I read his take more like: “the game is edgy, offensive, and gross anyway. If you are offended by someone we had do 3 minutes of meows who turned out to be a terrible person, you probably can’t handle other content in the game.” And “it’d be cool if we get a bunch of people that had a big influence on internet culture in the last 20 years do a cameo”

It felt more like an apolitical take than a centrist take. For me, that’s fine. I understand your perspective also and generally I agree.

“yeah this is kind of fucked up after everything that’s happened, let’s cut these out before release”

I mostly agree. I think there’s a couple reasons why it didn’t happen though. First one is he just didn’t know. He was probably more focused on other things than if some of the cameos in are from problematic people. The other reason is that if he did remove them he would anticipate a headline like “McMillen removes cameo from Conservative Internet personality in new game” and he wanted to game to stay apolitical.

I’m really enjoying the game. And think McMillen could have done better. But if I stopped playing/reading/watching/using every piece of media from someone I disagree with a little then I wouldn’t be able to do anything ever.

I’ve played a bit now. My first broken build was probably around 30 hours in. Which, yeah, is a bit.

I enjoyed the game before I started seeing broken builds. It’s still a solid tactics game. But it’s a genre I like.

Interesting take. You bring up a good point, but the game has been in development for 10 years and it’s a really small cameo. I’m assuming most did the voice work for free or a small flat rate. It’s not like you’re supporting them with royalties every time the cat meows.

If you asked Ben Stiller to remove the Donald Trump cameo from Zoolander he’d probably give a similar answer despite Donald Trump being a far worse person and Ben Stiller publicly being a Democrat. I don’t think it’s a “centrist bullshit” position to work with people with wildly different views.

For me, it’s just such a small issue to focus on and ruin something else you find enjoyable. It’s one thing if McMillen was a vocal supporter of Israel or vocal MAGA. Like, I haven’t watched a Tom Cruise movie in almost 2 decades because of his role in Scientology, but I watch Zoolander like once a year.

I love my Ortho 40 (Planck ez)

You are misunderstanding what the remainder is.

5 % 2 == 1, because 5 == 2 x 2 + 1

10 % 7 == 3, because 10 == 1 x 7 + 3

Your “edit 2” is mostly correct. I don’t think of it “undoing” the division. But if that makes sense to you then I guess it’s fine

Some experienced programmers forget how difficult computers and programming can be for beginners. It’s obvious for us to look at the error and resolve it, but for most people it’s pretty arcane. Relevant XKCD

Unfortunately, I think this is also a right of passage of some sorts. If you want to continue programming you will encounter a problem that you can’t ask or find the answer on the internet and you will have to work through it yourself. I’ve had problems I’ve been stuck in for weeks or months. At least for me, it’s always been such a high when I finally solve these. :)

“You are what you eat”. If someone only consumes fascist propaganda right-wing media, then they will become more fascist right-winged.

To OOP: You might not be able to turn off their TV. But you should share unbiased or left-leaning articles, shows, news, etc. And try to get them to “eat” a more balanced diet.

There are novels that don’t measure up to the writing of visual novels.

There are comics that don’t measure up to the art of visual novels.

There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.

Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It’s okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren’t for you. I don’t particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I’ve played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I’m playing Date Everything right now, it’s not exactly innovative, but I’m having fun with it.

Hormones can play a role as well. Anecdotally, my wife’s hair during pregnancy became fuller and less brittle. Duckduckgo “pregnancy hair”. A monthly cycle, being on hormonal birth control, etc. will likely have some effect. I definitely agree that genetics does play a bigger role, but claiming that gender/sex plays no role is definitely incorrect.

Well, I’m pretty sure the Earth is in orbit around a star [citation needed], so I would think solar panels on Earth would also be in orbit around a star.

I mean, I suppose that technically a lone satellite with solar panels in orbit around the Sun is probably an extremely limited form of a Dyson sphere — it’s not as if there’s some firm lower bound on what percentage of energy output from the star that needs to be captured. One could presumably scale up incrementally.

By that definition the solar panels that are already on the Earth are a tiny Dyson swarm. And honestly, I approve.

What? No. The divisibility of the side lengths have nothing to do with this.

The problem is what’s the smallest square that can contain 17 identical squares. If there were 16 squares it would be simply 4x4.

I’m an exmo. Gender and sex is doctrinally binary, I always wondered how intersex children would be treated. Thanks for sharing. There were lots of things that made me leave, but I always disagreed with the church’s stance on LGBTQI+ issues.

I have small hands and my kids use it without complaining. It’s bigger than a Switch, but not too much bigger. I’ve traveled with it plenty.

+1 for Halls of Torment

It’s a really solid entry in the rogue-lite vampire-survivors-like genre that Diablo enjoyers could pick up really easily

What are you going to do with the other 900mb?

He did at one point. I think he’s said that he likes being in full control of the project, so he took back over the porting process.

It’s really impressive that a single developer does as much as he does.

20 years.

But it isn’t the original system. It’s the implementation done is Legends Arceus.

Nope, my bad. Im far from an expert but know enough to differential between copyright and parent. I didn’t know that prior art had that meaning.