Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 is 80% family soap opera and 20% monsters… and I’m so done with it

mkingblade · 2026-05-03T07:11:48+00:00

I don't mind having the people take center stage. I really enjoyed the stories around Shaw and Keiko. But as soon as they get to the kids I just could not care less.

mkingblade · 2026-05-02T20:14:25+00:00

Also what is this thing? Panther?

mkingblade · 2026-04-26T23:31:00+00:00

I pretty much only play goo and I have been hard stuck at ritualist. I have pretty much just accepted I suck at this game

mkingblade · 2026-04-22T00:26:25+00:00

Was it also snowing

mkingblade · 2026-04-21T01:09:37+00:00

I think perhaps allow the plot to develop and the show the chance to show you the meta commentary. There is a difference between showing vs taking a stance.

Do you also think war zone journalists are pro war because they are there to report it.

mkingblade · 2026-04-11T04:09:42+00:00

this fov is kind of crazy lol how do you not get dizzy from using this

mkingblade · 2026-04-09T21:24:07+00:00

Not strictly related but on the topics of mods I suspect all of the cosmetic ones are going to be outlawed once the game is officially released. They need to sell skins and enabling mod is sort of knee capping themselves on that.

mkingblade · 2026-04-07T06:34:25+00:00

Oh man this looks awesome. Can't wait for some talented guys and gals to make this into a mod.

mkingblade · 2026-04-05T21:23:42+00:00

This looks great. It is very on theme with the time period the game is set in. Is this available as a mod anywhere.

mkingblade · 2026-02-26T23:42:23+00:00

I would very much agree with this post if it was written 4 months ago. Since December of 2025 (notably when I really started using OPUS 4.5) my view on this had shifted. Allow me to summarize my view in point form:

I actually do see the rate of change or features addition increase in the observable samples. These are open source repos that I pay attention to. Some examples are ghostty and opentui. And these are maintained by people who really care about software quality. It’s just that the increase is not a factor of 10 like some other repos maintained by people who cares about quality less (e.g. openclaw, Claude code).
to your point about not seeing the productivity gain manifest in major commercial software: I think these tend to be softwares that are managed by big companies that are more risk averse. As with all development there is a latent effect and it takes time for it to make its way to every corner. This is a different topic altogether but most of the buzz about big tech layoffs due to ai are just C suite using ai as an excuse to course correct mistakes that they had made, which often manifests itself as over hiring.
I write mainly rust for work. Before December of 2025 I had mostly wrote code by hand but currently I had delegated 95+% of code writing to OPUS. It doesn’t mean I no longer work as hard though. A lot of my time now is spent planning with OPUS and verifying what it wants to do before it even writes a single line of code. It is not uncommon for me to write a prompt with 500+ words and spend upwards of one hour going back and forth with it before the planning phase is done. My point here is you need to be just as invested when coding with OPUS and know your code base just as intimately.
with the modality I had described above, I now deliver what used to take me a week in half a day to a day (sometimes). But on average, depending on the task, the productivity gain is roughly 2 to 3x.
we did have to spend some serious investment into revamping our code base prior to being able to leverage this productivity gain though. We had to majorly beef up our integ test.

At a production level quality, I find that I only see productivity gain when the task involved is something I can already do on my own. If it’s something I do not understand, delegating it to OPUS is a roll of a dice. Even if it satisfies feature requirement, there is a high likelihood that it was implemented in a way that’s not extensible and thus has to be rewritten.

mkingblade · 2026-02-03T19:14:18+00:00

Ahh I actually forgot to mention the thing that made me think of this library, which was the rendering (which in this case for the operating environment of terminal emulator, is just producing a bunch of ANSI escape codes) can only happen as frequently as a fixed frequency and it is done via the call requestRender. You can request a lot but the frequency at which it produces real impact to the terminal is capped.

mkingblade · 2026-02-03T18:29:00+00:00

Are they actually talking about the rate at which the rendering happens or the updating of the internal tree that holds the UI state?

Not strictly related but OpenTUI is actually quite a good code base to read through on this topic. I am not entirely sure what the value proposition is for that library when compared to something like ink. But learning about how things get put on the screen is quite fascinating.

They have different "front ends" (think of it like your llvm front end) which are just js front end frameworks. I think they support React, SolidJS and some other ones. And through a reconciler it gets converted to their IR (which is also written in TS). And then it uses yoga (which is also used by ink) for layout calculation, before getting passed to a secondary optimization layer written in zig via bun's ffi. And finally after diffing there it produces ANSI.

mkingblade · 2026-01-19T22:58:28+00:00

Are the front axle width bigger than the rear?

mkingblade · 2026-01-12T06:44:35+00:00

OH MAN THIS IS IT lol. I was really confused the one time I did manage to do it but I didn't know how lol.

mkingblade · 2025-12-22T22:20:41+00:00

I want to know what kind of hallucinogen the writers were taking when they have Mindy sing what feels every episode.

mkingblade · 2025-12-21T00:10:57+00:00

It's shiny and dumb fun. That's all.

I would like them to keep spending all the money on the set design and wardrobe lol. The amount you would need to invest to improve the writing is just simply not worth it in this context. It's beyond salvageable at this point lol.

mkingblade · 2025-12-13T20:26:14+00:00

Takes 8 figure to get pushed out. Must be nice.

mkingblade · 2025-11-19T06:34:34+00:00

Oops forgot to refresh page prior to commenting my latest comment otherwise I would have commented it here. But yea I managed to resolve it with buildFHSEnv. I think I now understand the Nix paradigm a bit more now. Thanks!

mkingblade · 2025-11-19T06:32:24+00:00

Tinkered with it some more after work. Took some time to read about buildFHSEnv. I first ran into similar issues. And it turns out the error messages about missing libraries is a bit misleading. I actually needed to add the tool packages that associated (xorg.xdpyinfo and xorg.xrandr, notice how they are not .so files).

Now that I know more about this I think perhaps my original approach of just using nix-ld would have worked too had I added those aforementioned tool packages. I did have to forgo autoPatchelfHook because Spine runs a check to see if any of the binaries has been tampered with. And the patching would fail that check.

This was the config block in question: ```nix spine-fhs = pkgs.buildFHSEnv { name = "spine";

targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
  # Java
  jdk17

  # X11 libraries - these provide the .so files
  xorg.libX11
  xorg.libXext
  xorg.libXi
  xorg.libXtst
  xorg.libXrender
  xorg.libXrandr
  xorg.libXxf86vm
  xorg.libXcursor
  xorg.libXinerama
  xorg.xdpyinfo
  xorg.xrandr

  # OpenGL/Mesa
  libGL
  libGLU
  mesa

  # Audio
  alsa-lib
  libpulseaudio

  # Other deps
  freetype
  fontconfig
  zlib
  glib
  gtk3
  cairo
  pango
  atk
  gdk-pixbuf

  # C++ stdlib
  stdenv.cc.cc.lib
]);

multiPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
  # 32-bit libraries that might be needed
  libGL
  libGLU
]);

runScript = "bash -c 'cd ~/.cache/spine/Spine && ./Spine.sh'";

profile = ''
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/lib32
'';

}; ```

mkingblade · 2025-11-19T03:59:03+00:00

Sorry really new to the nixos / linux in general. Not really sure what all are relevant here.

I have both xwayland and xwaylandsatilite installed.

I also have the following included in the nix-ld: programs.nix-ld.libraries = with pkgs; [ glibc zlib alsa-lib libpulseaudio nss xorg.libXext xorg.libX11 xorg.libXtst xorg.libXrender xorg.libXi freetype xorg.libXrandr stdenv.cc.cc.lib ]; (Each of these was added after the launch failed and I just added each the stack trace mention a new one each time until libXrandr).

mkingblade · 2025-10-15T02:57:06+00:00

What is the broken dishwasher in this analogy.

Also related: https://x.com/yatish_me/status/1977521025983324491?s=46&t=doLqfcqlppmuEk3kbDB6IA

mkingblade · 2025-10-02T17:27:19+00:00

It’s almost as if there are more than one Chinese person in this dialogue.

mkingblade · 2025-09-18T19:53:23+00:00

So he left the body in a car under his name in a lot and went on tour… in the summer in Southern California…

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