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Hmm, there's a (pro second amendment) group called Black Guns Matter. I gotta wonder, according to the socjus rules of play is that a group they're gonna support or oppose?
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Oh, a useful domain name: w3schools .dev . Cause I always forget the proper URL. :P
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@maiyannah Got a link? Because I honestly can't find this on https:// en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Bakelite
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@maiyannah @purplehippo And if you're unlucky it actually is asbestos (as well).
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@maiyannah Just curious, which paragraph? Because I scanned the English WP article for formaldehyde and it doesn't seem to mention it being freed at high temperatures. (Not that I'm doubting that it can emit formaldehyde since I've found mention of that on a few sites and it makes sense due to how bakelite is formed.)
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@maiyannah @camoceltic Gotta wonder how much of the development budget went into DRM and how much into making a game that people want to pay the requested price for.
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To be fair, for a semi-popular language like D or Haskell that's essentially a community project without a big juicy sponsor behind it this is kind of what I expect. But D and Haskell aren't being promoted as the big "everyone switch to this" language that will replace C++. Now C++ has a fair amount of suck as well, library installation is painful except under Linux (distros are effectively C++'s package repositories), linting and such requires waiting for compilation (as opposed to being on-the-fly like in Java/C#), error messages can be a puzzle. But C++ has a lot of very mature tooling around it that makes programming in it while not painless generally as smooth as possible given the constraints of the language. For most users C++ is not a matter of "curl | sh" (yes, Rust's official installation method is curl | sh), it's "install Visual Studio and check the C++ option" or "install kdevelop and g++" (assuming that's not already a dependency). From the little bit I've seen so far Rust just feels a lot of years, probably decades, away from being an actual contender in most shops where C++ is used.
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So I tried out Rust today, just for the heck of it. For a language that's being promoted as the big threat to C++ I gotta say the onboarding process is on the same level as not-terribly-popular languages like Haskell and D. "Here's a command prompt tool that will download stuff for you. Oh, and it can't install in another dir than a fixed location in your homedir. Editor support in VS Code kinda works but it feels like I need a command prompt all the time anyway (to be fair I get the same idea with D but again, D's not exactly worthshakingly popular).
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@maiyannah Oh, that I know. And I understand why it's so utterly obsessed with safety and filling out everything in triplicate. The user unfriendly bit is more that the documentation seriously utterly sucks (you pretty much need to constantly reference the standard), the standard lib sucks (no regexes, no type for a date (only Day_Number, Month_Number and Year_Number) and the package ecosystem sucks (central listing of packages, what's that?).
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Every time I try Ada out of curiosity I come to the same conclusion: it's the most user unfriendly programming language short of esolangs.
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Seriously, a AAA title as labor of love in steam awards? It'd make me cynical but I already maxed out that stat.
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Heh, can't have a steam sale without a technical SNAFU I guess. Browsing steam in a regular browser gives me a different language every time I reload. Unfortunately I don't speak Russian or Chinese. Luckily sales blurbs are rarely translated from English. :P
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@maiyannah Rules are all online. But more importantly it's what my group plays. Personally I don't have strong opinions yet due to lack of experience.
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You know, it's great that you can see all the important stuff in the Pathfinder core rulebook online. But there's one thing you can do with the good old print book that you can't do with an electronic book: give someone a concussion.
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@ninjawedding Bonus points for each design pattern integrated above 3.
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My prediction for tonight: a guy in a big chair will call for his cat, a lot. Said cat is nowhere to be seen.
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@maiyannah @purplehippo @mangeurdenuage Guess the cost of living in Canada must be a lot lower than in NL cause here the modal income (which is supposed to mean the income most people have and is as I understand 78% of the average income) is 2.100 EUR per month, net income. Making 3.768 (don't know if that's pre or post tax) per month would be pretty cushy though. It's not rich, but it's a very solid income.
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@mangeurdenuage Usually these kinds of orgs are really good at collecting money and really bad at distributing it. Well, the big artists usually get paid decently but obviously there are some hoops to jump through as an artist and smaller artists may not know. And depending on which country you are in you can't tell the org not to charge for your music.
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@maiyannah @camoceltic Loading might negatively impact the experience of watching those very important animations.
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@camoceltic @maiyannah Three second cutscenes? That's generous. Wasn't industry standard to have about a minute of pre-match trash talk and "woo, look this thing is scary views of the boss"?
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