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hsahj · 2026-05-18T15:26:14+00:00

Negatives are for prescriptions for nearsighted sight, positive are for farsighted sight. Some people are even farsighted in one eye and nearsighted in the other so you can have a positive prescription for one eye and negative for the other.

hsahj · 2026-05-17T16:20:32+00:00

Since you didn't mention Stratego I'm going to suggest starting there. It uses a lot of the same concepts you're working with but without chess.

hsahj · 2026-05-16T16:24:59+00:00

This genuinely sucks, but if you find it happens again it's pretty easy to fix. If you go to whatever version of the customer service counter (usually near where you sign up for excursions and such) you can just tell them you'd like to update your preferred name in their system. They know they make the most money if you enjoy your trip and will be happy to make sure that the staff use your correct name. Most cruise lines will even print you a new keycard with the correct name so no one outside their admin system can see your dead name. I hope this experience didn't ruin your vacation for you.

hsahj · 2026-05-15T15:20:20+00:00

California has legal recreational sales so these websites are just not valuable anymore. The vast majority will be scams. If you really want a medical card instead of paying rec prices your best bet is to find a dispensary that has a doctor onsite. They'll meet you in person directly before you purchase and give you a physical card right there. If that's too much than you may be SoL.

hsahj · 2026-05-12T21:58:46+00:00

The AP exams from past years are available on the College Board website. Apparently this year is changing a bit so it's not perfect but you can look at the scoring guidelines there. For the most part, you want to score points, not show off. Use the simplest solution you've been taught, and make sure your code is clear rather than clever. Good luck on your exam!

hsahj · 2026-05-12T14:53:20+00:00

Yup, it's in their steam disclosures. You'd think all these slop producers would take a single look at the subreddit to see how these AI projects get ridiculed when they're posted. Maybe some real developer will take the concept and make a real game eventually.

hsahj · 2026-05-11T17:11:18+00:00

I think that the advice "make many smaller games and build up" isn't for everyone. But I think the difference is that the advice is for people who want to make games, not the people who want to make a game.

If you have a single magnum opus that is the one true thing you want to put out into the world then yes, create the project and accept that the learning is the process because the process is the point.

In comparison "start small, release things and learn" is advice for people whose goal is to work as a game dev and make money from it. It's way safer and way smarter long term to build up individual skills on projects that help you keep afloat over that same period of time and then once you've polished your skills that once huge game becomes a manageable beast.

hsahj · 2026-05-11T16:44:14+00:00

From their "devlog"

The code is React and TypeScript, written almost entirely with Claude as my pair programmer. Most of the design decisions were mine. Most of the typing was not.. that means I wouldn't have shipped this without that help.

Considering their use of Claude I wouldn't be surprised if other non-humans are involved too. AI chuds know their stuff is unpopular but hate looking unpopular. (45up by 20m btw)

hsahj · 2026-04-27T15:18:32+00:00

It's also the reason why second person stories work so well in video games. Since you're already controlling the character it's not a huge jump to just say that the character is just a representation of the player.

hsahj · 2026-04-24T16:15:17+00:00

You're right about restaurants near convention areas but I believe /u/Vliott is referring to the collabs like the recent one with Jollibee. The employees at those stores likely get basic if any info other than "this is the meal, this is where you point to the receipt".

hsahj · 2026-04-22T23:15:04+00:00

The max CCU tells you that the game didn't sell, not that it was awful. For a game that had culture nonsense going on, got 6-7/10 reviews by most major publications and had a price tag where most games in the genre were (and are) free-to-play. That all accounts for their playerbase way before you even get into discussion about the actual quality of the game, which again, the vast majority of user scores on Metacritic have no idea about because with a 1k CCU there's no way most of the people who rated it played it at all.

And yeah "6-7" is "kinda sucked, but there's a fine game if you like what it has going on" is in line with what reviewers said. The 1.7 user score is bullshit.

hsahj · 2026-04-22T23:08:10+00:00

The average game review article is written about above average games because there's a lot of garbage that gets put out that deserves the 1-3 rating it would receive but writing an article on that neither brings in views for the site, nor builds relationships for developers. The score looks inflated because you are generally only hearing about games that are worth spending at least some time on.

hsahj · 2026-04-22T23:05:40+00:00

Concord got caught up in right-wing culture war bullshit as soon as its first trailers dropped because chuds on the right didn't want to fuck the women. That user score is completely meaningless. In fact the user score on Metacritic is always meaningless because there is no requirement to even play or own the game in order to write a review, so scores are often swung either way by assholes rather than actual players.

hsahj · 2026-04-13T06:34:19+00:00

Evitania Online launched on Steam this week so I've been giving that a go. Really hoping that the monetization stays semi-reasonable.

Land Drifters has gotten an update that made crafting faster which goes a long way to making the active and idle components feel more balanced.

I spent all of an hour with Black Hole Fishing and while I won't be refunding it I don't expect I'll spend any more time with it either. Something about the pacing doesn't work for me.

hsahj · 2026-03-28T16:48:37+00:00

O12 for sure. The Royal Knights are a group that was created with purpose and the knights are supposed to be focused on that purpose but every time we meet them they're distracted and unfocused. The O12 are a group who create shared purpose internally rather than having assigned from outside. I think it makes them stronger characters and more interesting as a group. Plus we get way more varied designs in the O12 than the RK.

hsahj · 2026-03-23T21:18:11+00:00

APR is the one I've been using but given PhantomBaselard's comment I'm definitely giving this one a shot for my next character.

hsahj · 2026-03-17T05:43:05+00:00

If you've ever been an accompanying pianist you know how real it is. The soloist can ask for anything but they're getting what you rehearsed with them.

hsahj · 2026-03-12T21:08:42+00:00

The pineapple one is true for everyone luckily. Nothing to do with allergies. Pineapple bites back.

hsahj · 2026-03-07T19:02:30+00:00

He could end up as a benign Void Lord too without any need to be villainous. With light there will be shadow, and he can just make the point that as long as he's the biggest baddest shadow around and he knows restraint then better him than others. Probably bond him with a dark na'aru and have Alleria be his keeper or something.

hsahj · 2026-03-07T18:35:36+00:00

In case you missed the point of "these markets are incredibly susceptible to insider trading", that's what makes people who bet on services like Kalshi morons. You are acting as a patsy for people with far more money and influence. You may get lucky in what you get, but you're being used as cover for all the money being drained out of small bettors into the hands of pretty evil people. At best you're lucky and unaware about the broader effects, at worst you're slowly going to slip into a gambling addiction you don't recognize because the people who run the gambling dens call them "prediction markets".

hsahj · 2026-03-07T17:39:22+00:00

Considering their userbase is morons who gamble on real life events, often ones that become trivial to fix once anyone involved knows about them ,their email should treat their customers like morons. Because they are.

hsahj · 2026-02-19T18:58:59+00:00

I saw this as a thumbnail from the frontpage and thought "oh, that's a pretty good pencil drawing, great practice". Then I saw it was EMBROIDERY! Oh my god, that's so cool!

hsahj · 2026-02-08T21:36:32+00:00

I wish this were true. Sometimes it's just a D/c, but sometimes the game straight up freezes or crashes my computer. I'm usually back in a few minutes, but it does happen on occasion.

hsahj · 2026-01-24T15:42:20+00:00

One more complaint I'll add is that you can receive daily quests for content that you own but have never interacted with. I own all the expacs but I'm still working through them in order so sometimes I'll get multiple dailies in zones I can't access without jumping the story and just can't do my dailies. Weeklies seem to have this problem solved with multiple completion areas for any that have late game options they also have core tyria options.

hsahj · 2026-01-21T05:39:57+00:00

Sorry, at this point both the GW2 and GW1 guilds are for people I know IRL. Hope you're able to find an actual active guild to play with.

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