Marshall

Nihowdy! Insidious third parties are everywhere trying to harvest your data: be aware of people asking about your day in the supermarket.

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨 DID YOU KNOW: On the NIGHT Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Mitch McConnell called Trump and TOLD him 2 things:

1. "First, I’m putting out a statement that we’re filling the vacancy."

2. "You’ve GOTTA nominate Amy Coney Barrett.”

They rammed her through the Senate in under 5 weeks before the 2020 election.

Did McConnell sabotage Trump intentionally or was it just bad judgment?

@SenMcConnell

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@LewisCTech I don't think necessarily the agile manifesto itself is bad, but it's very unclear in its messaging and became a Rorschach test. This often ended up meaning implement overhead instead of just doing smaller and shorter dev cycles, which is perfectly compatible with waterfall.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@Kekius_Sage This is because long ago it agreed to terms of service that allowed the government to track its browsing habits.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@mikemearls There ideally should be a good mix. If they're saying things aligned with NPC goals, no roll needed. If it could go either way, roll. If it's directly against, it just fails unless you're intimidating or something similar. One thing I do hate is dice rolls = mind control though.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@TimSweeneyEpic @SoloEnSteam This is the perfect example of why non-Steam platforms like Epic fail to capture more of the market. They do things in a worse way and then gnash their teeth when people don't jump ship. Now Epic is trying to get the government to suppress their competition that they can't beat.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@TimSweeneyEpic @SoloEnSteam You know you can do this with Steam without requiring it to be listed in your platform, right? It's called add a non-Steam game and it's easier to use than requiring the app to be added to your library. Epic is MORE limited than Steam and I prefer the way Steam does it.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

Thanks. If this is indeed accurate, none I saw seem particularly odious. They seem to have a general policy of trying to maintain rough price parity so Steam doesn't look like the bad/expensive option and they're not promoting the game on Steam but directing customers elsewhere to purchase. It's totally normal business correspondence from what I can tell. If this is the type of conduct they're referring to for Rainbow Six, then they're effectively trying to pass off ordinary business activity as bad.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@jmdagdelen @oozecluez Do I have a legal right to force Steam to sell and support my product with their own resources?

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@TimSweeneyEpic They're not preventing you from selling it on another platform and "passing on savings" and cutting out Steam. This hasn't worked in the past because other platforms (including Epic) are a much worse user experience than Steam so customers don't migrate. You know this.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@imnonplussed It's pushed hard from competition who have something to gain from it being declared a monopoly.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@SamRo Intelligence is knowing that this doesn't show other relevant items and the answer completely depends on a variety of other factors. Wisdom is knowing that the context of the question only requires you to consider the information in the question itself.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

I agree that's the intention with the wording, but I think that there's going to be issues with the "ordinary use" and "core features" part. That's so up to the interpretation of the reader it could be argued to be anything. e.g. Starcraft 2 shut down and the Arcade and multiplayer were gone. I think there'd be a real argument that was a removal of core features.

Section 2 is essentially you either need to have planned for this law ahead of time, or you re-architect your game, or refund everyone. What do I do if I use third-party services that I no longer am paying for which support the game when online? Does that count as "controlled by the operator" if they go away?

I really think this needs to steer more into saying that it needs bad faith or deceptive conditions instead of being a blanket law about every game being released. To my understanding, this is to prevent rug-pull

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

That's exactly how you kill the chance. It's an incredible fallacy to try and adjust your game to the "uncaptured market" of people who clearly aren't too interested in the first place. You end up making a game that hooks fewer people overall. What would you suggest change here to make her interested in this experience? It ain't just explaining what a HUD is.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@dimenpsyonal I wouldn't put much stock in these partisan advisory questions on the ballots. They're non-binding straw polls and worded to encourage strong agreement from their own voters. They'll then use the results to claim broad support for their positions.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@yegor256 I doubt that structured data and interfaces are going away anytime soon.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

@yacineMTB True. Once we had the prod app throwing exceptions and had foolishly not hired anyone who knew leetcode. We were tearing our hair out until we hired someone using a 10-step process. He added binary tree inversion code from memory into the app and we made 500 billion that year.

[Marshall @marshallamiller]

Depends on the game. One thing I've seen done well is establish group goals at the beginning and have experience be based off of creatures and also that. e.g. if they're a treasure hunting group, it does make sense to award experience for gold value gathered in treasure. If they're a mercenary group, then maybe it makes more sense to aware bonus experience for completing contracts. If they're a heroic adventuring group, bonus experience for innocents saved, etc.

Puzzles, yes, I think in general they should have experience if they're sufficiently complex and have ongoing effects, otherwise it's just part of the encounter. i.e. the one-time net trap maybe not, but an ongoing initiative based lightning damage effect, definitely.