Hey if it’s good enough for From software…

Oh for the names?

Ogre Tactics is the first one, a series of earlier tactical games (started on the snes maybe?)

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is the other. It’s actually more like the Commandos games, a kind of overhead team stealth sim.

And I was just joking but if you’re on a tictac roll please, by all means, help yourself!

Lol, I love this gimmick! Next up, enormous Ogre Tictacs? Perhaps Shadow Tictacs: Mints of the Shogun?

It was full of fresh ideas when it first came out, like a minty cool breeze

This one was already up there on the surreality meter, and I love how much taking the cat out amplifies that most of the time. It’s great how it makes less and less sense the longer you think about, anti-fridge logic. What’s better about “it” than a caddie? Do they only have one club? Do you even need a caddie if you only have 1 club? How is fish swinging the club? Wait is the bowl swinging it, does the fish pilot it? Is the fish psychic, is the bowl psychic? Wait, the golfers though, is this their only thought on the matter? Is it calling them bro or is it merely "bro"ing generally, or is it like a pokemon and that’s all they say? 🤯

Someone shared this on Mastodon so I’ll just repost my thoughts from there. (Bonus for Lemmy, I was forced to squeeze all my thoughts into 500 characters, so this is the most succinct I’ve been on this site!)

Pretty incredible how little people seem to understand these. For one thing, every method other than waterfall is a subtype of agile methodology. The major distinction is that waterfall has a series of phases from design through building, testing, and delivery that attempts to plan the whole project up front. Agile methods focus on smaller iteration cycles with frequent, partial deliverables.

Something like kanban is designed for continuous delivery: we want to go to mars weekly.

LEAN development is a scam though, that one is accurate.

Even the hyperreal numbers *R, which include infinitesimals, define 1 == .999…

You shouldn’t eat precious minerals little loot bug!

Awesome it has motion controls too so when you scratch your nose or wave a fly away, you’ll be able to enjoy accidentally calling random people, turning the radio volume way up, or maybe even putting on the e-brake! All without having to look away from the “road” (which you can’t see due to a sudden pop-up ad featuring the return of dancing Bonzai buddies!)

Animals in captivity pace their living areas, an expression of anxiety.

But also an ADHD thing, I do this all day while thinking or on the phone. I have to turn off my camera for meetings because I tend to wander in and out of frame while I listen and ponder.

Shrödinger’s Roll

Look, this isn’t a diceocracy, its a dicetatorship. If they can’t roll right, perhaps they have no place in our society.

They say there are no asexuals in fox holes

Absolutely. Pandemic “inflation” threw all kinds of prices too high and nothing is coming back down because most industries are so small that they’re all essentially oligarchies now.

I am dead certain that the pandemic has actually put the US into a hard recession which the Fed has been covering up with various tricks. I’m pretty sure that after the presidential election, whichever way it goes, the economy is going to tank.

Seems like the feature freeze for 4.3 is still in effect. I imagine they won’t merge it in until they start compiling features for the next build. Good for them though, the feature they paid for is finally coming!

I can pretty rarely get under $30 for just myself ($50 for two i consider quite the deal now) and we live in a city with many options, and most places i would order from are about a 10 minute drive. I’m not saying it’s right or good, just that the prices you see are in line with what I’ve been seeing. Food is quite a bit more expensive right now.

Everybody… Get! In! Line!

“Match this fit” meme but it’s all 80s and 90s Trek looks. (I think DS9’s mirror universe fashion holds up pretty well.)

I do love how in the face of all advice and evidence, lots of these people still believe that there’s somehow a way to turn those imaginary numbers into real, actual, spendable money.

This kind of information is all suppressed now, but early on when Facebook only had likes, there was a lot of discussion on how downvotes weren’t really needed. It was believed that people engaged more with content they enjoyed, and ignored unfavorable content.

This is wildly wrong. People obsessively engage with content they hate, to the extent that it probably makes more sense to only have a down vote button. Everyone knows that now, and the big sites uses psychological studies funded by casinos to gamify engagement, entirely in the pursuit of click-pennies.

What do votes mean? On lemmy it seems nothing. On other sites they mean revenue for the owners.