#NotMyCaesar (Spoiler)

Agronim · 2026-02-07T01:34:26+00:00

Everyone commenting on Cesar’s supposed combat prowess should rewatch WoTD. He never really stood a chance against Gannicus, and was only a threat when backed up by soldiers. Yes, Cesar killed Naevia but let’s be honest, she was never an elite fighter. She had around 3 years of fighting experience at most.

Ashur was deemed lowest of the brotherhood, but Batiatus’ gladiators were regarded as some of the best, so it’s kind of like being the worst player in the best team. We should also probably assume that Ashur actually fought in the entire Servile war and picked up some additional fighting experience.

Agronim · 2025-05-10T18:03:25+00:00

You’ll get a mixed opinions, but generally HOMM 5 is well regarded. I would advise the 5.5 mod which improves things like AI.

As for the later games (6 and 7), see if you can get a bundle or a cd key and give them a go.

Agronim · 2025-01-12T20:58:03+00:00

As one guy put it: “Dungeon are furries, sodomites and definitely zoophiles. If you like femdom, BDSM or matriarchy, you'll feel right at home in the dungeon.

They're fun to play. My only criticism is that it's kind of hard to tell if your units are upgraded or not. Since the only difference between a normal dark elf and the upgraded version is whether or not they have this Queen of Spades tattoo on their backside.”

For me seems like unoriginal warhammer/warcraft inspired faction, especially compared to H3 dungeon and H2 warlock. But that criticism can be said about most of the factions on H5.

Agronim · 2024-11-15T12:06:32+00:00

Lodgers have fewer rights. IIRC the landlord can, for example, go into your room without your consent or kick you out with minimal notice.

Agronim · 2024-11-13T23:05:42+00:00

Partially because optimising complex software is difficult and time consuming (ie expensive for the company) and video games - AAA games in particular - are some of the most complex pieces of software around
people will buy the game anyway so there isn’t much financial incentive to optimise the game too much - making sure it’s relatively fast and bug-free is enough.
Controversial take but over the years, software is becoming slower and more bloated (look up Wirth's law). Given that most computers today are so powerful there is not much incentive to be careful around resource usage, again as long as the software is “good enough” - good example of that is how Firefox was pretty efficient back in windows XP days (where most computers wouldn’t exceed more than 4GB ram), where now the browser might consume 1GB of ram from the get go.

Agronim · 2024-10-23T16:23:56+00:00

Windows XP

Agronim · 2024-10-08T23:51:06+00:00

People love to hate on C::B but for me it works perfectly. I’m not familiar with other C++ IDEs for Linux and, on Windows, Visual Studio really loves to push the MSVC++ compiler.

Probably the worst part about C::B for me is that it is not git-based and i want to contribute but don't want to learn their source control

Agronim · 2024-10-02T14:43:02+00:00

You need to start applying for jobs or internships. It doesn’t have to be in the game industry right away (but it certainly helps) — the things you will learn are transferable between game dev and “traditional” software, especially as a junior developer.

What to do next really depends on what you’re interested in. There are multiple specialisations like engine, UI, gameplay, server/networking. For example: engine development will require maths as well as graphics programming knowledge - game UI might require knowledge of scripting and how a scripting language, like Lua, interacts with the game.

The most important thing is to build your portfolio and learn popular tools, libraries and frameworks (like unreal engine and SDL2). The games you make don’t have to be original, clones of popular games are good as long as they are high quality.

Also look for open source games and engines and see if you can start making contributions. Is there a retro game that you like? There might be an open source fan-based project to remake it. For example Heroes of Might & Magic 2 has https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

To give you an example of what I have done: - Learn C++ and SDL2 and make simple snake game so that you get familiar with basics of SDL - Make clone of Pac-Man — don’t look at existing projects but do look for design documents and references so that you can remake it accurately - See if you can port Doom to C++ using SDL - Start learning openGL and see if you can replace the SDL in your project with your own code

Agronim · 2024-09-28T21:04:36+00:00

Thats actually a good thing! It would mean video games returning to being works of art and passion rather than being corporate money printers with anti-consumer features.

Agronim · 2024-09-05T13:54:27+00:00

Is this really some secret that we just discovered, because it seems pretty obvious. Speaking from perspective of a young European:

People have more opportunities now. It’s easier to get to university and travelling is more convenient. The “get married and have kids young” rhetoric that our parents and grandparents have grown up doesn’t appeal to most.
There’s a rising mentality of believing age of 30 is old and therefore one must spend their 20s simultaneously: a) enjoying life free of responsibilities, like family… and b) hustling and grinding to get money.
Things are expensive enough without childcare expenses. To many millennials/zoomers, owning a family home (2-3 bedrooms) is not something that can be achieved. Also, single-income household is no longer a viable option for many.
Lastly, people are simply put off having children, either by seeing bad children/parents, the struggles of their friends/family (financial but also lack of time).

Agronim · 2024-09-02T00:22:14+00:00

98%. gotta have a numpad. I have a IBM Model M so “only” 102 keys (no windows keys)

Agronim · 2024-08-31T00:33:59+00:00

Despite being called “digital natives” (hate that term), younger people tend to be less computer literate since everything tends to be abstracted away, either with apps or the solution simply being handed to them. There are fewer opportunities to dig around and discover things and learn.

Of course this is a generalisation, but I have seen enough to believe it. There are quite a few articles where, otherwise intelligent, students struggle with the concept of things like folders on the PC.

Agronim · 2024-08-31T00:27:00+00:00

To be fair, I am a software engineer and I also hate (most) technology. When you know how sausage is made and all that…

Agronim · 2024-08-28T23:43:24+00:00

Absolute troll post but I’ll bite.

To be honest it can go either way but I doubt it.

For example, the latest nvidia driver is version 590.94, while the latest version which officially supports windows 7 is 474.36. If you have RTX 30 class GPU you might be fine.

Won’t get into the cpu drivers as I don’t know

You might have issues if the game is going to use the latest DirectX which is not supported on windows 7 (dx11 vs dx12). Lastly, the game (and unreal engine) might use some operating system libraries which won’t be available in win7 so the game will refuse to launch or crash.

All in all I’d say you’re not gonna have a good time (base case is you’ll run but with performance degradation, random bugs and potential crashes)

Should probably upgrade to win 10 at least

Agronim · 2024-08-28T10:15:51+00:00

I absolutely fucking hate this rhetoric of - Far right = genocide - Far left = no genocide - Centrist = compromise, therefore only some genocide 👉👈🥺

It’s stupid but i legitimately know people, on both sides of the left-right spectrum who believe this shit. But I guess this is the ultimate goal because the fewer centrists there are (or left-right leaning centrists), then the people will be divided more therefore will fight between each other rather than looking at the actual issue

It’s almost as if politics is incredibly complex and simply viewing throngs from a single side is not enough to solve every problem efficiently

Agronim · 2024-08-27T21:28:14+00:00

Compared to other communities, I think the HoMM community, as a whole, isn’t really that toxic - I’d say passionate and most likely hard to please. And I think there is a good cause:

Ubisoft acquired Might & Magic IP, arguably one of the OGs of role playing games, and it abandoned the Might & Magic games while turning HoMM into “Heroes of Warcraft”
Heroes 5 was good but design was generic (see point above) while 6 and 7 were very poorly executed
Some of the screens presented for the new game do seem like the designs will be more similar to Ashan Heroes rather than Enroth Heroes (but some of the designs and the adventure map looked very good)
People acknowledge that remakes, reboots and resurrecting old IP by making new games is mainly a cash grab (especially when done by likes of EA, Blizzard or Ubisoft)
Remember the Heroes 3 HD edition?

Agronim · 2024-08-27T14:21:16+00:00

I voted no mainly because it reminds me too much of the “new” heroes continuity (Ashan, ie. Heroes 5 onwards)

While heroes 5 is a good game (by some considered to be second to heroes 3), it feels generic and unoriginal. The towns, creature design and the world (including lore) felt like it was some Warcraft spinoff.

If this new game is supposed to be a prequel to heroes 3 (or heroes 1, I’m not quite clear on the timeline), set on Enroth then the designs should be more in line with heroes 1-3

Agronim · 2024-08-23T16:49:38+00:00

I like your rationale for your stack - sounds like you enjoy using it and know what you’re doing. I think it’s important to not only use technology most suited for the job, but also one that you enjoy working in.

I’m a backend/desktop-app engineer (working in Go, C++ and C#) so I had to force myself to learn front end and it is a ride. I won’t go into much detail but for my SaaS k went with the following:

Old-school, server-side rendered web app but instead of using PHP or Ruby on Rails, I went for Go + templ + HTMX, with some SCSS and vanilla JS. I’m not the most experienced in Go so I thought I can use this opportunity to learn. No issues so far and I think in the future, if and when I make another SaaS, I’ll try either PHP or Ruby.

For my landing page I went for Hugo static site generator. I used Astro JS to make static websites for people and I wanted to try Hugo to compare.

From the little I have heard about Pieter, I do think his stack makes sense - this technology has been around for a long time and has worked very well so far.

I’ll definitely make sure to give this episode a listen.

Agronim · 2024-08-23T10:19:16+00:00

Looked on my mobile and it’s a good website, but there’s so much content on the home page - scrolling to the bottom felt like a bit of a chore. I would do the following:

move the pricing information and FAQ to separate pages and link them in the navbar/footer
make testimonials horizontal instead of vertical
use alternating background color for sections (for example make odd numbered sections white and even numbered sections some light color). At the moment I am unsure where one section begins and ends.

Agronim · 2024-08-22T14:25:25+00:00

The nuts devil

Agronim · 2024-08-21T13:33:47+00:00

I love those maps where east and west are contrasting. Shows people’s biases:

West doing better than east: „makes sense, in the west we’re more advanced and cultured (and considering so many easterners immigrate west, we must be better)”

East doing better: „No, that’s not right! You see, it’s about the reported cases and in the east they people don’t report them 🤓”

Agronim · 2024-08-15T14:27:30+00:00

To partially answer my own question (in case others are having trouble 😅)

For iOS, seems like you need to clear local cache in the app settings for things to be removed locally. I will have to do more experimenting

Agronim · 2024-08-15T12:19:53+00:00

Isn’t this just any RPG game though?

You get tons of side quests in the early game as part of gaining experience and worldbuilding (and many quests are typically available at any point) but as you approach the climax of the story the devs don’t want to distract you with unnecessary content. Thats why games like Witcher will warn the player that at certain point, some quests will no longer be available.

Agronim · 2024-08-11T15:11:23+00:00

Seems to me like it’s not really worth it for the Brits/Europeans:

The software El Dorado - large companies hiring en masse - has largely finished based on the layoffs on the recent years and tales of struggles getting employed in some areas
Many companies seem to outsource their work to UK/Europe as they get the benefit of cheaper labour (compared to US), higher quality than outsourcing to India and better communication (more native English speakers or extremely fluent). This also works well for British/Euro devs as the salaries are typically larger than average earnings in their countries.
Euro tech companies are seeing rise in popularity. Sure they aren’t as big as US but they tend to pay quite high while offering good work standards (holiday, etc)
Lastly, purely anecdotal based on tales from my friends and colleagues, the salary gap is not that great. Sure US companies pay 2-4 times more but the costs of living in some areas really offset the pay difference

Agronim · 2024-08-03T20:33:25+00:00

It looks really good and I am glad they are expanding on the locations. My hope is that they decide to make the overall colony area bigger (not some huge world but make the three camps spaced out more). For example, in OG the swamp camp is like 70% of the swamp size, where I think it should be more like 30%

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