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> Name a game whose settings screen added to the gameplay in any meaningful way Most of these are going to be smaller indie games that already don't have many settings to set. Off …

YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOgb5wrb7mM

Every time "Luddites" come up in tech discussions, I notice that people have very little engagement with the history. Here's my favorite treatment of the source material: https://b…

> Don’t argue against this one example, that isn’t the point What is the point then? The best games have all of their elements working together in service of their intended experie…

In my experience it's a pretty clear warning, but I might not be the best person to judge. The thing to remember is "buying" a revocable license is pretty different from "renting" …

It's worth noting that TFA addresses this in the context of the scam: When the scam depends on the emotional reaction in response to a loved one's distress, it doesn't matter if th…

I would love to know how OP came across this email nearly 20 years after the fact

You might want to answer two questions before we start this discussion: 1. "Censored" by whom, and for whom? 2. "Censored" for which "right of center" views? P.S. I should also men…

I know this is a small point, but you likely mean "race condition" here. Rust already guarantees safe code to be free of "data races", and this blog post doesn't discuss unsafe in …

The motivation boils down to trying to make runs with the same starting seed feel "similar" in meaningful ways. It's "better" in a vibes way if both you and I were offered the same…

This is likely about Orin Hatch's dedication to the idea of a "balanced federal budget", to be paid for with program cuts instead of taxation.

> AI can currently do if given enough context It's worth noting that you can substitute "dollars" for "context" in that sentence, which seems to be where many of these impressive a…

> and squeezed a lot more juice out of it than I’d realised was there to be squozen. I barked out loud when I read this.

I recently watched an excellent video about that incident. [1] The takeaway was that this was yet another move by rich assholes designed to siphon money from the pockets of small t…

Film Crit Hulk continues to put out good essays on film and much more besides, over on Patreon [1]. I agree that finding good critique is hard now that we're past the heyday of mag…

Man that issue got way too many comments from non-contributors. I agree that this shouldn't have been merged in in it's current state, but that doesn't mean posting about it on Git…

If we're talking about recursion, Patrick's Parabox is another stellar pick.

I appreciate that this appears to be an incremental improvement on Fuschia's tree_lock, with the sharp edges sanded off. Good work! I hope I won't have to use it :p

I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.

This was incredible, even as it rapidly outpaced my PL and mathematics knowledge.

Please explain how this law (or the CA one for that matter) require government IDs. It is worded specifically to _not_ require ID.

If you read TFA, you'll find that the author agrees with you - at least on your first point. While I agree "AI is bad", well-written posts like this one can provide real insight in…