I think they’re referring to Substack, the hosting provider.

Don’t trust anyone who unironically uses the term ‘fake news’.

It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.

Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.

Last time I checked he isn’t from the UK

I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.

I’m afraid you’ve failed the Voight-Kampff

‘Work laptop’. Unless you’re self employed or work with a very generous IT manager, you get what you’re given.

Wishing to become just a brain in a robot body sadly misunderstands the totality of the human body. It’s been shown that gut biome affects mental health, for example.

I still have my original CD-ROM! Techno Raiders was great fun.

Most people can’t tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and lossless, but hey if folks really want to waste their money on snake oil like gold-plated cables then I say let ‘em.

I’m not sure how much use a particle physicist would be on a malfunctioning spaceship?

Office Space

If you know what curl is, you’re not the target audience.

The people this is targeting don’t even know what ‘CLI’ stands for, but they absolutely will copy/paste random commands into their computer if they’re told it’ll magically fix something.

MacBooks.

Plenty of reasons to hate Apple as a company but the hardware and build quality of MacBooks really is second to none. I know several Linux/OSS die-hards who swear by their M1 MBPs.

There’s this in Notre Dame as well:

In my experience it’s mostly Italians - ‘that’s not REAL pizza/bolognese/carbonara/etc’ whenever other people try adding their own twist to things.

Kind of ironic how angry they get about it, given pasta came from China and tomatoes are from the Americas, so their entire cuisine is imported.

People follow users here?

I subscribe to communities, and I often see the same people posting & commenting, but I don’t go out of my way to follow any of them. That seems odd to me.

We had to read manuals for tutorials, maps, and story exposition. Try releasing a game nowadays that does that and you’re going to get slapped with a 1/10 because people nowadays have less patience than a goldfish.

I kind of get where you’re coming from but your dismissive framing means it comes across as out of touch, ‘old man yells at clouds’ type stuff.

The shift has far less to do with patience and more to do with designers getting better at integrating tutorials into the games themselves. Games now are designed to teach you how to play through playing, so reading a manual became unnecessary. That’s not a flaw, that’s an improvement.

The only reasons this wasn’t done earlier was because the field of UX was still developing, and because cartridges limited how much text could be crammed into the games themselves.

That said, there are still well-received games that rely on manuals, but it’s now an explicit design or aesthetic choice rather than something everyone has to do to make up for limited tutorialisation. Check out Tunic, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, or TIS-100 as examples.

I’d rather games only include a manual because they wanted to, rather than because they had no choice.

Thanks for fixing!