rodneylives

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[–] rodneylives 0 points 7 months ago

I have questions about how useful the basic information Dominos gets from me from their app will be to anyone. Android doesn't let them just harvest roaming data any more.

[–] rodneylives 19 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Remember, Nate Silver predicted that Hillary Clinton would win in 2016, and when Trump won instead, it was chalked up to the fact that it really was a random chance.

Don't panic about this. Keep quiet and keep doing the work to get Trump thrown out. And charge your mental health bills to the Democrats, for putting up an old man up for election in 2020, one who's even older than Trump, in the first place.

[–] rodneylives 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I used to work at a Dominos, and their side items have been ludicrously priced for a good while. There's usually a "coupon" in their app with a substantial discount on pizza, it's the only way I'd order from them.

[–] rodneylives 3 points 7 months ago

"Be sure to read Mallozzi’s full breakdown of every episode pitch on Twitter or Reddit!"

Geez.

[–] rodneylives 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is true: Destiny 2 is rated by ProtonDB as "borked": https://www.protondb.com/app/1085660

But there are an awful lot of other games with high ratings there. The Steam Deck has done wonders for getting Windows games working under Linux.

[–] rodneylives 4 points 7 months ago

It's sad that it hasn't posted a new item in 566 days. Musk says stupid stuff all the time.

[–] rodneylives 1 points 7 months ago

Molly White's been covering the lobbying of the crypto industry recently on her podcast/blog Citation Needed.

[–] rodneylives 2 points 8 months ago

Read in Clayton Endicott III's voice to make it weirder.

[–] rodneylives 4 points 8 months ago

Saying "American people" the way the Beastie Boys would say "Another dimension"

[–] rodneylives 1 points 8 months ago

It just seems like it's a lot of papering over a fairly substantial problem. While the example I gave was Handbrake, which does seem like it should be a unique example, every other piece of software that I check Flatpak versions of also had ludicrously wasteful storage issues.

I'm aware of dependency hell, but it seems to me that most software doesn't have that as a problem, not if the libraries are sensibly maintained? After all, the fact that upgrading a library can improve all the software that uses it seems like it's usually a positive thing. And the ballooning storage requirements of Flatpak make it a tool that should be used occasionally, rather as a primary way to release software. Using a filesystem that can detect duplicates would help, but itself also seems like a special-case kind of solution, and not a great solution to turn to just to avoid what seems to me to be a significant issue.

[–] rodneylives 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wizardry inspired a lot of games, but the three games listed have greater influences elsewhere. (FF and DQ in particular are more like Ultima.) Sadly the games that were most inspired by Wizardry, sometimes called "blobbers," have mostly died out: The classic Bard's Tale games, Might & Magic, Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. Etrian Odyssey and the Japanese Wizardry games hold the torch but are pretty niche these days.

The demise of the original Wizardry series is one of the greatest injustices in the history of computer gaming, up there with the closing of the original Atari.

[–] rodneylives 2 points 8 months ago

DOS Wizardry has a significant bug that makes it one of the worst versions.

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