Thanks, that was a good read. I’ll have to bump his books up my to read list.

Also, it’s good to see Discworld still being used to teach morality.

The corpocentrism of business leaders is shocking sometimes. They live like the employees in the company are not real. Like some kind of solipsism where the only things that do exist are themselves and the business, so obviously the only thing that matters is to ensure you and the business continue to the next day.

I live within Rockingham Forest so see them every day, but they still surprise me with their size. They’re fantastic.

The crows don’t agree with me though!

This Elytra anti-cheat must be so good.

I assume this may be due to the nature of the closed beta being a focused load test on specific systems not a general playtest that the last one was. Removing Linux/Proton support may be a simple method of removing issues they aren’t focused on tracking this weekend.

The actual blog post on this is more interesting.

You could look through issues raised by other and try to replicate it. Offer your voice to confirm that there is a concrete issue, logs, steps to replicate, etc. As your familiarity builds you’ll be able to identify likely areas in the code causing the issue. This really helps others to implement the fix and before long, you’ll be the one fixing it yourself.

Also, look at codetriage.com.

We should probably start praying to the silicon gods now.

My Ryzen 5 3600 and 5700XT will outlive me.

I doubt it looking at the party donations.

But it’s Labour in 2025, so who knows…

“They have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make, and in the end you end up giving a whole lot of games that look exactly the same as last year’s games, because that makes some money,” Gilbert explained.
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He continued: “That’s why I really enjoy the indie game market because it’s kind of free of a lot of that stuff that big publishers bring to it, and there’s a lot more creativity, strangeness, and bizarreness."

There’s still a lot of creativity in big games but it’d be shame to see more movement towards nostalgia-driven/pastiche type games.