Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there’s hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.

That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It’s pretty rough. It’s fun for nostalgia sake and if you’re into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn’t hold up like Broodwar still does.

Sucks, but sounds like they’re taking the right steps. I have a little experience with animation graphs, but enough to know that making major updates to the player graph in a live, multiplayer game is a fucking nightmare to debug. The complexity increase is exponential because new states must play nice with many, many existing states and transitions. It’s also hard to automate testing. Also parts of the animation system run in background threads so you can get race conditions. Players find that a particular input fails to trigger some flag that it should and you are now in uncharted territory, and fixing it potentially involves large logic reworks. Fun times.

Sorry that doesn’t drive MAU, DAU, or ARPPU. Also we want users on our walled garden data harvesting service that’s just “Steam but Worse”, so I’m afraid you need to close your studio. What’s that? Sorry you’re breaking up, must be something wrong with the phone here in the Swiss Alps. Ok ta ta.

I worked there during this time, and this pretty much confirms what everyone feared when the merger was announced. Part of me wants to read this book, but I know it will make me really mad.

Just a little anecdote, we had a meeting shortly after where Frank Pierce told us that major changes would basically happen over Morhaime’s dead body. So when he left (and Pierce also) it was clear that it was over.

What’s the sound of Frank Oz clapping?

I watched a program about Tangier Island, Maryland. The main street frequently has ankle deep water now. They are all Trumpers and are convinced it’s just erosion, but want the government to step in and fix it somehow.

So there you go. People can literally be standing in water and not believe it’s happening.

Same. I just watch StarCraft now. I was never that good to begin with, but playing now is likely to make my withered heart explode.

It’s happening in the USA also, farmers in Florida are replacing oranges that have died from greening disease with pongamia tree.

I just remember Jimmy Smits strapped into a big satellite dish, going fucking “Scanners” on some people.

Sorry, I know. I’m just mentioning that your joke is actually MORE cogent than the alternative, which is artists and producers in North Carolina who are feeding their families by inventing this bizarre “maximum effort” they must pretend is warranted for this ridiculous contraption.

I guarantee this involved getting CAD files and shit like that from Tesla, painstakingly creating a game asset, and going through multiple rounds of reviews and edits to “honor” the look of the cyber truck, for both the shape and surface appearance. Probably a few times someone heard, “Elon played the patch last night and he loooooves it, but yadda yadda.”

At least that’s how it was when we had to add a Motorola Razr to a movie with talking cows.

Media and Entertainment side sucks too. No hate on the actual devs, I know a few of the Maya devs personally and they are competent and want to help, but M+E is like 4% of Autodesk revenue so management doesn’t really give a fuck. At least there’s still Houdini and Blender is getting better as the time as well.

This episode also has the most poorly acted sneeze ever put to film.

I’ve taken the Cardinal four times and the only upsides were no TSA inspection (which they’re talking about changing) and no size limits on luggage. Other than that everything was a fucking nightmare. Like, overflowing toilets with turds sliding around on the floor of the bathroom, 8 hour delays, departure time at 3am… bad. The first time I took it for the experience, the second time I took it because, “well shit happens right? Maybe it was a fluke.” It wasn’t a fluke. The only way it would be worth it would be if tickets were like $30.

Nationalize the rails.

This isn’t quite right. The cops tear-gassed Lafayette square, not the church. My spouse was there. Glad this gets acknowledged now because they were trying to claim no gas was used at first.

Also, as mentioned in your link, Trump wanted to shoot everybody because he was butthurt about being called “bunker boy”. The gas was actually a compromise.

Oh also, notice how that link mentions deploying Bureau of Prisons police? It’s because those fuckers are sadistic. And that’s compared to regular cops. They can’t wait to be Brown shirts.

Check your regional Craigslist, mine’s full of them. This is also why the fair exists (besides funnel cake).

The article doesn’t really do Tim justice. He’s a bodger who is basically a genius for what I can only describe as Goblin technology. His projects are as much about fun and experimenting as having a result. In the first windmill video he acknowledged that he could just buy a small electric windmill, but that’s not the point.

I mean, this is the dude who made a narrow gauge railroad and a compressed air locomotive to transport wood to his terrifying biochar chopper and crucible.

Yep, old shirts came out of the wash looking like a fucking Calabi-Yau manifold, even casual wear.

Every time I’ve gone to a beautiful place, (Kauai/Virgin Islands/Moab etc) I’ve run into former insurance salesman types who just said fuck it, and stayed, and now live in an old school bus and fix outboards or whatever. Often it was precipitated by a big life event like a divorce or a child leaving the nest but sometimes they just bounced. I get it.

Wait, it’s all just Arthurian legend? 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀