[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

As others have said, look into the Rogue-like genre. (And also Rogue, itself, if that's your thing.)

I feel that Rogue Legacy and Rogue Legacy 2 deserve some mention here, for being essentially Mega-Man gameplay, but perfected.

In particular, Rogue Legacy 2 has difficulty sliders that can make it extremely arcade-like, such as maxing out both player and enemy damage, to make every encounter a one-hit kill.

I think it's going to work. You're probably not alone in liking this comic.

"You gotta romance a fine robot like that!"

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Installed some wall hooks (startrek.website)

I updated the closet under my stairs again today.

It's too small to be terribly useful, and my house is old enough to need frequent repairs.

So the under stairs closet is for tool storage.

Today I added wall hooks to keep my tool bags off the floor.

I'm trying to convince myself this will magically make me turn the corner and keep this closet responsibly organized. I'm failing.

But not having to bend down too far to pick up my tool bag should be nice.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So France is now openly pro-~~ti~~fa. What's that short for again? Oh. Right. Fascist.

Holy shit. I'm glad I don't need anything in France.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 107 points 4 months ago

I like this better.

The threaded conversations allow a useful interesting discussion to continue, even after some random person's comment details half the participants.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 45 points 7 months ago

I'm pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren't in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It's great.

It's the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 61 points 7 months ago

A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor...

We do need a little more time, though. And money.

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[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 93 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have good news!?

...This isn't a particularly gendered problem.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 66 points 9 months ago

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 63 points 11 months ago

Protect the Dolls, for those unfamiliar. Neat.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Altair Basic was released in 1978 for hardware that sold around 25,000 units..

I'm sure glad computing remained exactly equally complex since then, with exactly the same number of users, and same minimal diversity of use cases. (This is sarcasm.)

Everything should still take 10 days. Anyone who tells me it takes longer probably believes all that crap about the Internet being more than a passing fad. (Still sarcasm.)

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be buying one at the first opportunity.

My other action figures are going to have to stand in the shadow of the glory of "it's just Jack Black, I guess".

(No sarcasm. I'm really going to buy this. I love the idea of Jack Black just playing "Jack Black".)

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