LOOK AT ME BROTHER

Yeah, it would be fun to see some of the smaller folk represented in particular. Dwarven Paladin, or maybe a Halfling Bard.

The fact that everyone has different characters that they love and/or hate suggests that the devs did a pretty good job.

The writing isn’t stellar, but there’s a wide range of character types, and one person’s favorite is another’s leaat. For me, Lae’zel and Astarion are insufferable (Lae’zel a little less so, but still annoying). But those are favorites of other people, so they’re presumably not objectively bad, it’s just a matter of taste.

My only wish is that there were one or two more, or at least that the others were introduced earlier in the game (hell no, I’m not changing my entire party dynamic in Act 3).

Easy access to a few key functions is nice, IMO. Though helping someone on their computer and seeing half the taskbar occupied with two dozen system tray icons makes me vomit just a little, so I get it.

They’re more different than people might expect. I like both, but they’re very different experiences.

When your mom says you’re not getting out of cleaning this time…

Yeah, but by putting up the “we don’t support this” banner, they won’t have to deal with the complaints in the first place.

It’s also possible they want people to use Chromium for telemetry or other data-collection reasons, not sure.

Sort of. I imagine the idea is they only need to test on Chromium-based browsers.

“Yeah, but my PC doesn’t handle it well. If my PC were upgraded, it could really gen some AI.”

I’ll throw Alpine Linux into the mix. Not sure how well it supports older hardware, but it’s really small.

I wish I could, but cameras are restricted :/

My office has two ping pong tables. They’re literally roped off with caution tape, and nobody is allowed to use them. I wish I were kidding.

They obviously don’t have the features that Rufus has, but I’ve ended up using the default USB image writers that come pre-installed (found them on both Mint and Manjaro, probably available on others). If you’re just looking to write an ISO, check to see if you already have one.

Even using bullet points can help a lot in these situations (I use them quite often in emails with non-technical recipients).

Looks like the goal has been met!

It’s not ideal, but compare that to the toxic nature of most bigger studios… might be the lesser of two evils. And I strongly suspect that the donor insertion isn’t going to compromise the vision or quality of the game.

It’s definitely a bit weird, but probably better than the shenanigans of AAA studios.

People have been running GUIs on much less for decades–though if you’re trying to use something out-of-the-box, anything modern will certainly not do well. But there’s tons of RPi stuff that runs on meager specs.

I’d have expected people would use these things for similar projects as SBCs.

And I’m pretty good at it.

When people talk about Agile, they’re referring to one of two things: the manifesto, or the popular “agile” process.

Problem is: the popular process breaks a lot of the manifesto’s principles. The concept of “sprints” goes directly against the manifesto’s call to a sustainable pace. And in practice, the popular process tends to be documentation- and beurocracy-heavy.

This article is drawing some unsubstantiated conclusions from a very small sample size, and they don’t seem to consider many other explanations. For example, it may be that companies are more likely to use an agile methodology when they’re expecting changing requirements or limited input, so it makes sense they’d have a higher failure rate. Correlation != causation.

The article only touched on the real issue: companies that employ agile (especially the largely-ineffective popular process) are often the types that use it as an excuse to skimp on other areas. Agile or not, any project without clear direction and some documentation up front is going to struggle (and the manifesto’s emphasis on working software over documentation wasn’t referring to high-level requirements).

Overall, 2/10 article.