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jmac

@jmac@masto.nyc

I live in New York. I get paid to write about databases. I don’t get paid to write about other stuff, but I do it anyway.

Tech writer at Google; Co-founder of IFTF, an interactive-fiction nonprofit; Liker of coffee, cats, open web technologies, et cetera. Co-admin of https://masto.nyc.

All views I express in my personal posts are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Five Borough Fedi Project.

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jmac, to random
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Most of the animals in #AnimalWell make goofy synthesizer sounds, but there's a bit involving some trapped critters that is paired with realistic audio, suggesting that they're in distress and crying. It echoes around while you work on a tough and lengthy section, a tonal miss in this otherwise lovely game, far more upsetting than it needs to be.

I asked a Discord for a "Does the dog die?”-style spoiler for whether or not you can help them; was told yes. Whew! (But I haven't got that far yet.)

jmac, to random
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Is the best thing about #Helldivers the completely unironic “hug” emote, and the habit of quickplay mutual-randos to deploy it before disconnecting after a successful mission?

jmac,
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Like, “gg” is one thing, but this feels like a kind of aftercare policy spontaneously developed by the community of a violent video game and it is delightful. #Helldivers

bathsheba, to random
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Because of https://momath.org/onlinecrochet/ now I have to learn to crochet

jmac,
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@bathsheba At least you’re making new friends.

jmac, to random
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I do not have entirely positive feelings towards this article, but I do have to admit that "His love for the game had carried him to a level where no love is possible" is a fantastic sentence in context. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/ice-hockey-sports-parent/678347/

jmac, (edited ) to random
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Interesting and troubling snapshot of the state of drug laws in the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-keith-humphreys.html

As a society we have pushed back on the racist carceral system of the old War on Drugs, and good riddance. But I do remember how we were supposed to replace it with a regulatory system like we have on alcohol. Instead we... did nothing, leading to vacuum-filling libertarian failure modes like the west coast's open-air fentanyl crisis and my own city's churn of sketchy, unlicensed weed stores.

jalcine, to random
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Have people made games that were made more to explore a world as a proof of concept?

New "side project that I'll never finish but learn a lot from" alert lol

jmac,
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@mcc @jalcine I was about to suggest Proteus, which is apparently in the tail end of that same boom.

peterb, to random
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Pittsburgh

jmac,
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@peterb Whoah

bodega_catgirl, to random

hello world

jmac,
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@bodega_catgirl Hello and welcome!

jmac, to random
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Watched Amy start a new #Helldivers game last night, and noticed the initial text crawl of Galactic War statistics, including the fact that the average age of a Helldiver is 18.5 years. Which means that you are explicitly sending wave after wave of anonymous, cult-raised teenagers to gruesome deaths, instead of the bumbling, brainwashed adults suggested by the voice acting and character models.

This is of course a lot truer to how real wars are fought, and this is also a lot less funny somehow.

jmac, (edited ) to random
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When a little bubble pops up in a UI pointing out a new button or switch or other doodad, typically with "OK" and "Learn more" buttons, what do you usually do?

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