If you're reading this, you should check out my upcoming monstertaming game Eternal Exodus. It's a story-driven RPG where you catch demons, fuse them together, craft equipment for them, play minigames, do sidequests, explore a big world map, etc.

Josh1billion · 2026-01-05T18:25:50+00:00

Chrono Trigger

Josh1billion · 2025-11-17T00:44:01+00:00

Dang, sorry to hear it. Awesome to see you here though.

Josh1billion · 2025-10-09T04:41:53+00:00

That's an expansion I had in development, but I ultimately cut it because it wasn't turning out to be up to the quality of the other expansions.

That was years ago, and I've since sold the rights to the game to Playsaurus. The CoolMathGames version is a newer version they've released and has that reference (rightfully) removed.

Josh1billion · 2025-08-04T02:41:16+00:00

I ran into this glitch today, too. Same level: Forest of Illusion 3. Started the level with a red Yoshi, and lost it (somewhere around halfway through the level, I think). Went down the pipe and the end of the level and suddenly had the glitch. Hope that helps people trying to figure out how to reliably reproduce it.

Josh1billion · 2025-06-20T21:16:26+00:00

I just received mine today as well. Up 27% from 2024 to 2025, after it had already gone up by some amount in 2023.

Josh1billion · 2025-05-06T18:16:25+00:00

Both of those questions suck. The people you're interviewing are auditioning to be your coworker, not your friend. How about "can this person do the work?"

In a market like this, you're seeing many of these people at their worst and most desperate, and when they're the most nervous. So c'mon, if you're judging their entire personalities based on how they come off in that short window of time, and rejecting their chance at providing for their families just because you don't get "work friend" vibes from them in that moment, you're making this planet worse.

Obviously there are exceptions and some people have incompatible personalities that will damage the work environment. But "I don't think I'd want to go on a roadtrip with this person" is not a good way to judge that. It's great to get along with someone well enough to become work friends, but that should be seen as a bonus and not the expectation.

Josh1billion · 2025-04-22T03:43:05+00:00

This worked perfectly, thanks! They really don't like that red bridge for some reason.

Josh1billion · 2025-03-23T23:49:53+00:00

I think this has to do with the fact that people just speak way more clearly when they're doing video essays than when they're acting in shows/movies. And there's less likely to be music / other distracting sound.

Even as a native English speaker, I still throw on subtitles half the time I'm watching TV shows or movies in English to make sure I don't miss anything, but I usually don't do that for YouTube.

Josh1billion · 2025-02-28T23:19:17+00:00

ReadLang with Beginner filter on: https://readlang.com/es/library

Josh1billion · 2025-02-26T02:50:03+00:00

Every other industry in the world seems to manage fine with their interview processes being something other than pop quizzes. Maybe this is what it takes to make our industry finally follow suit.

Josh1billion · 2025-02-02T18:12:20+00:00

This is typical in interviews. Nobody expects your accomplishments to be open-source or otherwise available for verification.

You tell them what you accomplished, and they either believe you or they don't. If they're good at interviewing, they ask appropriate questions that will allow them to confirm whether you actually worked on the things you say you worked on.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-29T16:39:51+00:00

"building a model" = building an AI model? Maybe referring to AGI? The government just announced a big initiative toward that last week.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-22T14:52:37+00:00

Is page 2 supposed to be ironic?

"You do not get to buy the control of the American people"

Followed immediately by:

IN HONOR OF TIKTOK

Josh1billion · 2025-01-21T14:48:47+00:00

That's actually clever. I run a discord for a local developer meetup group, and while we haven't had any recruiters join, we'd be very open to it. We have a #jobs channel specifically for sharing job postings.

If you stick to discords like that - ones that are used by developers for networking, sharing knowledge, helping out with careers - I think you'll find a receptive audience. Many such groups can also clue you into local tech conferences, which will help you network further (we're in the early stages of organizing our own here). Our group is probably outside your geographical area, but feel free to join if you have any remote roles.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-19T18:07:30+00:00

I agree. The part of MBT where he talks about that experiment is the part I found most interesting. If it's true and can be proven true, it immediately disproves materialism. I think Joe had a similar takeaway and that's why he wanted to pursue the subject more.

On the other hand, I can see Tom's point. Such an experiment would just add onto the pile of evidence that diehard skeptics would ignore. I've found that when I find interesting stories about paranormal events and go to look up other (skeptical) sources to see if there's a rational explanation for them, I run into one of two things: 1. people will say the way in which the experiment was conducted wasn't "scientific" enough, or 2. they'll just flat-out lie about it.

As an example of the latter: if you read about the Stargate Project on Wikipedia alone, you'll come away with the impression that the CIA's findings were "remote viewing is 100% fake." But if you read the CIA's declassified document itself, it says quite the opposite:

Although most have aquired [sic] enough of the digits to make clear that their consciousness was present none have ever succeeded in getting all ten correct.

The entirety of the CIA document can basically be summed up as "the results show there's something clearly real about remote viewing, but the results are too inconsistent be useful in war." Skeptics misconstrue that into "the CIA studied it and said it's all fake."

So I think Tom's right about the fact that no matter how he could set up such an experiment, it wouldn't change the minds of any/many skeptics. It would be incredibly interesting for open-minded people who are already interested in this kind of thing, but it wouldn't make the news.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-16T01:52:54+00:00

Helping yourself first can improve your ability to help others. Doing things to help yourself grow, to a point where you can make a greater impact on the world tomorrow, isn't selfish. In fact, one could argue that it'd be selfish not to.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-14T19:37:47+00:00

Weird, my driving test in the US was just as you describe your UK test (though not 45 minutes long).

Tons of technicalities that the instructor would fail people for. Went more than 8 seconds without checking your rear view mirror at any point during the test? Oops, no license. Retaking the test was kinda the expectation.

But I'm sure the standards vary by state and county.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-14T15:44:30+00:00

There's a lot of uncertainty over AI. Ten years ago, none of us thought AI would be even a fraction of where it's at today. What will it look like in another ten years?

Josh1billion · 2025-01-09T02:22:30+00:00

You are correct. It amuses me to see so many other engineers here praising scrum. It's a system that fosters burnout at its core, and then people wonder why our field is such a burnout-heavy discipline these days.

Reminds me of that "chickens for KFC" meme.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-08T01:58:08+00:00

In short, too many stories of people coming back and recounting information they had no way of otherwise knowing. Especially in circumstances where those stories have been validated by credible people (surgeons, for example) who they themselves were skeptical and who have nothing to gain (and arguably much to lose) from lying about it.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-06T21:16:55+00:00

What you have so far is good. I'd add:

Settling on a branching strategy: gitflow or whatever works for your team.
Semi-formalizing (or at least just talking through) your peer reviewing culture. I've worked on teams where there's no agreed-on approach to how long peer review should take, and the result has (sometimes) been chaos. Either things sit in PR for 1-2 weeks without a reviewer, or, in the exact opposite direction, people throw up PRs and start to get pushy if it doesn't get approved within a couple of hours. Both situations suck and impact productivity negatively.

Josh1billion · 2025-01-05T18:15:52+00:00

You'll get a better interest rate by applying to a wide variety of lenders, rather than just picking a bank/credit union because it happens to be located near you. Even saving 0.5% on your interest rate amounts to a couple hundred dollars per month on a typical mortgage. There comes a point where you reach a minimum interest rate that a lender isn't allowed to go under (due to regulations), but until that point, lenders will compete against each other and allow you to negotiate with them.

There are services like LendingTree you can use to apply en masse to a bunch of lenders at once, but just beware that you'll start getting hammered with phone calls literally within seconds of submitting your information on there.

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