My understanding is XFCE is lighter weight and simpler. Little to no animations, for example.

https://itsfoss.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-mate-xfce/

I am extremely basic and I’m using the XFCE that came with Linux mint. I don’t need anything fancy.

but I’m pretty convinced that Linux is not close to being ready for normies.

Yeah. I consider myself somewhat tech savvy (I do software development for work) and I had a really bad time installing mint on my desktop. I got it to work after a day but that was far more than a casually interested person would put up with.

Snake case, usually. Some perhaps unfounded fear that something will blow up on a dash in a file name kicking around. Or I’ll do a weird typo/premature enter and part of the file name will be treated like a -flag of some sort.

I usually squash my local into a single commit, then rebase it onto the head of main. Tends to be simpler

I’ve never had a complaint about logging stuff in python. It generally does what I expect.

“Create a copy of your object and print that” is what I ended up doing, but I don’t think most people would say that’s intuitive. I expect if i print something at a particular time, I get what it is at that point in time.

Some languages are just worse to work with. like JavaScript. Console.log is like sure I’ll log your object but I’ll tell you what it is now, not what it was when you logged it.

They are… Okay.

Big random factor in the loot so you can go long stretches without any interesting upgrades if you’re unlucky.

There’s a lot of time wasting - go here, now go back there, now go to this place

Leveling is weird and is a big factor in damage. If you’re too low level you can’t do anything except die. If you’re too high level you can’t lose. Sometimes you do too many side quests or not enough

The games typically start slow. You go a long while before you unlock your cool powers, or even the ability to equip four guns.

The writing is meh except for Handsome Jack. He’s a great villain.

There was a mega bundle of all the games before 3 for like $5. Look for that kind of sale.

I’m surprised Twitter is still running. How many engineers do they have?

Maybe those engineers should go rogue and just… not do this. But no, probably the ones left are jerks who support this, or people with visa worries.

Maybe someone will push Musk in front of a bus though.

Republicans are an existential threat. We should treat them as such.

That’s what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable.

If I’m on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don’t need to know anything about me specifically.

We’d still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement

This is what I always say. Put the tickets in order and we’ll do them.

Management always pushes back.

Yeah I don’t think this covers externalized costs

Out of curiosity, what about games that update? Crawl gets a new release like every six months where they often make big changes. New gods, species, other changes (like when they removed food, or added shapeshifting talismans)

I guess it’s possible you are correct and like the bulk of people who have ever studied film, literature, and art more generally are wrong. That seems unlikely. More plausible is that it’s common for people to experience a given work multiple times and get different things out of it.

That’s not even accounting for the “Reading Lear as an old man hits differently than reading it when I was a teenager” factor. That is, who you are changes over time and that affects how you experience art.

I don’t think that’s especially common for roguelikes. I played a lot of crawl: stone soup and it was pretty common for folks to go for a win with every species, god, and class.

I am going to get a lot of use out of that URL.

I’ve been telling people they need to put a dollar in the jar when they do that, but I haven’t actually been enforcing it.

Roguelikes.

Roguelites.

Chess.

Deck builders.

More broadly, games with different narrative choices (eg: Witcher 2 has two mutually exclusive middle acts).

And also more broadly, games with different mechanical choices (eg: many RPGs).

There’s also games where the process itself is fun (eg: Tetris).

Also, as many humans have imperfect memory, after enough time has passed a game may feel fresh playing it again. It may also land differently playing it at a new stage in life.

You’re not going to play any of your PS5 games in 5-10 years? You’re happy with some of your games aging out of your library?

You do you, but you might be an outlier.

You have discovered sturgeon’s law. 90% of everything is crap. Judging a medium or genre by the crap isn’t useful.