Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 11

@eniko I live at the top of a big hill and ebikes changed the game for my old unfit ass; it’s my sole form of transport now

@psychicparrot42 Something something KPIs

@klord just saw that @h0ffman’s Cecconoid Amiga port is going to be in an arcade cab at the @rmcretro cave! “noice” 😃

@frankreiff the fact that it’s a close thing despite everything that’s happened blows my mind

@neilhenning oof I’m really trying to believe the arc of history isn’t bending back to the 1930s but damn

@rovarma it’s kind of a separate thing, ours doesn’t do softening, it just cleans up the taste & removes any particulates. We don’t have particularly hard water but I do use a separate softener in my espresso machine because that’s a bit more sensitive

I was vaguely aware that people often make terrible decisions, but I don’t think I ever fully appreciated the extent of it until 2016, when in the space of a couple of months people voted for Brexit and Trump v1. I had naively thought that due to “progress”, people were getting smarter and more tolerant; I never really thought we’d go backwards. I miss that optimism.

I really hope things don’t go even further backwards tomorrow. I’m jaded enough 😕

@rovarma replacement filter for a tap/faucet - makes tap water taste better but has to be replaced every 6 months https://www.franke.com/gb/en/home-solutions/products/featured-products/vital-taps.html

@thibault nice, I actually imagined that Linux users would be the least likely to want to use it given the agent setup there has been better historically so that’s a good sign

Does anyone here use the 1Password SSH agent yet?

I’ve been using the in-built Windows OpenSSH Agent service for a while (which itself has been a vast improvement on the way we used to have to do it) but I’m wondering what this route is like, since I’m already a 1P user

Since this is a co-op game and I don't care about cheating I could have just made stamina wholly client-authoritative, but I don't want to rule out having stamina available on the server as well, even if it's slightly out sometimes. I've found that having the server decide when "exhausted" happens even if the client slightly disagrees works fine, wheras real-time replication from server->client of stamina looks terrible in the UI even with smoothing because of the lag & variable replication rate

I feel like I'm cheating a lot with some of my multiplayer code but it really helps, e.g. if you want a stamina attribute which the server has authority over the "boundary" effects of (e.g. running out) but you want the local version to change smoothly and without lag (most of it is driven by player input), the best way I found was turn off replication except at authoritative boundaries & let client & server run them in parallel in between, allowing a little drift for the sake of client visuals

Oof, filter cartridges for our kitchen tap have gone up by 50% in 2 years 😲 I know inflation has been high, but not that high. Could be profiteering or Brexit or both I guess. I always buy 2 years worth at a time because of the bulk discount but it definitely stings. Hard to know if the off-brand alternatives are any good, which is I guess how they get you

Wouldn't it just be *lovely* to simply chuck up a direct download link for everything and bypass 3rd party portals entirely 🤔💭

I can't see any new way to submit publisher support cases to Fab, hoping that the old Marketplace support request system (https://marketplacehelp.epicgames.com/s/marketplace-case-form) still works

Ugh, the update I posted on Fab last Monday that Epic told me had been approved & set live on Thursday isn't showing for customers in the Epic Launcher, even installing fresh just gets you the previous version. Admin panel in Fab claims the new version is live but it's clearly not. Siiigggh

@fuzzybinary they won’t feel quite as weighty & solid as the old 360 ones, but then neither do the new Xbox One controllers

@fuzzybinary yeah - most of 8bitDo’s modern lineup use Hall Effect sticks which basically never drift (barring physical alignment issues)

@fuzzybinary Caveat: I’ve only used the wireless version not the wired one but they’re generally known for decent builds

@fuzzybinary 8bitDo make better controllers than MS for less money https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-c-wired-controller-xbox/