banished is real good. it’s a medieval village sim. it’s also 6.50€ right now.

i see everyone recommending against the storm, banished is basically “what if that game was colorless, depressing and brutally realistic”.

idk if that fits but i’d be real impressed if they manage

good job

the reason i’m super negative is that the blog post makes no sense. he’s overpaid massively for a domain because it used to have an old forum on it, and he is now announcing his intention to build a thing using that name which is nothing like it, to recapture a feeling of nostalgia for another app which is nothing like the first two. and he is marketing it as a way to meet new people despite he fact that you have to meet people before you can see them in the app.

this has amico written all over it.

like, how do you even reach critical mass if the barrier to entry is intentionally set 20 meters off the ground? why market yourself with an old forgotten name despite not resembling the old thing at all? why announce it before you have something to show?

if it’s federation-focused i’m out. make it with the same atmosphere as the iron lung film, though…

i use latex beamer templates for presentations. it’s hard to fuck up displaying a pdf. if you want you can use markdown -> pandoc -> tectonic to skip writing latex.

did you died

family business innit

i’m not diagnosed, but i got prescribed dopamine and serotonin blockers to help with presumably stress-related muscle pain and depressive symptoms. “coincidentally” (thanks to a doctor who actually listens) those meds also dampen adhd symptoms.

in the past few months, it feels like i’ve become… more me. i use less time stuck in bad thoughts and decision spirals. i can actually look into the future instead of just focusing on what’s in my immediate vicinity. i can sit still long enough to actually do my hobbies, rather than getting up and randomly wandering every few minutes. i can put things in my head aside for later now.

i know this is trite, but if you worry about bullying, don’t. that’s also a symptom, a mental spectre that disappears once you get the right stuff in you. if you’ve spent decades with this, you’re old enough to know (logically if not emotionally) that bullying is pretty rare outside of the school environment. if you’re not being bullied now, becoming more comfortable with yourself is hardly something that would make it happen. and if it does happen, being more comfortable with yourself means you won’t care.

in short, meds don’t change you. they give you more time as you.

you’re doing a better job than most of us

yeah they have best-before dates on them. i think they should be switched every few years or so

i got into computers so that i didn’t have to do math and now glenda is my best friend

but the us is only 5% of the potential market, and most countries don’t use primarily iphones. western europe is around 35% apple and that’s as high as it goes internationally

any european ones?

I’m in the domain name business

it’s called “cybersquatting”. fuck all the way off.

also

> “my wife and i met on okcupid and i want more people to make connections like that”
> creates an app that’s only available on 20% of phones and requires meeting in person to connect

this guy is delulu

was gonna say, i think lunarstorm had like 700k users in 1998. but then again i’ve never heard about friendster.

> show is called fruits basket
> look inside
> oh no

i’ll give you the second case, but nobody should plan for putting stuff on aws with the world as it looks right now…

…a hard disk? you can just write data to a file

i wasn’t the one making the claim, but for me it is undrinkable. when i say “impossible to swallow”, i mean literally. i have an allergic reaction to chlorine, and there’s enough in us tap water to make my throat swell shut.