I’ve never understood why card gamers don’t like proxies. Now everyone can play.

120 Days of Sodom

Destiny 1 up to the Vault of Glass was incredibly special, and then had a lot of bumps but some great moments. House of Wolves, the Taken King, SIVA/Iron Lords and the first Moments of Triumph.

Although I played a lot of D2 it never quite got to the same level of magic.

The first couple of years with Curse of Osiris etc and their attempt to make everything zany really undid a lot of the cool atmosphere and story they did in D1.

Then when they made it so Your Guardian wasn’t The Guardian any more by having each world-first raid completion be canon (i.e. other guardians killed the raid boss not you, changing the Dreaming City, or opening up the Leviathan…) it was hard to keep the immersion alive.

There were so many things you needed other people to help you with it meant a significant portion of the game was interacting with other gamers - which means Bungie’s gaming experience is in the hands of one of the most mercurial groups of people on the planet.

They got back there with the Pyramid ships, Witch Queen, Vow of the Disciple, but by then we were in the content treadmill and everything felt disposable because they’d delete content regularly.

So you ended up with a temporary, non-ownable experience that relied on real world interaction with other gamers, in a world with incredibly scattershot storytelling of varying quality.

programmers perform labor tho, and rely on physical supply chains (computers, data centers, networks, keyboards, chairs, screens) to do their labor.

programmers also cannot operate without collaboration and cannot bring their labor to market for a return without payment processing, publishers, distribution networks and marketing.

as someone with a personality, let me tell you a lot of Americans reallllllly don’t like you to have one at work. Especially if, like me, you are from another, non-American culture.

I am kind, funny, conversational with people - I ask about their weekends, I say good things positively, I say bad things seriously but gently. I am constantly in trouble for not “leading with the executive voice” in meetings.

most people are getting by on free tier or ~USD$20/MONTH

as many comments have said - this is probably a loss leader that won’t survive IPO.

personally I think that’s low unless some kind of system is developed to make compute and storage cheaper. $30 / month is consumer level pricing, and more expensive than some streaming platforms and gyms but I was wondering about enterprise level- Salesforce, AWS, Intuit level pricing

the drive time was to illustrate scale.

While it doesn’t matter how big a whale is vs a microbe, you can’t put a whale under a normal microscope, thus the distinction is relevant.

EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.

Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100

my company of 50 went down to 22 because of “AI productivity gainz” - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant “fire drills” to keep them happy.

No

check out New Threat which remixes the game, or the Archeology Mod which restores cut content and the original intent of the translators - including lines that were wrong in the original and then fixed in remake (it has a setting specifically keep “This guy are sick” if you were worried).

best I can do is Dęmbowe mochne

I ate Scott Conant’s lamb tagliatelle Ragu and it was really good. Fresh pasta hand made to order by a pro is worth it.

red ones for sure

Retrictulating pylons

Part of my idea is that you build your character from your choices - which are tied to cards. I couldn’t work out a good way to get of gendered cards (King/Queen) so I figured maybe you could choose gendered influence over your characters using the semiotics of the cards.

On the other hand - everything could be a slider, or even better, a wheel.

I think that’s probably a scale thing that my 2D card game can probably handle. If you recall D1 used to kick you out of menus and d2 did I think until Forsaken DLC.

I think a UX thing is I want to group or clearly label settings that require a game reset.

what if it doesn’t make you go faster but just adds SPEED EFFECTS

oh I remember the bugged quest for the Richard Nixon doll in Fallout 2 when I was a kid, because they made all the children invisible.