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Fair enough. The products could, and probably had, been made in good faith. But, I think the constant barrage of new products from Sega, along with the complicated hierarchy of how the products interacted with each other, burned people out.

Sega releases:

- Master System: October 1985

- Genesis: August 14, 1989

- Sega CD: December 12, 1991

- x32: December 3, 1994

- Saturn: November 22, 1994

- Dreamcast: November 27, 1998

Nintendo Releases:

- NES: July 1983

- Super Nintendo: November 1990

- Nintendo 64: June 1996

So sad Neo-Geo and Sega have sunk so low.

I don't really miss their hardware, Sega shot themselves in the foot by releasing too much cash-grab junk over the 90's instead of focusing on their core products.

But the games they made still create this painful nostalgic twinge in my heart. Just HEARING the Dreamcast sound chip affects me.

YMMV, where I grew up it was very flat and almost completely corn fields.

Would love something like this for single-handed use in Android.

I'm amazed at how poor my typing skills in android are, after years and years of constant use. Something just is not working!

Google improving their support? I'll see it when I believe it.

We used to pay for gold level support. It's hilariously bad.

I once had a production outage that ended up being a low-level GKE bug. Support de-escalated my ticket and linked me to this blog post: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/scalable-and-resilient-ap...

I ended up getting help by going into the google slack and kicking up a fuss. Never heard back from the "official" support channels.

I have a System76 Galago Pro with 32 gigs of ram and an i7 processor.

Works GREAT, fan of the keyboard and everything.

The case is kinda shit, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I'm not obsessed with having a designer laptop that looks beautiful, just something to slam around and run programs on. Additionally, having a ton of ports to plug things into has been very welcome after migrating off of the touchpad macbook pros.

Linux desktop is nice because of the great docker support, and honestly it tends to work quite well for pretty much everything I throw at it. Multi-monitor support is great, it works fine with my 4k monitor. I was AMAZED when I plugged my usb-c headphones into the usb-c port and heard sound come out.

I tend to just travel with a ball mouse because I have really severe hyperhidrosis which renders basically all track-pads, even Apples', completely unusable, and uncomfortable to boot. Moisture + friction is not a great combo.

I admit that I'm a bit of a weirdo and this set-up would be sub-optimal for a lot of people due to support for various adobe products. But I'm happy with the setup.

If I could go back in time I would probably get a Surface laptop and set my home computer up as a server, and automate sending work to it, because I'm a big fan of indie video games and would enjoy being able to play games on my laptop.

I am a full time remote worker, but I have survived the tyranny of an open office in the past. I dislike the open office format.

A lot of the time companies don't "choose" an open office, it chooses them.

If you are working at a small or mid-sized company, building out rented office space you will probably outgrow in a year or two is a crappy investment.

The alternative? Buy the desks, throw them into a room, expect people to be quiet and respectful.

I would be a indie game maker if I could start over, so I guess I would still need the programming skills.

But I would also gain skills in art, music, level design, etc. on top of it.

I would avoid corporate life and carve out a happy little niche in a funky little community like Portland or somewhere similar. Save, live within my means, pay off my student loans. Work as a hard working, humble little dev and pursue my passions on my fiercely guarded free time. Volunteer some of my spare time for environmental conservation and human rights organizations. Have a garden, two cats in the yard... wait that's exactly how I live now, except I'm a sysadmin instead of a game developer.

Overall I have an amazing life and a really bright future so I can't really complain. Choosing to study Computer Science in college is what lead me down my current path. And when I look around at my options, I feel like I made a really great decision. Happiness comes from within. Keep your eyes peeled, always be learning, and don't be nobody's sucker. Don't get left behind.

Really my biggest regret is under-valuing and not believing in myself. It's amazing how great things can go when you just commit to something and make realistic and well-thought out choices while pursing your desired path.

ALTHOUGH, I'm only 29 so I can still do a LOT to change my life and work towards my goals.

That's nice.

Give me the `|>` operator plz

Good, their support is pathetic and they ship barely working projects.

There is 100% cheating and match-fixing going on in professional gaming. It's some interesting reading!

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Match_Fixing_Scandal

I am willing to bet World of Tanks has aim-bots and wall-hacks, though cheats like god-mode and speed hacks are almost unheard-of at this point.

For a twitchy game to have decent performance, the client-side needs to have enough information to render the scene in front of you. This information is leveraged by hackers to write the cheats.

Knowing what a person is "allowed" to see server-side is extremely difficult, and would cause horrible latency issues[0]. Additionally it would completely ruin the ability to to predictive rendering on the front-end further causing latency.

[0] You would have to know which direction the user is facing, where their opponents are standing and what direction they are facing, and calculate the user's view based on all of this information. This is what is usually done on the client-side.

Fortnight and Overwatch both ONLY offer cosmetic improvements, so you cannot gain an edge by spending money.

Many many games have taken this model, though. I love TCG games, but they're so stupidly expensive and pay to win I've given up.

What other people think of you is also an enticing reward. Getting to platinum rank by cheating has advantages.

Additionally, you earn cosmetic items, and you can earn them at a faster rate with less effort by winning consistently.

Finally, some people simply enjoy winning, and only turn their cheats on for a "comeback."

An additional issue is people running bots that passively and extremely poorly play the game, but just active enough to not sound any alarms. They grind out a bunch of ranks by losing constantly, get some good equipment built up, and then sell them.

To be more clear: I'm speaking specifically to my friends who I usually am playing with in Discord. I don't bother speaking in the public channels. A simple report is all I communicate to the outside world.

Cheating in video games is extremely common. It is a huge issue with online video games.

I tend to be "that guy" when playing games, pointing people out when I believe they are cheating. Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. Unfortunately it's become impossible to tell due to the sophistication of the hacks:

- You hit a button, triggering your aim-bot, and it will swing to hit you in a natural looking way.

- You toggle "auto-cast" on in a moba, and suddenly your zoning becomes completely unstoppable.

With cheap games like Overwatch and FREE games like Fortnight or League of Legends, a ban is a very minor inconvenience. You're already paying $10/mo for the hack, so having to re-purchase a $20 copy of Overwatch is not seen as a huge burden. PC Bangs are popular in many cultures, so all of this might even be included in the hourly fee you pay.

It's a crisis in the industry, where competitive online games are hugely popular, the drive towards "balance" is obsessive, and people want to play a fair game.

I suspect the amount cheating is a dirty secret in the industry, much more prolific than they decide to let on. Thousands of people are banned every day.

Nobody publicly releases the number of people they ban, but you get little nuggets of information occasionally:

- https://kotaku.com/pubg-banned-over-1-million-cheaters-last-... ( This number was later raised to 1.5 million accounts )

OR I've adjusted my tin-foil hat to be a bit tight, and there is no issue.

That would require anyone but a modern nation taking the blame for something bad on this Earth and we all know that is not going to happen.

Forget it's the Asian countries that produce the plastic. White people did everything didn't your hear?

Western nations aren't the problem, it's developing countries with poor waste infrastructure and industrial vessels.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...

Preventing plastic in Europe would have basically no effect on plastic in the ocean. The problem is people with poor waste management infrastructure tossing their junk into the rivers and oceans in developing countries.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...

Unfortunately, this probably wouldn't work.

Most plastic waste does not come from rich countries with decent waste infrastructure. It comes from shipping and fishing and industrial vessels who dump their garbage into the ocean, and developing countries who dispose of all of their waste by throwing it into a river or the ocean to be washed away.

You can't tax them because they are not in your country. You would have to stop the plastic being created at it's source, and prevent it from ever being released into the environment.

Firefox mobile has as extensions and ad blockers. That is all I needed to switch. Been using Firefox for years, rarely any problems I'm the days of babeljs and transpilers

WE GET IT, you're so smart and great because you don't like video games. We're really impressed over here.

Flat earthers are a lot less interesting or hard to understand than people realize.

Belief in a flat earth is a dog-whistle for fundamentalist Christians.

So yeah, they don't care about the fact that we can observe the Earth is round or any other proof, their ignorance is proof of their faith.

On Mac you need to explicitly enable the feature that allows one to install unsigned programs, which I think is a really healthy feature for the average user.

It will also warn you that you are installing unsigned software in scary language.

I struggle with the same thing. More than anything I find exercise boring, and I'm jealous of the kids 60 years into the future where playing a MOBA in VR will be killer exercise.

But really, after a certain point, MAKING time to exercise is a bit like brushing your teeth, doing your taxes, managing your finances, and showering regularly: It's something you have to do as an adult or face the consequences.

Does exercise give you more energy? Does exercise help with depression? Is exercise REQUIRED to be a healthy individual? Over and over again the research has shown the answer is a resounding YES.

Personally, I like Jocko Willink's advice about gyms: Home gyms are essential. They are much less hassle. You don't have to pack a bag, commute to the gym, deal with the other gym people, shower, commute home, and collapse after a two hour gym adventure. You can just throw on your gym clothing, walk into your garage, throw some music or a podcast on the radio, and get to work.

"Hair Ice" sounds flat and un-poetic, like Donald Trump named it.

"Frost Beard" is the OBVIOUSLY superior name of this phenomenon.

You should think about listening to audio books during your daily commute. I do this and I enjoy it a lot.

This isn't complicated.

The hateful and unjust lie of the polygraph test is useful. It allows you to persecute on false pretenses.

They do not want a lie detector. They want a magic button to push to allow them to detain anytime they want. Fail a polygraph? Go to jail. Pass a polygraph? You used terrorist methods to do so.

Friendly reminder that American soldiers in Abu Grahib used rape as a weapon of tourtue.

But don't worry Google isn't developing ai weapons that would be trouble.

I find it extremely distasteful, but this is an Internet forum and a fair question. Do not recommend bringing this up in casual conversation! This question will probably lead to ended friendships if you approach someone who has been suicidal in the past, or has lost someone to suicide.

Also it's pedantic in a really ignorant and dumb way, and not nearly as clever as you think it is.

There are examples of people taking their own life due to physical maladies which I can COMPLETELY understand, and choosing to end your own life kevorkian-style is understandable to most people: Robin Williams had dementia. His mind had basically completely gone before the end, his wife spoke of the rages and lack of understanding of what was happening around him.

But many people choose to end their own life when they are young, healthy, and in a pit of despair that they feel they will never escape. Depression is a mental illness which symptoms of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. So there you go. That is why. Depression is a mental illness.

We as a society have deemed having no value of life, including your own, is aberrant behavior. I would argue that "deciding to commit suicide" for no other reason than you are tired of being alive, or want to "decide your own fate" is completely psychotic.

Also, saying "It's your choice" and doesn't affect anyone else is just insanely wrong. As I've grown older and lost people around more at a higher rate, it is ASTOUNDING the hole left behind when you lose a loved one.

We've had a better alternative to "chatbots" for a long time, it's called a command line.

All of this obsession over "natural language processing" is annoying to me.

I have a Google home, and it can't do even the most basic things and struggles to understand whenever I tell it to do something.

It would be nice if I could just talk to my Google home as if it was a command line, with very explicit and specific commands that do powerful things. "Google take a note. Do the laundry." "Google play spotify on the living room speaker" etc. Instead the interface is an unhelpful mess that doesn't know how to help me get it to do what I want.

I feel that it is the same with chatbots. Stop trying to process natural language, and give me a command prompt with good documentation and user on-boarding.