

What if Elon releases a Trump Tesla tho?
What if Elon releases a Trump Tesla tho?
You guys wanna take bets on if she’s gonna be pro or anti fracking in 2028?
Not supporting the good guy (The Democratic Party) is supporting the oppressor (whoever we’re mad at right now).
Listen everything Scalia wrote was ideologically consistent because it used the same verbiage as Bush V Gore, “limited to present circumstances”.
Yeah Antonin Scalia was a textualist until he wasn’t, until he was again, until he wasn’t.
This is 100x worse than ATACMS. This shit is a scourge on humanity. The fact that the US is not a signatory of the Ottowa Treaty is tantamount to a warcrime in and of itself. Ukraine itself i a signatory to the Ottowa Treaty and it should be illegal for it to receive shipment.
I think it’s very funny that a lot of people will post “omg communism boogeyman? is this legal???”, but they won’t do a very basic introspection of ideology and online community moderation which is at the core the entire intent here.
Almost every lemmy instance has the same rule 1, those rules textually are often the same, those rules are often have the same meanings, but those rules are unevenly enforced between instances based on the ideology of that instance. That’s why you can be a transphobe on .world without actually getting the same amount of mod action going your way as if you were a transphobe on hexbear/lemmy.ml/lemmygrad/blahaj.
Furthermore there’s sociopolitical drama between the instances like between blahaj and hexbear on what transphobia actually is and what level of irony is allowed.
A lot of people interpret rule 1 as “don’t be mean” rather than “be mean in ways that aren’t racist/bigoted/sexist/transphobic/etc”. Which is why they often complain that certain communities they can’t post certain words, but user can dog pile them with community approved shitposting.
And then there’s the lib instances who think that being mean to the Ukrainian war effort online is rule 1 and if not it’s rule no disinformatsiya.
It’s like when Twitter had to clarify, you cannot call for violence unless it’s a call for violence that is part of the United States of America’s foreign policy, because Trump as POTUS called for violence over Twitter as part of US FP. But we gotta always put the the damn commies under the microscope for making us copypasta Marxist thought.
Freakin epic bacon sauce.
i think it’s a bubble effect of the democrats who have lost touch with americans.
I don’t think they were in touch to begin with. The plain fact is that 2015-2021 everyone who wasn’t in MAGA was cosplaying.
Honestly the “old web” was also a hellscape for accessibility.
There’s been a lot more advances for accessibility in the last 5 years because of ADA lawsuits being successful against large companies with websites, so it’s seen as a liability.
In my personal experience in general this has been a big impetus for companies to start take WCAG seriously. However in practice a lot of this is box checking because it’s expensive and complicated.
A lot of our newer contracts have had explicit terms for various levels of accessibility, but this has lead to a problem in the sense that accessibility is something that is designed, and in practice the company has a very hard time changing it’s SDLC in most teams. So in effect the expectation from higher ups is that it’s a magic wand, these kinds of top down initiatives fail because they’re often just having people internally rewrite a11y tutorials or act as consultants to projects they know don’t have the resources to actually become accessible.
Average age of Ukranian Army 42.
Average age of the 1st Galician Grenadier Grandpa Battalion: 55.
Zelenskyy trying so hard not to draft anyone under 25 so that the war support doesn’t crater and he doesn’t cause a demographic crisis for Ukraine’s labor mix.
Definitely, games that try this do need to abandon traditional narratives to some extent, which is a big ask for a typical publisher - and unfortunately, the complexity of such systems also puts them out of the reach of indie games which can otherwise afford to be more experimental (although Rain World is supposed to have some pretty amazing AI simulation too) - these kind of projects really have to be AA games, big enough to manage the complexity, but small enough to be allowed to actually do it instead of flattening everything in pursuit of more market share. And the AA side of the industry has unfortunately massively declined.
I tend to disagree. Dwarf Fortress was made by 2 people. The biggest problem is that the cap-ex of discovery of how these systems should work makes it very difficult to attach the rest of the “game design” portion of the industry to it. Companies make idiotic time tables, a company would not be able to release Dwarf Fortress even with a AAA budget and the game as it exists today simply because there’d be too many meetings for every time you realize a disastrous edge case in the simulation causes rework and scheduling delays for all the assets.
Also just as an aside I think a lot of this is hella worse during post-covid, not just from a cost of doing business POV, but from a explaining basic concepts to non-technical and technical people alike POV. I’m having a really rough go of it at my current company trying to get PMs, UX/UI designers, and even engineers wrap their heads around what it means to user interaction to have asynchronous jobs running in the background providing the functionality that was previously fully synchronous.
I’m having a hard time in the year of our lord 2024, explaining what multi-seat /collaborative data entry is, and how we need to start thinking about it instead of writing software for the 2000’s.
In my world an example would be, last year I rebuilt our data modeling system so that we can introspect our models, tag how their properties work in standard data functionality throughout the system, automatically generate types, type guards, validators, and factories as well as create generic functionality that uses the model tags as well as all the developer guard rails of linting organization, etc. This all supports structural typing, and is fully declarative. I did all this in 3-4 months. Which has been one of the fastest projects of this size/complexity that I’ve done in my life.
Every 2 weeks on the project I’d be in a meeting with people asking me if it’s done yet, and what’s plan b? The goal of the project was to support a bulk export system for arbitrary data in our system. There was no plan b. The only realistic plan b was to write import export functions for each and every data component that was used which would be slower to implement, less consistent and ultimately not fix our underlying issues that the modeling was crap. But there’s always the dumb guy question of “why is this not done yet?” and those can be asked basically for free by any available dumb guy.
That’s why people don’t take risks, interesting things don’t get built. You get just get burn out as a reward.
Grand strategy games like Crusader Kings also utilize such dynamic systems to great effect while forsaking typical narrative, but they’re their own niche (and while Paradox does make cool stuff, they do also nickel-and-dime people for like 100 different DLCs per game…)
Honestly I don’t really mind this… the DLCs go on sale a ton, and it’s honestly the only realistic way to fund a modern game. Otherwise games just wouldn’t get updates free or otherwise. We can argue about price points or the efficiency of the way these games are made and designed and what that means to the theoretical cost of upkeep (e.g. DLC) but I’m gonna have to tap the sign:
the reality of software is that software is made in spite of the management of the business. That’s always the #1 hurdle.
all combining factor is the game basically treats you as an NPC as per power and such, you only have your wits to excel
Rogue came out in like 1980.
I really wish this whole “simulating deep systems that allow gameplay situations (and maybe even whole stories) to naturally emerge” approach (seen in these games, immersive sims, and I guess to some extent grand strategy games) was more popular, but it is pretty difficult and risky.
As a software engineer who’s been doing this for quite a while, the reality of software is that software is made in spite of the management of the business. That’s always the #1 hurdle.
So when you have a deep simulation system you get a market problem like with No Man’s Sky. It takes a long time to make a good deep simulation system, it’s difficult to merge that deep simulation system with the capability to do narrative traditional game design to create a story and quest line beyond just simulating faction control of a map or wildlife, etc. At one point you cannot actually sell “the computer makes the game”, you have to have a basic experience everyone can have.
But the real difficult part is to explain why this is so hard to brain dead morons who you have to beg for resources to do anything, and their pea brained limited imaginations can only think about things that they know of that have already have been made – if that.
So ultimately big unique projects like this are often shouldered by individual tech leaders in companies usually to the detriment of their health and without any reward practically equivalent to the work.
Russia’s “Peace Plan” is to actually take over Ukraine, and then the Baltics, and then Poland, and then Germany and the rest of the Central Europe, and then France and the UK, and rest of Western Europe, and then they’ll take over the Atlantic Ocean and Iceland and Greenland, and then they’ll come and take over the United States, state by state starting from the East Coast going to the West Coast, and then Hawaii, and then Japan, and then they’ll autocoup themselves oblast by oblast starting with Vladivostok where they’ll be dug in for months trying to make roads that connect to the rest of Russia but then they’ll keep marching West and when they finally loop all the way back around to Lviv the whole West will be defeated and we’ll all be speaking Russian and saying Hail Putler and the brave Galician racists will be rolling in their graves saying I told you so.
And that’s why at least 4 generations of Ukrainian men need to be eradicated for American interests in Eastern Europe.
Yeah every Western analyst has been saying: You’re stupid and propagandized to think that the meat grinder war can be won by the country with the most meat.
Honestly I can’t think of game that did it better than the STALKER series for faction mechanics, spawning, ai, and non-scripted environmental story telling. The way they did it the world felt alive and it was with much worse capabilities than now. That was the one game it really felt that you the player character weren’t the sole force of history in the game.
Also Skyrim and Dark Souls came out the same year.
Doubt he’s “from” Odesa. The country side around Odesa spawns Ukrainian Nationalists like crazy.
The language wars have been the funniest shit to me since I was a kid in Odesa. Especially with what happened now, half the country goes on Duo Lingo overnight. Having grown up with this stupid shit, it was really funny to immigrate to the US and learn about like the slave trade and Jim Crow, and be like “damn Ukrainians really do love to complain”.
Which is heavily ironic because my dad immediately went the other way and just became mildly racist about how “black people be demanding things”. Shit’s hilarious because it was always like “in 1876 we were forced to cut out our tongues with the Ems decree, and we couldn’t celebrate the Taras Sevchenko centennial, and the evil Soviets made Russian the academic lingua franca”. But the people who literally couldn’t vote until 1964 and couldn’t live in certain neighborhoods (even to this day) are entitled.
It’s such a silly fucking position because of it’s wishy washy historicity once you start to “collect evidence” and ultimately it’s like if all complaints of oppression in America by black people were summed up with “they wouldn’t let us talk jive”.
It’s also really funny because if Ukraine fulfills it’s wildest EU/NATO/US FREEDOM dreams, in 10 years there will be less Russian and Ukranian than there is now. It will be like Iceland or Ireland where it’s fully colonized by capitalist English due to the economic realities, and there will be a large language divide between the younger and older generations in the country. Ukrainians only cling tightly to their traditions for their traditional enemies. They’ll gleefully shed all that for Westernization because it’s “the way of the world”. Sure they’ll be the classic holdouts of Galicia, but practically the country will erase its own language and culture much like Iceland and other countries suffering from success under neocolonialism.
Yeah and a national budget is like a family budget so that’s why you must do austerity.