I prefer to newline after every symbol for better readability

yeah for real, let’s see an xml one instead

Reminds me of Arthur C Clarke’s The Light of Other Days. There’s a technology in the book that allows anyone to see anything, anywhere, which eliminates all privacy. Society collectively adjusts, e.g. people masturbate on park benches because who gives a shit, people can tune in to watch me shower anyway.

Although not to the same extreme, I wonder if this could similarly desensitize people: even if it’s fake, if you can effectively see anyone naked… what does that do to our collective beliefs and feelings about nakedness?

Ah must’ve skimmed over that part, my bad. The home automation part jumped out to me

I’ve recently been looking into ESP32 programming - they’re microcontrollers with onboard Bluetooth and WiFi, that are smaller yet more powerful than Arduinos. Randomnerdtutorials gets recommended a lot elsewhere; I believe I saw one tutorial for running a web server on an ESP32.

If you need a full OS and/or more resources, I’m not sure raspberry pi can be beaten (at least, that’s how the market was years ago when I was looking)

I think I prefer the town that elected a dog for mayor

As would I!

it’s almost like soldiers are human beings just like us, huh wild

Damn really? That’s crazy

Nice, what board game? My friend group does an annual LOTR movie marathon, while eating food prepared to match what they’re eating on screen.

This year one friend got a LOTR Trivial Pursuit to play as well. Trivial Pursuit is not normally something we’d play… but we sure know our LOTR trivia.

He has earned his passage to the Undying Lands

As a programmer, I am the same way because I’m lazy, lol

Thank you - forgot about the compression aspect of it

My (limited) understanding is this:

When someone cracks a game, the end result of their work may not be accessible or easily distributable to average users. Their focus is on cracking the game, not necessarily distributing the crack.

Others like FitGirl come along, creating launchers that take care of any dependencies needed for the game, and in general making it painless to run the cracked game. In other words, they repack the cracked game in a more user-friendly packaging.

If you’ve seen Breaking Bad, there’s a similar dynamic there. Walter may be the one making the product, but he can’t distribute it alone - he needs someone to make it widely accessible, if he wants people to actually use his product.

It’s been a while since I’ve felt this good about a game developer. In a time where there’s so many cash grabs and half-baked early access titles, it’s awesome to see FromSoft approaching development of these games as a craft.

I was surprised how much I like it. Although it can be a bit hand wavy at times, there’s something entertaining about a smartass making people with bad intentions look stupid.

I watched it earlier this year and was blown away. So many great characters and storylines. The way they portrayed various systemic problems in society without losing touch with the characters was truly masterful.

Once you finish, there’s some interesting analyses and discussions you can find about the show. IIRC, they enlisted a number of urban crime authors to keep the show accurate on certain details.