Notices by Jean-Sébastien Guay (skylark13@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@gamingonlinux

I appreciate the no-frills coverage btw, thanks. No sensationalist headline, just the news and a recap of the necessary context. Keep up the great work!

@killyourfm Wow! Going all out I see!

@killyourfm No problem! You might even want to play X-Wing or Tie Fighter which are also much more enjoyable with a good joystick. There are also a bunch of good flight sims in ExoDOS, like some of the games in the Jane's Combat Simulations collection (for example ATF: Advanced Tactical Fighters and Longbow 1) were for DOS.

Have fun!

@killyourfm Yeah, good call to wait to watch it.

With a gamepad, since you have to hold it with 2 hands you might have trouble activating keyboard controls at the same time (they're "simulation-light" games but still have too many controls for a gamepad alone). I have sometimes played them with a mouse, but it isn't great.

I recommend a joystick, you can keep one hand on the keyboard (no lewd jokes please 😅). These days I use a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. Not too expensive, highly recommend.

@killyourfm The outtakes video is super fun. Tom Wilson as Maniac steals the show. "I think that's the guy from Star Wars..." (pointing at Mark Hamill who is offscreen).

If you never played it, try Wing Commander IV (after playing the DOS version of WCIII of course). Very good as well.

@timb_machine Really... What if there a community around the project, what are the consequences? Should I change the name, what if the original author comes back, maybe I'm overthinking this huh... It seems so simple to just fork it and do whatevs.

Anyone have suggestions as to what can be done when a github project seems totally inactive? I posted PRs on two projects I find useful and it's been over a month without a response. I don't really want to fork them, but this annoys me... I could email the maintainers I guess.

If you're not going to be maintaining a project (and both were previously active with multiple releases) please put a note at the top of README.md or post a call for new maintainers in your project's Issues or something?

@sinbad yeah I wonder how a flat earther would react to this book.

@sinbad This reminds me of the "Raytracing in One Weekend" book, where you learn to write a raytracer but at the start it's really rudimentary and only knows how to render spheres, so you make a test scene where the ground "plane" is actually an extremely large sphere.

@inthehands Totally true. I try to be constructive in all cases. Sorry if I came across as pedantic myself.

I only express my frustration in reference to people who genuinely do not see the value in learning.

@inthehands Sure, that is lacking too. But I hate that even the basics are not valued.

I often hear people say it's not useful to learn to write properly because you never write by hand anymore, and spell checkers are always available. Guess what, spell checkers are not always used, not always correct, autocorrect is often totally wrong, people don't even re-read their message before posting.

I pride myself on writing properly in both languages and it's seen as totally useless to some people.

@inthehands @stephstephking I am a French-Canadian. English is my second language. It is super depressing to have to correct verb tenses or even spelling in a code review, especially when it's code written by a native English speaker. We wish they would write more documentation, but if they did it would probably be full of mistakes too. I don't blame them, they didn't have enough reading/writing classes early on. The same is true of French speakers, because of education system and texting...