Sean Barrett

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"House Democrats on Thursday voted to return Rep. Henry Cuellar to his leadership role on the House Appropriations Committee following his presidential pardon on federal corruption charges."

JICYMI - Shameful, repulsive move by House Democrats and their leaders. Disgraceful.

it's not even my meta-structure except in the vaguest, vaguest structural sense, but assuming I'm right I'm still going to feel so much better about the "inferiority" of MY Knives Out sequel idea.

(I'm being incredibly vague with "sequence accomplishes" to avoid even vague spoilers if I'm right.)

So today I started watching "Wake Up Dead Man", and early in the story there's a sequence and I was like "oh, I know exactly what this sequence is there to accomplish, because I recognize it as fitting the pattern of MY meta-structure!". I'm still only halfway through, and if it goes where I think

So I came up with an idea that I thought was reasonable, and then much later I saw Glass Onion and was like "nope, I was thinking too narrowly, too much in the spirit of Knives Out's fakeout, and he went so much further than I was imagining for his structural twist." (2/4)

Back when I first heard Rian Johnson was writing a sequel to Knives Out, I spent about month off and on trying to figure out how to write one myself. Not actually writing one, just the barest idea of a plot, but importantly, what meta-structure could you do to feel Knives-Out-y w/o being the same.

I have a horrifying suspicion that this might somehow have been my fault, as I had kinda crazy ideas about coordinate axes back then. I don't *think* I'd have done this, but I wouldn't put it past me.

Never seen that one before. Incroyable!

I'm sorry you did all the work to figure it out redundantly. Unforgivable duplication of effort.

it's not deprecated in any sense, I still use it. I just got really bad about maintaining the github in the last few years, but since I quit Epic I hope to start maintaining it more seriously.

Existing bugs are mostly warnings and in optional # define-controlled features: github.com/nothings/stb...

But see, I knew why it happened but didn't think it was a good idea to explain. And I know all of the above as justification for why, no, it's not worth my time dealing random drivebys on this subject. That's just harassment from jerks.

Thekla doubles grant money for underrepresented devs to $100k Thekla Inc. has doubled the amount of money available in grants for indie developers from "traditionally underrepresent…

People are riding on a moral superiority that THEY knew in 2019 or whenever so therefore I/we should have, which has so many holes.

(a) did they think this in 2018, or hindsight 20/20?
(a) if they did think it then, was it on real evidence?
(c) consider e.g. www.gamesindustry.biz/thekla-raise...

I think is a known bug that never got the fix merged, does this look the same to you? github.com/nothings/stb...

There's nothing productive to be gained from such a conversation on my side, and on their side, they're just reveling in the moral superiority, not trying to honestly engage.

I'm not interested in internet randos policing exactly when I should have figured out the problems with Jon.

a chatgpt branded magic 8 ball

"i love that you asked this"

the small language model arrived

I'm just mad that I'm being purity tested for not having properly identified Blow's impropriety by 2017 / 2019.

I shouldn't be mad, I don't know why I care about foolish people's foolish opinions.

Also, not really "mad". Annoyed/aggravated.

And now the forum thread on a well-known gaming forum repeats this gotcha and complains that I blocked him. Yeah, this is just a no-win discussion, so I deleted my parts of it.

actually, no i'm blocking him. i'm not here for shitty nonsense "gotchas".

anywhere, here's the reply in question

See the reply to my "contract in 2019" for why I really didn't want to have a public discussion about this.

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.

NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

An important contributor (who I'm sure Thekla will properly credit in the game itself) was Zachary "Jack Lance" Polansky, who passed away in 2023. I don't know anything more except Jon said he was a major contributor to the puzzles.

Also, I made an unreleased Promesst 3 which is incorporated in it.

I was one of the other authors whose free games were used as a basis for this (by permission, under contract).

Read the thread for details; I agree with every word Alan has written (both the positives about the game, and the negatives about Jonathan Blow).

Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.

In other words: FUCK TIME MAGAZINE.

none of these people wrote the code or built the hardware. But also none of these people DESIGNED the code or the hardware. None of them "architected" anything. They're people choosing where the money goes, probably the most overpaid job for the skill & talent required, irrespective of success.

None of this is a complaint about snippingtool specifically. I don't need some other third-party screenshot tool. It's about Microsoft changing things and breaking old workflows, often with worse new workflows.

YouTube video by Comedy Without Errors We Need to Talk About Louis - Part 1

Even though I know Louis CK is a piece of shit, I missed some of the subtleties in how he manipulated people to give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't think he's really worth an hour of your time, I wish I could send you to the 5 minute version of this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=93nM...

The window in the screenshot never updated after I screenshotted. See my follow-up replies.

Apparently win-shift-S is a global shortcut that does some internal snippingtool w/o involving this window, so when you do it, it doesn't go into the open window.

Some respndents think this makes sense, but it's OPPOSITE OF HOW THE SAME NAMED PROGRAM USED TO WORK.

Some follow-up:

(a) the old Windows dialog box to set the double-click speed is still available. the new slider is reversed left-right

(b) actually, if you click 'new' it does, but if you click windows-shift-S LIKE IT TELLS YOU TO then it doesn't

(c) if you use 'New' you get a save icon