This is not a function graph, though. It is a Connected Scatterplot.
Short of suing me for it (after finding out who I am and making sure I own the games), how would they do that for non-DRM games whose installer lives on my hard drive and that I can install whenever I want, wherever I want?
Is the “everything is a rental and you use it on sufferance until we say so” bullshit so ingrained now that people are no longer able to conceive of other ways for things to work?
More than one group of custodians, ideally with conflicting interests, watching one another? Essentially some system of checks and balances?
Different worldviews, new ways to reason about existing issues, raised awareness of other problems, cultures, people. And straight out more knowledge about many things (even if you read only fiction). Overall, you can move forward from a perhaps more simplistic version of the world.
Also, just the increased ability to read and understand stuff should not be underestimated. Many people can read, as in putting letters together to form words, but not read in the sense of understanding anything beyond the most basic of sentences. You’ll get scammed less often. get better deals, etc.
Was going to post this as well. Just replayed it again, never gets old!
OTOH, if you build a playlist manager for playlists everyone can add to, you make sure nothing anyone adds will break it…
Euthanasia by bedbug
Jesus! Fucking! Christ!
As someone who fears bugs and is browsing Lemmy before going to sleep, my nightmares thank you, good sir!
1643 day streak here, and it still looks like it’s going to die on me any second now. I guess it was just an icon change (but… why?!)
How about, instead of spending millions on marketing and exercises or graphical virtuosity that do nothing in terms of playability, innovation and fun, focusing on what matters and do games where $70 still turns a huge profit?
Alan Dix’s book (aptly named “Human Computer Interaction”) is quite good, even if somewhat old by now. HCI is an actual academic discipline with, yes, tons of theoretical and empirical results that govern what a good UI should be. Many of which are indeed grounded in psychology, others in physiology, etc (what we call Human Factors). There is a whole special interest group of the ACM just about it: SIGCHI.
Do not confuse this with fashion/trends/taste. These change, resulting in widely different possible flavors of UI over the years. But the underlying principles are the same.
Another thing to remember is that the fact that Apple, Google, or someone else implemented an UI in a certain way doesn’t mean they are following best practices and guidelines. Novelty sells, even if at the end of the day it does a worse job of things…
Edit: added link to SIGCHI
I wish that would work. My Epson was always on and the ink kept drying. After it clogged the print head once too many times and I could not fix that in less than 10min, I just gave up on the piece of crap. I now go to a print shop to print what I need which, admittedly, nowadays is just a couple of times a year.
Nice try, Guybrush!
A rifle scope that can see through walls.
Neat! I’ve always been a fan of roguelikes!
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Nicely Done! How did you do the eyes and mouth? These are a challenge to me. My default World be to sew some felt to it, but I hate sewing…
That makes total sense. Still, it removes the pressure of choosing a server, since migration and use of several servers becomes seamless. As it is right now, there’s the resilience and future lifespan of an instance to consider, plus fragmentation of your identify as defined not by your username but by your actual “online persona” constructed from your posts, etc. (unless you’re really going for alts, of course). You can create other identities on other instances but they are separate, you “lose” your posts, etc. if something happens. if I understood correctly, that becomes less of an issue with nomadic identity?
IMO, this seems exactly what the fediverse needs to thrive. The whole “choose a server” thing is a big disincentive to adoption by most people.
Some posts not appearing in communities?
So, yesterday I made a comment to c/retrogaming, as a reply to this post. I can see the comment in my profile, and following the link shows the particular thread I commented on, so all is fine there. When I visit the community, though, I cannot find either my comment or that thread, as replies to the above post...