TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. Though that’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then

No, not at all, generally not a good sign whatsoever (unless you’re wall st apparently). I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.

The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?

Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, just trying to rationalise

Hmm, had to look up who these guys were

Apparently they own XDA and Android Police too, which haven’t gone entirely to shit

I’ll tentatively put the pitchfork away

Oh that’s actually pretty sad to hear—I did not realise they had new owners

I cannot wrap my head around why the game industry hasn’t already unionised massively—I hear horror story after horror story and everyone working in the industry seems to have convinced themselves they’re special and it won’t happen to them

It’s EA, this is what they do

Most Java engineers I’ve ever met have Stockholm syndrome with the framework du jour.

Flashbacks to one of my early freelance PHP gigs I did about 2 decades ago where I opened up the existing backend source code to find a load of unsanitised user input directly from the query string getting interpolated into the various SQL queries the application made. Part of me also feels like the “bobby tables” xkcd already existed by this point, so I’ve got no idea how that website managed to not get nuked before I refactored it.

To top it all off, of course the application authenticated with the database using the root user…

Thankfully I think that was the worst I ever discovered in the wild

I was gonna say, anyone with half a brain who has poked their head into Reddit over the past year or two will have seen a shitload of obvious bots in the comments.

Here’s a song about tardigrades that I often get stuck in my head

https://youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM

Don’t buy any of the pod based coffee machines, they’re comparatively cheap up front, but they’ll cost you more in the long run and give you a much more limited selection of the kinds of coffee you can have.

I’d say if you want to push a button and get a coffee, look into bean-to-cup machines. If you don’t mind doing a few bits a traditional style espresso machine is going to give you a load of flexibility, and can generally be a bit cheaper than a bean-to-cup (though they can also get much more expensive!).

If you don’t mind it being fully manual, perhaps look into pour-over or aeropress kit. Definitely a much cheaper step than buying a machine, and lots to learn from using those methods

Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

20% can’t enjoy the game if they’re not able to buy micro-transactions

Wtaf

I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse

Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more

If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition

“gotta see shit to know shit” someone once said to me

It pops into my head semi-regularly

Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

They only extract value

Funny rule to have. I wonder if this is one of the subs Reddit admins took over after the moderator exodus