I just want to second saying you’d Google it in the interview if it comes up. I got my first job because of this in software engineering a long time ago.

Interviewer: “If you didn’t know how to solve a technical problem, what’s the first thing you’d do?” Me: “Well… to be honest, I’d probably Google it…” Interviewer: “Oh yeah that’s actually exactly what we want!”

It did feel stupid to say at the time but it made sense after.

If someone is releasing, say, a western XCom clone and expecting Baldur’s Gate 3 level success, they might have another thing coming… Since it would have a niche audience.

Like, obviously I’m not talking about games like Baldur’s Gate 3 here, I assumed that was obvious from context but I may not know what Lamplighter’s League is like!

I was assuming it was more like Hard West, or Wargroove, the Fire Emblem series, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics… there’s a difference between a specific genre and games that are turn-based and require strategy. Hopefully that makes sense.

Also half of the games you listed are pretty old (10+ years). Yeah, it’s a bit niche. But go off weirdo

There’s also the Mario + Rabbids series which is still pretty niche if you’re asking me.

They were advertising it on the Paradox launcher for a while on Cities Skylines and it seemed like kind of a large risk for Paradox but I don’t exactly know why I felt that way.

It seemed like too much advertising for a turn-based tactics game or something. I like turn-based tactics games but it’s certainty a niche genre.

rClone is so awesome! It does so much that I wanted for so long.

Oh the OP repo is based on rClone, I didn’t realize. Even better!

It is!!

Someone might assert that, “All toupees look fake. I’ve never seen a good toupee.” This is an example of neglecting the base rate because if I had seen good toupees, I wouldn’t know it.

Thanks, I love learning names for these things when they come up!

And is most likely correct, since it always seemed the most common pellet guns are pellet/BB air rifles

Not only that, but the insistence on seeing everything as zero-sum is fucking ridiculous.

“Well we didn’t even take down a massive corporation with an install base of hundreds of millions!! Hmph. Why even bother ☹️”

How old are these people? Are they for real? Lol

“Oh come on, it’s DIFFERENT. Thank you for your money.”

I opened it just to see some of the photos, and my browser crashed. The photos aren’t even good, don’t even open the link.

I don’t think I realized Kotaku had gotten this bad. Yikes!

Have his pants completely consumed him yet?

Maybe that’s too obscure

Oh I just read about Disney doing that to the guy who wrote the original Star Wars novelizations, I think. They assumed all of Lucasfilm’s assets but not their liabilities, including royalty agreements.

It’s insane that this “works” for companies the size of Disney and Lucasfilm.

I was pretty hooked on Babylon 5 from the start, and I can’t say the same for series like Star Trek: TNG! To me the world felt pretty fleshed-out and cohesive really early.

I actually need to pick Babylon 5 back up, I can struggle with watching series consistently, even ones I like.

I might be in the minority but I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still twice in my twenties and thirties and I found it almost impossibly slow. I’m not used to the pacing of old movies, so that might be part of it.

But I also was expecting more of a science fiction movie than a social drama. It has a robot on the cover. Haha!

I watched it the second time to understand what I didn’t see the first time, and realized it’s just not for me. I can’t remember my particular complaints other than the pacing, which might be fine if the kid is used to it.

People who are downvoting: why?

Is the David Lynch Dune that good? I doubt it. Should a kid be forced to sit through a cult classic? Probably not.

I feel like Dune fanatics leave logic at the door sometimes.

Contact is such a good movie! I watched it when I was a kid too and I watched it more than once.

I will say, as someone who used rTorrent some time ago to automate torrent downloading and whatnot, it was awesome. I’m glad to see it still going and gaining popularity.

Stable software doing its job out of the way is what I want.

I’m always curious about how hard it is to make insane nonsense that’s hard to disprove. Like, 100% randomization seems like it could be easier to detect vs. more believable things added by people.

So then you have to spend time making it believable…

I’m similar apparently, or at least liked learning. 2000s.

I was pretty unimpressed with the list, I never believed some of them (like the genome) and learned most of them were wrong by high school.

SSX Fans unite!

Ooooh, I feel dumb that I didn’t pick up on this before.

I knew about movies (Top Gun and all) but not other things, for whatever reason.

I started playing Monster Hunter Rise! I’ve played Monster Hunter: World before for a bit, so I understand something of how it works.

That didn’t stop me from trying to skip ahead in quests and getting pummeled a bunch of times though. Whoops!

I’m also finally trying to get a little further in American Truck Simulator. I’ve had it for a few years and have struggled to play consistently.