Humankind has some lovely bugs

@Nzall The "taking my toys and going home" strategy of open source development, pioneered by the left-pad guy. Some people really don't know how to act like adults

@murgatroid99 There is a certain irony in complaining about not being paid, then making yourself (even more) unhireable by pulling a stunt like this

And if you want to get a job, there are better options to try before publicly sabotaging a bunch of people

@PrivatePansy Amazing

How is Humankind?

huh, okay, so in Deaths Door you can do a sequence break to get the hookshot early by using the hookshot.

Yes, you read that right.

Use the hookshot to get the hookshot

...how...does that work?

@ToxicFrog I missed the start of it that fully explains it, but basically due to some glitch they were able to use the hookshot without actually having it. However, if they ever switched to a different item, they couldn't redo the glitch.

So they do this one time glitch to use the hookshot without actually having it, that way they can sequence break to get the hookshot super early.

After which they then go get another item they need.

I'm assuming the glitch is something akin to "Have hookshot active in another save when making a new game", or something.

Which is why it only works the once

@Wipqozn I'm playing it on Game Pass, so I think it's reasonable, but I would be pissed if I got this for full price

The graphics and sound is good. I think the simplification they made to systems are okay - it's more streamlined than Civ which does mean it lose some depth but the game is also easier to pick up

The neolithic era and the system of switching culture every era is pretty fun

The game is quite buggy though. You get weird things like that and very occasionally it softlocks. The AI is also quite bad, so the higher difficulty mostly just gives them ridiculous buffs instead of playing smarter. The cultures are not balanced - some of them are very good and others are so bad you'll almost never choose them

Also because of the way the game is structured there is basically one standard "build" unlike say Stellaris where there are enough choices to play in several different ways

@PrivatePansy Yeager that studios games always have bad AI

4x games have terrible ai in general

Makes it hard to enjoy them

@PrivatePansy That's a shame

@murgatroid99 The plot thickens: apparently the guy is a failed terrorist as well: abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/6425363 CC @PrivatePansy

@Wipqozn Shouldn't this be 2022, or is AGDQ just starting way late

Guess starting GDQ on January 2nd was considered a little too soon after new years

so they went with the next week

any good nights you guys are checking? for me i think its mostly friday, where theres the tetris guys again

@Batophobia I can't even blame this on the year change since I'm 2 years behind

yeah i think since the beginning of the pandemic i didnt watch GDQs

but at some point taking a break of GDQ is a good idea, becomes samy after a few years

Like when you watch way too much of an anime in. a short bit of time and i just becomes meh because you are overdosing on it

@Nzall Yikes. Thank goodness I haven't gotten around to using colors yet

@SaintWacko There are two types of apps in NPM. The app that is professionally built and maintained, and the thing called by 98% of other NPM modules that is maintained by Bob that created it 20 years ago and never touched it again.

the fact that things like that where someone pushes voluntarily or not shitty code to npm and crashes tons of apps doesnt happen weekly is crazy

Like I showed last week. I created a basic react project. it refers to almost a thousand of NPM modules that I would guess, if one of them gets demolished like that it would make my react development impossible to install

You can't demolish the modules any more, so as long as you set the minor version the previously worked you'd be fine, it's people either newly installing a module or updating the version that would get hit by this

true

@Ronan It's a bit more complicated than that though. Essentially, NPM's core weakness is that if you don't tell it to take a specific version or limit itself to a specific range, NPM will automatically upgrade any packages based on semantic versioning, meaning it'll take the latest release that isn't a higher major version. The reasoning is that generally, newer minor versions should be compatible, but improved, and as such should be drop-in replacements

And that is why we pin all versions of NPM packages

@SaintWacko Yeah usually in my projects is within a major version

Guess the protection comes from you cant go and modify an old version

afaik

Watching GDQ... really wonder what powers the little birds we see on every screen

emotes in chat?

@Fredy31 I've been assuming they're like the virtual audience from last year