villainy

It took Valve years to build Steam into the juggernaut it is based on maximizing customer value and minimizing friction. Years! Like multiple of them! Who has time for that! I need my profits this quarter!

Yup. I'm convinced VCs came calling for their ROI so Docker panic-sold their enterprise business to Mirantis. After that they were left with Docker Desktop (aka. burning trash) and their de-facto position as the image registry of note. Once the Docker Hub rate limits went into effect, my company started enforcing fully qualified image names to know exactly what we were pulling from docker.io, and using alternative registries whenever possible.

The hardest part of getting off Docker the company was breaking the mindset of "containers == docker".

What's a reasonable price for 250+ hours of unique (not roguelike/proc gen) gameplay with AAA level production values? Just curious, I'm not sure what my own answer would be.

That's unfortunate. It sounds like they recognized the burnout, that their new project was poorly scoped and would not be completed without further damaging personal relationships, so they pulled the plug. A healthy decision IMO. I wonder if any other small developers following up an initial big success need to learn from this? 🍒

Staying on the Zelda tip, I'll always have a place in my heart for Crystalis (1990) on the NES. More linear than Zelda but with significantly more RPG elements worked in.

If you want to get even more obscure, both Neutopia (1989) and Neutopia II (1991) for the TG-16 are great! Extremely obvious Zelda inspiration but they hold up well on their own merits.

Rad Spencer solved the loneliness problem by having his badass metal arm be his wife. 2006 was a different time...

Understanding the cheese is 100% part of getting stronger.

This is the best community on Lemmy. My Star Trek knowledge is almost entirely by cultural osmosis but I still regularly understand and appreciate the high quality memes on offer.

That's an interesting perspective. Please enjoy having our stupid bullshit slightly further away from your face for a while! My only option is sticking my head in this hole in the ground.

Musky needs to hook up with NextGenHacker101 and get on that tracer-t tip!

One of my strongest gaming memories growing up was beating Silver Star Story sitting in a cramped hotel room in the middle of a Minnesota blizzard. My parents let me lug along my PSX on this road trip and I beat the last boss on last possible hit. Like everyone dead but the main character, if I didn't win this round then the boss would wipe me next time around. I had a full on throw the controller in the air, run circles around the 6' of open floor space in the hotel room, kind of celebration. My parents... didn't get it, but that's okay 😆

I never did get around to finishing Eternal Blue. Maybe this will be my excuse to pick it up again.

I had this happen once where input validation on login and password change were different. I was allowed to set my password to a string containing a special character not accepted by the login form. Top men.