Adam

14 blocks this morning.

You know, I've been on the fence about twitter for a while but stuck around because there were a lot of interesting people I wanted to interact with and I wanted to get my name out there, but the amount of time I spend blocking bots is starting to outpace everything else.

@RobinPoedev I'm gonna restrain myself from telling you all 200000 words of my tabletop fantasy setting but know that I'm aggressively aligned with you on this one.

I don’t like it when fiction does this thing where we are in a fictional world, that’s obviously fictional. & then some guy shows up “from the far East” and “the far East” is just real medieval Japan. Dungeon meshi did this, all fromsoft games, monster hunter, I don’t like.

@SmartAlloc Hey it was nice meeting you. I actually misremembered that preservation collection I mentioned, but here it is: flashpointarchive.org

@PirateSoftware Gotta hard disagree, league never had this many bots.

Twitter has become Ranked League of Legends. Prove me wrong.

"Factorio Space Age" is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately dangerous drugs with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively taken by cracked engineers who unironically want to "just play for a little bit" and basically get oneshotted by

@RobinPoedev This is truly the most relatable post I've ever seen.

i wanna make this very clear, i Love Tears of the Kingdom more then you. no one loves this game more then me, thats why i Fucking hate it so much

@ubahs1337 It's a bit more joke than serious comparison.

@AdamSandGames I'm not super familiar with the story there, but I think I am on the same page.

Does anyone else playing Metaphor get the feeling that the writers were paying a lot of attention to American politics when it was being written?

@lemire This encompasses 99% of why my relatively basic android app dev experience was 8x more frustrating than my advanced java classes from back in school with infinitely more convoluted instructions. Java class didn't require a build environment just a standalone java class file.

Java first came out with a suite of tools that was ahead of its time. You could package your software, document it, and so forth. Over time, some of the very best environments were built to serve the Java ecosystem. But it turned into a curse. Yesterday, I'm setting up a simple benchmark for my blog post using JMH. Sounds like child's play, right? Wrong. What followed was an epic saga of build system wizardry. I spent 10x more time on the build setup than on the code. Look at the screenshot, pay attention to the necessary `-processor`? Want to build and run... mvn clean install && java -jar target/benchmarks.jar Why the arcane ritual? Gradle came along, promising a new dawn. But alas, it seems just as complicated. Let us compare with C#/.NET. We find the same XML... but I can hand edit these files with relative ease (except for the silly hash codes). And once you got it working, you can just do... dotnet build dotnet test dotnet format dotnet run Adding a dependency? dotnet add package You know what the equivalent is in Go? Want to write a benchmark? Write the code. No config file. No dependency. Just 'go test -bench .'. I'm no novice. I can write my own CMake build files for C++, I've setup Cargo for Rust, programmed in Python, JavaScript. Ocaml. It always seems simpler, faster, better. Yes, even Python seems better despite all the complaints. Basically, almost everyone spent a whole lot of effort simplifying the builds so that it is easy, reproducible, understandable, debuggable. You should not need hundreds of lines of XML code to build a project unless it is a massive project, like your own Web browser or operating system. But Java? It stands alone. Instead of simplifying the build, it sought to hide it under graphical interfaces. So, when you need to peek under the hood, Java's build systems feel like a labyrinth designed by a mad architect. It's not the autoconf/automake nightmare, but in this age of instant build setup, Java's build ecosystem feels like a relic, a monument to complexity overthrown by the very simplicity it once championed. Maven and gradle are good at failing with mysterious error messages that only a C++ compiler can surpass.

@SPRWtv Hey I'm not familiar with VFX at all but can you answer a quick question? Can those curves be "widened" so each loop is randomly slightly different (conceptually, not in this tool specifically). I've always wondered about programmatic animation variance.

Blender is cool

@CypressDahlia Imo it's because searchability on all social media (besides maybe pre-2020 reddit) has been utterly terrible for so long that nobody even bothers.

Social media is interesting in that it's the only format where a person can make a point once and it's on record for you to scroll and read with very little effort. And yet nobody does that and everyone is like, "no no repeat the thing to me next!" "Now, me! Repeat it to me!"

@RobinPoedev This is a lie I love trine and it's boxes.

@RobinPoedev i fucking hate this game, all the puzzles are solved by just summoning Boxes, theres no creative solutions, just a single optimal responce. Breath of the wild and its impact has been a disaster on society

i fucking hate this game, all the puzzles are solved by just summoning Boxes, theres no creative solutions, just a single optimal responce. Breath of the wild and its impact has been a disaster on society

@_NATSU_KAZE_ @NoodleVEVO When I was more in the music world we'd say that shameless self promotion is the hallmark of every successful band. Hawk your wares, friend.

@NoodleVEVO ...People are gonna yell at me, but mine, lol I'm running the Kicksarter campaign for my RPG after working on it completely solo for the last four years. It's doing well, but there are a lot of stretch goals I'd like to meet. I think it's REALLY good! kickstarter.com/projects/natsu…

indie games you think deserve more attention?

Games I've played for over 100 hours

@JenEricLive I did say this forgetting that film marketing budgets aren't included here so egg on my face I guess. I loved that movie though.

@JenEricLive I also think that people accepting that a $58 million profit is a "disappointment" is partially to blame here. The movie paid a bunch of people's paychecks and the investors got a some change back out of it. If they were expecting 50% or 100% returns maybe they should go to vegas

This makes me feel like the problem isn't the movie itself, but the act of having to go to a theater to watch it. I know it's how films make money and measure success, but that really needs to be reworked. Movies not doing well in theaters no longer means the film is bad IMO.

@day9tv The Seven builds where you yeet yourself into the sky over a teamfight to ult are particularly amusing to me.

What's your favorite Deadlock build? I've been seeing some really fun looking Infernus spirit lifesteal builds so I'm curious what brews y'all been cookin'!!

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