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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not really making an argument, but describing something I've heard and seems like a reasonable point to consider: One potential issue with "cleaning up" stuff like HP Lovecraft is that a lot of his horror is, in fact, horror about race. So cleaning it up would interact weirdly with that topic — would it mask the racial nature of it by making it less overt? Would it make it a different story? Or would it still basically be intact, but less immediately distracting, just because our modern ear recoils when we read certain words? (I don't know which of these it would be; it probably varies depending on the story)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I honestly will just slap cmd-q on most games. If they don't handle it properly... well, sucks for me I guess, but most do. (on a mac)

I wonder how most games treat alt-f4 on windows?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (14 children)

I'm reminded of something that Binding of Isaac does that I wish more games would do: If you're anywhere in the main menu (even drilled into it), if you just mash the B button/Esc key, it will keep backing out, up to and including exiting the game if you press it on the main menu. I hate games that make me click 3 times and say "are you sure??" when I just want to quit the dang program.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does the Remarkable do stuff if you touch the screen with your fingers? Or can I make it not do that, and only react to the pen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Is there anything that still has side buttons and no touch screen? I'm still holding on to my old kindle 3rd gen (kindle keyboard) because I abhor touchscreens on my books.

Ideally also with no backlight, or the ability to turn the backlight off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

(and grid, which is very very similar to flexbox and uses much of the same rules)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They also "pay" an absolute pittance if you have them enabled — something like 2 cents per ad, if I remember my calculations correctly. Literally nobody should be considering that trade worth it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

$100 for lifetime subscription

Bold of them to assume they'll even still be maintaining this app in 4.16 years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The main thing I encourage here is: If you're breaking up longer functions into more smaller ones that are really only used in this context, don't mix them into the same file as functions that are general use. It makes code super confusing to navigate. Speaking from experience on an open source project I contribute to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

But with more walls around the garden

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just to help me understand: Why is it that when I try the same search on different instances of this, I get very different search results?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Russian, but yeah

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