I quite liked the graphics, but yeah. Lies of P started at the same price and saw discounts more quickly, and you can currently buy it and its DLC for the same price as Khazan. That’s probably the best soulslike of recent years, rave reviews across the board, and it did sell millions for a small, unknown team. You just have to measure up to that to do the same.

Haven’t played the whole game, but did play the demo when it came out. It’s a good-looking Soulslike with tight controls and a few tweaks to the normal formula. Brutally hard, and a lot of that is because it’s very parry-heavy, with many different kinds of parry. Miss a dodge or get your timing wrong, you’ll be eating shit and restarting again. Surprisingly long demo, did enjoy it.

Do have it wishlisted, but it’s always been at quite a hefty price and haven’t dipped in, yet. Would have been a yes from me at thirty quid and I’d have considered it at forty, but it seems to sit at fifty, and there’s very few games I’d pay that amount for.

Demo came out in the same week as the AI Limit demo, which is a much more traditional Soulsy, and which I bought and had a good time with. There’s a busy market for Souls games, for sure.

It’s a creature that comes from an environment where we cannot survive, and drags us back into its realm to eat us. I was thinking more the kraken, but maybe ‘space cthulhu’-type aliens work too.

Don’t think Bigfoot is a particularly violent chap? Maybe a Wendigo might be a better match.

Not arguing that PNG is the right choice, but you want something lossless for science purposes, and this is a science image.

You can tell roughly what order the impact craters were formed by seeing what overlaps what; looks like the small impacts mostly followed the big impacts. Maybe the earth’s orbit cleared out the bigger stuff first? If you had a really good image, you might be able to work out the average impact angle, and therefore the average speed of impact, since we know the speed of the moon, and how they would intersect. Nothing’s filled with lava like it has on the near side of the moon, which makes me think these have mostly happened later in the moon’s life, when it’s cooled down a bit.

I just love space, I’ve no education in it. I bet someone with a fancy moon science degree would be able to tell you a lot more, and they’d be poring over every pixel. Don’t want any JPEGs getting in the way of that.

Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.

Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.

Shrewsbury Folk Festival might be for you? Great bands, tremendous beers and ciders, splendid vibe, and Morris dancing throughout the day. A morning of dancing is just the thing to let your hangover ease off to do it all again.

Josuttis’s books are normally pretty good, lots of examples and a clear explanation of why you might want to use something, but oof that looks akin to a kick in the essentials.

Even if you’ve no other reason to update to C++20, the fact that if constexpr gets rid of half the things you’d previously need to use SFINAE for, and concepts gets rid of the other half, makes it well worthwhile. Amazing how much it stops hurting when you stop doing ridiculous things.

Was just admiring my original copy of it earlier. I bought another copy off of GOG since it was about a pound on sale, which is a bargain compared to (a) connecting a working cd-rom drive to any of my computers (b) running the damned installer on Linux © fully patching it up to work.

Fallout 1 is much more consistent with better lore, but 2 has a lot more ‘game’ and is more fun to play. Fight me.

I was part of that OWASP Application Security Verification Standards compliance at my work. At a high level, you choose a compliance level that suitable for the environment you expect your app to be deployed in, and then there’s a hundred pages of ‘boxes to tick’. (Download here.)

Some of them are literal ‘boxes to tick’ - do you do logging in the proscribed way? - but a lot of it is:

• do you follow the standard industry protocols for doing this thing?
• can you prove that you do so, and have protocols in place to keep it that way?

Not many of them are difficult, but there’s a lot of them. I’d say that’s typical of security hardening; the difficulty is in the number of things to keep track of, not really any individual thing.

As regards the ‘have you used this thing in the correct, secure way?’, I’d point my finger at something like Bouncy Castle as a troublemaker, although it’s far from alone. It’s the Java standard crypto library, so you think there would be a lot of examples showing the correct way to use it, and make sure that you’re aware of any gotchas? Hah hah fat chance. Stack Overflow has a lot of examples, a lot of them are bad, and a lot of them might have been okay once but are very outdated. I would prefer one absolutely correct example than a hundred examples have argued over, especially people that don’t necessarily know any better. And it’s easy to be ‘convincing but wrong’, and LLMs are really bad in that case. So ‘ticking the box’ to say that you’re using it correctly is extremely difficult.

I see the Claude prompt is ‘OWASP top 10’, not ‘the full OWASP compliance doc’, which would probably set all your tokens on fire. But it’s what’s needed - the most slender crack in security can be enough to render everything useless.

Papers Please, Obra Dinn, and Moida Mansion creator Lucas Pope. Awesome free little retro-LCD game, if you haven’t played it before? It’s short, but it’s got multiple endings and you can speedrun it. What more do you need?

Just need to replace those four supports with a single pillar made out of soap, cut down all that disgusting greenery, and pump a bit of magma about to brighten the place up, and you’d have the beginnings of a respectable fortress. The obsidian-and-steel scheme is a nice touch.

There’s always been the occasional listing with a price several orders of magnitude disconnected from reality. Have never understood it, seems too blatant to be fraud. Now, whether there’s more of them now, I don’t know.

Sands of Time is straight-up one of the best games of all time, and that’s even including the not-great combat which makes up a lot of it, and a few puzzles which just grind the whole thing to a complete stop. Its quality is not completely representative of its era.

What is representative of its era, is that it’s a complete bastard to run nowadays. Requires a GPU with hardware transform and lighting, but also a single-core CPU, which means you need a very specific age of computer to run it. Even patched up, there’s some things that just don’t look right - I’ve never managed to get it running with the portals to secret areas looking the way they should.

I am quite envious of you being able to replay it, tho. Think I gave up the last time I tried.

Well, the good news is that they made a lot of coinage. Random bronze or silver coins, especially if they’re not in the best of condition and with dubious provenance, are kind of cheap. The museum-grade stuff, that collectors really want to have, is quite fiercely bid over when it comes to market. And they never made a lot of gold coins - the value was impractical compared to the cost of goods and labour - so that shit’s expensive, yo. But if you’re wanting a few denarius to call your own, then ebay’s full of them.

Azure’s documentation is the worst fucking bullshit that I’ve ever read in all my days, and just about every single page or tool (including the CLI) has an integrated slopbot that routinely recommends commands and REST endpoints that don’t exist; it’s slow as fuck, and to do even the simplest things is agonising. But to give them their dues, their recent uptime has been pretty good.

Truth be told, I’ve even come round to thinking that I prefer using Azure to Google Cloud Platform. Using any of Azure’s features is a pleasure akin to cutting yourself with a rusty nail and then falling in a sewer, but at least it has some features. GCP is like they implemented a quarter of the very basic functionality and then got fed up, decided to call it a day.

I’d just like to post Northern Boys / Sexy Train to get everyone in the mood for Lemmyvision. Can’t submit it again, got to give all the other Lemmys a chance of victory, at least.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Oxygen Not Included, it’s that the plants go at the bottom where all the CO2 settles, the laboratory goes over the generators since they’re not affected by temperature, and the barracks go at the top so that everyone can sleep in clean air. Rookie layout, this.

Enough of that crazy talk. One of the greatest of the many fantastic things about breasts is their bountiful variety. I appreciate the boobies in every shape, size and colour.

Ah, but no-one would question Mac support when you’re developing new software. If you can support Mac, which is certified UNIX, then the jump to supporting Linux isn’t all that much extra, and we can prove there’s a growing install base.

Started the ball rolling, and it just keeps going faster.

The fluorescent green hi-vis is usually reserved for first-aiders, but there are exceptions. I was working on a site in the middle of some rapeseed fields once, and we all got issued green - anyone wearing yellow or orange was swarmed with insects in moments.