ShaunaTheDead

Of course, it’s better not to waste the lumber since the trees are being cut down anyway. My point isn’t that logging is good, but that there’s a much bigger threat in regards to deforestation that has an attainable individual goal where we don’t need to rely on greedy corporations changing their minds. There are admittedly a huge portion of people who will outright refuse to go vegetarian but any vegetarian people will make a difference. If 50% of people go vegetarian that means we’ll use 1/3 less land. 25% of people means 1/6 less land, etc.

Addressing climate change requires a multi-pronged approach and every little bit helps.

Tales of Maj’Eyal is a great little game if you’re an rogue-like fan! I played so many hours of that game a few years back, it’s seriously great!

I realize we’re just being silly here, but I think it’s important to point out that it’s kind of a misconception that deforestation is caused by logging. It does happen, but not as often as other causes, primarily clearing land for agricultural uses. Source

It also says in that article that if everyone ate a vegetarian diet we could reduce agricultural land use to 1/3 of current usage which would have a much bigger impact than stopping logging.

I wish I knew! I’ll let you know when I find out.

God that video (and the follow up to it) are infuriating and disgusting that such a company can continue to exist.

I thought you were supposed to sand it down. I don’t know, it’s too complicated so I’m returning all of the hardware and hoping to exchange it.

I’m not sure if it qualifies exactly as what you’re describing, but Metal Gear Solid 2 had a moment where they subvert the game over screen. At some point in the fight a game over screen comes up but it’s full of typos like “fission mailed” instead of “mission failed” and there’s a small window in the top-left where the fight is still on-going.

Also, notably, all the soulsbourne games kind of subvert the player’s death by making it basically required to continue most of the time.

I believe Discord is quite prolific for surveillance and data mining, but that’s just what I’ve heard. Tumblr, I’m not sure how they could really spy on you unless you’re using an app. If you’re using it exclusively through a web browser, as long as you have privacy browser extensions and/or are using a browser that enables privacy features by default then you’re probably pretty safe.

It really seems to make a difference what time of year it is. End of the summer they’re just waiting to die and do not give a single fuck and will sting you for no reason sometimes.

You could maybe make some kind of a lemmings style game where functions change the behaviour of the creatures in order to achieve some kind arbitrary of goal. Like arranging their colours based on the rainbow, or something to that effect. The creatures would be a stand in for data, and the things the players can do manipulate the data to achieve a specific outcome. Is that more what you were thinking?

Have you played other programming related games?

Here’s a search result from Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Programming/?flavor=contenthub_toprated

A few that stick out to me, mostly because I’ve played them and they’re pretty good, are Human Resource Machine, While True: Learn(), Opus Magnum, and Shenzhen I/O. I would say Bitburner too but that’s more-so literally programming.

I think your idea is interesting, but based on the examples I’ve listed, which I must admit is not a huge sample, most of them are played in a sort of GUI experience sort of way. I think it would be very, very difficult to translate the core concepts of programming to a side scroller.

However, as I said, I think it’s a really cool idea, just thought I’d point out some similar games in case you had never heard of them.

It’s not the color, it’s the lack of outline around the text. You can put any color text on anything and as long as it has a contrasting outline color then it’s perfectly readable.

It’s funny, I learned recently that you don’t have to mash the button, you can just hold it down, but I still don’t trust it and mash anyway.

I think one of the most interesting applications of this technology is linking suspects to crimes. One of the key pieces of evidence used in convictions is proving that the suspect was at the scene of the crime. If they can’t provide a solid alibi, or reason for them to have been there, then they’re basically screwed.

Epic Games hasn’t done it much lately, but when they first launched they paid a few big games to be Epic Games Store exclusives which is obviously anti-consumer behaviour. That and they’re owned by China, so the chances of your data being funneled out to China is practically 100%. Also, Epic has historically been critical of gaming on Linux with the CEO going so far as to say that Linux users are a bunch of whiners and that Epic will never support Linux just to spite them. A very immature response to say the least.