They have been working on an unannounced city builder for a while now. Maybe not on the same scale as cities skylines, but at least it’s the same genre. So hopefully they have gathered some experience in the area already? Can’t speak to the results yet, though.

I’m more worried they don’t have the capacity to meaningfully improve anything about cities while also working on that new thing.

Obra Dinn

Little Rocket Lab has similar vibes, though it’s not a farming game. It’s an automation game with conveyer belts. Controller experience is good IMO (never played with keyboard and mouse).

Well? Don’t leave us hanging!

I’ve probably done that for ls

Might very well be an endless loop because tail recursion can be optimized to reuse the stack frame. Depends on a lot of things of course.

But this whole day one DLC thing is a PR nightmare already? Step back from it somehow = win back some good will?

I used to work at PDX (dev studio). And even there players were saying the DLCs were just cut from the game to charge for them later. Which I can tell you, is not at all how that works for the grand strategy games.
But with a day one DLC it’s quite obvious. I mean maybe they wouldn’t have made the extra clans at all because they couldn’t justify the production costs? Personally I think they thought this is the most likely thing to break them even on the sunk cost of this dumpster fire.

The other peeps from the dev studio I’ve talked to are just as baffled (and upset about the consumer hostile practices).
I’m so glad I got off that sinking ship.

I thought this day one DLC crap was just them trying to break even. But now they are refunding people? I don’t get what their play is here.

A way to have several statements on the same line?

Is that their GitHub account or someone using the same name? If the former, how do they still have a GitHub account?

Given how much cost Paradox have sunk into that game, they are just trying to break even here, I think. I’m not saying that means anyone should be okay with this, I’m just offering an explanation. But makes me wonder if that’ll actually work out, or if they end up losing more through that bad PR.

CLI, gitui, SmartGit, various editor integrations when I’m there anyway (VS code, JetBrains)

The CLI is great because it works everywhere, but it’s not the best to review changes before I commit, or to inspect the log, plan merges etc. So I tend to go for more graphical tools for these tasks. Used SmartGit a lot at work. But recently learned about gitui and like its simplicity at times esp when I’m at the command line anyway.

The editor integrations I only really use to commit small changes or switch branches, see if I have changes etc.

Maybe after they release the Epstein files.

The final assembly is only part of the story though. As far as I understand, fairphone does actually try to check their supply chain to ensure the raw materials are (more) ethically sourced. As opposed to those optimizing for profit, who will intentionally look the other way.

And then you’re using C++ and they scold you for including cmath for just M_PI because it increases compilation times.

Thanks! I had noticed only 2.

Then I told my husband about your list and he was like ”that seems like splitting hairs”. Terrible.

I wonder if this will in practice put an end to the scummy practice of badly sized in game currency pack sizes, one of the many scummy techniques they use to make people spend more.

Let’s say the thing most players buy costs 3 ingame currency (I love that my autocorrect made „insane currency“ out of that). The smallest pack you can buy is 5. So, the player buys 5, spends 3 and has 2 left with which nothing to do. If they want another 3, they have to buy 5 more. Spend 3, have 4 left. Spend 3, have 1 left. The cycle continues.

I find it interesting that it says it’s based on existing legislation. In that case I’ma bit disappointed that it took them so long to act. But, it’s of course a stop in the right direction.

If they handle personal data of EU citizens, they need to comply with GDPR.

Now, what’s gonna happen if they don’t? I don’t know what mechanics are in place to deal with that.

I’m trying to avoid any kind of sweetener.