I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.

Feels rebellious.

$retVal and $item are my personal favourite.

And decent variable names if you can, as well.

No magic numbers!

Excellent work by someone there. I love the customer service agent with the ski mask (who can barely keep a straight face) lol

Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment

Minimal supervision also could mean there’s no onboarding, no support and internal communication is awful.

A whole new generation of the Kobo readers just came out too!

I’ve got one of the previous Gen and I was so happy to find they have models with the clicky buttons to turn the page.

The main thing stopping me is that I only use my PC for gaming, and I know the support for drivers etc isn’t as good on Linux (though I know this is debated).

However if Linux became more centralised, with a “gaming first” distro like this, the graphics drivers would have a “main test case” to work with.

This is my theory anyway.

Ah well it seems like you’re covered for the holiday season! Enjoy.

Haha ok well over Christmas I usually play KotOR one or two (with the big fan made mods and sometimes difficulty mods).

But this year I’m doing a Rogue Trader playthrough instead.

Also Stalker Gamma may make an appearance but that’s a whole thing to set up (if you don’t want to install mods etc).

In terms of Total War burnout I recommend trying the SFO mod (big overhaul of balance and mechanics) on WH3. It for sure breathes new life into the older factions.

And for some strategic top-down Real-time-with-pause fun, try Doorkickers or Doorkickers 2. Game 1 is older but a full release, whereas game 2 is at the end of a loooong early access, but it still my preference. Probably game 1 is <$10 though.

If you’re still looking for something, just point me in a direction and I’ll send more. This is my jam.

It really depends on what you like.

Satisfactory was a lot of fun for me but others might not like it.

Stalker 2 the same.

I’m a big Total War nut also.

And Veilguard was good if a little watered down.

I played like 20 hrs of satisfactory last year lol.

However the joke was good so imma let it slide.

This time.

/s

I’ve also been playing games that haven’t been released yet.

Has there ever been an extraction shooter that released?

Warhammer Rogue trader has one character laugh and shout “haha! Reduced to dust” on a kill.

You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?

Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?

It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…

I know the streamer Okoii has been doing streams of B&W2 recently and he had some instructions in the first one about how to get it running.

Not sure if that helps. Not sure if you wanted to play the game or play something like it.

Oh don’t worry, there’s going to be more.

A lot of companies are working on live service games in hope of being the next overwatch/destiny.

Some even have multiple (like Sony) in the hope that even one of them takes off.

The “fuck spez” map drawing from Reddit