Tends to be as helpful as those windows saying “We are looking for a solution to your problem online”

I use Youtube. It has more stuff and most of the time, if you check the channel you can get a good feel of whether the stuff is AI - like several hour long “albums” uploaded only a few days from one another. Only applies to stuff uploaded after 2023

It’s what I keep complaining whenever there’s talk about web systems, all these frameworks and libraries overcomplicate what should be simple. People have unlearned that the most important thing of any system is how the data is handled, the UI/UX comes second - it needs to actually work for the end user, but it should never be taken as more important than the actual data handling and the requirements.

I only use ddg to watch youtube from their video search tab

Related, Robot Chicken Dilbert vs Scott Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6oyWvlUmXs

“StackOverflow is down” is the more common cause where I work

The bottleneck isn’t acquiring plastic. The bottleneck is everything else.

This is spot on. I’ve had resin printers for ~6 years now, I’m quite skilled at adding supports to models (and despise pre-supported ones). I bought the first one fully intending to print RPG minis and maybe also make my own 40k army. Printed a lot of minis, printed some on commission, sold some, including 40k, but never made an army, “my” army, I get stuck at choosing a force/faction and then making the composition. The ready made combat patrols just feel “meh”

Most importantly, I only know one 40k group and they play ~30km away from where I live. I already do that kind of trip every single day for work, so that was a huge dampener to me.

Same reason people prefer the original thing over cheap copies, even the perfect replicas. This is valid for pretty much everything: art, clothing, videogame cartridges, plastic toys, boardgames.

I’m on a number of telegram groups that shares models, there was a big nuking last year, with them going unlisted, but still active. Russians don’t give a fuck

tinder limits the amount of matches you get per week (like 5 per week last i used it, 3y ago), so there’s that

Because the bank won’t let me take a loan to repay my previous loan, ad infinitum, like big corporations do

I wonder whether the card game will be any good, or if they’ll make a mix of pokemon with yugioh just to spite konami on top of nintendo

I wouldn’t figure that one by myself, thank you

I played Fable 3 around 2017 I think? Ok game, but Fable 1 was much better. Felt like they veered too much on making it linear. I wish M$ would release Fable 2 for PC, but that’s unlikely

HB was good when you could set the entirety of your purchase to go to developers. Now they greedily force you to divert a minimum to themselves

Linux isn’t the thing that’s driving Steam’s profits, tho.

The democratisation effect is something I’ve been thinking about myself, as hiring developers or learning to code doesn’t come cheap.

It’s not really “democratizing” anything, since anything made that isn’t like a simple calendar or forum will come with more bugs than working features. Low and no-code development options have been available for ages, so “doesn’t know how to code” was never an actual barrier to making software. Not only that, learning to code could be done effectively for free for well over 15 years now, online resources have only gotten better. It was never about the (lack of) money, it was always about time needed. “I don’t want to/can’t learn this, yet I want the thing done” - that’s why we pay professionals.

However, if it allows non-profits to build ideas that can make our world a better place, then that is a good thing.

At best, they’ll get semi-working prototypes. At worst, they’ll try to sell said prototypes as end products. Besides, anything that is “a disposable utility, designed for the immediate “now” rather than the distant “later.”” is extremely unlikely to make the world a better place.

Itching to start a fight

I keep forgetting to check it every week to grab a game. Never installed a single one via EGS, but pirated a few later on, though it’s no longer piracy if it’s a game I legally own :)