Indie game development in my experience.
It's 2024, why in the hell is nobody designing skyscrapers with fun slides spiraling all the way to the bottom?
I don't fold fitted sheets. I keep them on my bed until they wear through too much and then I throw them out.
I recall some dream fragments that are so disturbingly dumb that I'd love to forget them. I'll go with the names.
Imprisonment for simply saying something that in no sane world would be considered a crime.
I just kept the same hard drive (or cloned it to a new SSD) when I built my PCs. Pretty much just worked same as before.
I had to play Wolfenstein 3D with the little wafer speaker on the motherboard.
I've read the Bible multiple times. Not once does it imply anything about this shit. Much of it is written as poetry and intended as symbolism.
I'm more curious about what exactly finally caused them to drop that particular brand of bullshit, and if we can use the same thing to fight other insane or harmful beliefs.
I haven't played The Outer Worlds, but the screenshots look to me like just a regular old sci-fi game (not necessarily a bad thing though).
But Outer Wilds actually impressed me. If you plan to play it, don't watch any gameplay videos. Go into it with zero expectations.
Wayfair's call center insists you give them your SSN before they'll file a report for credit fraud
I just got a bill for a Wayfair credit card that was issued by Citi bank that I did not apply for. I never even shopped on that website.
I tried contacting both Citi bank and Wayfair, but since I don't have the full account number, I couldn't get past Citi's automated phone menu.
Wayfair's phone system was a fucking nightmare getting transferred to various departments, but eventually transferred me to a foreign call center where they insisted that they needed my social security number and birth date to file a report, but I'm not giving them that.
The best thing is that the scammer managed to get a higher credit limit than I was able to get on my own card.
Should I be concerned about this mildly spicy pillow?
I only ask because the bulging seems slight enough that I'm not 100% certain that's not just how the battery is supposed to look.
This is inside a Lenovo ideapad flex 4. I only opened it to replace the hard drive.
Just chillin', watching the birds on Youtube
After I showed her one of the bird videos, she now eagerly waits while I turn on the tablet in the morning and she watches me open Youtube and pick a video.
Sometimes she accidentally closes the video, or opens the comments and then I need to step in to make sure she doesn't post any offensive comments.
The "I'm not dead" button: An alarm clock that automatically calls emergency services if it's not stopped within a certain number of hours.
This isn't really meant to save anyone's life. But it would let someone know to come pick up your corpse before it melts into the carpet and your cat starves.
How do you discourage a dog from biting while playing?
She's clearly having fun, running around in circles, chewing sticks, and finding and eating cat poop. And I don't want to discourage her from having fun when I take her outside (except for the cat poop thing -- that needs to stop).
But she seems to have the idea that jumping up and biting my wrists or my ankles is a fun game that we both enjoy, and she seems to be getting more agressive about it. !
I just blew way too much money on MIDI adapters
Let me preface this one by saying that the blame for this is entirely on me and my carelessness when shopping online. I did not get scammed. I was just being stupid.
Several times.
So I recently bought a synthesizer to connect to my MIDI controller (an 88 key keyboard with some knobs and blinking lights and shit).
I saw that this new device has a 3.5mm MIDI port while I only had the classic 5-pin kind. No problem, I'll buy an adapter.
The adapter arrives, and I discover that the one I bought has the female 5-pin connector and won't plug into the keyboard. Well, crap.
Buy another adapter. Made sure the 5-pin side was male.
Oops. Turns out that the 3.5mm MIDI cables come in type A or type B, and I chose poorly.
So I search for "midi type a to b converter" and without thinking at all, I bought a converter that has two female connectors. Fuck me.
At this point, a sane person would've just cut the first two adapters and soldered the correct ends together, but fuck it, I'm in too deep now. I gotta get a 3.5mm MIDI cable with two male ends to complete this daisy-chain of madness and find out how long it takes for me to get bored and find another hobby.
What are your favorite games that have very few reviews?
I'm tired of hearing about popular games. Are there any games you played and were surprised by how little attention it got? A game you really enjoyed, but was only reviewed by five people?
Google Play is beyond annoying
I have an app that I released a couple years ago (plus another legacy app that I maintain for one of my company's clients). My game has a long-ish title, but it was fine until some asshat at Google decides that 33 characters is too long. On top of that, every time I'm forced to update the target SDK, I need to spend several hours figuring out a bunch of new build errors. This is not how I wanted to spend my vacation time.
