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Gameplay Engineer @ indie and AAA mrVentures.net
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mrVentures··on A 1970s boardgame takes about 1,500 hours to complete
I was personally very unhappy with gloomhaven's decision to spread the content out so wide. I think they could have structured a much stronger game experience if they just focused on a core 10 to 20 modules versus the over 100 they have.

Not to say they couldn't include more modules, but when you're trying to progress a storyline it's really frustrating to have multiple sessions (most many hours long) in between you a plot development.

mrVentures··on I have never read a business plan or balance sheet
Not sure how many employees you had, but I'd say anywhere more than three or four it really helps to write something down so that you all can be sure you agree on it. Or I guess even if you don't agree on it, you know what it is.
mrVentures··on Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? (2021)
The civil war is still taught as the "war as northern aggression" in a lot of schools
mrVentures··on Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? (2021)
Did you go to school in Northern US?
mrVentures··on Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
Can someone explain to me why the video results are so bad? Half the time I'm looking for YouTube and YouTube never shows up? Was this due to a lawsuit or something? Half the time it's some random website that has a 2minute video before two 30second ad rolls, never what I want.
mrVentures··on John Deere hit with class action lawsuit over alleged tractor repair monopoly
Unfair analogy. The customer is paying for the product. It's complicated.
mrVentures··on UCLA Study Finds Laughter in 65 Species, from Rats to Cows
Anytime's a good time to go vegan.
mrVentures··on Match Group file multiple lawsuits after repeated failed acquisition offer
"[removed swiping] Made zero impact on the product. Swiping really is dead."

Couldn't agree less. Having used Hinge vs Tinder. It's a huge ergonomic difference.

mrVentures··on T-Shaped People and Academia
What's the point in even dividing people between such silly categories? I understand the context within a metaphor but when the author starts saying things like, 'every successful team I have been on had a t-shaped person' , it just seems absurdly reductive.
mrVentures··on Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
I guess they are saying that there are other options. So for example if I asked you "what is your favorite ice cream flavor, vanilla or chocolate?" you might respond to me with "that's a false dichotomy, there are more than two ice cream flavors, my favorite is banana which you have not listed as an option". At least that is my understanding of the context.
mrVentures··on Finding your home in game graphics programming
Would've appreciated some books on this list if people still use those or YouTube tutorials would be great too!
mrVentures··on Finding your home in game graphics programming
Your point on the learning difficulties imposed by unity's obfuscation is very important.
mrVentures··on A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
We were banned for encouraging users to fight terrorism

https://www.appunwrapper.com/2019/07/03/apple-rejects-nsa-in...

mrVentures··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
I would certainly go with a givewell approved charity before donating my money to the government
mrVentures··on Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
They focus so much on disobeying the crowd that they still let it dictate their decisions.
mrVentures··on Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters
That one has way less content but the quality is perfect.
mrVentures··on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]
Good job owning the mistake and planning to prevent it in the future.
mrVentures··on Japanese university finds Alzheimer's drug effective in treating ALS in mice
You would think they'd work on human alzheimers before worrying about the mice. /s
mrVentures··on Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
"You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter."

Call me a cynic but they probably just want you to pay for their journalism. Looks like a cool product, and it's also probably piracy.

mrVentures··on uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Google blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results.
mrVentures··on Landlords are less likely to reply to applicants with Black and Latino names
Racism doesn't make much sense to me neither but you can lookup the case studies. I remember one story about how a Black person asked their White friend to do the appraiser tour (after replacing his family photos with photos of his friends family) and saw a significant increase in the valuation.
mrVentures··on Chicken Checker – See how often salmonella was found at meat processing plants
Never a bad time to go vegan.
mrVentures··on Ask HN: Do you know uninteresting but useful scientific discoveries?
Hand washing comes to mind
mrVentures··on MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery (2020)
I was very unhappy with the instruction I received from masterclass. Maybe I'm an idiot but I actually thought it was going to be out of Mastery level and I was disappointed that a lot of the classes really only focused on introductory material. It's annoying because most educational material for any topic is introductory, particularly the kind that you find online. So it can be pretty hard to find Mastery level advice at a high quality level of instruction.
mrVentures··on It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated
I don't think Harvard Business School is a name that fades away until you will it to.
mrVentures··on Building a Theban Lattice Stool
I was hoping for poop
mrVentures··on Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
What's w2 mean?
mrVentures··on Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
What are the differences from perforce's time-lapse view? Or is it incomparable?
mrVentures··on The Clickbaitification of Netflix
More people believe the earth is flat now than did 100 years ago. That's an impact.
mrVentures··on India's living dead
Whoa, how'd you find the password?
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