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parabx··on How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2
In my experience here, if something is considered only marginally bad by most people here it signifies that's very good for everyone else
parabx··on How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2
I am a gamer, I've played the game and loved it. Different people, different opinions
parabx··on How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2
I've finished the game this week and found it thoroughly amazing. It's definitely one of the best games I've played, and lives up to the first one. The first hours were pretty hard since the controls are weird, and the pace of the game is different than the current games, but after that... My god, what an experience! Even the chores, which are designed on purpose to be annoying, are fun to do because it makes you soak in the character, in their lives.

But to me the outdoor experience was the best of all: most of the times I would set the cinematic camera, put my horse on auto mode and just enjoy the trip, and get consistently mesmerized by graphics and the overall ambient. I've played more than the estimated 65 hours and still have stuff to do to complete everything, and there are times where I would just stop to look at the place.

That being said, I think that the story is... good, I like Arthur, but to be fair the last arc was better paced, I think. There are some inconsistencies in overall but nothing major. The first RDR also has a ok-ish story to me too so I think this is fine. There are some flaws on some game mechanics too, like the camp you can build which is a bit useless IMO, and of course the controls which are sometimes hard to grasp.

Nonetheless, a fantastic game

parabx··on ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks
I think that the series is more about what is to cook food, not how to cook it. It's a different lens over the same matter.
parabx··on Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
I'ts not an company per se, but the rust community is fairly big and full of awesome, well mannered and cheerful leaders.
parabx··on Giant plastic catcher heads for Pacific Ocean clean-up
50 > years of pollution that will maybe take millenia to clean up by themselves?
parabx··on Try OCaml
Hi, lifelong python developer here. Is OCaml a good fit to do REST application servers? I've took a look a year ago but couldn't find well maintained libraries and it seems that the community is not so focused in general development. Am I wrong? OCaml seems really nice, I've been dabbling with rust for a while, and it feels great working with it but I'd like to try some purer functional languages too. My needs are basically a web container, some way to interface with SQL (ORM or a query builder, with support to PostGIS), some redis, some elasticsearch, nothing too fancy.
parabx··on PyPy.js: Python in the web browser
this is pretty neat! I was wondering, are there any projects to transpile python to js, but targeting the server side? It would be interesting to port a flask application, for example, to run on node and benefit from the jit, or maybe use express and call flask through its wsgi interface.
parabx··on Vert.x native: how to run a JVM app in 10Mb of RAM
I guess as he mentioned on the blog it was a POC, if you just ignored the fact it's using the bitcoin api to track transactions it implements DB access, interaction with the event bus, websockets. I fail to see why it's not interesting.