Yeah, armies have weapons simulator that shoot blanks and lasers to train for real world operations. There's also BB guns. Most FPS studios send their developers to these places so they get experience and inspiration for weapon models and interesting level designs or combat scenarios.

The actual gameplay is based on combat, paintball, and other simulations whose rules are replicated. Call of Duty doesn't emulate real combat, it's a shooting range circuit skinned like real combat. The gamefying elements are usually card based, or attribute based, which comes from euro board games. There are games whose weapon customizations are based on RPGs or card based deck building.

I'm only a hobbyist promammer but have probably read too much about game design. So all this advice is theoretical, I'm just quoting. All I have read always suggest that theme must follow gameplay, not the other way around. Suggestions are always to work on gameloops and gameplay elements first. Also, if a game can't be physically prototyped, it isn't ready for development yet. This is an odd suggestion unless you have tons of experience with board games, most games we play can be traced to physical simulation. RPG, FPS, puzzle games, management games, even visual novels can all be physically gamed. So I would suggest to do that first to find out which gameplay elements make sense with your desired themes. Iterate a lot, then it will be more intuitive and obvious what works with the theme and what doesn't.

Go into teaching. I love to assist others in their learning voyage, I love science, research, classes. However, financial realities mean that I would be starving if I pursued that path. So I find fulfillment in adjacent activities in my current line of work. I would also have an electronics workshop, repairing computers and other electronics for fun.

Have you heard of the Trash Network and Garbage Time?

I want to like Nix. The idea of declarative managing is super appealing. But I just don't have the time. My dream is to leverage both worlds, a cloud native Nix based OS. Every time I sit down to plan that task it looks daunting though.

Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.

Oh yes, the very expensive Dev time cost of zero, because it is a fucking website.

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When people keep their water tanks at 160°F

That's 70ºC and I'm agreeing that it is a ridiculously high temperature to keep a water tank at. That's instant second degree burn temperatures, completely unsafe.

They don't need to outnumber the entire US population. First of all, a huge chunk are already blindly following anything without any critical thought. That erases, what, two or three hundred out of every 1000. Then they just need to construct a narrative that keeps most of the remaining people apathetic. Enlightened centrists, apathetic leftists, people too poor or too financially desperate to engage politically, they will prop up the regime unwittingly through inaction. That's another three or four hundred. The remaining people willing to oppose will have limitations, either of resources (materials, money, guns, etc.), or capabilities (too old or with disabilities). So, realistically, those odds transform into 10 agents per 50 to 100 people. With access to massive wells of resources, it is perfectly feasible to submit an entire country with those proportions.

This is not to be pessimistic. But I have seen this exact same scenario operate in dozens of countries all across the world, and history. The biggest collaborator group of fascist regimes are the people who have been convinced or convinced themselves that laying low and pretending nothing is wrong is better. Those just minding their own business, not political, or wanting to move on with their lives and just being oblivious in general people are what keeps dictators in power.

The solution is extreme organization. Organize, promote opposition, get people to talk to each other regularly, meet in person, construct stable relationships and build a sense of community, belonging and radical empathy. Else, intelligence forces will tear any opposition apart.

That's 70ºC, 49ºC (120ºF) is usually plenty hot enough and the recommended temperature. It can actually cause burns with long enough direct exposure at 50, 70 is madness.

Because remaking the same features from scratch was taking too long. They had already delayed the project due to covid at that point. They ended up with three games: the one they started before intercept was created (and that never saw the light of day), the one based on KSP with the upgrades and new features added (also never seen publicly), a neutered version without the incomplete new features (like multeplayer and improved heat simulation) that was launched as early access. Poor fellows were set up for failure.

Not just making the same mistakes, they were told to scrap years of development and reuse the exact same codebase of KSP1. They had to start over the project with a decade plus of technical debt from a team they weren't allowed to talk to.

Oh, the fucks up are massive. They hired a new studio, but also, they pulled the funding then the project without warning. Then they poached the devs, forcing the studio to close and sending them to a newly funded studio. But then, they forced the devs to scrap years of work from scratch, and start over the project with the old codebase and only a year as a deadline. Finally, when it became obvious it wasn't a massive success, they cut their funding too without warning, and sold the IP without telling the studio about it.

KSP was mishandled so wildly that it should be a case study of how profit oriented management kills creativity and destroys IPs. They killed two studios and a massive IP with their shenanigans. This is why you never let the MBAs run anything.

What is this straw man? No one, not in my comment, or in the article linked has advocated for a blanket ban. The word excessive has been there this whole time.

Showers are a disgustingly dirty place. Tons of people don't notice they let mold grow or don't care. Worse, in the western world it's always next to the toilet.

This has to be qualified more strongly. Most of the medical benefits of circumcision are apparent only after puberty. There is no medical reason to circumsize a baby.

On the contrary. It relies on the premise of segregating binaries, config and data. But since it is only running one app, then it is a bare minimum version of it. Most containers systems include elements that also deduplicate common required binaries. So, the containers are usually very small and efficient. While a traditional system's libraries could balloon to dozens of gigabytes, pieces of which are only used at a time by different software. Containers can be made headless and barebones very easily. Cutting the fat, and leaving only the most essential libraries. Fitting in very tiny and underpowered hardware applications without losing functionality or performance.

Don't be afraid of it, it's like Lego but for software.

Excessive screen time at 3 is bad, and we do have evidence. Computers from the 80s we grew up with have nothing in common with today's highly advanced skinner boxes. It has been so since the age of TV, but today's tech is worse. They fuck up cognitive and social development really bad. Using screens from time to time is fine, but having a tablet in your face every waking minute hurts even adults.