Going out on a limb here that you're either young, or some flavor of "nuero-spicy" (I think that's the hip new term people are using lately).
It's almost always used rhetorically. To a degree that I could count the number of times I've heard it used otherwise in my over 30 years of life on one hand.
The way to respond to it depends on the conversation, but generally it's your cue to change the subject, or drop the topic they were referring to. Unless you want to start an argument or make things awkward.
You're also missing some other important "rhetorical" or at least non-literal uses:
"You're over thinking this"
"So few people care about this that it isn't worth discussing (at least right now or in this context)"
"That isn't relevant"
I'm sure I'm missing some other uses myself.
The only way to determine which it's being used as is through context clues, tone, body language, facial expressions, etc. Welcome to the annoying as hell wonderful world of navigating conversations with people that don't directly say what they mean.
It gets easier over time with experience, same as any other skill. It's just a harder skill for some of us to build than it is for others... same as any other skill.
While this is entertaining and a great story of reverse engineering, I feel it kind of defeats the purpose to cheat to make this work, and the writeup could have been more forthcoming about that aspect. It's stated in a single sentence like some sort of aside, even though it's half of what makes the hacked solution even work.
It's not only a fix for the year rendering code on the results screen that allows this to work, they also reset the starvation value to zero each day the wagon waits at the river.
Given how many games lately are getting similar stories and headlines using exploits that don't require modification of the game code/mechanics, I found this one just a little disappointing in comparison.
What's frustrating to me is that in theory none of the torrents/magnet links should get stuck, as they have archive.org set as a direct download/web source backup. But I've literally never seen that feature fucking work. Ever.
That can be important, if your family is important to you. A long term relationship generally/traditionally carries an expectation of some bare minimum level of relationship with (or at least tolerance of) your SO's family.
Holy shit, the amount of pure seethe in the jkpress post could power a small city.
The more of Mullenweg's posts and such that I read, the more he comes across as someone that took some professional/business writing classes and thinks that just because he's using business speak conventions it means that he's not coming across as a massive petulant child.
It's a shame, because he does have some valid points it seems: that the proper existing process wasn't followed for offering to take the lead, and questioning security and sanity controls in a distributed theme/plugin system.
But it's buried so deep in barely concealed shitslinging that it's nearly impossible to take seriously.
This has made the games news rounds, and the one thing I wish is that it had been done in the DOOM engine, or one of the sourceport engines like gzdoom.
Most of the features should be possible with basic engine features, and it all would definitely be possible with gzdoom's expanded feature set.
Man, this meltdown just keeps fucking going, doesn't it. Every time I think Mullenweg has finally settled down, he does something else incredibly dumb.
Sad part is that he's likely to get away with this pne since it's not effecting a company with enough money to make it a legal battle.
Yup. Regulatory and audit requirements are a motherfucker.
Also, I don't mean to speak down to devs, but as a rule of thumb you tend to think far higher of your skills just because you know the building blocks. Being able to build a boat doesn't mean you know how to sail.
I know multiple people who are prodigous developers but know jack shit about basic computer usage and security. People who had to be guided to the control panel in Windows. Yes, even after they added the search bar. People hired to work in an exclusively Windows enterprise environment.
Now add that amount of potential that lack of basic operational skill carries for fucking things up to the least competent (or at minimum the least careful) co-worker on your dev team.
You (any dev reading this) as an individual would probably never fuck up that badly. You (any dev reading this) would probably do everything right, correct, and wouldn't cause problems with root. But the rules aren't written to protect against the competent, or against people never making mistakes.
Yeah, I get that the devs probably don't want to rehash the same level editor mechanics ad-naseum so instead they made the far more complex/in-depth Dreams, but I think there's still value in simpler creation tools. I'm sad they moved away from LBP.
Simpler tools lower the bar for entry and can make creating things easier. For LBP it also enforced a cohesive art style, and unless the creator was insane it enforced a specific set of game mechanics.
With Dreams you have no idea what you're in for, and there's countless people taking time poorly reinventing the wheel for basic gameplay functionality. You can't just go and use a highly polished "platformer mechanics" pack created and tested by a professional team like you got with LBP or more recently (and far more restricted) with Mario Maker. Every "starter kit" is going to have differing levels of amatuer jank.
It's a great "intro to game development" tool, but I personally think it's lacking in the "play high quality user created content" realm because there's less quality content as a result of the complexity.
No one here disagrees with that, or is unaware of the "sUbTeXt".
That's just not how subtext works. You don't get to say one thing, then claim you meant something entirely different (the reasonable take) and call it subtext.
Some chucklefuck over a decade ago caved to the "need" for a public shared drive. I can see the argument for things like HR policy documents and such. But they didn't just give all users read access. Oh no, everyone got full read write. No fucking governance model, no process to check that PII wasn't being stored there by people too lazy to follow proper procedure.
Thankfully that horror has been thoroughly killed, and MS Teams makes it so easy for people to spin up collab spaces and file storage that there's no use case anymore.
Going out on a limb here that you're either young, or some flavor of "nuero-spicy" (I think that's the hip new term people are using lately).
It's almost always used rhetorically. To a degree that I could count the number of times I've heard it used otherwise in my over 30 years of life on one hand.
The way to respond to it depends on the conversation, but generally it's your cue to change the subject, or drop the topic they were referring to. Unless you want to start an argument or make things awkward.
You're also missing some other important "rhetorical" or at least non-literal uses:
I'm sure I'm missing some other uses myself.
The only way to determine which it's being used as is through context clues, tone, body language, facial expressions, etc. Welcome to the
annoying as hellwonderful world of navigating conversations with people that don't directly say what they mean.It gets easier over time with experience, same as any other skill. It's just a harder skill for some of us to build than it is for others... same as any other skill.