Mini Motor Racing might be a good match. It has some DLC available (additional cars), but none of it is necessary to enjoy the game.

MineTest is an open source game engine that allows running various open source Minecraft clones.

The approach I’ve seen most is using semantic versioning for releases, and having a continuously upward counting (not bothering to reset) build number for everything in between.

Sweet. Welcome to the cult of Debian.

We (Debian users and contributors) are inevitable. Our quiet satisfied computing cannot be stopped, only delayed.

We should consider getting some fancy robes and a few club houses, though. The only thing that can make Debian better is cookies and tea.

You’re not alone in that.

I also reread your comments sometimes with a deep sense is satisfaction.

(I’m kidding. Although I did check your comment history to make sure you weren’t a monster before even making that joke.)

True. I don’t post the license prominently, but my comments are Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike

Okay, I’m actually kidding about misunderstanding which bit of my comment your reply was to.

Yes, it’s great that MineTest is open source! And the mod community is impressive.

My comments are pure Internet gold. I’m actually only here to read my own comments. It helps me remember how brilliant and humble I am.

My posts help people discover MineTest. It’s pretty great, and it’s free.

Lunchtime, doubly so!

Ooh. Good reference! Nice!

will tell you if a game supports the controller you currently have plugged in

Today I learned that. It never came up for me since I do most of my game shopping on my phone. That could be really helpful later.

Thank you!

Absolutely.

I’ve always thought those rules were mostly inspired by Aaragorn, of course. I think he’s also why we keep getting a ‘ranger’ class that never works quite right if balanced, or is overpowered.

Sure, but you know what beats all three: two swords and an axe.

The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

Oh. That makes sense, I play mainly on SteamDeck, but I’ve been thinking of getting a Steam Controller for my PC, since the majority of what I’ve bought in the last year has been “SteamDeck Verified”.

It’s been tickling my brain that “SteamDeck Verified” badge also makes it a lot easier to tell how a game will act with a controller on PC.

If we’re stretching the joke further (and by all means we should, this is a delight), there’s also always “Final Fantasy TicTacs: Advance”

I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some.

I’ve never been anywhere that I thought it would work, but it ultimately did, almost everywhere.

I’ve found it takes a few iterations, but the marketing folks in on it love being the ones who actually can reliably deliver on their promises.

It doesn’t work for the marketers that promise whatever they please without talking to dev, but I don’t find them to be worthwhile professional allies, so I don’t sweat it.

It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

Very true. It doesn’t help with that case, and that one does happen. I’ve had the best luck saying “we don’t do that, but we’re scrambling to add it” in that situation.

The stupidly easy solution is to just give them stuff that has already been successfully delivered to production to market, 9 months from now. There’s invariably a huge backlog of years worth of successes that marketing wasn’t even aware of.

“No deviations will be approved from this year’s Agile product roadmap!”

Spray painting a wall is fine,

Yeah. Particularly when private bank walls are right there prominently on many corners just asking to be painted.

We’re in a “fuck around” cycle where they pretend that the problem was we didn’t have “copilot”, and not that all of our development managers are wildly unqualified.

The “find out” part comes next.

Which is fucking impossible to fathom, because my fucking grocery store’s app can’t even implement search reliably, today.

I’m not sure how they’re going to manage to make things worse.

Actually, I’ll make a guess. My guess is we will go under the critical skill level needed for building safe hospital equipment, and we will get a rash of that stuff killing people due to lack of programmer skills.

I hope the asshole CEOs are the ones that die, but there’s not enough karma in the world for that.