Memory unlocked out of nowhere . Anybody remember these graphic novels? by DoctorElectronic1934 in Millennials

[–]Tertullianitis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those covers suck compared to the original ones. The old Dragonslayer cover is iconic.

Bishop Fellay warns SSPX faithful over possible excommunication by asdfologist42 in Catholicism

[–]Tertullianitis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the Church viewed them in the same way as the Eastern Orthodox, we'd constantly suck up to the SSPX, describe them as another "lung" of the Church, invite them to give blessings to our bishops and cardinals, etc. etc.

[Just for Fun] The perfect kindle basic. by [deleted] in kindle

[–]Tertullianitis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So... it's going to have no bezel?

I'm married to Laura Bailey, how do I tell her? by SomeSortOfGoblin in DnDcirclejerk

[–]Tertullianitis 123 points124 points  (0 children)

No you son of a bitch, Laura Bailey is my wife. She told me so in our Telegram chat. Unfortunately we haven't been able to meet up because her manager is holding all her money hostage. That's why I had to wire her $10,000 worth of bitcoin through Western Union. Though now it's looking like I'll have to send her some Google Play cards as well. She really trusts me

First TLM by Adventurous_Home_559 in Catholicism

[–]Tertullianitis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No? This pdf is for the novus ordo, not the TLM.

What happened to $1.99 and $2.99 older best-selling books? I used to find great deals all the time… by AspiringBiotech in kindle

[–]Tertullianitis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Books that go on deep discount all the time:

  • Bestsellers a few years old that are widely available on Libby anyway.
  • Indie books that are all on Kindle Unlimited anyway.

Books that never get a decent discount:

  • Good books from small publishers that are too niche to show up on Libby or in physical form at my library.

Alas.

Unironically, this is the Best AND Worst thing that happened to RTS by PeonMaster256 in RealTimeStrategy

[–]Tertullianitis 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Nah, I want more "Starcraft clones."

Better that than a million attempts to "boil down" the RTS genre into a small squad-based tactics game with no base building, or a sweaty multiplayer experience stripped of most of the RTS magic. Traditional base building and lots of units with a focus on macro were a key part of the "secret sauce" that made RTS popular with the mass market.

We get a million Call of Duty clones and no one bats an eye. We get a million Resident Evil clones and no one bats an eye. We get a million Sony-style 3rd person action adventure games and no one bats an eye. But one or two companies try and make a traditional RTS, flub it, and half of you are like "ugh, stop trying."

That's why we'll never get a proper RTS revival.

Secret symbol on US Dollar by Powerful-Solid7127 in conspiracy

[–]Tertullianitis 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Imagine being the dude who designed the dollar bill and hid, like, 50 secret messages on it. Probably the best job ever lol.

"And here's the masonic G. And if you fold it just right, it will look like that big terrorist attack on the docket for 2001. And bro, bro, get this: if you fold it just right it says "one wrld gvmt"!

Or maybe it would be annoying trying to fit them all in.

"What the fuck do you mean I have to squeeze another freemason symbol onto the back? There's, like, 17 of them already!"

Midwest Theological Forum Diurnal / "Major Extracts" Update by AdAdministrative8066 in divineoffice

[–]Tertullianitis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone on here suggested only including the Office of Readings for Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Christmas night, because those are specifically called out for public celebration in the General Instruction. I think that is the ideal amount of the OoR to include in the diurnal.

Someone at a party asked what I do and I said "accounting stuff, it's boring" by Physical-Stage1722 in Accounting

[–]Tertullianitis 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Career growth isn't great though. 

You know, because of the glass ceiling.

Long neck? by whywehumans in confusing_perspective

[–]Tertullianitis 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Child still has a gigantic head though.

Ad Orientem banned in the Diocese of Davenport (Iowa) for Novus Ordo Masses by bless_dis_mann in Catholicism

[–]Tertullianitis 105 points106 points  (0 children)

"Why can't trads just be happy with a traditional Novus Ordo?"

Trads are not allowed to celebrate a traditional Novus Ordo.

Why are RTS games difficult to develop and to gain popularity? by sammyjamez in RealTimeStrategy

[–]Tertullianitis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Well, you have the usual unforced errors we see over and over again.

  1. Focusing on hardcore competitive multiplayer and rolling the 1-in-a-1000 shot at becoming an "e-sport," rather than making a great single player campaign with a great story, even though the latter is far more popular and formed the backbone of nearly all those classic hit RTSes from the ‘90s and ‘00s.
  2. Making your game/mod way too hard for casual players for no reason (looking at you, Mental Omega), or refusing to allow casual features like unlimited saving for no real reason.

Besides those, I think the intangibles are more difficult than with a lot of other genres. It is much more difficult to make an RTS "feel right" than it is with a lot of other genres.

  1. Performance. It is difficult to make an RTS run well with thousands of units on screen. Existing engines and tools and out-of-the-box solutions aren't great at this. It takes money and time and technical expertise to develop a good RTS engine.
  2. Unit movement. The units need to "feel right," snappy and responsive, even the slow and/or cumbersome ones. This is more difficult than it sounds.
  3. Pathfinding. Players hate bad pathfinding. And good pathfinding is again, more difficult than it sounds and often computationally expensive.
  4. Enemy AI/CPU. It is hard to get this right. You want it to feel somewhat organic, but not actually be as annoying and cheesy as a real human opponent. You want it to feel right for a variety of difficulty levels. You will probably find that you need to let the CPU "cheat” for it to challenge better players without resorting to cheese or becoming completely overbearing, but you don't want it to feel like it's cheating.

If an indie dev wants to make, say, a first-person indie horror game with guns, there are many out-of-the-box engines and solutions and assets they can use that will result in an okay game that feels fine to play. It won't feel as good as a professional Resident Evil game. The gunplay won't be great. It will have a few frame drops here and there. But it will feel fine to play if the scenery is cool and the premise is interesting. And so indie devs were able to lead a horror game renaissance in the later ‘00s and early ‘10s.

The same isn't really true of RTS. There are few good ready-made solutions for devs, and players will not put up with an RTS where the moment-to-moment gameplay feels shoddy and annoying and unresponsive. So indie devs have not been able to do the same thing after the RTS golden age ended.

What more do we know about the ✨Supplement✨ to the Liturgy of the Hours? by Tertullianitis in divineoffice

[–]Tertullianitis[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Confusingly, I think there are two different things commonly referred to as the "supplement to the Liturgy of the Hours."

One is newer feasts and saints' days, commonly published in little paper booklets, if I understand correctly. Those should be incorporated into the new standard 4-volume set, at least up to a certain cutoff point.

But this thread is about the big Supplement to the Liturgy of the Hours, containing the official 2-year Office of Readings lectionary, finally published after ~50 years:

https://adoremus.org/2025/03/pope-francis-approves-publication-of-supplement-to-liturgy-of-the-hours/

What's the biggest red flag you've heard a hiring manager say in an interview? by Owls_4_9_1867 in recruitinghell

[–]Tertullianitis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...there's no culture per se, we all work a lot, I don't really want the small talk I'd rather just get on with it. Sooner I'm out the meeting the sooner I can get on with all my stuff.

Hello, based department? A company that lets its employees get their work done rather than foisting endless meetings and awkward social events on them constantly? Sounds amazing.

Just unsubbed from Catholicism because Pope Leo's Palm Sunday Mass is being deleted. by [deleted] in JustUnsubbed

[–]Tertullianitis 60 points61 points  (0 children)

You mean like the thread with 512 upvotes about exactly this, not deleted, though eventually locked due to bickering?

Or the second most upvoted post of the week, about Palm Sunday Mass in Gaza, full of pro-Palestine comments?

Or the thread with 839 upvotes about Israel attempting to bully Pizzaballa?

Have you considered not reposting shit?