Yeah. I love their games and liked their hardware, but I just can’t morally justify sending money into Nintendo anymore.

“Best friend I ever had… We still don’t talk, sometimes.”

More frequent updates means more version mismatches and more trouble to modders and server hosters to have to constantly update.

Yep. As someone who hosts servers and writes mods, I’ve moved over to MineTest for exactly that reason.

I look forward to the economics research paper that this will cause:

“A study of the effects of ‘Balatro’ on GDP”

Thanks! That is the thread I thought I replied to.

I’m gonna claim my Lemmy client got lost. Or maybe I just got lost in the context.

Idk why you are downvoted.

Calling unions “legacy institutions” is a dangerous take that could get some of our kids or grandkids killed in coal mines.

I’ll admit my kids aren’t perfect, but they deserve better than to be victims of the current blatant strategic communications agenda to turn their kids into wage slaves at age 8, so that Elon Musk can build an even bigger penis shaped rocket.

If your software can save lives, I guarantee the people whos lives you saved didn’t forget you.

I appreciate that thought. I don’t believe it. But I appreciate it.

A lot (if not all) of the lives my work saved don’t know anything about the part I played, or even that my software had anything to do with it.

I’m okay with that. I know that there’s families out there that are more whole today, thanks to my work. That’s more valuable to me than any footnote in a history book.

Someday those families will be just as dead as if I had done nothing. But I did do something. Millions of extra moments happened with family members who could have died.

Beautiful things that are eventually forgetten are still beautiful things. To me, that’s enough.

I’ve been on the other side of this, too.

I have no way to thank all the people whose medical engineering work extended my grandfather’s life by decades. I don’t know any of their names.

But, I hope they know that people like me revere their efforts as sacred. (I’ve made some effort on that front, but I know I’ll never thank everyone who deserves my thanks.)

That’s beautiful. A film set is a particularly good analogy - whatever we want to remember from it must be thoughtfully captured by skilled artists and technicians, before the set, itself, is gone.

I was going to build some kind of long lasting software that improves everyone’s lives.

I’ve built some genuinely impactful stuff. Some of my work has saved lives.

But that long term worthwhile project hasn’t materialized. Everything I’ve built is now either tossed out and forgotten, or has long overstayed it’s welcome.

I take it as a zen lesson about the ephemeral nature of all things. All we are is dust in the wind - including the stuff we make.

Now I mostly make whatever someone is willing to pay for, and just however well they’re willing to pay for. (Edit: Lately I have the privilege to select employers that I think do some genuine good. That helps how I feel about it. I did a lot of ‘meh’ work on my way to where I am.)

I do make a few handy little things on the side, but I’m no longer burdened with my past delusions of grandeur.

10/10. Would give up the dream again.

Yeah.

And I’ve started avoiding thumb sticks in portables because my old retro controllers with (non-hall effect) thumb sticks now have so much control drift that the D-pad is also unusable.

(While my retro controllers and systems that just had D-pads are still fine.)

Agreed. The lack of a modern remake of Sid Meijer’s Pirates is tragic.

As someone who missed Monkey Island the first time around, I would be very down for a FFVII style remaster.

I want to go back and play it, but I worry the controls on the classic will be too much of a drag for me to get through it.

Whether I buy this game may depend entirely on whether abducted humans can be turned into chuaua hybrids.

I hope they understand that this game needs to be deeply deeply weird, to succeed.

Make a budget, each month.

Write down your expected expenses. Keep it simple. Use paper and a calculator.

Rewrite the list, in order of priority, to you.

I’ve met so many people who are scared to do this, yet would be pleased if they did.

Overcooked

I too choose to try to break up this person’s friendship.

I’m kidding… Mostly.

Ooh. Sweet.

It’s a pretty flawless game

Indeed. It’s a little spooky.

After completing the whole game I thought, that was really fun, other than…wait… The whole thing was fun. That can’t be right…?

You’ve just aptly described why this is the best part of the Internet.

died suddenly in a car crash because he was recklessly driving with a sex worker.

I know they probably played it straight for the eulogy, but I hope someone managed a “died doing what they loved” or something, at least.

for a while it was the most played videogame in the world.

I see what you did there!