BarbecueCowboy

Not great things, but she did make it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/305960/Dragon_The_Game/

Not sure if the original dev is still involved, but the team has also renamed their company a few times and released (and abandoned in a somewhat broken state) a few other games.

I really think Gabe woke up one day and just decided he wanted to own the best of every vehicle.

I’d put good money on him having plans he’s working on to some day own the fastest plane in the world.

There’s always the main story of Diablo, but for a lot of us, the real game, and the reason we kept coming back was to get those cooler items. It’s what turns Diablo from a play once experience to a put 100s of hours into it experience for me, and now it’s turned into a pay $30 experience which feels really bad.

For me, I love the franchise and have really fond memories, but this one feels like a free to play game, but then they also want $70 for it. A game with a premium price point can be okay and a game with microtransactions can also be okay, but trying to be both is going to result in those of us who’ve been around awhile just taking a pass.

I can’t find a scenario where paint.net doesn’t come out on top when compared to the version of paint that ships with Windows and it’s free.

The cops were watching Scooby Doo, and were like “Yes, lets go with that”.

I asked our Intel guy about it once. After you’ve dealt with vendors and sales engineers for long enough, you start to learn to detect when they have no clue how one of their offerings work. I’m not sure that I’ve ever heard so many non-specific comments, meaningless buzzwords, and attempts to redirect the conversation.

I didn’t get it even a little bit until I found an open source project based on Intel AMT, and that’s apparently just a piece of ME.

Wait, hold the fuck up, do we have the RemindMe bot here now?

I think the fleeting nature is actually kind of what makes it great. Run it once a year for a week. Not sure how you’d accomplish something similar with the fediverse though. Someone would try to run it off-site without the community as a whole getting on board and then you end up with like 8 people participating.

Kind of bummed that the r/LifeProTips mod team seems to have submitted a real request to take over. Just kind of disappointed in the team over there.

I think you may have responded to the wrong person.

The Lenovo tiny line isn’t related to Raspberry Pi/etc and I didn’t mention a Raspberry Pi. I have a server running on an M900 tiny with an i7-6700 in it and 32gb of RAM. That is the high spec config from Lenovo, but there are room for upgrades if you were willing to buy parts separately, however the value proposition starts to fall apart rapidly when buying non-standard parts and compatibility is kind of a coin flip. Even the lowest spec ones should almost always outpace a Pi though (usually by a healthy amount) while still being very small compared to a typical computer. Solid chance the tiny will also be cheaper than a Pi. Compared to laptops, they’ll usually also easily outpace those too in terms of performance in terms of money spent, but that’s obviously a lot more variable.

Very similar, but usually dramatically cheaper… Look into the Lenovo Tiny line of PCs, you can get a used model with a surprising amount of power for a lot less than you’d see in a comparable NUC and in my experience, they’re usually hardier machines.

I love projects like this, but I wish we could recapture the limited nature of place along with the sheer amount of engagement. I have no idea how it would work, but I’d love to see large scale limited time events like this take place with instance administrator support and integration into the fediverse somehow.

The last r/place was already heavily monitored by moderators with the ability to place pixels without timers, indiscriminately ban anyone thought to be placing pixels in certain locations from participating, and bury discussions talking about either.

Not sure if they’d bother for this, I’d say it’s 50/50 that any attempts to protest will be blacked out and the threads about them buried and/or isolated.

Just a note, as a storefront, there are plenty of competing options that work with Steam. Think Humble Store and other resellers, Steam doesn’t take any cut from those sales and while they do enforce some standards (Things like staying close to price parity with Steam on alternate storefronts) and can refuse to give out keys, the market there is definitely very healthy.

The argument from Signal seems to be that they don’t want to expend resources supporting it or potentially federating with them. They do seem to have past experience doing this with CyanogenMod, and it sounds like it went poorly.

That was legendary. We’re going to share that with our descendants for generations to come.

This is one of those things that’s hard to define. If a popcorn kernel gets too hot, it pops and it’s almost like it’s trying to run from the heat. How is that different from a jellyfish reaction to pain? There’s a lot of good arguments on both sides.

Sometimes, I wonder how far away we really are from the popcorn kernel.

I feel like trying to do this in a country where 2-3 years of military service and training is a requirement for all adults shows a lack of forethought. This seems like a society where you’re going to want to try real real hard to keep the people content.

r/videos is posting text descriptions of videos.

This actually sounds a lot more interesting than r/videos was before. I feel like I’m missing out on an amazing meme-based guessing game.