Pedro Martins

Software engineering has shifted. I unconsciously started accepting Claude code changes without deeply checking. Unlike before.

Yes! Flying mounts ruin games. Ground travel is so much more interesting than air travel. You have to navigate, you sometimes have to face danger. Air just skips everything and you fly in a straight line. When my friends and I were playing Ark I had to make a no-flying-mounts rule because the challenge of navigating the terrain and avoiding tough dinos is a huge part of the game and if you can just fly then you lose all that. I also loved that in the original Ark, the only map you got didn't show your position or direction. You had to navigate by landmarks and memory. Wish more people would make games with expansive worlds with no map and no fast travel. The game has to be designed for it, though -- like quests have to be designed so you aren't constantly going back and forth across the world, and landmarks have to be distinct enough for you to be able to navigate off of them.

All aggregators had their payouts reduced to 60% this cycle. We will add another 20% deduction in the next cycle. It became abundantly clear: flooding the timeline with 100 stolen reposts and clickbait everyday crowded-out real creators and hurt new author growth. The next step is to assign a permanent deduction to habitual bait posters who use “🚨BREAKING”on every post. X will never infringe on speech or reach—but we will not compensate for manipulation of the program or our users.