Arkthos

Good read. The Brussels effect seems to be facing the same problems the rest of the EU is facing - increased pressure from the outside.

On the tech side I think it's mostly that tech giants can now use the US as an instrument to apply pressure more than it is EU regulatory overreach on AI. Yeah, the EU has failed to manifest their own tech giants, but I'd argue this is a good thing because holy shit the tech giants are a cancerous blob on society.

I really don't get why they didn't at the very least go through the process of having someone who watched the show verify this sort of stuff is correct before publishing it. This is just embarrassing.

Electric car industry wants more electric cars. Not a huge surprise. Good point though, investments have been made on the background of the EU not backing out.

Yeah, there's an analysis by an expert on the article. Says the mention is remarkable, but to be expected. I mean, it would be a statement in itself to not mention the giant pink elephant in the room.

And furries. For some reason furries are all over telegram.

Fuuck this shit and my piece of shit country for supporting this idiocy.

All the more reason to use a VPN. We'll see what measures various apps will end up implementing.

Paradox owns the world of darkness ip entirely right now. I wonder if this call to refocus their efforts on their core competencies will mean selling it off.

They haven't done too well with it. They've released several games and I think some solo dev interactive fiction have been the only ones getting positive reviews: Earthblood, Swansong, Bloodhunt, and now Bloodlines 2 have all done pretty poorly. Even the tabletop RPG has seen better days, with 5th edition causing quite the controversy, mostly with Werewolf. Hell they closed White Wolf down for a while because the books caused controversy.

Paradox have done a terrible job with the IP.

I played pretty much the same way De_Narm did. I tried caring less, though because I had no idea what would come next, it inevitably descended into spaghetti. I am stressed out about technical debt enough at work to be playing a technical debt simulator lol.

Dedicating the space needed to expand, ensuring everything you build is scalable, inevitably requires you to know a lot about what's coming.

Yeah, if you know what you're doing you can avoid these issues. I did not enjoy myself in the slightest, so after some hours of giving it a chance I decided that learning how to avoid these issues was not worth the pain. I'll just stick to work instead.

I feel vindicated. I have the exact same feeling of factorio feeling too much like work, having to refactor everything because the requirements change is one of the more frustrating parts of software engineering imo, and the game feels tailored specifically to invoke that frustration.

I imagine that part gets better after the first hundred hours where you basically know what's coming. I don't have the patience to learn the tech tree though, given that I don't even enjoy the game.

Olympic shooting still uses one hand grip today, I don't think it's the it never occurred to them, it's just not a part of the discipline.

Very useful on the off chance that vampires are real. Otherwise.... Less so.

Nice. Hope they can keep it up, even if the new oil drilling going on makes one sceptical. Of course while there is a demand for oil there'll be a big incentive to drill, we really need to wean ourselves off the dead dino goop soon.