heavyweather

Including moderation. *tips fedora*

When the going gets tough... quit!

I support everyone else's encouraging messages to you here, and would caution that unless you want to bring additional financial stress to your domestic partnership, it's probably a better idea to find a job and THEN quit. But that 4 week notice period may be a deal breaker to a lot of potential employers (idk how it is in the UK, but probably like America, not great), so maybe put in the notice, give your boss the bare minimum and take plenty of personal days to interview.

@efesell That's the last step, I left it out! It's a big honkin mug with a cute unicorn on it from my parents' wedding lol.

I use a Hario hand grinder, buy my beans a pound at a time, keep'em in the freezer, and use a Chemex with unbleached paper filters. Rinse the filter with boiling water (Hario gooseneck steel kettle of course) to remove the paper taste, pour the rinse into my mug to warm it up, then hit the grounds with a little bit of water to let them bloom, put the kettle back on to simmer, then pour over slowly, keeping the chemex about half full, pouring water on the sides to keep the grounds toward the center/bottom of the filter. Is it a fiddly and ultimately meaningless process? Sure. Does it make incredible tasting coffee? You bet.

@rorie: It's patently ridiculous, how can they promise that with the absolute messy state of internet in the US and around the world? Really, everyone's got a 10ms ping hop to a Google data center? Pull the other one. Pull the entire service, actually.

It’s about slamming a Monster taking a shit and a shower then making some infrastructure.

I’ve definitely worn my Giant Bomb hat through TSA and on a plane. Just asserting my sigma energy.

For what it's worth, I highly enjoyed it, all the twists and turns and bizarre reveals, and I didn't do one single thing with the ARG. I see ARGs and I'm like, oh cool, they put an ARG in for those people. That's neat. Anyway. And I move on with my life. Well worth a buy IMO. It's a very cool fusion of genres, with awesome art and style.

I think he knows a thing or two about game development that remains true even in the modern era of day one patches, live service games and ongoing development.

It's like in photography/cinema, the old adage "we'll fix it in post!" Maybe. Probably not though. If something is busted on the first take, there's very little you can do after the fact to salvage it. And frankly, it's usually less effort and time to take the time to do it right the first time than to release it in a bad shape and then try to sand down the rough spots.

Did a two island run with Bombermechs, they’re very cool. It’s such a fun battle chess game. Someone said that it’s less compelling than FTL because there’s essentially very little randomness or RNG, and I appreciate that, but I dig how you can take your time and come up with a masterful solution where no one dies, no one gets hurt, most of the time. It’s a tactics game that plays like a puzzle game and I feel very smart while playing — and occasionally very dumb.