@nprofile1q... “better to simply be thought an idiot, than to open your mouth and confirm it”

It amazes me how billionaires continuously fail the STFU challenge. People are already predisposed to dislike them, the absolute best case for their profile is simply to STFU and not draw attention. But they just can’t do it.

Smaug got it. Smaug didn’t go on social media, partly because he knew the result would be pointing a big arrow at his cave saying “look at this guy, not only does he hoard all the gold, he’s a massive tit about it as well”.

I've just deleted the concept of stamina from Minermancers. We originally had stamina so that the player could have a sprinting speed faster than enemies, but you couldn't just run away forever. However in practice, sprinting is self-limiting because of cave geometry and obstacles, and the fact you can't do anything useful while sprinting (mining, casting spells). It's less annoying and cheaper on the attribute system just to remove it, and I know some people hate stamina mechanics

@nprofile1q... I've been considering Fastmail but the fact all their servers are in the US has put me off. I'm currently using a small Nordic email company whose offering is much less good technically but it's wholly outside the US which right now seems quite important

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... turns out fun and enjoyment are hugely subjective and contextual and while there are certain guidelines that can apply to certain cases for certain people, it’s all fuzzy all the time. Heck I’m the same person and I have often changed what I enjoy based on age / mood / circumstances. There are no rules and that’s a wonderful thing

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I’ve read this a few times over the years and every time I do there are more games that prove it wrong. It’s a good guide for a certain subset of games at least

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... FWIW I've been an open source developer for 25 years and have even fought a LGPL non-compliance case once with the generous help of EFF. What I have learned in those years:
- Complexity in licensing puts off the little guys we actually want to share with
- The people who contribute well will do so without being forced
- Enforcing licenses as a small developer is hell *even when* someone else covers the legal bills (and most people don't get that)
- Bad actors gonna be bad regardless

@nprofile1q... so many layers of parallax, Shadow of the Beast is embarrassed

@nprofile1q... C++ wise I spent 15 years in VS, 10 years in XCode and the last 5 in Rider. I’d say I’ve been equally happy in all of them after a period of familiarity, the main thing is just adapting to their way of doing things (trying to use them like each other is frustrating)

@nprofile1q... nice post, thanks for the shoutout 🙂 Best wishes for the new year, it can’t be worse, right? Right?

It’s holiday time but Pip keeps thinking it’s time to go to work, which for him means sleeping on my desk. 😻

I made a Tiramisu for tomorrow (it’s best left for 24h) and I’ve always been warned in recipes about over-whipping the marscapone, but after doing this a few times I’d say under-whipping is worse. Many recipes tell you mix until just combined but IME that can end up too thin, at least with marscapone I can get. Whipping it a while longer makes it firm up again which is what you want: no-one wants runny Tiramisu.

Anyway this is just an excuse to post this gif because this song is in my head now