TeamAssimilation

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[–] TeamAssimilation 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s not mythology, testing was crucial so you wouldn’t ship a broken cartridge, which was very costly than a patch download. It made financial sense to test throughly, and more than that, develop carefully.

I think the only guys that made a working game in a week were Atari VCS developers, and IMO it wa a combination of the limited hardware, and the skill of a few legendary programmers.

Today we get games that dwarf the entire software stack of computers decades ago, but they’re made loosely, knowing they’ll ship broken and need patch after patch until it doesn’t make financial sense, and then they’re abandoned.

My most recent experience is Fallout 76 on Steam, and by god it is a bag of bugs despite being the bread winner of the franchise. For example, a long-standing bug is that once it starts, and offers to press any button to sign in, you have to wait about a minute before doing that, otherwise it will likely hang. This has existed since launch, and after numerous patches it hasn’t been addressed yet.

[–] TeamAssimilation 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

User declines using the application and escapes downstairs, robot pursues, falls down and can’t get up [mechanical tantrum with loud pig squealing]

[–] TeamAssimilation 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It doesn’t mean “never improve”, though.

[–] TeamAssimilation 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right. Super Bowl is about money, and right now Bad Bunny means more money. It’s not a protest, and Trump acting displeased is not because he was caught off-guard, he’s doing what his base is expecting of him.

All this likely was negotiated behind curtains weeks before, and Trump was surely well informed by his team. Just another performance that maximizes profit.

[–] TeamAssimilation 30 points 1 month ago

Since I saw that primates have a sense of humor, things like this don’t surprise me as much, because it’s not like they’re similar to us, it’s that we are very similar to them. It’s natural to share many traits.

[–] TeamAssimilation 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] TeamAssimilation 5 points 1 month ago

Christates of Murica.

[–] TeamAssimilation 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I’ve always wondered if cells created viruses, or if viruses are a natural consequence of complex genetics. They look so useless, having no need to reproduce, yet killing cells to do it uncontrollably. They don’t even feed, what is their purpose?

[–] TeamAssimilation 3 points 1 month ago

– Sir, you need to walk a bit to recover faster.

– Take my signs already and don’t interrupt me!

[–] TeamAssimilation 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let me guess: the protagonist would be an until now unknown but close Sisko relative that behaves very much unlike a career Starfleet officer.

[–] TeamAssimilation 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

More pragmatically, time travel for a casual party would be risky because you’re carrying germs many generations apart. Time travelers would wear full-body suits or risk dramatically altering history. They could not drink or eat anything.

[–] TeamAssimilation 5 points 1 month ago

Imagine your time machine has spiders at the time of your arrival, because it had a small defect that grew into an opening after several years.

“Ha ha, I can’t see anything, but it seems like time travel tickles”

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