The nice thing about Gator Game was that movement felt so good and fluid. It really is just a game about jumping and climing and bouncing around like a hyper kid.
Given the game doesn’t have ‘combat’ they really really needed to get traversal right because that’s the main draw, and they succeeded in that.
I got lost a few times too, but I think they did a good job of providing mitigation for that with specific large landmarks you can see at least one of from anywhere, like the big tree, the mountain, the windmill.
I understand what the devs were trying to do by not having a map. When a map is there, especially an always-on minimap, I basically spend my whole time with my eyes glued to that tiny corner of the screen rather than actually looking at the world. So I can respect the decision to try and do without any map.
What else are you going to do, though?
If you have some particular and complicated task then sure you’d probably write a program for it in a specific high-level language. But that isn’t what the shell is for.
If you’ve already got a bunch of apps and utilities and want to orchestrate them together to do a task, that’s a good shell use case.
Or if you have a system that needs setup and install tasks doing on it to prepare for running your actual workload, that’s also a task which the shell is ideally suited to.
Shell scripting always has a place, and I can’t see it being made obsolete any time soon.
What the fuck are people doing
Even at $100 it’s a pretty reasonable time/compensation ratio, assuming you only have to spend like 10 minutes on actual performance time.
Of course there is potentially travel time and the overhead of communicating ahead of time to set up the prank.
May not be worth it if you have a full time job already.
Exactly, it’s not on Nintendo to fix, this could be happening anywhere in the chain.
Could be within the stores or their suppliers, or it could be returns from end-customers.
My personal bet would be scammers buying games with cash, taking the games and then shrink-wrapping the box before returning them for a cash refund. And then they flip the cartridges on eBay or whatever.
Would be nice to see a graph of inflation-adjusted wages at McDonalds between 2014 and now.
I don’t have the data, but I doubt much of this price increase is going into worker’s pockets. It’s profit for CEOs and shareholders.
I was quite intrigued by the article and thinking I’d put this on my wishlist, until I saw “multiplayer”, and suddenly all my interest is down the drain.
It feels like some developers are making live service games simply to chase the revenue stream, not because the specific game they are making would actually be better online.
People were upset about this because it seemed deceptive.
The first two words on the yelp page for their now-closed restaurant are “House made”
“Most of my stuff from here is made from scratch” said the owner.
So people who have that expectation in mind are clearly going to be upset when they find it was pre-made all along.
It’s about honesty and expectation.
If I go to some nationwide chain restaurant then I obviously expect all their breaded chicken is coming out the freezer in bags - and that’s fine because it’s not deceptive.
If I go to a small restaurant which strongly implies in their wording and branding that the food is all made from scratch, then it’s deceptive when it isn’t.
One thing that dreams are definitely good for is writing ideas.
Unlike maths, it doesn’t matter if a story is only half-formed or incoherent nonsense… If there’s an idea in there, you can take that and grow it in a way that actually does make sense.
It’s quite easy to understand, even though it’s bullshit.
When the sales department has a good month and makes loads of sales, the business too has a good month. The activity of those individuals directly correlates to revenue on a month by month basis, so management are naturally going to be incentivised to give the sales team perks and bonuses as motivation.
In a given month the IT/dev department doesn’t “generate” any money at all, they only cost. We know they generate value in other ways of course, because the product the sales team sell is surely built and operated by the dev team, but because the relationship is indirect management don’t care to reward you.
Reward sales with nice perks -> Revenue goes up
Reward devs with nice perks -> Revenue doesn’t change
So of course management doesn’t see the benefit in giving more money to tech, because it doesn’t seem like you get anything back.
Of course, the reality is that investment in tech will make the product and the business better and more profitable, but it takes months or years to see the impact of changes, and management has a short attention span.
No idea if that specifically is related.
But a lot of fields have convention of ranking A,B,C,D etc with A being better just because it’s the top/first.
I wish the best for you, and hope you find yourself a better boss soon.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more effective for the CS to type that way in this setting.
Normally, I agree with you. I hate when people send lots of tiny messages instead of one long one. It is annoying, and constantly captures and diverts your attention. Big message is better because you can process it all in one go and it is less context switching.
But think about the scenario here. You’ve got a customer on the other end who themselves may have a very low attention span. They are in the middle of a customer service exchange, and this might not trigger a notification the same way a messaging app would, so the customer can’t really do other things during this chat, they have to just keep it open and watch and wait for the CS response.
In that circumstance I bet typing in lots of small messages makes your average customer feel like the CS is ‘fast’ and ‘responsive’ and gets them more favourably rated afterwards.
Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.
A person who thinks developers are all useless, and has total contempt for any skills that aren’t “business” stuff.
A person who thinks tech is easy and you can “just” do this and “just” do that and everything will be done, always telling you “this is so easy I could do it myself” while any contribution they make only makes things worse, and if there’s any kind of hold-up it’s because you’re either “lazy” or “incompetent”
No thanks.
The line has to go up.
More engagement = more views = more ads = more money for the shareholders
Doesn’t matter how that engagement is generated, whether it’s human content or AI trash.
Late stage capitalism is hell.
Generally, the wine is made with extract from animal penises, with the belief that drinking it will give you sexual performance and vitality.
I’ll give it a pass, personally
Exactly this, it’s a within-industry term that has leaked out to members of the public. It simply means “we put a lot of money into this, and we expect to make a lot back (for our investors)”
As for where the ‘A’ terminology came from then that itself is likely a reuse of other entertainment industry terms.
In the old days when you released a record album, you’d put the best tracks on the ‘A’ side and the less popular ones on the ‘B’ side.
Similarly, we talk about ‘A-list’ celebrities abs ‘B-list’ celebrities, and use the term ‘B-movies.’ to denote low budget.
And so what happens wben something gets “bigger and better than A?” Well, you just add more A’s!
Most space probes try not to get too close to the Sun, because it’s extremely hot [citation needed]
The article basically answers its own questions in the conclusion that we’ve pretty much reached the ‘final form’ for consoles - Just like with phones.
In the early 2000’s phones were all manner of wild designs with weird shapes and crazy functionality, but now we’ve settled on the ubiquitous black rectangle of the smartphone. So too now has the console settled on this, a single screen with buttons on the sides.
We saw the lead-up to this long ago with Nintendo’s own evolving line of handhelds, and Sony’s PSP and Vita, and now we’ve seen it on the PC side too with the Steam Deck.
Even Sony are trying to move into making their main console a handheld - the only reason Nintendo were able to get there first is they were willing to do their classic move, and go with a low-power device without much grunt, and rely on the fun-factor of the games to make it good.
Imagine if next cycle Nintendo came out with a dual screen beast, a-la the DS. These days, more and more games on consoles are cross-platform and work on all systems, with few exclusives. That doesn’t work so well if your system has super unique hardware and deviates too far from the single black rectangle. They’d be shooting themselves in the foot.
I think if Nintendo do something truly off-the-wall again, it will only be because there has been some new tech shift in the market and Nintendo jump in to get first mover advantage. Like a new type of VR that works super seamlessly, or something none of us have though of yet.
But for now here we are. The ubiquitous black rectangle has arrived.