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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Insurance companies in the US aren’t much better. Was at State Farm the other day and the agent was keying through screens that were likely on a back-end system a couple decades old at this point.

    I would not be surprised if most insurance companies, even ones with a fancy website, are still actually processing things through a back-end system built in the 90s.




  • Arm-chair babbling idiot who plays too much video games here, I am one hundred percent convinced that it has nothing to do with visual fidelity and everything to do with that asthmatic engine they’ve been dragging since Morrowind.

    Code doesn’t go bad with time, that’s not really how it works. And game engines tend to be a Ship of Theseus situation, where just because it’s still the same “engine” in theory, doesn’t mean that large parts (or all of it), haven’t eventually been replaced or refactored over the years.

    Unreal Engine has been around for 30 years at this point, would you also consider that an “asthmatic engine”?



  • Just beat the Diablo IV campaign over the weekend.

    Much of the games I play these days aren’t really completable, or I’m playing stuff I’ve beaten before without really intending to complete the game. That includes Destiny 2, LotRO, and another new character in Elden Ring.

    Which means in the past month I’ve only “beaten” SOMA and Breath of the Wild (for the second time).


  • Is this the part where I refer to people worried about pre-orders as “basement dwelling losers having nothing in their lives worth caring about other than whether other people pre-order games” and then we trade insults for a few comments trying to get the last word until one of us gets bored?

    I mean, that’s what we would do on Reddit, but not sure if that’s the case around these parts.