Traveling Businessman Makes QA Automator After Mistaking Joke Newspaper For Reality.

I used the Flash predecessor to generate audio for my mobile game Cobalt Dungeon. It had pretty much the same controls and generated WAV files as well. Basically find something close to what you want then mutate it a whole bunch and then you're good to go.

I live in a county bigger than Connecticut with zero pharmacies. The clinic has a big medicine pantry, but if they don't have it your next best bet is to drive to the next state over, about two hours from the clinic. The clinic was staffed by a nurse practitioner only on my last visit. Rural America is not a convenient place to be sick.

Likewise, I played for hours and actually enjoyed it. I also really loved Adventure, Superman and similar.

That second linked article (npr.org) is a really interesting read about E.T.'s programmer and his experience during and after making the game, although the story ends a bit abruptly. TLDR; he loved being a rockstar programmer for Atari and was paid millions, but had to move on and find a career/life afterwards. Spoiler alert: he went on to become a SV therapist, helping others with similar experiences. Somehow, the whole thing feels prescient for a lot of current-day devs on the eve of "The Great AI dev takeover".

On his perspective around the game itself, a couple of quotes of particular interest:

"There's a difference between frustration and disorientation," he says. "Video games are all about frustration. It's OK to frustrate a user. In fact, it's important to frustrate a user. But you don't want to disorient the user."

Also, this resonates:

"Spielberg looks at me and he goes, 'Couldn't you just do something like Pac-Man?'"

I remember playing the game with an older family member looking on. As was apparently the case with Spielberg, his eyes absolutely glazed over. But, he got a real kick out of watching me play Space Invaders and laughed out loud as the aliens sped up.

So, the gameplay itself was the biggest complaint about the game. There's a YT video that gets more into the gameplay issues, with matching visuals. [0]

In any case, it's insane that he went from concept to finished game in only 5 weeks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7iICS64iI

Honestly, I just quit using social media entirely for the most part.

It’s been really mentally liberating.

Most people have their bank application on their phone so you could pull it up and prove it that way.

I do agree it will likely be heavily abused like Civil Forfeiture in United States and wouldn't recommend it to Swedish but it's a democracy.

Do you remember the name of the docu? I ended up in a small Zamrock clickhole when Ted Lasso used this track in an episode outro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjUOYLJ8IYI but didn't get much further than wikipedia and a couple of google results.

By what mechanism will polling places determine a person's citizenship at time of voting?

Metal is the main reason many games are never ported to MacOS.

Metal is roughly equivalent to Vulkan, which is on Windows and Linux. But Apple just had to Think Different. So all the major rendering libraries either have a layer which abstracts over Vulkan and Metal, or they don't support MacOS at all.

That's what WGPU does. If it were not for Apple ignoring standards, much of that would be unnecessary. It adds so much excess baggage that the consensus is to go direct to Vulkan or DX12, and blow off MacOS support.