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@AvLawns @transmedbiomed @michaelpatron0 @glen5839 Yes, so why not throw out an insane number and if this dude is willing to pay it you hit a jackpot? I've seen it done all the time in my line of work where folks quote insane figures for simple jobs they don't want top do and if someone says yes then you just made bank.

@transmedbiomed @michaelpatron0 @glen5839 No, it isn't. NOBODY needs me to cut their grass. You buying my Time, so you don't have to spend yours.

My house is kinda small but I hate doing stuff so I pay a pool guy and lawn guy. My pool guy just does chemicals. He texts me the other day and says I need a new filter and vacuum. I told him I'm busy and to just tell me what he wants to handle it. He texted me back...

@catalyst_hd I just wish you could gib bodies when they're down like in the old ET games.

I really hope they take a look at the reviving experience in future updates because LMAO man there is no way this is good for gameplay and it happens all the time. And it's annoying for the downed player too. I know we've all experienced the frustration of being revived into an instantaneous death because the medic tunnel visioned.

@thdxr I hope one day JS gets a popular Laravel/Rails-like framework. I know there are cons to it, but sometimes I feel JS devs (myself 100% included!) focus way too much on things that don't make for a better web (read: performant, privacy focused, accessible) but make _US_ "feel" good

@thdxr ... but now it's all this weird 1st party Nitro/Nuxt mix that I feel are in a weird Schrodingers Cat in my head where I understand it... but DO I understand it?

the js framework space is actually a mess right now - you'd think with so many options all needs would be met but it's looking like nextjs won super hard, decimated everything else, but then became this exotic thing you have to really buy into you have hono which has all the things you need to build an api (validation, openapi, etc) but it's messy to plug in frontend frameworks like react or solid tanstack/solidstart/astro can handle the frontend part but are weak for building an api you're still stuck smashing things together if you want something complete

@ZeekerssRBLX I think what's worse than the stunning is all of the health regen. I know it's because I'm used to games where you don't regen that fast, but it doesn't feel rewarding to build up damage and then all of a sudden they're self-healing damage faster than you could deal it

Taking control from the player is a bad design philosophy to be at the core of your game. There's got to be another way. I've heard it's typical for MOBAs, but Deadlock looked different. Maybe it can still change. At least the prototype heroes stop you from moving in fun ways

I've been thinking about Deadlock. I've never played a MOBA before but here's what I see. Deadlock wants to be a fast movement shooter, but it also wants to have big health bars. So combat revolves around stopping players dead in their tracks or chasing ferociously...

@CIevarUsername @VicariousNick @FPSthetics Well, good thing we're only talking about vibes and atmosphere! :D x.com/FPSthetics/sta…

Imagine playing Mirror's Edge in 2008 and being like 'wow this is something else I can't wait to see games in 15 years' and then still literally nothing else hits remotely like it.

@aristath The way updating a block's attributes and files causes you to need to deprecate it and run a new version side-by-side should have been a red flag that something is wrong at its core and it isn't a good or sustainable model for the long term.

@aristath Since the initial rushed release in 2019, my main question has always been this: why did they try to do a weird, half-baked version of SSR React in PHP instead of just making a "new" CMS in Node?

I give up. I can no longer contribute to Gutenberg… I can’t understand our code anymore, at this stage it’s alien to me and it keeps getting more and more complex instead of simpler. I’m wasting too much time trying to understand what we do.

@ukslim @davesnx @0xglitchbyte Also, you said you're probably not likely to be taught without needing node_modules, but Eloquent JS only mentions it a couple of times. I know once is dedicated to JS modules in general and the other is Node. I'm not sure if the newest edition mentions it elsewhere, though.

@ukslim @davesnx @0xglitchbyte Also both of your proposed alternatives require more effort than using a built in browser + Notepad equivalent which is pretty much standard on every single OS known to man.

You know what I dont understand? How is web dev the most recommended starting point? Yeah, its visual and quickly interactive But so is game dev with Raylib Maybe webdev was the quickest way, but not anymore Learning game programming with C is a fantastic alternative

@ukslim @davesnx @0xglitchbyte C'mon, this is a disingenuous response. If you're a beginner who has never programmed before, you aren't trying to jump in and rebuild a modern SaaS platform. Might as well say if you can't build RDR2 from the ground up by yourself, it isn't worth doing game dev.

@davesnx @0xglitchbyte But "web dev" at any employable scale. Unless you're a freelance grinding out content sites.

@ChilledChaos I always gotta toss out Person of Interest when folks want a new show to binge. IMO it fills a nice niche between comfy villain of the week that cleanly morphs into serialized drama (circa 2015 CBS) with a great cast (namely Michael Emerson, Taraji P Henson, Amy Ackler)

Is the Lord of the rings TV show worth watching? About to finish the Sopranos and looking for something else to binge on my days off

@ryanflorence @brianleroux Does RSC allow you to optimize for certain circumstances? Sure! What you said sounds more like if you don't use React + RSC, you deliver a worse experience to your users out of the gate as if something like Wikipedia would be instantly made better just by having RSC.

@ryanflorence @brianleroux Then you should have been more careful with what you say, because "you can go back to the pre-react JS sprinkles era too, with an even lower ceiling" leads one to believe your opinion is that React somehow raises the ability to deliver quality UX.

@brianleroux Didn’t say that. Said that react server features raise the ceiling of react SPA architectures On the web without React, anybody with enough skill, experience, and care is limited only by their imagination and Safari

@AdamRackis @SpaceRaceDandy And if your library doesn't have it, you may be able to get a neighboring county's library card for a fee that might be less than the price for an O'Reilly sub. Not to say subbing to them is bad, but public libraries are just such a resource rich place folks disregard lately!

@AdamRackis @SpaceRaceDandy And to avoid stealing, folks should really check with their public library, because some offer this O'Reilly subscription completely free, as well as access to a variety of other technical & non-technical learning materials, ebooks, and newspapers.

Really loving O’Reilly Safari. For $50/month I can get books from almost any tech publisher (O’Reilly, Packt, Manning and others), with offline access. It’s a godsend for things like swim meets 🚀

@TechHighest @brian_lovin @Presidential22_ No, @brian_lovin is right. Safari sits around 18% globally, but peaks in low 30s for US. gs.statcounter.com/browser-market…

@brian_lovin @Presidential22_ That's false lmao

This company raised $400,000,000 two years ago and can't play a video on Safari.

@cnakazawa @PascalPixel @switz213 It's always fun to remember how both devs & users would have been OK with a strict, fixed height for something like this this not _that_ long ago, but now it's looked at as a cardinal sin to some folks to even suggest it!

@PascalPixel @switz213 Yep that’s it. I appreciate you styled them like Facebook buttons.

I was always confused why people were advocating for not using margin in CSS. Now, after finally having mastered flexbox, I get it. CSS was barely a thing when I learned it, then I spent more than a decade on tools, and it took a while to unlearn those habits now. The tough part is I have one critical component that still uses margin but shouldn’t. I’m scared of the refactor 🫠