Ooh. Good reference! Nice!

will tell you if a game supports the controller you currently have plugged in

Today I learned that. It never came up for me since I do most of my game shopping on my phone. That could be really helpful later.

Thank you!

Absolutely.

I’ve always thought those rules were mostly inspired by Aaragorn, of course. I think he’s also why we keep getting a ‘ranger’ class that never works quite right if balanced, or is overpowered.

Sure, but you know what beats all three: two swords and an axe.

Richard Simmons rocks at least as hard as that flaming skeleton, in his own unique ways.

But they were Nazi dogs.

I had this exact conversation, and used this argument, with my own parents.

It must have worked. I was allowed to play Wolfenstein, anyway.

I would love to see the certificate authority model become less and less important.

“Can you write a small check to an organization we are all pretty sure isn’t outright malicious?”

Is a surprisingly good pragmatic protection against malicious SSL certificates, I will admit.

But there’s significant flaws with the approach - notably power dynamics and creation of large scary targets for bad actors.

I would love to see CA acceptance move from PASS/FAIL to a dynamic risk score, that is based on my own browsing behavior (calculated solely within my browser).

If I spend 90% of my time browsing domains at example(dot)mycorporation(dot)com, there’s a great chance that anything new signed by the same authorities can be automatically trusted.

It would still puts a lot of power in the hands of Amazon and Google, but would reduce that power in scale to the amount of services they’re actually providing to each user.

That’s heartbreaking. Radio Shack was so fun, while it lasted.

Perfection.

The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

I’m sure its size will have inflated beyond what I want.

I have the same problem with phones.

I assume there’s some kind of growth formula I’m supposed to have learned about and started taking, but I don’t go to the right parties. /sarcasm

“Pay no attention to any warp 10 lizard children abandoned on a rock somewhere!”

Netflix can’t do what got them to the top.

They can’t grow that way but they could easily hold on and remain profitable, popular and successful.

They were well on their way to enjoying “Kleenex” or “Oreo” stable market success, but their leadership and shareholders apparently aren’t satisfied with winning.

I’ll take “Organizations that made it to the top by doing something different, only to fall under leadership that doesn’t understand what made them successful and descend into ruins” for 200, Alex.

Seriously, Jeopardy team - this is a rich category:

• Netflix advertisements.
• Zoom mandates staff return to offices.
• Microsoft forgets what the “P” in “PC” stands for.
• Toys R Us implements a shitty holiday gift returns policy.
• Sears decides to sacrifice reputation for quarterly stock price gains.
• Walgreens decides bottom-of-the-barrel incompetent pharmacists can uphold their “get it all done in one visit” secret sauce.
• Radio Shack decides that once-every-two-years cellphone contract sales are the future for holding passionate electronics hobbyists’ loyalty.

Oh. That makes sense, I play mainly on SteamDeck, but I’ve been thinking of getting a Steam Controller for my PC, since the majority of what I’ve bought in the last year has been “SteamDeck Verified”.

It’s been tickling my brain that “SteamDeck Verified” badge also makes it a lot easier to tell how a game will act with a controller on PC.

If we’re stretching the joke further (and by all means we should, this is a delight), there’s also always “Final Fantasy TicTacs: Advance”

There is no legitimate reason for this to exist.

Normally I would agree but this turned out to be the only way to protect the T800 model from the rigors of traveling via time sphere.

opens up a Pandora’s box of issues

It sure does!

The Marvel series ‘Agent X’ actually addresses some of this with Deadpool fighting to regain his skills and memories after being nearly atomized.

I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some.

I’ve never been anywhere that I thought it would work, but it ultimately did, almost everywhere.

I’ve found it takes a few iterations, but the marketing folks in on it love being the ones who actually can reliably deliver on their promises.

It doesn’t work for the marketers that promise whatever they please without talking to dev, but I don’t find them to be worthwhile professional allies, so I don’t sweat it.

It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

Very true. It doesn’t help with that case, and that one does happen. I’ve had the best luck saying “we don’t do that, but we’re scrambling to add it” in that situation.

The stupidly easy solution is to just give them stuff that has already been successfully delivered to production to market, 9 months from now. There’s invariably a huge backlog of years worth of successes that marketing wasn’t even aware of.