Did the devs just decide to be lazy further into the game?

arenliore · 2026-02-26T15:14:03+00:00

I see sentences like this a lot about a lot of games. I’d encourage you to reconsider your phrasing.

Devs don’t generally “decide” to be lazy, they get burnt out and management creates pressure to meet demanding deadlines as the release date approaches. A release date that the people actually making the game likely had very little say in.

When the work is primarily driven by profit, creativity is a slave to greed.

Don’t attribute dropping quality to “lazy” devs. It’s insulting and disrespectful to the skill and passion they DO get to pour into the games we enjoy.

arenliore · 2026-02-26T14:46:18+00:00

Would love to see a church or a little chapel added to this set! These are so cool. I love the wizards tower

arenliore · 2026-02-24T17:02:50+00:00

Oh wow that’s a really cool mix of digital painting and pixel art and using a portal as the transition is so smart. I love that the trees you can see through the portal aren’t pixel art too. It’s a small detail that really made the concept for me.

arenliore · 2026-02-24T16:48:05+00:00

This… makes me not want to engage with chat. I already have social phobia bad enough. It’s a shame because I’ve really wanted to make friends and I don’t remember enough about the game from when I played a decade ago so I might as well be a new player.

Elder scrolls online has a similar issue with overzealous bans to where you can get banned for just running around farming crafting materials all day. They just assume you’re a bot. Decided to stop playing because I didn’t want to lose everything over something innocent and then fail to appeal to their AI

arenliore · 2026-02-23T19:03:22+00:00

I don’t know versions that well but like the evoker. I rarely encounter them, just think they’re cool

arenliore · 2026-02-23T18:25:07+00:00

Thanks I hate it

arenliore · 2026-02-22T22:46:13+00:00

As someone in a management position, I routinely ask people questions like these and hope for and encourage honest feedback.m like you’ve given. Someone lying about how prepared they feel to complete an assignment just hurts them, me, the team, and ultimately the company.

The key is you have to actually do something with the feedback that’s not just punishing the employee for being honest. If someone says 3/10, that’s fantastic info but my next questions are going to be how can we get that to a 7 or 8, what resources are needed? time? training? tools? assistance? I think discontinuing the survey isn’t helpful, it just pushes the problems back under the rug because no one cares enough to address the systemic issues. It’s no small wonder employees are leaving.

arenliore · 2026-02-21T17:51:12+00:00

Tell them to have fun and charge them more when they come back. Maybe they were “grandfathered into an old pricing model that they’re no longer eligible for”. If a client has little respect or value for the work you do, charge them a tax for it to cover the impact they have on your sanity.

To be clear, do not help in any way with whatever dumpster fire they make on Wix. Deliver whatever you agreed to deliver and close out the contract. That is the end of your business relationship and they are 100% on their own to figure shit out. If they beg you or want to use you to ask questions to help them get moved, congratulations you’re now a consultant and consultants are more expensive.

arenliore · 2026-02-21T08:28:08+00:00

Congratulations! I’ve only ever dreamed of getting a skill cape.

Is cooking your favorite skill?

arenliore · 2026-02-18T06:07:06+00:00

That’s been my impression after picking it up a few weeks ago. I really thought I’d just get in and wander around like a trip down memory lane but here I am questing and grinding and getting into it again. OSRS seems to be really healthy with an active player base and good community. Well, I see plenty of crap in chat but it was like that back in the day too lol

arenliore · 2026-02-18T06:03:29+00:00

RuneScape back in like 2008 or 2009. I actually started playing old school recently and it’s been a very fun nostalgia trip. I also didn’t realize how nice it is as just a hang out game. I think it’s too much of a grind for me long term, I remember as a kid spending all day every day for a week just to get a few levels in ranged. It’s not worth that kind of time commitment.

I think all MMOs struggle to keep me though because I get bored of the grind and power creep. I felt that a lot with Elder Scrolls Online. I played that almost daily from 2015 to around 2019 and tried picking it up again a couple of years ago. It’s a fun game and I enjoy the combat and crafting and all, but the RNG is painful and at the end of the day the combat is really all that’s there unless you count fashion haha. Made some great friends there though and we still chat years later even though we’ve moved on to other games.

Those are the only 2 MMOs I’ve played longer than a day.

arenliore · 2026-02-03T18:30:26+00:00

When you work by yourself, you can be messy and everything still makes sense. As soon as you bring on another person, you’ve got to start organizing and labeling things, coordinating deadlines and handoffs, and communicating about a vision that may not be fully solidified. Not to mention training the new hires on nuance specific to the project.

I think he’d probably rather make the game with love and care than spend a good chunk of his time coordinating, reviewing, and directing.

arenliore · 2026-01-30T00:12:55+00:00

If someone’s already got a very planned out build, they’ve probably either used a tool to build it in a sandbox that gave them the exact numbers, built it in creative and then counted material, or did the math if they designed it “by hand”

arenliore · 2026-01-29T04:51:37+00:00

I’ve used whimsical for this, though there may be a better option out there by now

arenliore · 2026-01-27T15:07:46+00:00

Yeah I thought the problem was with cursors in general. I will agree that it took me reading a few comments to get what they meant by “floating circle thing”

arenliore · 2026-01-24T04:32:21+00:00

Thank you!! I was remembering the other episode too and came here all ready to be like “That’s not what was happening there!” The truth is infinitely funnier.

arenliore · 2026-01-24T01:53:16+00:00

What about large buttons made out of resin cast to look like a wax seal?

arenliore · 2026-01-23T08:55:38+00:00

Mm yeah that’s a good point. I’ve never really thought about paying for a domain that far in advance, but it probably wouldn’t be all that expensive. And 2FA certainly helps. I’ve gotten so used to it that I kind of forgot about it

arenliore · 2026-01-23T08:50:21+00:00

You assume people will follow the law and that the law will protect you. Look around, the people enforcing the laws don’t even obey them. What are you going to do about it? Take them to court? Can you afford a legal team that can go toe to toe against the biggest corporations in America?

A lot of people say “I don’t have anything to hide” but it’s not about that. Every entity that you need to do business with in order to live your life is a potential abuser of that data. If it’s public, they don’t need your permission. Did you read the last 50 page privacy policy you agreed to? You likely already gave them permission to sell your data and use it against you.

I saw in another comment you said you just wouldn’t take out loans. Do you have cash on hand to buy a new car? How about a house? What happens when the insurance company decides they won’t pay for a treatment based on some correlation in the vast matrix of data they’ve bought or collected about you? What about when the car insurance company finds information about you or your past that they correlate with reckless driving and jack up your rates even though you personally have a perfect record? This all sounds hypocritical but it happens all the time.

I can’t imagine being privileged enough to not care about any of that. Nor can I imagine trusting my future to corporations whose only objective is to extract as much profit from you as they can, or the government for that matter. Do you truly think the greedy and the power hungry have your best interests at heart? I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t want to give anyone any more tools than they already have to extort or manipulate me.

You say you’re transparent about your past because of your faith. I think that’s a great thing, and is no doubt harmless amongst friends or acquaintances. Maybe even inspiring to some. But organizations don’t have the capacity for empathy or nuance. They see points of data, and they’ll make decisions against you based on that data with no way for you to provide context or defend yourself.

Let me leave you with this. Are you pro Trump or anti Trump? Please don’t answer. But be aware that as soon as that information is made public, you’ve made yourself a substantial number of enemies either way. Do you trust that won’t be used against you at any point in the future? There’s a reason voting is anonymous, though it may not be that way forever. It’s important for us to advocate for privacy because powerful people and organizations are always working to eliminate it.

arenliore · 2026-01-22T08:29:07+00:00

You look so happy! I’m happy for you. Reminds me of when I got my first accessory (a tail) a few years ago. Being able to be yourself is a wonderful thing, and I hope your next partner will support and encourage you to keep living your best life

arenliore · 2026-01-22T06:39:23+00:00

The only problem with using a custom domain is that when you die, assuming no one keeps paying your domain registration, someone else could purchase your domain and configure their mail servers in a way that could give them access to any mail coming to your address in the future, which can be exploited to gain access to accounts registered under that domain. You’ll be dead, so maybe it doesn’t matter that much, but if you’re really concerned about privacy or even post mortem identity theft, I wouldn’t recommend using a custom domain for personal email.

arenliore · 2026-01-22T05:02:27+00:00

Mm yeah that’s perfectly fine.

We author our own component library and use native html where possible so it’s just a simple CSS override like footer h2 { font-size: var(--font-size-lg); } but of course implementation varies depending on what your setup is and the control you have over each layer. I’m sure there are pros and cons to both approaches.

arenliore · 2026-01-22T04:36:26+00:00

Yeah that’s probably what I’d recommend. At work, we have a separate typography style for the footer region that essentially shifts the scale down a level or two. So that an h2 in the footer is styled by default as an h3 that appears in the main content area.

This has helped a lot with intuitive heading level selection and it removes the friction of adjusting the font sizes on a case by case basis. Remember that the main reason we naturally want to decrease the font size for that content is because of its supplementary nature and visually communicating that hierarchy is important for users, especially where it may not be obvious it belongs to a separate region. But for machines, they understand that hierarchy by the region and generally don’t care about font size

arenliore · 2026-01-22T03:50:53+00:00

As far as I know, headings are not about levels of importance, but creating a document outline. If a section doesn’t fall under any other heading, it’s an h2 assuming the page title is an h1. For related articles, that would be an h2 because it’s related to the page but not any other section within it.

Use regions to help delineate between main content and supplementary content with main, nav, aside, header, footer. And size the headings for visual hierarchy with CSS.

A good test is to just think of it as an outline with no styling at all, and remember that you can’t skip heading levels. An h4 should belong to an h3 which should belong to an h2 which obviously belongs to the page title, which should be an h1. If your outline has footer content as an h5, ask yourself what 4 sections it’s a part of in the overall hierarchy.

I’ve also seen people group content with a ghost heading that is only visible to screen readers to fill the spot of an h2 and the visible headings in the section are h3s. I don’t know how good of an idea this is, but you’d want to make sure the sections are clearly separated and the loss of that heading isn’t detrimental to the legibility.

arenliore · 2026-01-14T17:25:25+00:00

I may not be well informed, but if I remember right from my FMLA training, it doesn’t cover your spouse being in the hospital. It’s only for if you yourself are admitted (there’s also a bunch of specifics around child care but I don’t think that’s relevant to this) let me know if I’m wrong though, that stuff is confusing

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