleration is way too low and it's hard to get it to focus where I want on the page fast. The deceleration is inconsistent between touchscreen and touchpad, which works fine. I tried looking around for configurations for it but couldn't find any. Touchscreen support in Chrome is just generally better

Does this apply to all Chromium based browsers? I would like to switch to Firefox, but the touchscreen scroll there is terrible, and that is 90% of what I do in a browser.

Here's a crazy idea to make your population grow: how about not sending your people to die in a war?

All problems mentioned are societal issues

Exactly. This follows Marx's theory of alienation closely. I found 3 out of 4 features described by Marx in the original article.

Sounds a lot like the French Revolutionary Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar#Months

I would say the rocket is ready for billionaires who want to beta test it.

I really wish LinkedIn would add an anonymous cringe emoji. I would use it on like 90% of the content on that site.

We are committed to creating value for our customers and shareholders.

Fixed a typo in the report

They should make a discount for every person the self driving software hits. That shit would be basically free.

And shorter games should naturally command a lower price

This is exactly the thing that doesn't make any sense. Should The Last of Us be priced at a fraction of The Witcher 3 because it is shorter? What about Bioshock? It's half the length of The Last of Us 2

I've often come across this sentiment in Steam reviews and it's very reductive to judge games based mainly on this metric. Getting older I have less time for videogames and I value shorter games more. There are games that are extremely valuable because of their high quality even if very short, like the first Portal.

This is why we have companies like Ubisoft trying to game the system constantly with low quality content to pad the game to 100 hours or whatever is fashionable in open world these days. I will take 6 hours of quality single player anytime over 100 hours of AssCreed grinding and ridiculous 'story'

Pretty cool when I need autocompletion, but it really messes with my zsh config so I won't be using it all the time

Fig looks really cool, but it's Mac only

This year's Unity story sums up my discontent with tech nicely. Impressive tech made by extremely talented people, botched by incompetent corporate parasites who care only about securing their millions.

Best Supergiant game. But I wouldn't call it underrated: it was a big hit when it landed. I has also aged really well with some very creative mechanics.

ToME is amazing! One of my favorite games in my library

I really hope Chrome gets its shit together and stabilizes the chrome.processes API during my lifetime so I or someone can make an extension that autokills or at least warns you about these shitty pages.

This type of nostalgia porn is pretty popular on Youtube, but usually they at least make some valid point. Not in this case though.

It's also funny how Skyrim is presented as one of the 'cool' games, glossing over the fact that it has a massive, slow exposition dump at the beginning, which was criticized ever since it launched.

While I agree with the title, this particular analysis is kind of shallow. It's one thing to analyze predatory game design, but here it's mostly "I don't like this so it's bad". It's also very narrowly focusing on AAA open world. Old AAA open worlds were much worse. Remember how empty and soulless the first Far Cry and AssCreed were?

I laughed when the author makes a bunch of examples where he calls cutscenes a waste of time. I don't like action games for example and I can't find any enjoyment in Dark Souls, but I'm not going to argue that it's a waste of time or ignore the fact that people genuinely like it.

And then he goes on to say that modern games are made by random people in tech that aren't into gaming. I mean, bro, have you tried applying for a fucking job as a game developer?? Participated in a lunch break at a gaming company where 90% of people only talk about videogames?

Why the fuck is a page about fonts using 50% CPU?! Is it mining crypto or something?