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It’s complicated (and don’t trust me too much, I’m not qualified), but if you’ve heard of time dilation and whatnot, if you start traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, spacetime distorts in such a way that from your point of view all light coming from any direction travels at the same speed.

This is also why (or one of the reasons) according to science you cannot travel faster than the speed of light, since light would still need to be traveling away from you at the speed of light and you’d need to occupy negative space in that direction, or something like that.

I love this because this feels like something the 10th doctor would say to confused daleks while stalling

It is very much a puzzle game, but the way its puzzles are structured involves exploration.

I’d generally say it’s a rule discovery puzzle game, which is a searchable term, structured in a metroidvania style. I love rule discovery games, the core idea is that the game doesn’t tell you the rules, and discovering the rules that govern gameplay is part of the puzzle.

People looking up alternatives doesn’t mean they actually want to use them. Switching to an alternative necessarily means some pains, in terms of changed interface, functionality, and community. You can’t just magically switch between platforms and have all the people follow you there, and that’s a dealbreaker for many.

As far as I know, the fediverse is growing, just not explosively. We can hope that at some point it reaches a threshold that convinces a lot of people to move over, cementing it as a “proper” platform.

Rain World is brutally uncompromising, but there’s a certain kind of satisfaction in that.

If you’re interested in recommendations based on Animal Well, some games with similar puzzle style would be Tunic, Toki Tori 2 and Outer Wilds (be careful with spoilers for those kinds of games)

I don’t remember what the shell and terminal emulator situation looked like, but I do remember that the installer specifically asks you to choose how you want to partition, so it seems unfair to me to complain about it being the “default”.

I put it on my laptop, which I barely use, and just had it still running Win10 until the SSD died. It seems really nice for that purpose, to just get a quick and easy install for a secondary device, while keeping access to everything else I like about Arch.

CachyOS is more than just a nice installer, they also have additional repos with packages built with optimizations for specific architectures and some simple utilities to make common operations easier.

It’s still fundamentally Arch with extras, but I think that’s mostly a good thing.

I do think the R6 Siege situation is a bit different, to my knowledge it was about Ubisoft adding a new cheaper “Starter Pack” option that lets you access a multiplayer-first game on different terms. It seems scummy to give users playing the same game on the same servers different terms on different storefronts.

IIRC 2038 is when 32-bit integer Unix time will hit the limit and overflow, so anything that isn’t updated to use 64bit time will break in some ways, same story as Y2K.

We never needed more.

I might be wrong, but I think that’s too early for me - I’d like 120fps at 1440p in a game like Portal 2 as a regular mid-to-high end experience, and I’d like to have room for funky stuff (portals will already have some funky cost).

The issue to me is that it’s a nonsensical competition for better graphics, without considering the actual experience, and instead of solving the root causes people are treating performance as the issue to attack by reducing fidelity, framerate and resolution, and filling in the gaps.

It’s funny, thinking about it. Back when hardware was weak game developers figured out they can keep textures at low resolution and layer them with differently scaled textures, or straight up noise, to make them look more detailed up close. Now we’re basically doing the equivalent of that on the whole screen, cutting down on the image and filling in the gaps, and it’s become a competition of who can do it better.

Oh lord, I think they’re bundling it with a steam link and calling that a steam deck too

if it didn’t invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them

Ironically, I think it was those very buttons that infringed on a preexisting patent and led to Valve getting sued

That’s presumably (and hopefully) not GenAI, but a much lighter classification model built with the sole purpose of judging if an image is problematic, I have no problem with those.

I’m pretty sure we got taught about that in school, though I forgot most of it, including what you’re supposed to do…

why would you start a new project in dotnet today

Because I think C# is a good programming language to work with, it’s really that simple. I’d need a serious reason not to use it, and “made by Microsoft” doesn’t really change much when, to my knowledge, it’s not under their sole control and isn’t burdened by licensing issues. The Microsoft stack is something I’d want to avoid, and depending on the task I’ll want different programming languages, of course.

I have a positive impression on .NET, curious to see that being put down… Are you talking about .NET as a whole, or things like ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, EF, MAUI? Because as far as I know at least C# is open source and a good language with a good ecosystem, but the Microsoft libraries are windows only and are being pushed pretty hard.

Replying with an unspoilered image of a spider to what is quite possibly an arachnophobic declining spiders seems like a bit of a dick move

While funny, this answer to the question is useless, thus making the question not actually be good, so the answer would have to be different. The only issue is it could lead to a paradox, where if the answer were to be useful the question would actually be good, possibly the best, which would mean it should’ve been the answer, etc.

From the Stop Killing Games discourse, that might not be feasible because of patents/licensing, work required and companies’ protectiveness… But a suggestion I remember was that the companies could just be required to release all of the proprietary server binaries, so that somebody dedicated to the cause can figure out how to spin up their own server. This means a company doesn’t have to clean up their sources and ensure they are actually buildable, and can just dump what they were already running somewhere.