scubbo

It's great to have someone else who gets it!

If they have already developed the content, then it should be released with the rest of the game, for the price of the game.

Why? Genuine question. What does it matter to you as a consumer when the content was developed?

If the point you're actually trying to make is "if the game is developed as a whole, but then content is carved out such that the base game then feels incomplete without it", then this is already covered: a game which feels incomplete is inherently flawed, and so doesn't justify the price of a full game. That's my original point - most people are actually just pissed at inaccurate or unfair pricing, and DLC can enable that (but doesn't have to), so they misdirect their anger to all DLC instead.

I don't understand the question. I don't want it to mean anything - I just want to know what they meant by it.

mandatory downtime between fights that punishes trying to brute force practice them

Fascinating. This would frustrate the hell out of me - if I'm trying to get better at something, the last thing I want is enforced wait-time between practice attempts! Still, I'm glad you've found other games that you enjoy more rather than being influenced by the Internet's collective fan-boner for FromSoft.

In that context, having all packages be “system-wide” made sense. All the virtual env shenanigans won’t ever fix that.

Sorry, but you'll need to explain this a little bit more to me. That's precisely what virtual env shenanigans do - make it so that your environment isn't referencing the system-wide packages. I can totally see that it's a problem if your virtual env tooling fails to work as expected and you can't activate your environment (FWIW, simply old python -m venv venv; source venv/bin/activate has never let me down in ~10 years of professional programming, but I do believe you when you say that Poetry and Conda have broken on you); but assuming that the tools work, the problem you've described completely goes away.

What does this mean?

packaging woes

My own hot take is that I hear this criticism of Python a lot, but have never had anyone actually back it up when I ask for more details. And I will be very surprised to hear that it's a worse situation than Java/TypeScript's.

I remember having a lot of doubts/criticisms of the book when I read it, but that was a long-ass time ago and I've forgotten it - what do you dislike?

If you don't enjoy practicing bosses, FromSoft games will probably not be for you.

This is not a dunk! There is nothing inherently superior or worthwhile about games that require practice. I personally enjoy Soulslike games, but people who claim they're they're the One True Genre are just fooling themselves.

Sure, because something so egregious would definitely show up in a Google search for "Zach Weinersmith sweatshop", right?

Unless...you're exaggerating on the Internet to stir up outrage?

Heh, I just saw you over in the "what's the best thing that could happen to you this week" thread. Hope your little one enjoys the show!