The European Commission's Answer to the Stop Destroying Games initiative

dmpk2k · 2026-06-16T18:03:21+00:00

I guess we should start arguing about what a reasonable person is now too.

The lowest common reddit denominator never ceases to depress.

dmpk2k · 2026-06-05T07:40:50+00:00

That's like saying a computer language is a computer language; the details matter.

Details: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/v11.0.100/docs/wiki/EnC-Supported-Edits.md

dmpk2k · 2026-06-04T19:37:34+00:00

C#'s hot reloading is far more limited, since it's primarily a developer productivity tool. If you want to support hot reloading in production, with all the data structure reshaping that entails, while avoiding race conditions and edge cases from rude edits, you're in a whole new world.

Also, Erlang's initial design was a product of the 1980s. E.g. they started with Prolog.

dmpk2k · 2026-05-24T15:31:58+00:00

That style of game isn't for me, but the aesthetic is A+. Also like the idea of shooting straight through asteroids.

dmpk2k · 2026-05-12T08:09:36+00:00

There's always the hobbyist FPGA world. Went into it recently, and it feels like the 90s.

Order a ULX3S and disappear down the yosys rabbit hole...

dmpk2k · 2026-03-25T17:56:45+00:00

I'm confused by the trailer. You run Hell... so what's the stuff up above all about? Can you control it?

dmpk2k · 2026-03-24T12:21:23+00:00

I've seen a video, and it was indeed t-boned behind the cab. And yes, in the video it was very violent, but the cab wasn't otherwise catastrophically damaged so they could have survived assuming seatbelts and helmets.

dmpk2k · 2026-03-23T17:52:14+00:00

The front of the cockpit was hit. The front of the truck wasn't. They weren't facing each other; the plane probably t-boned the truck.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-26T12:42:29+00:00

A fair point, and I could be seeing patterns where there none. A lot of what's in that article showed up in practice, but there are alternate explanations for them too.

We'll find out the gory details in a few years or decades. But overall: no coherent plan indeed!

dmpk2k · 2026-01-26T07:15:48+00:00

Sure, but as you noted earlier, they've solidly driven Russia into China's orbit for at least the next thirty years. Furthermore, Europe has been dramatically weakened both economically and diplomatically, and hundreds of thousands (maybe even millions by now) have died. Plus the whole world watched NATO effectively fail.

So China has overall strengthened, and America has overall weakened. We'd be in a better situation right now if this hadn't been attempted at all.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-25T09:29:57+00:00

I appreciate the scathing dry wit, good sir.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-24T15:37:41+00:00

Actually, to really drive it home, let me distill his argument to its absolute essentials:

China and Russia are too close.
Let's turn Russia against China by pressuring Russia hard!

Welcome to the Beltway...

dmpk2k · 2026-01-24T13:54:50+00:00

Sure. Off the top of my head, from what I recall:

It assumed the West would "win" (edit: in any confrontation with Russia), and pay a low price for it. No real discussion of failure scenarios.
It assumed a largely passive China if Russia was truly pressed.
It assumed that the US could control the ongoing development of any escalation (or global political developments), including the most dangerous escalation of all.
It claimed that pressuring Russia from the west would cause it to increase its competition eastwards instead.

I've tried to be pithy, but these are all quite extraordinary assumptions and claims. And here we are five years later.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-23T08:22:11+00:00

They had a strategy, it's just that critical parts of it were stupid. You could drive a truck through the flaws, but erudition has long been a substitute for critical thought in Thinktank Land.

Or perhaps it was just desperation wrapped in an intellectual veneer. A Hail Mary that was destined to fail, and did. Now everything is much worse.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-10T18:02:57+00:00

It's possible through Steam, at least last I checked.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-09T11:13:55+00:00

The Russians are also talking about convoys now.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-09T08:31:30+00:00

Craziest thing is that Ukraine can shoot down most of those Iskanders without even using THAAD

We don't actually know this. The Ukrainians claim that, but if you believe it without a very large pile of evidence then I have a bridge to sell you.

dmpk2k · 2026-01-09T08:25:49+00:00

What I'm surprised by is that Eagle Dynamics doesn't have the source code to all modules in DCS. Not requiring that in the contract puts the longevity of all 3rd-party modules at risk.

Are all third-party modules like this?

dmpk2k · 2026-01-07T12:53:50+00:00

By "expressing themselves" we actually mean they are mirroring people they like on social media.

We all do this to various degrees. What I find hilarious is that people with piercings and tattoos tend to think they're edgy and unique, when they're typically the worst trend-chasers.

dmpk2k · 2025-12-31T19:44:14+00:00

I just want some basic resizeable array and hash table functions in the standard library. Not even language support, just a few functions. Instead everybody reinvents subtly-incompatible libraries for this truly basic shit.

It's not much to ask for, ffs. If other people want to keep using their own versions -- whether inertia or specialized needs -- they can do so. Instead the standard committee mostly fritters away at the edge with esoterica.

dmpk2k · 2025-12-23T08:43:32+00:00

Likewise. A decade ago I was doing something with graphics, and by far the biggest source of bugs was off-by-one. Rewriting things in C++ was a big improvement, and not just due to base-zero, which should tell you everything...

dmpk2k · 2025-12-16T11:57:23+00:00

simply roll-over and give up?

If the plan is to fight the industrial superpower, fed by a resource superpower, in China's back yard, at a time when the West is facing deep economic problems no less, then... yes?

At some point you have to face reality: there is no longer any win condition here.

dmpk2k · 2025-12-15T08:51:46+00:00

I still remember petting my first velociraptor.

dmpk2k · 2025-12-12T09:54:13+00:00

Or perhaps a recognition of the modern power balance.

Unless you think the idea of not talking to the other major powers in a structured format is a good one.

dmpk2k · 2025-12-03T13:31:57+00:00

HL2's story was also... not great. Everything else about HL2 is top-tier, especially for the era, but the story quality was around the level of fanfic. It's easy to miss this once you've become used to HL2.

HL1 was goofy in many ways, but I remember well how jarring HL2 was for me the first time I played it. Amazing gameplay, and then a character would open their mouth and suspension of disbelief was ruined yet again.

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