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"I'm mediocre" sounds like a lie that my monkey brain tells me.
I would delete the thought. Comparison is the thief of joy.
Manual toothbrush. My dentist keeps telling me to get a Sonicare. Apparently they have a model that tells you when you're pushing too hard and my dentist says I'm probably pushing too hard.
This looks vibe coded, and that's a red flag for me.
I don't care if it is vibe coded, but if it appears like something AI generated, I click away.
There was a meme about vibecoding. I can't find it, but it featured Rick Rubin, and this clip.
In the clip, Anderson Cooper asks him a series of questions:
"Do you play instruments?"
"Barely."
"Do you know how to work a soundboard?"
"No. I have no technical ability. And I know nothing about music."
"You must know something."
"Well, I know what I like and what I don’t like. And I’m decisive about what I like and what I don’t like."
"So what are you being paid for?"
"The confidence that I have in my taste and my ability to express what I feel has proven helpful for artists."
(in this case, replace artists with gamers)
Rick Rubin is a successful guy because (among other reasons) he helped some major artists produce some hit songs. He did it using his good taste.
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort.
Ew, what's this 2.5D thing? I'm not much of a gamer and this surprised me. I don't like how the background stays the same and it's just the map overlay that moves. But that's just me and it's just not my cup of tea.
(side note: I don't think I should be able to select the UI text. user-select: none CSS type of thing. https://stackoverflow.com/a/4407335)
I gotta say, the fixed money supply thing captivated me. I have been thinking about currency in MMOs for years, ever since Gaia Online and I love seeing Bitcoin concepts make it to games.
I have made a few games myself and I know it's extremely difficult so I gotta hold myself back from any more critique because I think you've done a great thing here by bringing together all the parts and you're now running a playable game. I see people chatting in there, and that's another level of complexity that I have to salute.
A few years ago I made a game Kybertrike. (Dead game, not recommended.) Technically it's a game, because there is a win and lose condition, but it's not fun. I quit working on it because I realized how hard it is to make a fun game.
Lately I've been studying games I play. I'm playing through Diddy Kong Racing and if you haven't played, I recommend it. It was made in the early 2000's and the amount of love and care that was put into that game is blowing my mind. You can tell how every model, voice line, map, song, ELABORATE SONG/SFX TEMPO SYNCRONIZATION SYSTEM, was meticulously crafted by a human, and I don't see games like that today. I tell myself that if Kybertrike ever sees the light of day it will because I put aside the AI tools and spent hours crafting every little detail.
Here's a great blog post I like
https://anthonyhobday.com/blog/20260410#how-i-think-about-quality
My favorite quote, "Quality is the absense of problems"
I can only name 1 issue with Diddy Kong Racing, and that's that it sometimes has framedrop issues. Everything else, the characters, the events, the collection mechanics, the story development, the biomes, the color palette, are just chef's kiss and I can't even identify a single problem with any of them.
I'm not trying to make a comparison between your game and Diddy Kong Racing. "Comparison is the thief of joy" after all. I'm using DKR as an example of what a great game looks like. And yes, the game was made with a big team and probably a huge budget. What am I saying here? I lost my train of thought.
I think your game has something there. It has a shell, but can it have a soul? I would love to see that.
Surprising to hear that he wants to be on the front lines. Definitely a little crazy like he says. Despite all the death around him, he looks like he is living his best life.
I hope the war ends soon.
Also @petertodd you and I wear the same shoes. 😆
I don't understand what you're conveying. What do you mean, "still thick and thin." aren't those opposites?
Starship is not north of Hawaii (the site you linked is outdated.) For the latest launch (F13), the ship splashed down in the Indian Ocean and is currently being towed to Australia.
Here is news from Sal Mercogliano about the recovery operations and the two ships involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWnL0lRhfQo
It looks like Starship is being towed by NORMAND RANGER. It has AIS tracking https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:307606.
If you want a starship tracker, these feeds tend to be more up to date.
https://spacelaunchnow.me/starship/
https://everydayastronaut.com/category/live-updates/
I got this e-mail a couple months ago and I can't stop thinking about it. I blocked the sender but that money keeps tempting me. Is this a scam? Why are they offering to pay so much money for something they can create for free?
Why though? It seems like the right thing to do. If there's an orphaned package and people want to adopt it and become the new maintainer, they just make a new package. There can be infinite of the same package with slightly different names.
Take this example of solvespace. There are 3 different solvespace packages to choose from. The best one gets votes so people know what's on top.
source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=solvespace&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go
With the new change there are no surprise code changes from new maintainers, because that's not a thing that can happen. Previously, new maintainers could sneak in and push malware. People using the abandoned package should have to opt-in to new maintainers.
I wanted to see what Obscene Selene looked like if she were bald. Grok completely misunderstood my request and gave me an ancient Greek goddess and personification of the Moon, completely naked. It wasn't what I wanted but I'll take it.
Yeah Analogue 3D is very nice. They were first N64 hardware I knew of with overclocking and I saw how it made Perfect Dark play so much better. But then I heard something about how it didn't play some games and I got turned off. That was years ago, they probably fixed the issue since then. In alternate timeline I might have bought one. In this timeline I had no gaming budget (or schedule) when it came out.
I got a shipment notification for my controller and game. Two separate shipments.. That means the console will be a third when it ships. Holy logistics! 😆
When I was an IT manager I setup a RAID1 array on a DIY Linux build for the small business I worked for. A few years in we had a hardware failure that took down the server. I don't remember the details, but we lost access to the files and everyone including me was panicking.
With all the pressure and a healthy dose of incompetence, I was struggling to wield the power of mdadm to recover the files. The bosses were in a rush so they had me send the drives to a recovery service. They were able to recover everything, even though one of the drives was toast. I think it cost the company $3,000 USD.
From that point onward, we used Synology diskstations (NAS.)
I was pretty happy with them. They had a good web UI which showed me how to set it up and would make suggestions. Mostly maintenance free; they were like little robots that did everything for me. When I was getting familiar with them, I tested yoinking a drive while it was running and replacing it with an empty drive. It started using the new drive right away and mirroring files to it. I loved how effortless it was.
We had a second Diskstation off-site, and set it up to receive nightly backups from the main office. It was another built-in feature that just worked without much fiddling.
If I were to set up a NAS today, I don't know what solution I'd go with. It's a deep rabbit hole and I'd probably have to do more research to see what works best for me. I know there is truenas which I could virtualize on proxmox. In the past I heard Linus Tech Tips praise unraid and I'd be tempted to try one of those because they look cool. And there's those cheap UGREEN NAS on Amazon and I have no idea if they're good or not. Then there's terra-master and of course Drobo which was the trendy thing for influencers back in the day...
yeah I'll stop there, but best of luck with whatever you choose!
P.S. I almost forgot-- every home should have a 45 drives Storinator 😜
I captured a firetruck rolling off to save the day. This was an exceptionally smokey Friday morning (2026-07-17) when we had nearby wildland fires. The smoke was so thick it woke me up from my sleep at 3AM with my fight or flight senses going wild. Had to get up get dressed and check that the house wasn't on fire.
Everything was fine nearby, it was just a distant fire. We later got an emergency alert on our phones telling us to stay inside until Sunday due to potentially hazardous levels of smoke. By that time the worst of it was already over, because it rained and the smoke blew away. Weird weather patterns lately.
Shot on my Nokia
I think it's ridiculous to call SN a walled garden. Discord is walled garden. Facebook is a walled garden. On those sites, discussions and other content are private until you have an account. On Discord especially, content is not indexed by search engine. You can read Stacker News with no account. You can find SN posts via search engine. You can see into the SN garden without an account. If anything it's a fenced garden, and that's a stretch. SN is extremely open.