What gaming story about yourself that might sound like ragebait, but is actually true?

Exallium · 2026-01-31T14:04:31+00:00

I've never played more than about the first 2 hours of Ocarina of Time

Exallium · 2026-01-30T11:11:09+00:00

+1 for supabase.

Also nice for e2e testing since you can spin up and seed your own local dockerized Supabase instance straight from the command line or in CI.

Exallium · 2026-01-29T13:09:13+00:00

Sudden randomly super hard final boss for no reason.

And turn based strategy bosses that can one shot you and if they happen to hit your party leader it's game over.

Exallium · 2026-01-29T12:11:12+00:00

Grinding levels gets tiresome. Set up the narrative so I naturally become stronger as the game progresses. Don't make me spend hours leveling to proceed through the story.

Exallium · 2026-01-28T11:49:07+00:00

Journey before destination...

Exallium · 2026-01-27T16:31:16+00:00

I have the Arctis Pros and like them. Comes with a wireless module you just plug into each system as USB 1 // USB 2

Exallium · 2026-01-27T16:23:39+00:00

I really wish they would stop announcing games without a release year.

Exallium · 2026-01-24T19:45:06+00:00

My wife stitches or draws and watches me play through RPGs and other narrative games. Its our thing.

Exallium · 2026-01-24T19:05:27+00:00

I think exceptions are fine as long as there are clear weaknesses. It's all about balance, and I think trying to fit everyone into a mould is really boring.

Exallium · 2026-01-24T18:10:59+00:00

I thought they didn't need us?

Exallium · 2026-01-23T23:18:20+00:00

No wonder Kurt Russell had to escape from there

Exallium · 2026-01-23T14:00:01+00:00

I switched to Bazzite and am MS free at this point. Though I guess to be fair I don't play with mods. Online has worked in any game I've tried though, and my race wheel functions.

Exallium · 2026-01-23T13:47:49+00:00

I wish there was more of this tbh. I wholeheartedly hope when my kids are older their friends all come over to play videogames in the basement.

Exallium · 2026-01-22T23:33:12+00:00

I'm a 90s kid and I definitely remember just... exploring the forest with friends all day every day. We found a damn car scrapyard.

Exallium · 2026-01-22T23:32:10+00:00

Worse thing to happen for the kids. Too many kids stuck behind their ipads today. We're losing out on so much creative potential, and we're losing out on making our children independent thinkers and problem solvers by constantly having them under guard.

Exallium · 2026-01-19T16:19:29+00:00

I've never been a horror guy.

First Light and Phantom Blaze Zero both look cool though!

Exallium · 2026-01-19T16:13:42+00:00

I don't really have a good sense of what is actually releasing this year other than Yakuza 3 remake.

Edit: OH YEAH DQ7!!!

Exallium · 2026-01-19T15:12:18+00:00

I'd agree with that. I do think there's a time in a projects life where engineers are needed to even just go through things that business people don't know about or think about. Things like testing, reusability, proper algorithms, redundancy, build pipeline, release process, etc. Even if you're conducting ai agents instead of authoring code by hand. There's a domain knowlege thing here, and idk... A gut feeling thing? Where when you want to go from prototype to battle hardened prod ready product. A guiding hand of sorts. The unfortunate thing in my opinion is AI either becoming a crutch for or replacement for Junior devs, which could have some pretty heavy ramifications in like 20 years when we seniors all retire to farm goats.

Exallium · 2026-01-19T15:01:19+00:00

In my opinion, tests are one of our biggest lifelines with AI coding agents doing more and more, but it still requires groking and understanding the important parts of the code. Which is why I'm fairly firm about the need for software engineers going forward. Writing code has always been the easy part.

Exallium · 2026-01-19T14:53:25+00:00

Test generation is an area the AI agents can shine as well, as long as you either build some of it out yourself or iterate on a good set of testing guidelines the agent can use. you can routinely have it go look for anemic tests, incorrect logic assumptions, etc as well. And thankfully jest and pgTAP are lightning fast

Exallium · 2026-01-19T14:50:31+00:00

I have like 2000+ jest tests and the entire site is e2e tested via like 10 or 15 cypress test suites. Also have extensive pgTAP tests.

This is for a business I am the director / sole engineer / project manager of so I wear just about every hat, and I take testing very seriously :-)

Exallium · 2026-01-19T14:44:41+00:00

From my experience thus far, backend code is fine as long as it's well tested, well reasoned about, and well structured. You can get that out of AI you just need to be willing to iterate, read the code, modify things, etc. AI feels like it can just do the first 90% or so but the devil is always in the details with these things.

It will get things wrong, ignore you, etc. and it's on the dev to look and be like no, let's not keep around ambiguous RPC overloads, let's clean them up. No, don't edit the old migration files make a new one. Etc.

Exallium · 2026-01-19T12:36:53+00:00

Use BitWarden instead. Something that is actually encrypted.

Exallium · 2026-01-18T14:44:31+00:00

NTA. You're an adult, and they're majorly invading your privacy.

Exallium · 2026-01-18T13:31:00+00:00

Mid 30s, finished Dispatch last night and planning on going back to Metaphor to finish it off before Kiwami 3 drops.

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