can't help but feel that of all the stupidity and cruelty of this administration the one that will baffle future historians the most is RFK and the anti-vaccine movement taking power

an enormous number of human institutions have relied for years on the fact that making a lot of text, even garbage bullshit text, takes substantial effort

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

1. area increases quadratically, perimeter increases linearly. in practice this just makes big districts easier to gerrymander

2. you can gerrymander without wacky shaped districts. utah has been brutally gerrymandered with more or less straight lines

i don't like how it takes about 5 attacks to destroy a single enemy unit

part of the issue with an open source game like this is that because everyone working on it is a volunteer there's only a real incentive to do things which people find fun, which rarely includes UI and tutorialization

i don't think i ever want someone to say that my UI is clunky and hard to read ever again

i don't think i get battle for wesnoth

Alex sits across from a woman at a table who reads from pamphlet "OK, so the rules of this game are: 1. players move around the baord in a counter-clockwise fashion..." Alex thinks to herself "this board game woman is tedious, but her dating profile indicates she's a real freak in bed." Her expression remains placid as the speech bubble containing the endless rules recited by the board game woman collapse Alex's face. Later in the boudoir, Alex is in fetish gear with the board game woman who says "alright, let's do this." She then picks up a pamphlet and reads "the rules of this are: 1 players move around the board in a counter-clockwise..."

i have to find out who the first person to call a list a """vector""" was so i can force them to take a math course

it's very funny how an "everyone is 12" obsession with "lethalithy" and "warfighting capability" has been more damaging to the US's ability to project power than any enemy action of the past 50 years

it's very funny that i simultaneously hold the following opinions:

1) the obsession with anti-wokeness has done absolutely massive damage to the operational capacity of the american military

2) this is a good thing for world stability

chat i'm doing a key rebinding menu. i hate this

oh, so you're a game dev? well, then show me the options menu which you've been putting off making/fixing for the past 2 months

"turn based battles aren't fun" is only true if you're a hack designer

if you want to be an RPG why don't you want to include RPG stuff

every time i see a game which "makes random RPG encounters fun" i think i really see a game which shouldn't have random RPG encounters

In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.

i am learning Ink for narrative design reasons and Ink Lists might be _the most_ deranged first-class type I have ever seen in a production language

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

going to the local market to buy 20 different exciting condiments and zero meal objects I could put them on. "what is that shio koji sauce for", you ask. I don't know. it's to sit in my pantry and exude possibility

angry starmer has marginally better conversions off of his lights but his reduced vitality and worse frame data on heavy normals mean that there's not much reason to pick him over vanilla starmer. a shame, too, because he was much cooler as a boss character

ultra instinct kier starmer

Palantir is a nazi organization, this is not news, but it's still insane for a publicly traded company to just put out a full throated Turner Diaries-ass "manifesto"

Palantir is doing cutting edge science on whether its possible for an entire company to have cocaine psychosis

a developers living expenses are a gamedev expense my guy

dude lol you're talking to a "solo dev" it always costs more than people expect. even if it really is just one person they still have to feed and house themselves.

it feels like you're just looking for reasons to hate the game. "oversaturated market" gets thrown around for literally every genre

making a hero shooter is fucking expensive