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eawoifjaiowepfj commented on The Boschian Horror of ‘Elden Ring’   artreview.com/the-boschia... · Posted by u/keiferski
meowface · 3 years ago
That's a great quote:

>I remember when I was drawing the Undead Dragon, I submitted a design draft that depicted a dragon swarming with maggots and other gross things. Miyazaki handed it back to me saying "This isn't dignified. Don't rely on the gross factor to portray an undead dragon. Can't you instead try to convey the deep sorrow of a magnificent beast doomed to a slow and possibly endless descent into ruin?"

eawoifjaiowepfj · 3 years ago
This is rich, maybe Miyazaki just has different judgment than me but Dark Souls is one of the grossest and gloomiest games I've played due to the immediate application of gross-out body horror.

[0] is the Asylum Demon, which is literally the first boss in Dark Souls.

Bloodborne cranks the gross-out factor up to 11 with [1] and [2].

[0] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6qCB_x7KQR8/maxresdefault.jpg

[1] https://bloodborne.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Bloodborne/ludwi...

[2] https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kXCskueejFY/XLlAKLB-nmI/AAAAAAAAd...

eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Apps commandeered the age-old idea of takeout   wired.com/story/delivery-... · Posted by u/lxm
Waterluvian · 4 years ago
I was aware of apps for delivery but not take out. We just call.

But now I’m curious about delivery. Are pizza and Chinese shops migrating over to those services, willingly or unwillingly? As long as I’ve remembered, they’ve always offered delivery for free.

eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
I used to call, but between connection noise, having to give a name, accents, background sounds, them being in a rush, etc. we don't even understand each other. That's why I use apps.
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable   pypi.org/project/black/... · Posted by u/crlees
simonw · 4 years ago
Adopting Black made me realize quite how much of my coding thinking capacity had previously been spent thinking about code formatting - I used to really sweat the details about how to break up a long function call, where to put the line breaks, how to indent my dictionary literals...

With Black, I don't spend a single moment thinking about that at all. I estimate I've got a 5-10% productivity boost in my time-spent-writing-code from this!

eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
It's been at least a decade since I've not used an autoformatter on every piece of code ever. I didn't realize there were people who worked at places without autoformatters still.
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Ask HN: What's Up with Google?    · Posted by u/emsy
taftster · 4 years ago
I think the utility of generic search engines is coming to an end. Services like Google, Bing and DDG are numbered in usefulness.

Instead, I am guessing (maybe hoping) that we see a return of the moderated directories, like Yahoo or DMOZ of old. A 2.0 spin on these directories, with lessons learned from all the years.

Imagine that you just go to StackOverflow and search there directly for your answer. Want a funny laugh, go to your favorite comedy website (like facebook.com) and search directly. Want some news, go to CNN or Fox (depending on your persuasion) and fill your echo chamber.

Not kidding. I think search as we know it is dead. And there is a new paradigm just sitting out there ready for the next generation to make.

A directory of well known lists of websites with specialty search engines available on each.

eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
i just use google to search reddit these days.
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript   terrainformatica.com/2021... · Posted by u/BafS
eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
I wonder why they used QuickJS instead of a faster engine like V8 or JSC?
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Great Auk   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gre... · Posted by u/brudgers
eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
I first learned about the Great Auk due to it being used as the mascot for the Knowledge Master Open (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Master_Open) which my class participated in during elementary/middle school.
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Declassified docs reveal truth about FBI’s contribution to Hemingway’s demise   history101.com/hemingway-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
dougmwne · 4 years ago
I hit the back button immediately after getting the notification permission popup after 3 paragraphs. It makes me think on how wrong the web design profession has gone when every site hammers me with 2-4 popups and no doubt a dozen ad trackers, mindlessly implemented as a must-do best practice checklist. I would have finished the article and maybe even left with a positive impression of the site and noted to check out their site later. Instead I'm left with attention abuse overload and a mental note to skip over that site in the future.

The web has become a pathetic failure. My god, what have we done to it?

eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
doesn't everyone just use an adblocker these days?
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months   mbuffett.com/posts/chess_... · Posted by u/marcusbuffett
kthejoker2 · 4 years ago
Pedantry alert: As ELO ratings follow a logarithmic curve, "gaining 600 points" is a dimensionless metric.

These are good tips for beginner to intermediate growth. The things that definitely help the most are:

* Pattern recognition - the best courses for this level are things like "Common traps in <some random opening>", applied with Woodpecker method. Once you've memorized all the mistakes in the Scandi or London system, you can really crush a lot of people who play haphazardly.

* Study your own games and games of people at or just above your level. Four simple methods:

1) during the game, write down (Lichess has a notes section on the left) 3 candidate moves for every move in the middle and endgame, why you're making a particular move, and what you think the opponent's response will be

2) use the "Learn from your mistakes" button after each game during analysis

3) check the most common moves in the opening that are different than yours, play through a couple of masters' games to see why those positions are preferred.

And my last tip which helped me a lot just with the "meta" of playing chess ...

* Use more time. Be okay with losing games because you run out of time thinking. Always, always, always try to play the best move, even if it means spending a lot of time.

eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
Pedantry alert: As Elo ratings are named after a person, they shouldn't be fully capitalized, as they are not acronyms.
eawoifjaiowepfj commented on Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust   zyppy.com/googlespeak/... · Posted by u/cyrusshepard
skybrian · 4 years ago
This is about being careful what you put in writing, because the discovery process for lawsuits will find your carelessly written email and opposing lawyers will take it out of context, and do you want to end up in court years later explaining what you meant?

Google has so many employees that they need training to limit the damage from random chatter and speculation.

It’s more cumbersome to have to talk about some things via video chat, but it’s not about limiting thought.

eawoifjaiowepfj · 4 years ago
> discovery process for lawsuits will find your carelessly written email and opposing lawyers will take it out of context

I don't work for Google or have much of an opinion on "Googlespeak".

However, that the practice of law is allowed to exist in its current state is an indictment on our society. The legal profession is one that polices itself, has no proper oversight (judges are just lawyers with a more refined superiority complex), raises barriers to entry with a level of zeal only matched by medicine (to which it is not actually comparable), and is also allowed to maliciously and limitlessly wield this power over the people who do real work is a foundational problem with governmental design.

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