Reminds me of the King of the Mists on Path of Exile 2. An enemy whose dream is to exist, so all of his actions are towards trying to become real.

Oh… I’m not familiar with that one, then.

What’s the second?

Black Sails is the best show nobody watched. I don’t know anyone who didn’t like it after giving it a try. And it only gets progressively better episode after episode.

Gotta make sure it’s rendered the same on IE5 still.

Chrome is in a similar position that IE used to be. It uses its majority position to move web development away from standards and so devs need to write extra code to support both chrome and others - or make chrome only sites.

People who do stuff like this often can’t redirect their focus at will. They get passionate about one specific thing and do great work for that. You try to steer them towards something more useful, they end up losing the passion completely.

I knew we were truly fucked the moment I realized that even non-AI content on the internet is affected negatively by AI. Take this comment I’m typing out right now. I’m not using AI for it, but the content of what I’m writing is based on experiences I have had with AI - nothing is purely human made anymore.

At one point I had an issue with a tool and searched for it on the web and found someone who looked like a real person describing a similar-ish issue. They mentioned trying a setting but it didn’t work for them. I thought “that setting seems to be what I need”. I searched for that setting on the web and also in the codebase of that tool - zero matches. It was made up. I didn’t use any AI myself, but I still wasted time with an AI hallucination.

Now every time I find something on the web I have to do additional searches to see how many other sources corroborate the information I get from any result. And eventually this too will be pointless.

The only new thing for me in this article was learning that Niantic started calling themselves game developers in 2025, ending the one thing I could respect them for (self identifying as a data collection company).

There’s two ways to consume any content. Sometimes Moby Dick is just a whale and Matrix is a movie about a guy who learns to fight really fast.

It’s still possible to build up endurance even while fat, if you never got completely sedentary or if you take the time to build it back up. But if you’re too fat there comes a point where physical activity starts becoming dangerous without proper guidance - and if you have that then you’re probably looking into your diet too.

I find it noble to go against your own best interest for the greater good, but I don’t expect it and don’t blame anyone for not doing it when it would seriously impact their ability to live life if they did.

I still expect morality though. There’s balance and proportion for everything.

I’ll let the opportunity pass, as the game is no longer mine and I’m not proud of how it ended up.

When I first published a game on steam, valve kept blocking it because I had checked “controller support” and they tested it and said it didn’t work with controllers. I tried to find any controller that didn’t work, asked a lot of people to test it for me as well, no issues whatsoever. Gave up and unchecked that option. Game got approved. Players used controllers just fine, I went back and checked it and never heard anything from valve again.

My wife lost her amazon account (with all her ebooks) twice and she still buys ebooks there. I managed to import a Kobo from Paraguay to try and get her off the hook but it only worked for like 3 months as almost everything is amazon exclusive these days.

(both times she lost the accounts for disputing credit card charges that were not tied to her account)

I started writing this comment with the intention of praising Nintendo for what they do well, but after the comparison I realized that “at least their toys aren’t broke or a risk” is also a very privileged thing to say…

Nintendo has always been generally consistent with their approach to things: they try their best to make good stuff (with some exceptions to “their best” like the Pokémon company), and then charge premium prices for it.

As a customer it is more expensive than other videogame companies but there are usually no bad surprises with their business model. You just pay for what you want (if they provide it). Their ugly side is usually detached from the relationship with customers.

To make a stupid comparison, Ubisoft/EA and the sort are like a playground with some broken toys and occasionally some meth users or a pedophile. Nintendo is a private fenced off park where every toy is in pristine condition and is protected by snipers who shoot any adult or non-paying kid that gets too close.

Management is paying for my AI use. After a month or so they noticed I hadn’t activated my account yet, so I did it. Haven’t ever used it. Management is happy.

I see some coworkers doing a ton of work within a day for some PoCs and that sort of stuff that I would never be able to do in the same time, but when it comes to actually fixing issues and completing tasks on average I’m still faster than everyone else.

Spaces, in 2026? Why?

Thought the point of my comment would be better made without mentioning it by name, but it’s Bluefin.