Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 9

@fuzzybinary I made one and occasionally post in case it helps the stuff I do but meh, it’s doomed mid-long term, too much VC money involved for anything else to be the case

RIP Tony Todd, I could recognise your voice anywhere 😔

@dev_ric glad it went well!

Looking at card games and this product image cracked me up.

Guy on the right “OMG ITS HAPPENING THIS IS GOING TO BE THE GREATEST CARD PLAY IN UNIVERSE SQUEEE”

@psychicparrot42 Fast forward 5 years "Players are have not responded as enthusiastically as we expected to Formulaic Hero Shooter 12"

@simonoliver Ha, I had no idea that existed. I wonder if he would have approved... 🤔

@dev_ric I suspend my PC every night so at least it can’t do that. Hope the move has gone / is going well

@simonoliver 😄 Shame you missed Peter Cushing 😉

@aeva literally just a spreadsheet with custom formatting enabled

@msinilo like a old warm blanket

This was an absolute gold mine for me in 1994, I learned so much from it for my DOS gamedev experiments back in the day
https://anticapitalist.party/@thezerobit/113443602032988688

The Guinness substitute worked out, the Irish stew was bloomin great. Made a huge batch so several meals worth going in the freezer for another day, the Instant Pot we bought last year has been great for bulk winter food like this (and batch curries)

@khalidabuhakmeh I say this as someone who hated IDE VCS integration with such a passion that I wrote my own dedicated Git tools in protest. Rider is literally the first IDE where I like the VCS interface and use it for almost everything. So, good job

@khalidabuhakmeh Rider’s Git support is unnecessarily good

@mmby it’s a 500ml bottle (but also yeah a little FOV effect)

I mainly bought this because they didn’t have any bottled Guinness, but also because of the earworm about Peter Cushing living there

https://whitstableviews.com/2016/12/04/whitstable-people-peter-cushing/

I’m not actually drinking it, I’m making an Irish stew

@JeremiahFieldhaven I basically have 3 blockers:
1. UE is worse (slower, flakier) - may get better?
2. Affinity doesn't have a Linux version (apparently works in Bottles, don't know how well)
3. Excel. Needed for important spreadsheets, although I've used OpenOffice & Numbers in the past, nothing has worked as well. At the least I'd have to rewrite a custom plugin we use for some finance stuff

It's not impossible, just a pain, and I have other things to do. But I'm pissed off enough to try

So on the plus side (albeit an epsilon that rounds out in real terms) I’m now even more motivated to try to make Linux work for me on the desktop, eventually. I have some near term practical issues so it won’t be tomorrow. But goddamn, the quisling princes of the big tech industry, spineless bastards to a man that they are, have made it abundantly clear that they are not fit to govern our technological lives. Arguably that’s been true for a while, but it’s clearer than ever. Time for punk tech

Had another BSOD yesterday, after not having seen one in years I’ve had 3 in the last couple of months. Beginning to suspect my boot SSD might be failing, it’s 3 years old and the stop code indicated a corrupt page file index.🫤
On the plus side I discovered the built-in Windows Reliability Monitor which shows you a history of all your errors. Nice tool! It felt like the last one was only a couple weeks ago, but it was actually almost a month.

@kr4ft3r it’ll be faster in the final version. I think it looks better than just jumping up/down