Tim Smith

It is like a bad junior high baseball game where the person who made the "winning run" is celebrated and the batter who got the 3rd out in the nineth inning is demonized.

Don't even get me started on the whole "scientific discovery implies moral character" BS.

You thought seagull management was bad, have you been subjected to seagull code reviewers?

"But but but, my opinions!!!"

The Titanic just hit an iceberg, forgive me if I have little concern about the carpet in your suite.

1 or 2 cents goes to 0 cents. 3 or 4 cents goes to 5 cents. Similar for 6,7 and 8,9. And this only applies to cash transactions.

Honestly, this seems fair. And given how little I use cash, it doesn't affect me.

The polish phase...

Sanding is to woodworking as polishing is to game dev.

If a "publicly releasable server" is required and it diverges significantly from the server used internally, I fear that the quality of that server will be lacking. The video covers this under the notion of having to rethink the dev process. But it is an example of how things aren't trivial.

IP and licensing of that IP seems like it might complicate things. There have been instances of IP being pulled from a published game after the license expires. This seems like it might be possible to use this as a tool to thwart efforts by this initiative.

I'm not an IP lawyer...

When it comes to 3rd party licensed software, the terms for client binaries and server binaries are significantly different. For server binaries, game devs have a LOT more freedom to license software that can NOT be distributed freely. This isn't a trivial problem to solve.

As a low profile 20+ year dev, I feel this is an excellent summary of developer's perspective on "Stop Killing Games".

TLDR: "This initiative is an important conversation that needs to be had. But it complicated..."

My own thoughts below...

I don't know what is so special about ending 10 wars.

Just this morning I ended 8 wars and some where on planets not even discovered yet.

ROOKIE NUMBERS!!!

YouTube video by prestoagitato2 Amadeus - "There are simply too many notes."

I leave the following without comment

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud...

Just checked Alberta's levels and thankfully they haven't spiked (yet). I guess we are too busy with measles. COVID is so 2020. (heavy, frustrated sarcasm)

Being someone who was into TAM and "New Atheism", my biggest takeaway was "Just because you share a certain viewpoint with someone does not mean you share any other viewpoints or ideology"

The "do your own research" mantra helped get us into this mess.

Yeah, I would consider that working smarter.

Another thought about being lazy is doing just enough to avoid getting fired.

I once told my boss-boss-boss... (one of the co-CEOs) that my goal was to have everything running so smoothly that I can just sit out on the deck and watch the world pass by.

Being lazy requires no effort. Working smarter requires up front effort to get you to a place where can be "lazy".

Game information I would like to see listed on Steam...

How many damn buttons I must press just to exit the damn game.

Googled an opinion I had to get thoughts from others on the subject.

The Google AI summary agreed with my position.

I'm not sure how I feel about that.

(1) Yea me???
(2) God, I hope people don't take Google AI summaries as an authoritative opinion.

Last week a black bear was killed at Black Rock Resort. The bear ended up under the pool area and after 30 minutes the conservation officers decided to kill the bear. I have no other context to their decision.

I do old hand plane "restoration" to make them usable again. Part of the process is flattening the sole of the plane. Lots of finely ground iron.

It does make me nervous sometimes. But thankfully the amounts are low.

Even sawdust is a fire risk in small industrial settings.

And you mentioned the curvature of the Earth... RIP your comments section. :)

As Calgary discovered, removing fluoride not only increased tooth decay, but more importantly, increased oral infections in children.

Untreated oral infections can be very serious. Not only the possibility of damage to the bone, but teeth have a scary rapid rail train to the heart.

I lived the "Why can't you be more like FIFA" life. It isn't fun. You hit the nail on the head.

I'm sorry, but most of those pics look more like old grandpa with bushy eyebrows wondering why the **** those kids are in his yard.

:)

Jesus Christ. The conservative loser is coming to Alberta’s Battle River riding vacated by the newly elected MP. The PP of the Conservative Party had to come to the most hard core riding in the west to try for PM.

Now we have two weasels to deal with in Alberta (no offence to weasels intended).

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation ain’t having the separatists rhetoric from Smith or her ilk…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Oh, when I followed you, I didn’t realize we were “neighbours”. Yeah, it is going to be very annoying living here. 😂

I’m originally from the southern US and when I saw my first confederate flag in the back window of an Albertan pickup, I was floored. Such is life here.

While we didn’t manage to flip our riding Liberal, this is the most excited I’ve been to vote since moving to Canada (yeah, I’m a god damn immigrant!!!).

Watching the numbers oscillate is not good for my heart.

We have had, anti-BLM, anti-CRT, anti-woke, and anti-DEI. Any bets on the next “but what about white guys?!?!” whine fest?

I have to admit that when I said the different US conservative religions would start attacking each other, I didn’t think it would be so soon.

My sister in law is a family doctor. One of the problems is that they ask that if you have a 15 minute appointment, please only bring up one thing. If you need to discuss more, then please let the scheduling assistant know.

People with a 15 minute slot coming in with a year's worth of ailments...