Notices by Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)

I love how every communication from a company these days is "we remain committed to being ethical good guys, so we are introducing a change to our service where fuck you, go die in a fire."

@ajroach42 You'd be astonished how many of the people I follow say the exact same thing.

@jplebreton The weird thing about that is - I've sat in on a few places like that, and while they are polite people, you can get them to announce their vile beliefs by simply casually asking about them.

You have to pretty much steer the conversation to pointless inaninities to avoid hearing their opinions. You'd have to go in and do nothing but talk about food and haircuts, and even then they'd find a way to drop some casual racism.

It's always the journalist telling on themself.

If you missed it, @itchio just shadowbanned all adult content.

It's funny how when there are as many cops as protesters, everything is violence, tear gas, and billy clubs. But when there's a thousand times more protesters than cops, nothing violent happens at all.

Hm.

Reading an old detective novel and income tax is a major plot point that keeps coming up. And the book is ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that if you make a lot of money, you pay 80%+ on income taxes.

Imagine that. Imagine 80%+ income tax on rich assholes. It was a reality, back when the USA was trying to be a better place instead of a worse one.

@silverwizard Ouch.

Every time I hear about a billionaire - or even a multimillionaire - I am reminded just how bizarre they are.

Listen, if I could afford a boat, that's where I'd meet literally everyone forever.

Need to meet up with me? Neat, I'll launch mah boat.

Dingy or yacht, come to my boat. We don't need an apartment or a coffee shop to be bored at, we can be bored on my boat.

Weather's too bad for boating?

Guess we won't meet up then. See you on-line!

Me: "Wow, my health isn't super great nowadays, I wonder what change in my lifestyle has caused this?"

Oh, right. It's stress.

In the past few days I've seen so many games with bad event systems cutting off their own dialog that I'm starting to wonder if it's my machine.

I just got the final version of SpaceVenture, and while I'm fine with it being put together with gum and tape, it seems odd that nearly every conversation gets cut off halfway through the final line - including the FIRST ONE.

Like... you'd notice, right? You'd notice the first minute of your game doesn't work.

What's up...

Anyway, if people come back to Mastodon because BlueSky degrades, just say how nice it is to see them.

Don't punish them for having left, don't say they came 'crawling back'. Follow this rule: don't punish behavior you like to see.

@silverwizard I think we used to talk that way about the creek near town.

@reidrac meanwhile, here in Boston...

@alienmelon Wow, 15,000 reviews, hm. I can see why he only plays games for a few minutes each and then just makes shit up.

I bet the majority of his life is oriented around spitting out "reviews" as fast and as loudly as possible...

@fuzzybinary Yeah, although even if Twitter hadn't devolved, they would have replaced those folks with AI by now anyway.

@sinbad The original was great if you like puzzle boxes that work entirely based on unintended glitches.

Going off the emails, this one looks like it's mostly a tech demo with chat GPT NPCs.

Wow! Space Engineers 2 is in early access! Someone go play it for me, I know I'll hate it if I play it.

@sinbad On that note, I hope your multiplayer game doesn't involve anyone standing on anything that moves.

@sinbad Oh! I noticed that but had to give up due to a much larger misfeature before I got around to tending to that one. XD

@runevision It's so straightforward, I don't know how the Obra Dinn devs didn't think of it. 😅