JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 11 hours ago:
Yeah, I think people look at that criticism and think I mean I want super explicit bright glowing objects with a Skyrim style HUD that points me directly to where I need to go to get blue prints. Nah. Some ideas:
- Some way to tell if there aren’t any more in an area so you don’t waste time looking when there isn’t anything.
- Some sort of device that tells you how close some are, but not where they are. Like the classic “beep … beep … beep beep beep BEEPBEEPBEEPBPBPBBPBP” thing that gets more frequent as you approach. But make the max range relatively small.
- I think they were called life pods? Like the other crashed emergency escape pods. For things you’re expected to get like the sea bike (I don’t remember the name), sea moth, and moon well maybe always put some blue print fragments on life pods you find later. This way you can’t miss them (unless you’re really really not paying attention). You can still make it so you get them earlier on, but this way in case you missed some somehow you can always “catch up” to where the devs expect you to be. Like if they expect you to get them ~10% in, then make it so the life pods you find ~25% in give you what you are missing for the sea moth.
- A bit of a map system. This one is controversial, so I’m putting it last. A huge appeal of the game is not having a map. But even just a blank screen showing you all your way points, but not showing you where you are or what biomes are around would be useful. Then do something like show where blueprints are in an area. Maybe something like once you get two of three it shows you the general area where the remaining ones are, but doesn’t put a marker on the HUD.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 day ago:
But why do I wanna keep it? To re use it? Why is it better? Can I use it a third time? Fourth?
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 day ago:
So I think you were just playing it wrong.
Look, I genuinely get your point, and I was tracking with you until you said this. Fuck off. Fuck for with this stupid bullshit. I was not playing wrong. I was playing it the same way everyone else does. I was exploring. I was collecting. I was finding new things. It was getting very clear that the distances the game expected me to travel were meant to be done much faster than what I was capable of. I was getting multiple upgrades for things that I couldn’t use because I didn’t have the thing that lets me install them. It’s been ages since I’ve played and I’m not psychic so I’ll never know what the actual devs’ intent was, but something was off. I’d definitely missed something. What’s more annoying is that I was finding multiple blueprints I already had or something? I don’t remember the context. Like you needed 3 fragments or something. And I’d find more like “ah surely this is the third for the thing I need” only to get the 5th of something I already had. It was give years ago when I played, at least, so I’m probably explaining wrong.
But don’t fucking say I was playing wrong. That’s such a condescending, brain dead thing to say to someone who is critiquing a game.
“Hey, based on what’s going on and getting tons of upgrades and not unlocking the thing to install the upgrades, I think I’ve missed something and I have no idea where to find it. It would be nice if there was a way to unlock this without scouring every inch of the ocean I’ve been through multiple times and without looking it up online.” No, you’re just playing wrong! It’s a game about exploration and discovery!
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- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 day ago:
It was weirdly a little light on crafting in some ways. But extremely heavy in others. I tried playing it like Minecraft and stockpiling stuff but that’s not really the way. I found it slightly more enjoyable to gather things only when I needed them.
Also the game has no map and I’m REALLY bad with directions. Like REALLY bad.
- Comment on coping 1 day ago:
You will see child pornography, nazis recruiting children with badly fried memes, dead people, parts of dead people, characters from popular japaneese cartons involved in the depraved shit, and spam
Aside from the CP, that is how it was back in the day and how it should be.
So you’re okay with nazis recruiting children with badly fried memes, dead people, parts of dead people, characters from popular japaneese cartons involved in the depraved shit, and spam?
- Comment on coping 1 day ago:
There was a decentralized Reddit clone someone posted recently and I was excited to check it out. Sure enough, racist shit.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 day ago:
First one was a cool premise but really annoying in some ways. The game sort of assumes you get certain fragments of blue prints by certain points but doesn’t actually make them easy to find nor really give you any hints to find them.
For people who’ve played it was for the sea moth and and later the moon well.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 2 days ago:
I thought Musk was the CEO and got excited.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 3 days ago:
Okay but how? In what? For how long? Do you reuse it again? How often? Does it go bad? Where do I put the jar? Do I close it? People just say shit like “save your grease” and expect me to know what to do.
- Comment on Perspective 3 days ago:
We are at the top.
Suppose the mattress is at the top. Why would someone fold the mattress into a V shape and not push the point forward?
Also, it makes sense that someone would try to fold it into a V, shove it, laugh that it is stuck and take a picture.
- Comment on Oatmeal 3 days ago:
Pop tart!
- Comment on Just.....why? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Milking dust 4 days ago:
The second Jurassic World movie was that, sort of.
- Comment on Milking dust 4 days ago:
I thought this was better than Jurassic World 2. I didn’t see the 3rd.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 days ago:
Uh, yeah, that’s the point of all regulations. To make you not pick bad things.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 6 days ago:
Lol. I think there is one for Republican and Democrat though. Which is funny. Or maybe it’s like conservative or something. I don’t know. There are so many TLDs now, it’s crazy.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 1 week ago:
Have you never been in a river in the spring?
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
I’ve never celebrated the 4th of July because I’ve been patriotic, I’ve done it because it’s fun. When I stopped believing in God I didn’t stop celebrating Christmas. In the same way Christmas is about gifts and seeing family, the 4th of July is about fireworks and seeing friends.
- Comment on Is there really anything stopping an evil government from just poisoning the water supply to commit a massacre/genocide/ethnic-clensing? 1 week ago:
I don’t really understand the thought behind the question. In the sense of legality? Obviously. In the sense of someone saying something? Obviously. In the sense that people have free will? No. The people that work at water facilities are typically technically government employees. If all of them suddenly went rogue would you count that as “the government doing it”? Because they wouldn’t be acting in line with the government, but they’re still “the government.”
So, no, but actually yes, but actually no.
It’s like saying “what’s actually preventing a secret service member from shooting the president?” Nothing? Everything? How do you answer?
- Comment on MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries' 1 week ago:
I’m not saying Blippi hasn’t done anything (I don’t even know what the allegations are), I’m just saying even if Beast didn’t diddle children he’s still bad.
- Comment on MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries' 1 week ago:
It’s not like the threshold for being bad is as high as hurting children lol. You can still be a bad person even if you’re not diddling minors lol.
- Comment on MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries' 1 week ago:
What revelation are you waiting for? He’s already awful.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
Are you really comparing my repsonse to the tone when correcting minor grammatical errors to someone brushing off nearly killing someone right now?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
Software engineer here. We often wish we can fix things we view as broken. Why is that surprising ?Also, polymorphism is a concept in computer science as well
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
Yours didn’t and read it just fine.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 week ago:
Asking a question and then immediately answering it? That’s AI-speak.
HA HA HA HA. I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE. GOOD ONE. 🤖
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 week ago:
My mistake. Please forgive me. I’ll pray to Supreme Gates and focus on my KPIs.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 week ago:
Just because something is legally correct doesn’t mean it is ethical. Just because something is illegal doesn’t mean it is immoral.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 week ago:
Do you have evidence to support that the flash deal prices aren’t the prices that are there for the entire length of the sale now?