I’m fine with stressful, high risk gameplay, it’s when the game asks me to spend a bunch of time doing something I don’t find fun that it loses me.

Subnautica in particular did this to me. All my friends who like Outer Wilds told me to play Subnautica. I loved the exploration and story, but I didn’t care at all about building a fancy base that I would never see again after finishing the game. There was a particular point where I was bottlenecked on finding a single resource type that was located in one single place in a giant ocean, which turned out to be a place I felt I was being told not to go yet (trying to avoid spoilers). I thought i was being dense, just not learning what the game was trying to teach me, so I ended up having to look it up, only to realize the game did an absolutely piss poor job of directing me toward the resource. My entire experience was soured by that.

It was after that that I decided single player survival crafters are not my thing. I like them as a multiplayer experience, because you can amortize busy work across multiple people, and socialize as you do it, but by myself I’d rather do anything else. I get it if someone finds it relaxing to do that kind of thing, but it’s not for me.

I’ll find a way.

Do I teleport in during the day above ground? Then I’m definitely going to fall to my death.

“Would you consider the middle to be closer to one side, or the other?”

Man, I really wanted to like this game, I love the setting, art, music, and overall aesthetics, but I’m having trouble finding the fun.

When I first heard about it, I was hoping it was basically a linear road down the coast, with a story to experience along the way (kinda like the boat/car sections of HL2). But then it turned out to be a repetitive grind. There are some mechanics I think are novel and add a lot of fun (ex. the Quirks system), but 90% of what I was doing in the game felt unfun and pointless so I could eventually return to the garage and do it all again.

I for one immediately accept this conclusion at face value.

Phew, from the title it wasn’t clear what “unlock” meant. I thought they were trying to force carriers to backdoor everyone’s phones and make the conents of any phone available upon request by law enforcement in a timely manner.

Yeah, but I would say it’s less important that you can find a win-win solution, and more important to get in the mindset that advocating for your own interests is not the same as being selfish.

A lot of people fail at negotiating because they don’t want to be seen as selfish, but especially when it comes to negotiating with a corporation, they’re banking off of you feeling that way. Know your worth, and make sure you’re fairly compensated.

On a related note, this is also the point of a union/collective bargaining and why companies hate them. They know that some people are better advocates for themselves than others, but they know that most people are bad at it. Divide and conquer.

Sure, yeah, I would say you should only trust stable, well refined filesystems as a daily driver. Which is why I was curious what set ext4 apart from the rest for you.

That’s fine, I just consider that the absolute bare minimum for a FS to be usable.

This is an article I always reference for job offer negotiations, but the principles would apply to negotiation in general. The most important concept to understand is: you can split a pot between two parties in ways that result in both of you getting more of what you want.

I understand ext4 being dependable, but favorite? I’m curious what makes it your favorite.

“Are…are we the baddies?”

I like having more ways to support the project, but I don’t think “license” is the correct terminology they should use, unless they intend to release paid-only features which I’m not a fan of at all.

Hah, did you ask each of them if they think they need a manager? Were they intentionally trying to convince you they had no use at the company?

Valve is a master class in how to run a company.

I wouldn’t go that far, they have had their fair share of criticisms of their unique corporate structure. The “no one reports to anyone else” model has seen many complaints of cliques, redundant work, wasted efforts, abandoned projects, and popularity contests to ensure you receive a good review at the end of the year.

They’re successful, yeah, but so are a lot of toxic work environments. Hopefully they’ve improved.

Moving faster than the speed of light is not just impossible, it literally doesn’t make any sense…but neither does this creature, so…

One option is to try cooking them low and slow. Reduce the cooking temp and go for longer. This will take some trial and error.

Another option is to poke them part way through, before they split, to give steam a way to get out.

Finally, try keeping a close eye on them. When one splits, take them out before the rest follow, they’re done.

Politicians are always responsible for deaths of their constituents as an indirect result of their actions, it’s just a question of how many. We set up legislative and judicial systems to address this question rather than relying on mobs and vigilantes. It’s called living in a civilized society. It’s not about decency, it’s about creating a safe society we want to live in. Personally I don’t want to live in the wild west where anyone with a gun can play judge, jury, and executioner; you may feel differently.

But I agree that the recent SCOTUS ruling is worrying, because it does appear to put the president above the law. As JFK put it, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. Not good, not preferable…but inevitable.

They had the same or fewer employees when they were making games, though.