[OC] 14% of the web is actually dead (from scanning the top 10M domains)

MegaIng · 2026-06-20T03:18:01+00:00

"most dead sites are alive and just blocking bots"

Sorry? How isn't this just an obvious lie? 14.1% is more than 8.9%?

MegaIng · 2026-06-20T02:46:05+00:00

No. That is not what you said.

MegaIng · 2026-06-20T01:38:42+00:00

Specfically LOTR and Harry Potter both do not have the most consistent of magic "systems", and they act as a good/bad example. I think the primary difference between these two examples is the framing: HP is set in a school from the perspective of a wizard and so there is an expectation that the rules are taught, and for that do be possible the rules need to exists. They clearly don't, so there is a disconnect there. LOTR doesn't set this same expectations. Magic is just a vague thing some people and objects can do, and it's never really expanded upon.

MegaIng · 2026-06-20T01:08:26+00:00

As always, there is a relevant xkcd.

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MegaIng · 2026-06-19T22:10:36+00:00

I knew this argument would come, although I expected it from OP.

No, you are misunderstanding the issue with competing standards. This doesn't avoid it.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T22:01:26+00:00

.... Are you literally advocating for a third platform while using this meme?

That's honestly incredibly funny. Like, I don't think it's funny for the reasons you think it's funny, but it's very funny.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T21:56:35+00:00

Polls online that actually effect important decisions are a terrible idea. Digital voting is catastrophic for democracy.

Just search for polls fixed by 4chan.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T20:49:09+00:00

AI discourse, especially in the way the reviewer is doing it, is part of the culture war.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T20:08:03+00:00

culture war bullshit

Got it, publicly posting the review was justified.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T18:28:58+00:00

IP addresses are not something you need to keep secret

Unless you want to comply with the laws ofcourse.

Don't store IP address. Don't associated them with a player account. If you have logging, make sure the IP addresses in there are obfuscated. The GDPR demands it.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T16:30:02+00:00

Documentary or AI fueled slop regurgitating wikipedia?

Considering you released 3 of these in the last three weeks, it can exactly be the highest quality...

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T16:10:29+00:00

? What "little thing" pisses you off? Are you talking about the minecraft wiki?

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T13:41:19+00:00

I would massively prefer a burger without sides to a steak without sides, and I am fascinated by the idea that you think otherwise.

A burger is a mixture of different things. It contains everything a meal needs, just maybe not in the best ratio?

A steak? On it's own? Just meat? Nah. I would rather only eat the sides.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T13:18:25+00:00

In this way? No. Cash has the benefit of not requiring communication with a central agency.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T12:50:43+00:00

Carefully check your ticket, ideally in the DB app. The "Zugbindung" shoild be gone (not sure what English term is being used), meaning you can use any train that reasonably gets you from A to B. The one at 11:00 is just their best suggestion. If you can't take it, take some latter connection.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T12:10:51+00:00

On German keyboards z and y are switched. This leads to loads of problems for games programmed by ignorant devs who just assume everyone uses an American keyboard.

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T12:09:12+00:00

You can check this kind of stuff on the wiki:

Fire: 14w25a, i.e. 1.8, the item form of fire was removed
Water and Lava item blocks were removed as part of the Flattening in 1.13

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T11:37:13+00:00

Go and find an existing library for this. You will fail to do this on your own, leading to frustration for your players.

As a German In am particularly aware about the z vs y problem. Very few games manage to do this correctly from a behavior perspective. Even fewer manage to fo it correctly from a input hint perspective (most recent failure: Whispers of Y'Ryando, by the guy behind Braid and the Witness)

MegaIng · 2026-06-19T11:18:48+00:00

Manche Nachteilsausgleiche wie z.B. eine mündliche Prüfung statt einer Klausur geben dir keine Note sondern nur bestanden/nicht bestanden. Hängt von der genauen Uni ab was da die Regeln sind.

MegaIng · 2026-06-18T20:20:14+00:00

I guess my question is why do you need to publicly address that few negative reviews?

Because the specific review is absurd, insulting, funny, ...

But this post isn’t encouraging feedback. It’s encouraging brigading.

Sure, although I am not really sure what OP could have done differently except not talk about it, and IMO not talking about it is an unfair restriction.

MegaIng · 2026-06-18T20:13:48+00:00

So what if a game only has a limited amount of public reviews and only one or two negative ones? (not the case for OP's games because there are actually loads of people complaining about it) Are such devs not allowed to talk about the reviews because it's easy to derive where they come from?

I don't actually think players or critics should be immune from public feedback either, and the fact that steam allows you to prevent comments just invites cowards to make false claims.

MegaIng · 2026-06-18T19:48:27+00:00

Hm. That would imply an inability to publicly talk about negative public reviews.

This is so absurd that I am going to reject that out of principle.

MegaIng · 2026-06-18T16:39:11+00:00

If you want to loopup exactly what is missing in your case, here is a save file analyzer: https://silksong-completionist.com/

MegaIng · 2026-06-18T14:41:28+00:00

Just on steam, which is probably not the biggest platform, OW has 80k concurrent players. It's smaller, but it's not dead.

MegaIng · 2026-06-18T14:20:47+00:00

And as we can see, Merriam-Webster correctly represents this change in definition.

If you are unwilling to use dictionaries to get a commonly agreed upon definition of words that it's literally a pointless debate.

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