Russia still has plenty of money, for now: oil and natural gas.

I send photos and videos via MMS all the time and they work fine, but almost everyone I message is an Android user.

I have never played Firefly, but I have always wanted to try it. Is it worth $255 to me? Tough sell, especially without a regular game group.

I am a bit curious about how this will turn out. Worms is not a game that seems to translate well to the tabletop unless it is app assisted and/or comes with a slide ruler.

This is one of those “I’m going to hell for laughing” jokes

Maybe an issue on the back end skipping over all of the new private subs? I assume that many of the big subs had popular posts just before they went private, so the server has to spend more time skipping over private posts when rendering popular?

First and foremost, get third party clients working again. I am used to RiF. I tried the official app. It was very busy but showed much less useful information per screen. I could not even even leave it installed on my phone. It kept spamming (shitty) notifications to try to goose my engagement, even after I disabled them.

Anger about bad corporate decisions fades, but if I cannot comfortably use a site, I cannot come back.

Modern frameworks don’t help with business logic corner cases. You would want to carefully analyze the algorithms of the legacy code and rewrite same logic in a new language. Even then, the same logic operators don’t work the same in every language (automatic type conversions, truthiness of non-boolean types).

Why do developers feel like they need to add a combat system to their relaxing farming sim? It just seems to go against the spirit of the genre.

Mission critical code. There are decades of bug fixes. The biggest cost of rewriting it is a risk of errors in the logic.

That is a community that would work even better on Lemmy, without changing the name. I would love to see the best stories from Reddit reposted here. Unfortunately, it would involve people who like Lemmy but don’t mind reading lots of Reddit.

A Short Hike was my best gaming experience of last year.

In my opinion, Cubitos could use more engine building in it’s dice pool building.

It is not (just) for narcissism: it can fill a niche similar to RSS. When I was using Twitter, 90% of the posts I read were from companies or projects announcing news and updates. It also had a built in comments, so you have a single, shared discussion/q&a space in the same app.

Obviously, the biggest advantage it has over RSS (and Mastodon, so far) is critical mass. More creators have Twitter accounts than RSS feeds and for those that have both, the Twitter account is always more active.

Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game is my most played solo. I love how modular it is, especially that the loss condition is defined by the scheme card chosen. It works great as either true solo (playing a single deck vs the game) and two handed (playing two player with me controlling both players).

The campaign expansions for Hero Realms are great solo. I love the difficulty balance. On veteran difficulty, I win more often than I lose, but I also spend a lot of the game on the verge of losing, where a wrong decision is going to be an instant loss.

I also love that neither game is super mathy or demands me to calculate my next 4 turns.