luciferofastora

But we gave him a nice little prison stay to write his manifesto in! Surely he learned his lesson and won't attempt to overthrow democracy again, right?

...right?

I'd excuse it as part of the joke

"Nobody" probably isn't literal here, but I imagine some manager scheduling a meeting where they want a report on the game's performance and feedback during the beta. Some higher up is going to sit in for the first few minutes for the KPI summary.

The sweating analyst jokes about the heat in the room, the higher up dryly remarks that the AC seems to be working just fine. The presentation starts, the analyst grasping for some more weasel words and void sentences to stall with before finally switching to the second slide, captioned "Player count". It's a big, fat 0.

They stammer their way through half a sentence of trying to describe this zero, then fall silent, staring at their shoes. The game dev lead has a thousand yard stare. The product owner is trying to maintain composure.

The uncomfortable silence is finally broken by the manager, getting up to leave: "I think we're done here." There is an odd sense of foreboding, that "here" might not just mean the meeting. The analyst silently proceeds to the next slide, showing the current player count over time in a line chart.

Devs be applying like "Hi! I'd like to join your development team! My professional qualifications are that I've spent eight years working on a failed game!"

Of course, it won't be the individual devs' fault but I don't have any difficulties imagining that some of them have a harder time finding new jobs than people who were let go after the launch of more popular games.

Burning hotter than the sun doesn't have to mean "than the sun burns". Just that the fire is hotter than the sun.

500 Kelvin is a hot oven that severely burns you if you touch the tray directly. 1000 K is a nice campfire. 1500 K is the upper end of Magma. 2500 K is beyond normal blast furnace temperatures.

5000 Kelvin is ridiculously hot.

You seem really invested in pointing out those shortcomings. I respect that.

Oh look, it took me all of a half second to skip over the @s and read the message! What inconvenience!

So in a weird, roundabout way, he's saving these people from prison by putting them out of work instead?

And probably making it harder for the court to slap fines on his company and make them stick, but I'd give that a pass in this case.

I thought Khorne Group was a cokncidence, but they've literally got a Mark of Khorne on the wall? That's not really the icon of humanitarian fairness or level-headed military professionals. Love me some nerds though.

I have nothing to contribute to the political conversation and I don't think their use of this reference is indicative of their mindset (beyond the fact that they're nerds, which I love).

Edit: I have nothing to contribute because I don't currently have the energy for critical analysis. I just wish humans would stop suffering the malice of tyrants, both the victims of his aggressiom and the pawns doing his bidding and paying for it.

adp was added because you can just walk away from an attack easier than rolling in a lot of cases.

Probably part of the motivation is to make iframes a security similar to health, the more you invest into it the more leniency you get.

Agility also affects casting and item use speed, so it's possible they thought of that first, then felt that iframes would logically fit into that set since it also has to do with agility.

Bubble phenomenon: We, who are familiar with it, know the limitations and can deal with the differences, think it's the superior platform. But that isn't an objective and universally understood fact when you factor in the UI/UX benefits of a single, largely uniform platform like Windows that people are already used to.

Particularly given the fact that "Linux" isn't any single OS and switching is liable to confuse, intimidate and paralyse people with the sheer wealth of choices, the pre-experience of even considering to use Linux is horrible. How many different "which distro should I choose?" guides and discussions have you seen?

Linux is great in many things, but for the average user, the first problem starts even before the actual platform. Until the community at large agrees on and promotes one or two easy starter / transition distros that "just work" for all the essentials, that hurdle alone will disqualify it from being the universally superior platform. Its great strength - the plethora of choices - is its biggest weakness in the one regard that matters most for encouraging people to switch.

By and large, Linux advocates are technically-minded people. We approach systems and platforms differently. We underestimate the value of UX and particularly the pre-experience before deciding to use something for most people.