Seems pretty obvious to me just from “four-player, four-monitor arena battle with full eight-way scrolling and AI drones for players not present”.
And it’s clarified with “As a social experience had it been released in 1986, this would have been the grandfather to games like Fortnight; a multiplayer PvP battle arena where each player was supposed to have their own dedicated set of controls and display.”
The main question I had was what was the form of combat. There was no mention of shooting. So what was it? Ramming? Lasers? Magnetism? Bullets? Turns out it is bullets. Boring.
But they did say "a four-player game that was said to resemble Sinistar" but it would have been more accurate to have said "it's literally a 4-player version of Sinistar" and I would have had zero remaining questions.
Sure, people have been putting different sprites on their projectiles for a long time. But whether it flies in a straight line, drops from the top of the screen, or follows a ballistic arc, a bullet is a bullet. It doesn’t matter what sprite you use.
thats right. a year ago i decided, fuck this going to the gym randomly and not having a plan and only kind of committing. im going to do it. so i got a trainer, committed to 4 days a week, and so far ive kept that up for a year. and now, if i find myself running out of time in the day i make time for the gym. it is such a part of my routine that i simply do it without much questioning. because i know if i dont go i will no longer be able to do the things in the gym the way i do them today. i enjoy that feeling and wish to continue. i think the point of life, at least partially, is to figure out things that you enjoy that don't take from you and do them consistently.
i think what is missing from this narrative is not whether or not people have a routine, it is that exercise elevates your mood away from the depressed state, therapy encourages you to question your thoughts and decisions through out your day that might lead you away from a depressed state. to put it a different way, whats the point of exercising every day if you continue the thoughts and habits that are less than satisfactory to you without any self awareness?
all of the recommendations at the bottom are fake. the profile pictures come from https://randomuser.me
so doubtful this does anything it says it does. don't have any idea why you would want to have fake reviews on a product you are asking for feedback on.
I always assume the person either didn't use coding agents in a while or its their first time. don't get me wrong, i love claude code, but my students are still better at getting stuff done that i can just approve and not micromanage. thats what i think everyone is missing from their commentary. you have to micromanage a coding agent. you don't have to micromanage a good student. when you dont need to micromanage anymore at all, that's when the floor falls out and everyone has a team of agents doing whatever they want to make them all billionaires or whatever it is AI is promising to do those days.
Around a Uni I think a lot about what students are good at and what they aren't good at.
I wouldn't even think about hiring a student to do marketing work. They just don't understand how hard it is to break through people's indifference and lack the hustle. I want 10-100x more than I get out of them.
Photos in The Cornell Daily Sun make me depressed. Students take a step out the door, take a snap, then upload it. I think the campus is breathtakingly beautiful and students just don't do the work to take good photos that show it.
In coding it is across the map. Even when I am happy with the results they still do the first 80% that takes another 80% to put in front of customers. I can be really proud of how it turned out in the end despite them missing the point of the design document they were handed.
I was in a game design hackathon where most of the winners were adults or teams with an adult on them. My team won player's choice. I'll take credit for my startup veteran talent of fearlessly demonstrating broken software on stage and making it look great and doing project management with that in mind. One student was solid on C# and making platformers in Unity. I was the backup programmer who worked like a junior other than driving them crazy slowing them down with relentlessly practical project management. The other student made art that fit our game.
We were at each other's throats at the end and shocked that we won. I think I understood the value everybody brought but I'm not sure my teammates did.
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