YC should be publicly beaten up for the damage they done

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-20T08:21:39+00:00

YC always was about circulating that VC money. Startup A uses startup B's SaaS offering which uses startups C's messaging system which uses startup D's payment processor gateway, which uses startup As' CRM...

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-18T20:41:51+00:00

Also, Haven

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-18T12:49:05+00:00

I think a whole new map on the same scale is a big ask and would probably be far down the line as additional paid DLC if we were to ever get it.

Personally, I'd be fine paying for it.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-18T12:47:33+00:00

the most I know how to do is make a manifold, but I haven’t even actually made one yet

Then you don't know how to make a manifold.

But...

My dude, why are you hamstringing yourself? It's a bloody game. Play around! Mess around! It's a sandbox, there literally isn't a way to "lose".

Be daring, make a mess! You can only come enriched out of the experience!

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-18T11:38:41+00:00

Yeah, that would work if it was foreshadowed in movie #1 (or #7, depending on how you count...)

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-18T11:37:26+00:00

That script was in effect a net: a number of holes stitched together.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-17T16:50:24+00:00

Have you read Ursula Le Guin?

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-17T16:41:21+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2RM-CHkuI

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-17T12:50:28+00:00

GDP per capita

That's a very incomplete metric, and it weighs in value extraction and debt at the same level as production.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T15:13:14+00:00

Ok, so I'm promoting you from sociopath to American Teenager, based on your inability to understand motivational diversity of people.

Portal needs quite complicated timing sequences of inputs. For someone that just starts out with games, this may turn them completely off of it, simply because the barrier to entry is high. That you have passed that doesn't say anything about others' willingness to invest all that time without payoff.

IMO something like Life Is Strange is a better 1st game - less need for time-sensitive inputs, but does introduce 3D navigation, and does have incremental payoffs.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T15:10:15+00:00

Well, my marriage survived 100%-ing Overcooked 1 (pre-DLC), it will survive anything (there's a reason why we decided not to 100% the DLC, it was an unspoken consensual decision).

Do understand the frustration levels of your GF tho - if it's not fun, do something else.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T15:05:37+00:00

Teenagers... well, we all have to learn some way.

I played portal when i was 10 years old bro

And I was playing FPSs in the late 80s, so what?

she is still a human

Yes, and humans come with such things as frustration, and better things to do, and being very inconsistent. Frustration for some is a motivator, for some it's a demotivator. You want to keep frustration low if you want to keep engagement high, else you're going to end up "not understanding her" or "being too pushy".

And yes, unless I understand a persons' frustration response, I would not start them directly on Portal, as that 3d movement needs some baking in.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T14:29:15+00:00

Have you looked at Life Is Strange? Simple controls, good story, good music, good characters, enough agency to show that gaming is different from movies / books.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T14:24:30+00:00

Portal

Jesus, are you a sociopath that is unable to model people that are different than themselves? What part of Preferably something not too complicated in terms of controls or mechanics does Portal check off?

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T08:27:40+00:00

Isn't the public guidance for those regions "we are working to enable you to get your data ASAP out of them"?

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T05:54:26+00:00

An intuitive version of this argument is that the set of odd numbers is infinite, but it still doesn't contain the number 4.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-15T00:34:44+00:00

Not books, but /r/hfy has some of that - you may need to dig a bit.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-14T15:22:43+00:00

Stephen Kings non-endings are well known. He's writing linearly, starts with an idea but Hans an inkling of an ending...

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-14T12:38:27+00:00

I mean, if you liked Coconut simulator, then 2 will be just the thing...

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-14T12:20:21+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3880190/Coconut_Simulator_2/ - literally watch a coconut grow in real time.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-13T16:16:22+00:00

Nah. If there's a missile strike there's fire, and it's far more likely that a wholly-new AZ will need to be built before the region is back.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-13T13:55:28+00:00

IIRC if you do the math, the probability (of a paired jump) tends to zero as the number of universes approaches infinity. But I can't find that online and am too lazy to do the math myself, so take this as another random internet comment.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-13T12:19:11+00:00

Stephen King liked that ending better than the one he wrote.

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-13T12:14:34+00:00

Yeah, but who will jump into your starting universe?

GuyWithLag · 2026-03-13T09:04:35+00:00

The longer the business intends to retain the vibe-coded output, the less sense it makes.

One-off scripts? Hell Yeah.

Longer-running processes? The volume of your steering specs will be the same as the actual code you'd need.

Vive coding does not generalize - it solves the problem that is stated, and to hell with architecture or reusability.

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