I took his criticisms of the combat as basically saying "this system is not interesting enough to form a satisfying gameplay loop". That's a critical statement which I actually agree with, though from my perspective that's a key part of Persona's core design: neither the combat system nor the social link system are endlessly enjoyable, so the player is intrinsically motivated to avoid lingering for too long and properly close the core gameplay loop by advancing the calendar. It's that sort of pendulum-like cadence which gives the series its unique sense of momentum.

I do think that it's a shame RPS's Matt was unable to find joy in P3R's gameplay loop due to disliking the social-link system... but I also see it as an opportunity to better understand the game as a holistic package in a way that can't be achieved through a more carefully measured, quantitative analysis. The way I see things, the game is the game -- I'm much more interested in understanding what's in the game rather than what's not, if that makes any sense.

I tend to prefer clicking through the unscored reviews first since I find that it's generally a mark of a quality outlet. Rock Paper Shotgun in particular is an old favorite of mine, so their's is the first review that I clicked on and let me tell you guys: it's a real firecracker!

Matt clearly didn't have a good time and I had to respectfully disagree with a lot of the points he's made, but even so... his points are well-articulated and sensible. I'm rather glad for his uncommon perspective on the topic and I do think that RPS ultimately picked the right writer for the job. He hasn't particularly changed my mind about a day-one purchase, of course -- the main difference is now I'll have a more nuanced and realistic expectation for what's inside.

It's a pretty different situation under closer examination. The DnD developers are ex-Nexon employees and they (allegedly) pitched the idea internally before deciding to leave and take the idea with them.

Nexon thought that they had a legal leg to stand on because of how IP laws work (i.e.: employee ideas on company time are company IP). Perhaps more importantly; they probably felt a need to retaliate in order to send a message to other employees who might want to try something similar.

Palworld, on the other hand, is made by a team with no ties whatsoever to GameFreak. If Pokemon were a younger franchise they might possibly have a patent case of some kind, but even the 3D games go back almost 24 years now.

History Youtube gets pretty whack about this because Google's adsense algorithm freaks out when words like "Nazi" and "Stalin" appear. To name a few examples:

• "The Famine" in place of "Holodomor"
• Jo. [CENSORED] in place of "Stalin", "The Patsies" in place of "The Nazis"

The second example is particularly amusing, being a video about how Shostakovich circumvented soviet censorship while self-censoring all instances of "Stalin" within the script.

You may be interested in reading this post about the process of packaging Steam.

tl;dr: It's mostly an annoyance reserved for packagers to deal with. Dynamically linked executables can be patched in a fairly universal fashion to work without FHS, so that's the go-to approach. If the executable is statically linked, the package may have to ship a source patch instead. If the executable is statically linked & close-source, the packagers are forced to resort to simulating an FHS environment via chroot.

Yes, exactly. The fans have spoken and we want the real Vaporeon!

Dude, I feel a lot of what you're saying. I spent years making awful wages at terrible jobs, then fell ass-backwards into a six-figure career. The whiplash is really hard going from thinking you'll die young and poor into having more than you know what to do with.

With that being said, I have advice to share if you're interested in such things:

• Six figures isn't rich, but it certainly is more than enough. After this point, finding even more money isn't really going to make you much happier, so start prioritizing other important gains you can make in your career (hours, day-to-day job satisfaction)
• Focus on improving emotional intelligence. You can afford stuff now, so you can no longer hide behind notions like "this stuff isn't for poor people like me" -- you need to find actual reasons to say no to things and that requires the skill of knowing why you want something.
• Lots of problems can be solved with money, but you have to be super careful about it or you'll just end up wrecking yourself! Feeling mixed up? Don't buy self-help books -- get therapy. Feeling lonely? Don't buy friends -- take some classes at the local community center. Feeling self-conscious? Don't get a face-lift -- hire a personal trainer and maybe a stylist.
• Money guilt is real and it's OK. Use that feeling to keep yourself down on Earth. Obviously look out for #1 first -- pay off bad debt, max out your 401k, set aside enough cash to max out your insurance deductibles and still live a few months without income -- once you've done that, dial back on the money hoarding. Be better than the assholes who kept you down: tip well, give back to the people who make the things you love, be charitable. Sharing is caring.

It'll take you straight from pre-diabetes to post-diabetes

Ah, yes, just over five attempts for every human alive. I assume they took the reply addresses at face value and have forwarded 45 billion cease & desist letters to Microsoft's Redmond office?

Could have been MMANAA 😔

If you hate job boards then you need to find individual company "Careers" pages and go from there.

How you go about this varies a lot by skillset and industry, but I'll just throw out a random example: lots of Linux jobs exist in the DevOps space (think Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, NixOps). It just so happens that lots of medium-sized software companies need DevOps people, so you can pretty easily find companies looking for DevOps hires just by browsing Y Combinator's Startup Directory

With that being said, I get the impression from the way your post is worded that you're looking to break into a new career without having yet established a concrete plan. My advice would be to step back and consider specific options first. Almost all jobs like these require industry-specific certifications (e.g.: CompTIA, ITIL, AWS, Azure, Cisco, etc.). You need to look at your options, pick a certification, earn it, then go job hunting. Certifications are great for securing entry level jobs and the standards body issuing these will often provide an online directory of partner companies who are currently hiring.

You'll understand when you're older, son

Ugh... they got Plasma everywhere!

You the real MVP 👑

This was, without any doubt, a prophetic dream. The apocalypse will soon be upon us! Be wary of the four horsemen: Ronald, King, Wendy, and... Chihuahua

Try Satty? It's inspired by flameshot, Wayland native, and written in Rust.

Nice. Flagship features like these so often feel overlooked in the Linux GPU discussion. I like to think that's because we're all very serious pragmatists who don't care for such frivolous addons, even if the simple truth is that vendors are indifferent towards Linux as an end-user platform.

In light of that, features like these coming in with 1st-party support is a welcome sign that things are (slowly) changing. Emphasis on "slow"; I don't find it terribly impressive that Nvidia's partially reversed the proprietary own-goal which they call NVAPI, especially considering the still ongoing parade of new (also proprietary!) standards which they insist on shoehorning into it... but I'll acknowledge that they're making progress nevertheless 😤

Still waiting for git good unfortunately 😔

For me they often provoke self-anger. I kept experiencing intrusive thoughts like "That's the third time I died that way and I KNEW it was coming so what the hell's wrong with me?" and "I can't believe I choked AGAIN. I dragged my whole team down and now I'm 100 MMR deeper in the hole to show for it..."

I wasn't having fun anymore and decided to hang up my hat for good -- these days I stick to TF2 when I want to scratch that multiplayer FPS itch. It's so much nicer to play on my own terms in a setting where whether you win or lose everyone has fun and wants to stick around for another round or three.

• Alexei Navalny
• Markus Persson
• David Attenborough

I've been collecting these, super hyped for February 🗣️🗣️🗣️💨💨💨🔥🔥🔥

• WE MAKING IT OUT OF TARTARUS WITH THIS ONE
• WE LANDING MARIN KARIN WITH THIS ONE
• WE DISTURBING THE PEACE WITH THIS ONE
• WE ENDING THE DARK HOUR WITH THIS ONE
• WE MEMENTO MORI WITH THIS ONE
• WE BURNING OUR DREAD WITH THIS ONE

:-O

I'll have uhh... a #9 double democracy supreme, with cheese

The problem was acknowledged in a frank and unqualified manner... and they want to try fixing it? Is that allowed? Things can get better?? I, uh... gotta go return some videotapes

Sugarcoating pills is fairly common, especially for pills which are frequently ingested or target older demographics. It's because sugar coatings are much gentler on the esophagus (i.e.: less likely to cause esophagitis, "pill burn"). Advil (i.e.: ibuprofen) is a cheap, well tolerated, and non habit-forming pain reliever -- it's about as safe as such a thing could possibly be, so hopefully that helps to explain why a sugar coating might be warranted given the aforementioned upsides (for the love of all that is holy; always read the directions on the label, it's still quite possible that Advil is not safe for you specifically). FWIW: the bottles also have childproofing mechanisms built into the caps (... at least in U.S. markets. Not sure about elsewhere?)

Nothing quite like minimum wage to help you appreciate the affordability of an air sandwich. It costs zero hours of labor (after taxes!) to go hungry -- great bargain -- plus you can invest all of that saved lunch break time catching up on sleep in the smoking pavilion.

The above is absolutely not based on a terrible and completely wasted early adulthood wrought with minimum wage toil. I'm fine, that hypothetical experience has in no way permanently shaped my worldviews.

Watch out I saw these guys about to show up at your inbox

Yeah, I'm subscribed to notifications for the PR and have been holding out waiting for it to get merged because it's easier to maintain a clean git history that way. If the PR's still not merged by this evening I'll just bite the bullet and do it the (slightly) harder way for the sake of staying current with the new seasonals

Male A to Male C is abolutely possible. It's the Male A to Female C adapters which are evil. There is no pinout mapping that will turn an A host into a "real" C host and that's exactly what a Male A to Female C adapter purports to do.

In any case, if you know what you're doing then all bets are off the table. Hack away freely because at the end of the day it's all just copper and bits anyway. With that being said, anyone who knows what they're doing does not require my permission to... vague gesture know what they're doing.

Like I said: in order to do it the non-evil way you need to cram in an onboard USB chip. Female USB-C from a Male USB-A plug-in is explicitly not possible to implement in a spec-compliant manner because of the pinouts.

You can brute-force a smaller passive adapter like those online but it's a devil's bargain. Nobody targets these janky adapters when designing products. USB-C things will just break without any rhyme or reason because you're fundamentally breaking the hardware contract and "lying" about the capabilities of your port.

No, but now that you mention it that would be a pretty plausible thing to have happen. Just grabbing hold of a random armchair analysis and then repeating it ad nauseum until it transforms into an irony-poisoned meme totem... you've really gotten my hopes up now!

No, it's because I read an expert opinion on the subject: https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/m7rcu5/any_reliable_usbc_female_to_usba_male_adapters_yet/grducjr/

If you hate Amazon you can buy it on the CableCreation website instead.

EDIT: that monoprice adapter isn't even active lol!

First thing's first: all such adapters should be considered evil by default. The only way to make a compliant adapter is with active circuitry in the adapter essentially providing an entirely standalone USB controller interface.

With that being said, here's an adapter which does exactly that. Back when I researched this topic in October I found that the linked adapter is essentially the only one of its kind on the market right now.

I like flakes a lot, speaking as a type of user which I'll call a "casual packager".

This is to say that I like being a good citizen and sharing my packaging efforts... while also simultaneously feeling totally uninterested in becoming an owner-for-life. Flakes let me share a package without those pesky strings -- when the user installs a package using one of my flakes, a personal lockfile gets generated at the latest git commit and that's that. If the user doesn't like the version they get, then the power is in their hands to choose a different git ref via their own generated lockfile.

Obviously this is something of a user footgun, especially for consumers of high-impact or security-critical applications, but most of those things are already important enough to get packaged. When it comes to niche, infrequently updated stuff, this approach works super well and helps to draw many reluctant packagers like myself out into the open.

It's cultural. I've experienced many times accidentally making others uncomfortable with my silence during a conversation. That specific phenomena is known in linguistics as backchanneling (see also: the Japanese art of aizuchi)

Much like backchanneling, some cultures demand interruptions while others look down upon it. It's important that we don't overly invest ourselves in the virtues or lack thereof lest we accidentally wander into the territory of cultural imperialism. Sometimes things are the way they are just because and you have to roll with it as best you can.

Making a mental note is often impossible for me, I frequently forget and need to address something immediately in order to remember it, unless I can pause the conversation to make a physical or digital note (can't focus on what they're saying while writing it) which people would probably find even more rude either way.

I sympathize as a person with (catastrophic) ADHD. Trying to hold in a thought feels like smothering it. The concept of a "mental note" feels like some sort of cruel joke -- my working memory is 6 words long and people expect me to somehow hold a question in there without tuning out the rest of the conversation? Agonizing!

Even so, I try (and frequently fail) to behave as expected. I find that most people can come to appreciate the effort once they get to know you and your shortcomings. Never forget that people are not monuments; if you mean well and try your best others will bend the rules for you.

I am of two minds:

1. He's not wrong
2. It doesn't matter at this point

It's a mess, but honestly so are a lot of critical FOSS projects (e.g.: OpenSSH, GNUPG, sudo). Curmudgeons gonna curmudgeon. There was a point of no return and that was years ago -- now that Wayland's finally becoming useable despite itself it's probably time to come to terms with the fact that better alternatives would have arisen had anyone thought they could truly manage it.

Good for them. No cyclical mass layoffs and any paycuts always happened in the c-suite first. The U.S. game industry could stand to learn a thing or two from their Japanese predecessors, I think it's safe to say.

Alright, enough cheerleading for a faceless multinational megacorp... I just had to give credit where it was due so that I can still take myself seriously the next time I criticize the games industry for inevitably shitting its pants again.

95% of the time he plays the straight-man and then the other 5% of the time he behaves like an unhinged lunatic. It's the perfect recipe for cultivating an audience of viewers who love to torment him with his own words. After that it's just one step further to put words he didn't say into his mouth and see how he reacts to getting gaslit.

I make it sound like a cynical ploy but really this kind of thing is just intrinsically tied to Jerma's online personality. Lightning in a bottle. If you ask me the most impressive part's actually how he manages to stay in control of the situation and not get totally swallowed up by the increasingly bizzare behavior of his viewership.

(You've not been good)