I self-inflicted some pain like that for me as well.

I got close to the end of Act 2 and my friend said that the difficulty was too easy and I was breezing pass everything and to switch it to Expert. Well guess what. I didn’t level, upgrade or put my Pictos in a way to deal with it. So most of my boss fights turned from a close-win into 45 minutes of me dying a lot. Like, I’d be one-shotted so often.

I then took some time and then cashed in some Lumina for stories and then actually put some strats in and went through the skill tree. I think it was worthwhile in the end but it totally changed the experience for me.

I really wanted to like the remakes.

Playing the FF7 remake felt really dated in terms of a lot of things. After playing God of War and others, the cinematics felt cheesy and less cohesive now in FF … I didn’t care for much of any of the voice acting. A lot of the side quests didn’t fit “in world” to me. The heck do I care about some lost kittens? Why am I figuring out this time-wasting crane control? … Also, not sure what’s going on with the “ghosts”. I didn’t like the combat and found it annoying. Which is strange because I enjoyed FF15: The backstreet boys edition and even Guardians.

On the positives, I felt if I could take a screenshot of any part of the game and sent it back to the younger version of me … My mind would be blown. I’d just stop the game several times to just admire the scenery and the look.

Everyone loves FF 7 remake and all that and I know I’m in minority but it put me off Rebirth. I’m happy other people enjoy it now though. I just wish I was one of them.

“Le Grill? What the hell is that?!”

I’ll join you in the downvotes. There’s many reasons to hate YouTube. Asking them to pay for video content to everyone for free is a bit silly.

I’m also not saying you shouldn’t use alternatives or run an ad-blocker. Those are cool. I just find it funny how someone is saying: “I get some benefit in paying for this service” results in such backlash, lol.

How you enjoying After: Earth? I’m finding myself being less interested with every new episode.

I’m sure whoever is in charge into the government, who will have no interests in this, is going to definitely look into Tesla. /s

Anyone else identifying a lot with these ADHD and Autism posts more than they should?

Never been diagnosed with either but I’m also like 40 something now. Wasn’t something we checked when we were younger.

I take a bus and then walk … half hour or so on the bus and half hour or so of walking. If I drive it’s like 35-45 minutes?

However, I’m always more tired when I arrive there. Also, I’m not a fan of finding parking and stuff around the office.

What do you mean by first iteration of a series? Do you mean the first entry into the franchise?

I mean we can argue about the degree you can change a go-kart game but I think Nintendo does try different things. Mario Kart 64 was 3D with 4 players, Mario Kart DS did online play, Double Dash did the two drivers in one kart. Mario Kart Wii did motion controls. Mario Kart World Tour (I haven’t tried) but it has this open world driving concept, I think?

They also do milk their IP and they do release a lot of sequels like Mario Party and such.

However, at the same time Nintendo takes risks with their console/games like no other, I feel.

I won’t back their legal strategies though, I don’t think anybody should.

I have an AWS friend and he says most of these stats are BS. I think he said an AWS report claimed that a team increased productivity by X% by using AI. He was like, that’s awesome, I know that team and I’m gonna speak to them! They said they basically felt like it improved productivity by that amount and submitted that to the survey the higher ups sent around.

Bungie did a lot of dodgy shit to screw people out of their stuff. I think it was either the president or CEO did a lot of shady shit while destroying the heart of Bungie.

No problems joining you in saying “fuck you Bungie”.

I liked the Mission Impossible: Fallout too.

It’s what I use when I need a bit of a UI for some things. I use the terminal mostly but Lazygit is great.

Yeah, I didn’t see the use for them until I got further into it over just cloning. Your worktree “folders” share the same git history and stuff. So you can stash in one and apply in the other. If you do a fetch in one, it fetches for all of them.

Whether it’s worth it for others to learn these just for those things is hard to say. I picked it up simply because I was bored and wanted to pick up a new “thing”.

I will just say that things in tech change a lot in general. That’s just the nature of it.

If I can do one small thing that makes people feel better, then why wouldn’t I do it?

I don’t necessarily see that as a connection to a measure of competency. It seems you do and you probably have good reasons to believe so and I would say that I haven’t experienced that.

If it uses master and it’s too much trouble to get people to switch. It stays master until we can coordinate.

If I’m starting a new project I use main.

Why?

It doesn’t take much to do and it avoids any misunderstandings or arguments and we’ve got work to do. I don’t particular care if you guys are “stuck” on master. If that’s what it is and everyone wants to keep it that way, I don’t have enough will to change it. If it’s under my control, I will change it.

apart from not having a car

I think they were implying that if that was not something that was negotiable then you could move onto reducing red meat intake.

Factorio is a game where I’ll spend so much time and getting pretty far. Then I’ll “refactor” some parts for efficiency. Then I get like a new science and I’ll be like, I can’t make this work and give up.

Then I’ll start again later thinking I’ll get it right the next time!

Although, if I had my robo flying stuff set up correctly then this wouldn’t be an issue.

I mean, he’s said before that shitty code doesn’t make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have “bad” code and that it doesn’t matter and people should just make games.

I think I understand your overall sentiment. Just wanna boot up games and not think about settings, compatibility, framerates and stuff. I know what you mean.