bipolar_lisper

he never said the game was bad

programming quality and program quality are two very separate things. a great game can have terrible programming. and an awful game can have exceptional programming.

While bugs in game programming are quite obscene, and the task of making a game quite arduous, all this tweet did was demonstrate how really bad code design will bite you in the ass if you're making games.

why is the most upvoted thing on hackernews right now a story about a bug that came about as the result of bad code

> The only logical culprit was a bit of scripting that runs when a companion's health reaches zero: if they're in the party, it waits for combat to end and revives them; otherwise it marks them as dead "for real

The code should never have been written this way if the companion is not supposed to die. There should have been an `is_dead()` function that always returned false.

This site has declined dramatically and I think it's a result of the quality of programmers we have today vs what we had 10 years ago before the internet became mainstream.

None of these comments nor the tweets talk about how bad that code was, but instead kiss the guy's ass.

I expect to see more and more posts about games and other trivialities and less and less posts about important topics as the years fly by.

I mean at the end of the day this is just a way to get cheap labor.

Why are these companies allowed to hold my identity information? I have no form of credit and yet these companies are still allowed to keep track of me and store my information in an insecure fashion. I hate how idiots control the show in this country.

can someone give me a good argument for not using glass

we need to just stop using plastic altogether. companies were perfectly able to operate and make a profit off of glass bottles. poor and middle class people have not seen any economic benefit to switching to plastic in many cases. only the rich have seen the benefits. i see no reason not to return to glass for things like bottles if the only excuse is that rich people won't make as much money.

You are literally the biggest troll of all. Stop trying to be China.

Uhhhh... plants?

> One of the greenest approaches to carbon capture is to recycle the carbon dioxide into high-value chemicals, such as cyclic carbonates which can be used in petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals

HAHA! Yeah petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals. Sounds super greeen, if by green you mean $$$.

Oh they absolutely are not. You should see the way people have always, and will always defend this company.

Blizzard:

> If this had been the opposing viewpoint delivered in the same divisive and deliberate way, we would have felt and acted the same.

Also Blizzard:

> We will defend the pride of our nation (that nation being China)

So when will they be terminating the people in their company that posted that announcement on behalf of the company? Oh wait, they won't be, because this company is completely and utterly full of shit. This is a company that will ban players for using naughty words, but won't ban a country from the market place for actual real life atrocities. People like this make me ashamed to be American. Honesty and integrity mean nothing in this country. All people care about is whether you use nice words.

the programming community never ceases to amaze me

There's too much filler in this article for me to understand what's being conveyed.

they didn't limit ads. they banned them altogether. it's a charitable thought, but doesn't hold up.