Talarian

Supposedly the last one for us in British Columbia!

Peter the ragdoll cat enjoying some neck and chin scritches with his eyes half closed

Peter loves his morning scritches.

what are you gunna do, just let them draw a card?

perhaps the most extreme example of "do you pay the one" that I've seen

Whaaaat?!

I may have accidentally offed B’Ellana, Harry, Seven, Tuvok, and Neelix (but saved Tuvix!).

Turns out some scenarios definitely get harder when their television versions got dead.

I finished a run of Voyager Into the Unknown and it was fun!

It’s relatively simple as far as this sort of game goes; not too many resources to track, and I may have killed half my named officers, and got killed by a borg cube once (thanks for the “restart sector” option!), but I got them home!

The new Voyager game accidentally made me stay up far too late.

But the comparisons to FTL are loose at best, frankly. It’s far closer to IXION than FTL.

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lol, just accidentally told our IT rep who’s here late “have a long weekend”. Not even a good long weekend, just a long weekend. Thankfully she thought it was funny.

I loved that board game as a kid. Tickles me everytime I see it referenced!

I'm SO mad, I got kidnapped by evil scientists and put in the evil science facility where they give you psychic powers and wings and stuff but I was in the control group so nothing happened

Yeah Peter is definitely wary of singing. Never quite sure what to make of it

Things that give my cat Peter mild concern:
* Whale noises
* Making the bed
* Dancing
* Vacuum (downgraded from absolute betrayal!)

That’s…a red flag :/

"Your pets may not necessarily love it when you kiss and hug them"

Yeah well I may not necessarily love picking up poop so I guess we're all gonna have to make some sacrifices.

No one remembers history.

When IBM and Microsoft partnered on OS/2, IBM got upset when a MS employee rewrote some code to be smaller and more efficient because “negative lines of code!”.

Measure the wrong thing and you’ll get the wrong behavior. Incentives matter.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

"Well, if you needed solid proof that tomorrow is legit, the project dawn email is it," one person wrote. "Looks like they wanted to use AI to send an email tomorrow and instead it sent a calendar invite today."

This bit in the Business Insider story about upcoming Amazon job cuts is the most "This is why you don't trust AI" nonsense I've seen yet.

www.businessinsider.com/amazon-staff...

It really does sound like this is the best case scenario for cancer, as much as anyone say “best” because fuck cancer, but big hugs for the absolute stress of it all and wishing you a straightforward procedure and more entertaining visits from 80s synth bands.

Wait, Mee-crow-wa-vay herself!?

The “dead game” thing drives me up the waaaaall. Yeah, it’s called “I launched, patched, and finished making the game.”

A picture of North Vancouver across the bay from downtown Vancouver, except everything lower than about 50m is covered in fog, leaving the buildings popping up out of seemingly nothing and the cranes at the seaport by themselves

Put your office in the cloud, they said.

Picture of a computer desk and two monitors, and Peter the Ragdoll cat hiding behind the rightmost but you can see his tail on the mousepad and his nose peeking out from under the monitor. And his entire rearend

Peter the Ragdoll thinks nobody can see him. I’m not gonna tell him.

I am sorry 'The Last Supper' fans, 22 hours from now, I will take 'The Last Supper' down. I cannot take this anymore.

Peter the cat was watching me poop, as he is wont to do, so I sang at him. He’s indifferent to Mary Had a Little Lamb but actively perturbed by “Call Me When You’re Sober” by Evanescence with full on airplane ears.

I’m afraid I will have to evict the godless heathen for his terrible music taste.

I get this is a joke, but every episode of Voyager had a woman in the leadership chair of a vessel and that was apparently nigh unfathomable in the mid-90s.

Sorry, VOY still woke!

Peter the ragdoll laying down at the other end of the bathroom counter from the camera

Peter doesn’t really want you to pet him or cuddle him. He just wants to be in the same room as you.

Avoiding matching the same people twice in a row! Especially for your bands with few players.

And then yeah, milliseconds so it has to be highly performant and parallel. Not blocking on database reads/writes. Perfectly scalable

When I do our original load tests what bottlenecked first? Matchmaking

Having had to do both synchronous and asynchronous matchmaking, I cannot underscore this sentiment enough.

Geography, time zones, attempting to quantify skill but in a way that isn’t gameable (lol, good luck!), population minimums before your algo breaks down…

He actually never scratched me, and he was pretty pleased overall once it was done but he was squirmy as fuck and would not hold still at all.