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Our culture is biased in ways that helped it survive harder times.

The bloodlust is easy to explain. The tribe better at war survives. Veneration of honorable warriors runs deep in our veins. Sales for Top Gun, Marvel movies, action games continue to soar.

The puritanical outlook developed to create stable monogamous families. That bit of artifice is dissolving now. More polygamy means the top men hoarding reproductive access, which historically leads to instability. Sexual socialism was an interesting run, but with the demise of religion, I'm not sure how we could save it.

> Is there a technical term for the lack of sensible long term planning in large groups?

Civilization.

Recommendations include:

1) ditching the toxic negative attitude. It pushes away interest.

2) spend an afternoon or a few bucks on a web designer making your site look better than the "time cube" site. It practically screams crackpot theory.

3) build credibility with academics first. People not in the field will assume you're a swindler by default.

Might be overthinking it a bit. The biters are a game mechanic to add time pressure to build your defenses up to par with your factory expansion. Sort of a deadline to stop you from navel gazing too much.

You can disable them entirely at game start, completely skip military tech, and your pollution cloud will still blight the land, poisoning trees and lakes (and fish) around you.

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Biters are there to add pressure. After you get the swing of things in Peaceful mode, a Normal game is much more fun.

Then, give Death World a try. It's the most compelling challenge in video games I've ever found. Bring a friend or two and you're guaranteed to make memories.

E-scootering around Berlin as a tourist this past fall was incredibly fun. Fast, cheap, and the lack of responsibility to lock up a bike or find a specific bike rental return spot is very freeing. It's such an effective way to explore cities that suit it, that I'll now factor their availability into vacation travel planning.

So I'll be sad if these die off. I just learned how amazing they are!

Did you read the article?

My 9 year old is comfortable messing around in Unity, Scratch, and Blender. They're super beginner friendly and the amount of free tutorials available today is staggering.

Flash was also a platform, though you were still reliant on a host like Newgrounds to upload to. All of this is relevant to today's ecosystems. YouTube, Itchio and others have grown beyond anything in the Flash era.

> There isn't, and hasn't been, a replacement for flash animation suite, which is such a great, easy to use, integrated tool of drawing, animation and timing with a relatively simple scripting model. Even amateurs are able to make interesting animations with it. I bet you can't say the same for any of the tools named above.

I agree that the learning curve for Blender, Unity, etc, is probably a bit steeper than Flash. That wasn't the point of the article linked, nor is it what I'm arguing.

I've published a few games in Flash. Did you read the article?

The premise of this article is just weirdly wrong and out of touch. There are monstrously huge creative spaces on the modern internet, powered by better and better tools. YouTube. Unity. Scratch. Roblox. Twitch. Itch.io. Blender. Minecraft. And so on.

It is noteworthy that professional/corporate creators haven't followed the hobbyists and kids into some of these spaces to represent their brands as much as they did into the land of Web+Flash. I don't see how that matters when measuring the "Internet's Most creative Era."

Consumers are more savvy, and brands are have gained some wisdom to not step on territory that makes them appear inauthentic and creepy. Second Life was an interesting experiment, but I'm happy that big brands haven't made ads in Roblox yet.

I agree, F# is hard to learn. It took me a few months of tinkering to be able to express myself in it.

Good entry points: Don Syme - his "F# Code I Love" talk has been recorded a few times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw2BAxG3bdM. I recommend catching a few versions.

Scott Wlaschin - His talks are also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQt1NAHYC0. He also runs https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ which is a treasure trove.

And I found Isaac Abraham's book excellent and breezy to read: https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming-with-f-sharp

Now that I'm over the hump, I think F# code is far more readable than other languages I'm well versed in (C++/C#). Probably my favorite thing about F# is the strict top-down dependencies. You can open a project and read it in order, and understand it without having to hop around a bunch.

And since most programs can be written in far fewer lines in F#, code written in it ends up feeling very small and economical.

Rec Room is released on Quest!

Oculus Quest dev kits will be hard to get for a while, but if you're a small developer, the easiest place to start developing VR is on the PC/Rift. The SDKs are the same! Unity and Unreal will definitely be supported.

Reading comprehension, friend. They OP stated they don't understand the conservative argument about abortion "since it doesn't hurt others like guns".

They can only hold that view by dismissing the point of view that it does hurt others. By ending a human life. Nothing hypocritical (aka "convenient") about it.

What on earth does constitutional authority have to do with it? Hold the word salad and stick to the meat.

Fetuses are seen as a human life by those who oppose abortion. That's a nuance the parent poster seems not to get.

If you don't understand why POLITICAL_LABEL_X opposes POLITICAL_TOPIC_Y, it's unproductive to assume they're just being hypocrites.

Their values may differ from yours. Maybe try asking them why.

You lack diversity of perspective. Abortion is definitely harmful to a human life. (Some) religious conservatives believe gay marriage is harmful to society.

Before reducing everything to partisan politics, try some empathy.

Jeeze, looking at the product page it's really hard to spot the seller and make sure you've chosen a legit vendor.

Also, Anchors are a great idea. I'm a VR developer and my desk is pretty crowded with headsets, so I just ordered a few to try them out. Hopefully the real ones arrive!

Yep. I recently met a team working on this stuff at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. The problem space is huge and the field is totally in its infancy.

If anyone is interested in this work, check their job site. Last I heard they were looking to hire a programmer to help write the sim. Cool team + science.

Whether or not you support the 2nd amendment, it has the majority support of the US people.

It's evil and dangerous for massively powerful companies (especially monopolies like Facebook) to marginalize the political right just because their leadership are left-leaning.

I'm curious if dev salaries in Canada aren't competitive with the US due to more immigration. When I recently visited a large tech company in Canada, I was struck by how much of the team was from everywhere but US and Canada.

> but if it cannot be done for 1.0 then I would expect to see those changes shortly thereafter

Why is Rust in such a rush to hit 1.0? Recent improvements have massively improved it, but I'm afraid it will lock too soon and suffer for it.

Rust holds some promise for me, but things like simple buffer manipulation, strings, and slices are ugly and torturous in Rust, compared to Go where they are a pleasure to work with.

Upon further reading I agree. But seeing as how Lua, LuaJIT, libuv are all cross-platform, there is hope that such a tool can be as well.

Visual Studio or Notepad++. Lua for us is mostly for testing, so it doesn't take much.

I work on a C/C++/Lua server stack, so this is right up my alley. But as a MSVC native I'd have to spend hours trying to decipher your Makefile to port it to Windows before I could even evaluate it.

Wow. Great work! Dropping lyrics in and then adjusting the timings was easy and fun.

I wasn't aware at first that 'contributing' to a song would be public. This is cool and intuitive, although I'd prefer to contribute anonymously.

After you pay for college, hopefully they exit your house.

Sorry to challenge your inept logical fallacy wankery, but a lack of strength does directly cause a lower quality of life. Capability and independence are vital to happiness. And yes, strength can be improved and maintained right up until death if you work at it.

The keys to great beginner strength training are low reps and linear progression. Let's say you're an average male and start squatting 135 pounds in 3 sets of 5 reps. Next time you lift 140. Then 145. Etc. Once you reach the 300lb neighborhood a few months later, you will be massively stronger, but still only an intermediate beginner in the view of a good strength coach.

If you're like me and you reach that point, you'll then look back at the years wasted doing pushups and biking or whatever and consider it time wasted. You'll wonder "why isn't this more widely known?!"

> What a load of shit.

As your strength declines, so does your life. You can no longer play with your kids. You can no longer get up stairs. You can't care for your house or yourself. Someday, you will no longer be able to get out of bed.