I’m making fun of the common practice, exemplified by Bethesda, of leaving bugs in their games for the modders to fix. The joke, in this case is that Rocket Werkz is leaving an “unfinished feature” in that is a Hard Problem in physics. There isn’t a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.

One reachier goal is to add an n-body physics system. […] RocketWerkz say there’s a “small chance” of RocketWerkz developing such a simulation internally - they’re currently trying to hire somebody with a PhD to apply the requisite high-density brain-magic - but it’s likely this will be left for modders to figure out.

The next Bethesda game is just going to have a bug dependent on solving the Reimann conjecture, smh, always waiting on the modders to solve the company’s intractable math mysteries.

IBM provided business machines (internationally, even) to Nazi Germany, probably a big help in bureaucratically processing those millions of murders they were doing. I can’t (or perhaps, “won’t” is truer) imagine how much cloud compute a modern genocide requires.

Bigger than Bieber, the old beaver brushed the broken lever while brandishing a bloody cleaver

Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should’ve declared CS. I still wouldn’t have any women, but at least I’d be rolling in cash.

Honestly, there wasn’t all that much cash to roll in and there’s less all the time now. Plus, if you think busted equipment is bad, wait until I tell you about inheriting legacy code.

I managed until university when I left calculus and entered “Linear Algebra” and man, I really don’t like matrices.

Who’s that supposed to be? Must not get up to the Cloud District very often!

I like their logo of a dude thinking really hard on the shitter, very philosophy.

That’s a cool board. I’ve been thinking about something in similar form factor, kind of missing old slide phones with physical keyboards. The idea of building out little mesh devices for a local emergency network is quite interesting. Maybe with a few supernode base stations built around RasPis to act as data-storage/relays/service-providers…

They keep saying “study” but this isn’t a study, it’s a math paper. This is a “model.” The “model” shows this and that and those things, not “the study” of which there wasn’t.

And what the “model” shows is that instead of invisible mass we can’t see causing gravity, it could be alternating layers of invisible positive and negative mass.

There’s even less evidence for negative mass being possible than for many dark matter candidates that “only” have to be massive and non-interacting (or weakly) with photons. It’s always cool to kick around some new possibilities but this seems pretty weak. Negative mass opens up a big old can of worm(holes) too.

I’ve absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.

I haven’t been following the scene much lately. Looks fun though, what’s the premise, or have a link to more info?

The semi-circle is one side, then the 2 straight edges, and the arc between them is the 4th side.

They’re up on YT Music as well. I caught the tail end of the Red Rocks show when they were live streaming it and it looked like a kick-ass time! Really gave me a new appreciation for the Silver Cord as an album too.

Great book, one of my favorites! Can’t comment on the movie it (apparently) inspired.

Thanks! I hate it!

A Call of Duty RTS? Only if they brought back WC3’s Heroes, and maybe gave you a whole Company of them to manage.

RTS’s need a massive new hit to redefine the genre. The starcraft style is stale and too slow for how most people game today. I’d kind of enjoy seeing people take another shot at where C&C4 and AoE3 were trying to go: something more tactically oriented with a greater emphasis on mobility. I think that era of RTS innovation got completely hamstrung by trying to force every game to not only have multi-player but also to be an esport and also to be a live-service endless money machine.

You may note that games today are still being ruined by the same forces.

Funny, the game I most associate with him is BoomBlox on the Wii. It’s a really great game, and I guess the wiimote is kind of mouse-like, particularly in that game.

He’s been involved in several games though, even had an office at EA for a while. Most famously, of course, is the original Medal of Honor. Arguably the success of MoH as a franchise led directly to Call of Duty and thus to the current state of gaming today.

It’s so good! The purist expression of factory building: no costs, no distractions, just automation.

It has a great concept too in the space layer. The game is played initially on a grid like any factory game. But then you can zoom out to a higher layer where you can place chunks to define the build able area and build “space belts” which essentially codifiy the main-bus style of building. (You also get space trains, which are like trains in other games.)

I “beat” the basic campaign and hopped back over to Satisfactory since 1.0 came out, but I’ll go back to shapez when I finish there. I hope they add more complex and tricky buildings and requirements, the challenge of assembling an efficient build in shapez is just so interesting and fun.