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Cake day: November 13th, 2023

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  • Yes, where we were READY to solve problems like “is that game ported to my system” and “is it any good?”

    FWIW, we were also dropped immediately into a BASIC interpreter, day one. PC’s may have been priming IT professionals, but were C64 users primed to be programmers?







  • Do you regret your choice? Do you constantly think “Fuck everyone else around me, I do what I want.”, or do you legitimately not notice how everyone else hates you?

    It could easily be all of those things. Regret turns to coping poorly through projection1, followed by just ignoring the problem.

    Re: idiots and assholes. The Venn diagram for those groups have a rather large intersection.


    1. Clinically known as “acting like an asshole”. In this case, it’s the decision that it’s everyone else who is encroaching on their space, while driving a vehicle that is slightly smaller than a shuttle bus.


  • It makes sense, really.

    I believe that people really don’t want to live inside a perpetual political cycle; they have lives. They (sometimes) want to show up on election day, vote, and delegate all the work to someone that makes them the least uncomfortable. The hope is that the politicians then go fuck off and leave everyone alone for at least 20 months, and maybe things don’t get worse. Shoehorning your whole platform into everyone’s life on a 24hr news diet is not the way to go - success here is surgical, discrete, and yet, memorable.









  • Iceland games bring an extra amount of “the players will come back for more in-game abuse” though. Eve Online and the (failed) Dust:514 are stand-out examples of totally unforgiving yet (somehow) rewarding gameplay.

    If From Software contracted out to Icelandic game devs, the result would be a game that’s harder than diamonds and a lifetime achievement to complete.