sluggosaurus

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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
Something needn't have 1:1 feature parity to replace something else. I recently replaced my car with a motorcycle.
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
Fake, refined, optimized, or over-produced.. it's all the same thing really. With television, there are[were] a limited number of channels. Airtime was a scarce resource, and making a TV show cost money so the companies funding it wan
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
Mismanagement by @Jack.
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
Okay, comparisons within a particular artistic style then: Splinter Cell vs Metal Gear Solid V. MGSV has somewhat realistic doors, but much simpler than the door system SC:CT has. I've heard quite a few player complaints about MGS
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
I'm utterly unconvinced. Point by point: Redstone: The surprising complexity of a redstone torch does not confer complexity to a minecraft door, even though you could use that torch to open or close a door. A minecraft door has one
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
> If the swiss authorities make a legal order demanding that protonmail include a rogue JS file when a specific IP address requests their inbox, they will have to do it. Didn't Apple successfully resist doing similar when the FBI
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
I understand how artists would think that way. Obviously they have passions and care about details few except other artists would notice. But on a commercial project, shouldn't managers reign in on this sort of thing and redirect the
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
> All those who stop using ProtonMail after this incident - could you please describe what PM should've done differently? Somebody no longer valuing what ProtonMail provides is not mutually exclusive with thinking ProtonMail could
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
All the mainstream reputable news organizations use stock photography extensively, so the public is generally willing to accept that the photograph attached to the headline needn't have anything to do with that headline. Personally, I
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by sluggosaurus 5y ago
While I'm duly impressed by the achievement of hyper-realistic door physicals, the effort:payoff ratio seems completely wack. I think these game developers are overthinking it. Minecraft does doors right in comparably simple way, an