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In just 10 more years, it’ll only be 40 more years!

Only ten more years, and we’ll have it!

Honestly, even that is being too generous.

Programming has this crazy mystique of being something that only “smart” people do, but it’s not. Software development is much, much more like a more conventional ‘trades’ job. I’ve been writing software for 15 years, and I feel like I have more in common with plumbers and electricians than I do with doctors or engineers.

The study suggests that some event within the last 350 million years altered its trajectory, preventing it from settling into a circular orbit.

That’s within the current best estimates for the age of Saturn’s ring system… maybe the same catastrophic event that formed the rings is also responsible for the anomaly in Titan’s orbit?

Oh shit, a Blame! reference in wild…

Do no harm (to quarterly earnings)

Many outcomes such as:

• play chess

• screw

bundled a game pass subscription

Most of the money MS gets from Office365 is from business users, not home users. I have a feeling that trying to sell game pass to corporate clients isn’t going to be a huge hit…

This was inevitable as soon as games started getting the budgets of blockbuster movies. No one wants to invest that much money into a project without getting some oversight and control in return.

Of course, very, very few people who have access to that kind of cash have any design sense whatsoever, and even fewer understand the creative process, or what makes games “good”… so they ask for shit that they think will be “safe” money-makers, and we get what we get: endless, samey, soulless shlock.

Luck?

The one advantage I can think of to this approach is that it makes it harder to “snowball”.

Civ VI had a big problem with this were you’d end up so far ahead by 1000 AD that you were all but guaranteed to win the game… but you’d still have to play through multiple ages to get to the end and there would be very little challenge left for the multiple hours it would take to grind through to the end. I think I got bored and just restarted more often than I actually finished games in Civ VI because of this.

If you have multiple soft resets along the way, I could maybe see that giving the devs some ability to reset the “power curve” periodically so that you’re always dealing with some manner of challenge as you move from age to age.

20 hours in

Pssh… at least finish a full game before you post a review!

Is there any case where cynicism is helpful?

So the plan is to reduce input lag by…

checks notes

…using a tool that’s notorious for being extremely computationally expensive. Surely that will improve performance.

There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.

Nobody is seriously looking for ‘habitable’ planets because they expect humanity will someday inhabit them — this is all about the hunt for other life out there in the universe.

To astronomers, “habitable” just means that the planet gets to correct amount of energy from its star that liquid water could potentially exist on its surface. Liquid water may not actually be a requirement for life, but since we only have a single data point to work from, it makes sense to look for the preconditions of the kind of life we’re familiar with on earth, of which liquid water is a big one. (Another is carbon chemistry, so finding lots of atmospheric carbon isn’t necessarily a bad thing when searching for other life out there.)

It has to compete with: Climate change

That’s the fun part, it doesn’t! The data centers that make modern “AI” possible are so energy-hungry that we have to dump megatons of carbon into the atmosphere just to power them!

AI can destroy civilization and cook the planet simultaneously.

Synergy, baby!

He’s hiding his pain in the big stock image gallery in the sky now…

Godspeed, Harold.

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