Oh I played the shit out of the shareware version of one must fall. Great game. Loved the RPG-stats tournament mode

Damn metaphors getting me excited.

I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable

One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.

No. Minimizing spending until / unless I get a better job. Fuck 'em. Fuck the capitalist dogs. I’ve got a library full of books and a decade of old games.

I’d be okay with getting even on my behalf.

Aardwolf is still up and fairly active as of when I last played, maybe a year ago. Has a nice client you can download with some QoL features like an automapper

https://www.aardwolf.com/

It’s not my favorite mud ever in terms of gameplay (RIP project Bob. Too good for this world) but it’s pretty good. I did like 3 remorts and got bored of the random “go kill this mob” quests, and some of the area puzzles are annoying. These are related thoughts.

It just takes one industrious plumber.

I don’t especially want to live in a world full of stochastic terror, but if we’re going to have some I’d prefer billionaires were on the receiving end sometimes.

billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day

They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.

If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.

But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.

Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.

You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

People use capitalism to mean anything involving commerce, I guess.

The fact that valve is privately owned and the profits go to the owner instead of the labor isn’t really the reason steam is dominant. A worker owned co-op could have succeeded by making the same product. Though if they were beholden to shareholders who demanded a profit, it probably would have resulted in a worse product. An argument against capitalism, with uninvolved owners taking profits, if anything.

They made a product people like. Boo-boo. Epic could have made a good product. They didn’t.

Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.

It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.

Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.

Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.

. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.

Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.

Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.

I would be shocked if the game was ground breaking. I fully expect more of the “NPCs just go back to default if you kill their buddy and wait a while” like we’ve had for 20 years. Plus all sorts of other jank and nonsense. I just don’t think Microsoft can pull off something new and great.

But even if they did: fuck em.

Capotalism. Workers aren’t the ones making the decisions or keeping the profits.

I guess we’ll keep discovering this in new contexts without ever addressing the problem.

Maybe we can work together with Gen z to overthrow the capitalist hell scape that has made a handful of people disgustingly rich while the world burns.

I expect not to buy it because fuck Microsoft. There are other games and other entertainments.

I expect I’m in the minority.

Javascript is a language full of weird quirks. A language with fewer footguns would probably be smoother for learning fundamentals. Python is pretty good in terms of letting you do the thing, instead of making you find a third party library (not that one, that’s deprecated) or having unexpected default behavior ( in JS [1,2] + [3,4] is the string 1,23,4, for example)

TypeScript adds more guard rails, but is a little more complex to get going.

This shouldn’t be allowed. We need to stop letting corporations consolidate.

That aside, I don’t think I’ve ever used either of these. I used to use seamless for restaurant delivery, but not so much anymore. Shit’s too expensive.

I hope the ultra-rich lose everything. I hope they weep.