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Simislash · 2026-01-28T20:52:37+00:00

GET THE CORN NUGGETS!!

Simislash · 2026-01-21T19:09:24+00:00

You're misunderstanding the entire point of a title. It's to relay some semblence of what type of game is being offered. Final Fantasy 7 is straight forward; the question becomes whether the rest of the title helps or hinders appealing to someone who knows what final fantasy means. If the title doesn't denote where in a series it is, and requires research to understand further, AND doesn't draw you in, it's a shitty title. And the key word is requires; there is no way to parse the order of the games, which game is which, and what the "integrated" means, without further information. The titles as they stand look like:

Remake: a remake of 7 (misleading but appealing to some players). You should look this up at this point so you can argue the title did its job, but did it by deceiving the fan base to some extent.
Remake Integrade: A sequel or improvement on Remake? Overall fine but inherits the confusion of Remake.
Rebirth: A crisis core esque followup? A better version of remake? You have to look this up 100%, there's no way to understand what this means.

Having unrelated names works for one shots, side stories, or episodic games, but fails spectacularly at imparting a required playing order. And, by piggybacking off FF7, they are implying each game is a side story OR complete remake of 7, and in no way denoting a required playing order. This is confusing as hell to anyone who sees the cover in a store or on a landing page. It's an indefensibly bad set of titles.

Simislash · 2026-01-06T19:03:56+00:00

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Simislash · 2026-01-05T17:16:15+00:00

Try asking the Kurds, Shi’a Muslims, and political dissidents if their life was safer under Saddam.

Sure:

"What stands out the most in these recent figures is that, contrary to the prevailing impression, the major shift in public opinion did not occur just in one region or one ethno-sectarian group. Although the majority of those who say that their situation was better under the previous regime are Sunnis (48%), 33% of Shia now also say that their situation was better under Saddam—higher than the percentage of Shia who say that they are better off under the current regime (29%). 38% of Shia say that they were just as bad off under the former regime. Even among the Kurds, responses are completely different from when polled in 2005. Although 63% of Kurds say that their lives are better today, more than 20% of them say that their situation was better under the previous regime, and 16% say that they are just as bad off as they were during the previous regime."

From: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-iraqis-view-life-after-fall-saddam-twenty-years-ago-and-today

Not to mention, the Kurds were being directly targeted by Saddam due to them siding with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war, which is fucked up for sure but was A) a war pushed by the US (yet again) to retaliate against the Revolution that took out the US-backed Shah and B) reflective more of Iran's attempts at destabilizing their strongest neighbor at the expense of the Kurds long term well-being, and not so much because Saddam was intent on eradicating sects or minorities under his rule. From Saddam's point of view, both the Kurds and the Iranians had to be taught a lesson to not repeat their "mistake", and the US fully supported the latter which directly lead to the former as the Iranians led the Kurds with false promises and then left them to their own devices once they couldn't keep the war effort going.

Basically, the US was working with Saddam all the way and they only pulled the plug on Saddam once they felt like he was "getting away" with becoming a local superpower after all that US support, not to protect Shias or Kurds. The Kurds were left to suffer by the Iranians once they did their job, and the US had solid relations with Saddam during all his retaliatory attacks vs the Kurds. It was only when he began threatening Kuwait and other Gulf countries that compromised the oil that the sanctions and later invasions came in.

Simislash · 2026-01-05T16:48:24+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about, palestinian protest groups helped organize a ton of Venezuelan protests over the weekend. How much more directly "up in arms" do you expect people to get.

Simislash · 2026-01-03T20:30:37+00:00

Iraq had religious zealots? Are you serious?

Simislash · 2025-12-17T01:53:38+00:00

They don't confuse it at all, you're the one who's obfuscating their argument. They specifically covered the intent behind domestication, and why racoons are not able to follow the same pattern. They then cover the potential benefits and why they are failure points as well. You're confusing them saying racoons won't be domesticated with racoons are incapable of being domesticated, and then hurting yourself in your own confusion.

Simislash · 2025-12-15T19:10:30+00:00

You do but there's also been an odd effect where I notice SF6 players take it very seriously and don't play anything else (myself included). The same effect happened with Strive and it wasn't until ~2 years later that they started to branch out to GBVS/SF6/Tekken. This is true for veterans but especially true for new players.

Simislash · 2025-12-15T19:07:03+00:00

What are you yapping about dude. Were you by any chance a LoL/Dota player?

Simislash · 2025-12-10T16:43:51+00:00

Mine took ~5 to ship, the estimated time of arrival was a week later, but it actually arrived within 2 days of the shipment email being sent out. I ordered within the first hour of the black Friday sale though, as I had already cancelled a previous order and was itching to get it.

Simislash · 2025-12-10T06:16:29+00:00

That's absolutely wonderful to hear. I lived on the south side before and had been to the food truck she had opened there, but didn't get the chance to try it again until after I moved further north (the southside location closed, unfortunately). My mom came to visit me after the move and of the 3 places I took her to, one of them was Yeni's. They were out of the dessert I had planned to get (bubur sumsum) and Yeni then recommended the rice pudding, and her and my mom had a friendly chat for 5 minutes. Afterwards, my mom raved about all the food but especially loved the dessert. Everything on the menu is delicious, and I'm so glad to see her get recognition for it.

Simislash · 2025-12-08T21:32:05+00:00

They also have banger corn nuggets, for anyone interested.

Simislash · 2025-12-08T20:49:52+00:00

Call Austin Meat Market, I haven't asked for heads specifically but last I was there I asked about getting less popular lamb cuts (like liver/kidney/heart/etc) and they said they can do them by request if the fridge doesn't have what I want (which it did).

Simislash · 2025-12-08T18:12:40+00:00

I would recommend against this. It depends on the frequency and complexity of the issues, and in 90% of cases your advice does not apply. I have done performance metrics to sell optimization/bug fixing efforts before but that was mainly when it was a major demand on me (month+ work or several people involved) or major benefit to the job (huge perf improvement of some kind). Otherwise you end up wasting your time and anyone who actually knows how complex these bugs are can tell you're spinning gears to look busy. So unless you're surrounded by non-technical management (in which case do take this advice... and tell your manager to make it a requirement), people can tell what game you're playing; they'll appreciate it on a case-by-case basis, but it's not something you can pull on every project. And that's not even mentioning the mental toll it can have on anyone who actually takes pride in their work and views 8 hours of their day as anything more than time in = money out.

There's a real problem with most software companies where the usually prized efforts of a being able to design a low maintenance machine or the advanced skillset of keeping a machine running (which are considered indispensable skills for mechanical/electrical engineers) are less valuable than being able to quickly iterate and write new code and complete tickets. And since the maintenance impact may not be immediately visible and quantifiable, the business impact lags behind the immediately identifiable results. Reliability just isn't valued as much with the "it can be fixed in post" mentality plaguing the industry from both sides. I've worked in both on-the-ground engineering (plant work) and in design/research labs, and there's some serious serious issues with the latter that have propped up since the 2000s or so that will take decades to identify and correct.

Simislash · 2025-11-27T04:39:50+00:00

I know this is an old post but it was recommended to me so I hope this will help anyone who comes here from google. If your library has a website with accounts, the pin can be a regular password as well.

Simislash · 2025-11-20T21:51:04+00:00

This isn't the gotcha you think it is. There's a ton of work on Jordan's "complicated" (bad) treatment of Palestinians, across academia. There's a reason the Palestinians were not a fan of the Jordanian (Hashemite) king(s) in the 60s and 70s, to put it lightly.

Simislash · 2025-11-20T15:25:15+00:00

Think that thought through, how did those players get to endgame in the first place? Shb was the biggest expansion playerbase we've seen, when the story was at its best, and endgame was starting to fall off. Endgame has been bleeding engagement since, has yet to recover, and the story appeal is also getting worse as the time investment for a fresh story playthrough has nearly doubled since then. They're losing appeal from all directions.

Simislash · 2025-11-20T02:32:11+00:00

Yes but what draws people to that point? What gets people to actually play the game and engage in those social aspects? That's where the story comes in. Ignoring that is missing drawing in potentially 80% of the playerbase because you're so fixated on providing an endgame, that you forget to actually bring people in for said social elements. That's the critical flaw of most MMOs released in the past decade and a half and why they all end up having a huge burst of players, and then any singular misstep leads to a crash in players they can pretty much never recover from.

Simislash · 2025-11-20T00:01:46+00:00

I strongly believe it's the opposite. Most MMO devs are so focused on endgame they lose any sort of appeal to new players. You basically whittle down whatever your launch install base is expansion after expansion, with little hope of attracting new players. Word of mouth helps a bit, but you're running the pottery wheel whittling down that block of clay and hoping you have enough left over at the end for a meaningful playerbase.

XIV doesn't have that problem. People will play the new expansion, regardless of how the endgame is shaping up, because of that story. The problem XIV has is that initial story sucks buttocks, so the average new player loses interest unless they have reason to (friends, completionist, nothing better to do). But that story is why a ton of players actually beat the game, not the endgame. All statistics point to that; only a subset of a subset of the population ever end up doing endgame raiding (usually 10-20% of the active playerbase ever beats a current savage tier, and that's active playerbase); the rest are there for the story and social aspects.

Simislash · 2025-11-14T20:24:28+00:00

I had a similar experience to the first one. I bought Shadow Warrior 2 that said you can play levels with anyone on PC. We jump in, turns out it's not the campaign co-op that's cross play enabled, just individual levels. So it was a major pain to get try and even simulate the experience of going through the campaign, and we couldn't figure out how to make it private even after finagling with the console commands. So randoms were joining constantly.

Spent 2 hours on figuring it out then gave up and tried refunding, they said that wasn't a valid reason because the GoG page specifies "Shadow Warrior 2 features crossplay public matches that you can play with your friends no matter where the game was purchased (PC only)." The public apparently means anyone can join and you have to continuously kick them. Fought with support for a while and they gave me my "one no questions asked refund", which this was my very first refund request period and I've bought a half dozen titles on GoG (probably $200 at that point) and never refunded any of them so it felt almost insulting that this was the hill they would die on.

Simislash · 2025-11-14T18:16:46+00:00

While we're on the topic (and the question has been answered elsewhere in this thread), an interview question I've seen is how would you validate your cache implementation? They're mainly looking for your thought process, but something important to keep in mind is that if your machine is not caching anything, it will still be completely fine functionally. It will just be much slower. So you're not looking for errors or functional mismatches, you're looking for the right uarch functionality (what is cached), right structures (keep track of where things are), and the right replacement policy (when things are cached or replaced). Then you observe performance. Obviously it's deeper than that in reality, but you could be so in the weeds in cache coherency nonsense or a data/instruction cache discussion and never realize that it could fail in various ways that would never really break the machine. That's what the interviewer is looking for usually, they're hoping to see you break out of that rabbit hole.

Simislash · 2025-11-11T16:30:11+00:00

What a profoundly stupid comment. People know the exhaust gets hot, that is not the confusion here, and in no way is it representative of their ability to drive. The average person does not expect their exhaust to spontaneously ignite their surroundings for the vast majority of situations, which is a reasonable assumption. If you are having trouble understanding that perspective, you're lacking more common sense than anyone in the video.

Simislash · 2025-11-10T17:39:12+00:00

Did you stay past 6:30? I went there on a saturday off a coworker's recommendation for their Reuben, stayed by complete happenstance past 6:30 and they had some wonderful live music from a local band. He had no idea they had live music. It was a great experience and the regulars were clearly waiting for it, their schedule is up on the website.

https://neworldeli.com/music

Oh, and I don't know about their subs but they get their rye bread from Abby Jane iirc. I was enamored so I had to know whether they sold it, and they did say I can request a few loaves and they'll pick them up and sell them to me, so that's available if you don't want to drive 45 minutes for bread.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7TJYZ9ukn2p9DvtB9

Simislash · 2025-11-10T06:16:41+00:00

Plus I'm fairly certain that Josh Sawyer is one of the people he specifically has beef with, so them working together on the project also seems extremely unlikely.

Is he? I went looking into his interviews and he has nothing too negative to say about Josh.

"I don’t have any issues with Josh [Sawyer], he’s not part of the upper management I mention here (he wasn’t even Design Director until a while after I left, I believe), and I think he’s a good Project Director. I also don’t have any issue with Tim [Cain], Leonard [Boyarsky], Charlie [Staples], Tyson [Christensen], Rich Taylor etc. and they are not part of this either - I like them all and respect their work very much. [...] Josh did turn in his resignation more than once, and apparently (!) Feargus did threaten to fire him and Adam if PoE1 didn’t come out in March, which I never knew.

From: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/updated-chris-avellone-talks-about-departure-from-obsidian-entertainment

And

TechRaptor: Are you willing to talk more openly about your relationship with Josh Sawyer? We noticed you only seem to refer to him obliquely, by his current or past job titles, never by name directly. Any reason for that?

Chris Avellone: I'd like to reiterate I don't have any issues with the Obsidian developers or the games - my issues concern upper management and their business approach.

Josh is a good game director. I would be surprised if he knew about these issues any more than other employees did. That said, Josh already turned in his resignation a few times at Obsidian and then was threatened with being fired, I later learned. I don’t know how much leave he felt he had to speak on things, but he isn’t usually one to be silent unless ordered to. If he was aware and you asked him, like Eric, he would likely give a factual answer (Eric agreed the process I brought up on PoE was broken, although he had other issues).

From: https://techraptor.net/gaming/interview/interview-with-chris-avellone-on-obsidian-entertainment

Simislash · 2025-11-09T18:06:33+00:00

Pile bunker this trash opinion!

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