Quetzalcutlass

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[–] Quetzalcutlass 9 points 3 months ago

Control shares the same universe and is more actiony, from what I've heard. It might be worth checking out if you haven't already.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Or when someone read two sections and the teacher didn't stop them.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Evie became a rich adventurer badass married to Brendan Frasier, so it worked out alright for her.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Knowing a construction worker's usual sense of humor, I'd be afraid of one giving the guy sitting next to them a solid slap on the back as a joke. Especially if they had just expressed a fear of heights.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Mouse, because the first thing she did when I brought her home was fall asleep on top of my computer tower.

Edit: more cat tax. I wish I had a better camera at the time.

Chin scratches (the rare gentle kind).

Pondering life while holding my arm hostage.

All cats are obsessed with boxes.

Napping is serious business.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

My previous cat loved chin scratches, the harder the better. She'd throw her whole body weight down on your fingers, to the point I worried about hurting her. When she jumped up on something, before doing anything else she'd make sure to visit the corner and rub her chin against even the sharpest edges with distressing force. I swear she was a masochist or something.

Cats are weird. I miss her.

Edit: blurry cat tax.

Cat tax.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Google started work on Carbon due to the difficulty of getting the C++ standards committee to accept any real, fundamental changes to the language. If Google, a grandmaster at manipulating standards committees, couldn't get something passed, I don't foresee this proposal getting anywhere.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Null safety is orders of magnitude simpler than memory safety. Kotlin is a null safe language by default. Java is infamously not. Anyone who has worked on a mixed-language Kotlin project can tell you how quickly null safety becomes a pain once guarantees break down - and that's in a language where these issues are flagged instantly and you can "fix" the problem in a couple of characters! Mixed memory safe/unsafe codebases would be a nightmare in comparison.

Also, C++'s ecosystem consists of deeply entrenched libraries with ancient codebases. Safe C++ might be useful in a decade or two if library maintainers could be pushed to make the switch (good luck with that, if it's half as much of a paradigm shift as Rust), but by then there will probably be multiple competing language features that claim to solve the same problem. It's the C++ Way™.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or the nightshade family, which matches mushrooms when it comes to range. It contains staple foodstuffs such as tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, peppers, and more. It also contains deadly nightshade/belladonna and a host of toxic or psychedelic plants.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 2 points 3 months ago

How else are you supposed to get the eggs to emulsify correctly?

[–] Quetzalcutlass 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are two facts old space game fans could tell you about Chris Roberts: that he will never meet a deadline (one of the Wing Commander games, his claim to fame, only came out because the publisher got sick of his delays and forced a release), and that he desperately wants to be a Hollywood writer/director. Both explain Squadron 42.

[–] Quetzalcutlass 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But did he do the voices?

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