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New comment by mylasttour in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

mylasttour — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:26:27 +0000

There used to be a funny bug in Dota 2:

While the game is paused, if a player were to click on the "level up" buttons for their skills, each click actually advanced the game by 1 frame - so it was possible for people to die etc. during a pause screen.

New comment by mylasttour in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

mylasttour — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:11:01 +0000

I think the point of this is to help people into creating full, "life-full" games. A person can use this as the boilerplate base game, so that they can focus on the narrative, designs, and adding specific and quirky mechanics that make the game feel like a full game.

It helps to not have to sink most of your initial motivation energy on setting up the most basic mechanics like player movement physics from scratch and demo level templates.

New comment by mylasttour in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

mylasttour — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:05:52 +0000

It's unfortunate that this is a good cautionary tale for women who choose to play the "unconditionally loving wife" role for boyfriends.

New comment by mylasttour in "Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (2013)"

mylasttour — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:25:44 +0000

The successful, reliable format is right there in the beginning: Saying that one sentence face-to-face in private.

That's half the point of the article, that the culture is to follow that one clear format to avoid ambiguity, and that other formats are seen as creepy, privacy-invading, etc.

New comment by mylasttour in "With all social media fucking up severely, what's next?"

mylasttour — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 05:10:40 +0000

Not OP, and not points that make Twitch "unusable", but some changes that make it unpleasant:

- Really pushing softcore porn by putting their icons in the sidebar and over home page by default (they disappear once your stream viewing history is something other, but default behavior is to recommend it to all)

- Adding more noise to chat: Obnoxious particle effects once "enough people pay money to Amazon", highlighted flashy banners

- Overlays over the video that you can't turn off, makes the player very heavy, popups over the player that you have to click to close

- Autoplaying media on home page

- Strange inconsistent regulations of streamers (who/when they get banned and how long)

- Strange attempts at noisy virtue signalling - such as overlaying sombreros and maracas on emote images for "Hispanic celebration month", which is so unnecessary and comically unthoughtful

New comment by mylasttour in "The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)"

mylasttour — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:50:56 +0000

It really is an arbitrary diagram. Any regular user of any of these levels can confidently say all levels have "decomposed morals". All levels have videos of animal abuse, posts for teen prostitution, et cetera.

And there really is nothing cozy about data-hoarding closed mega-corp software like Discord and Snapchat. As convenient as they are, 'cozy' is not the word.

The writer likely just thinks "LinkedIn and Facebook == Bad!" and "My two Discord servers with my friends == Good!" and just made huge generalizations from there.

New comment by mylasttour in "Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content"

mylasttour — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 03:41:55 +0000

It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.

New comment by mylasttour in "Telemetry settings in Kibana"

mylasttour — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:58:09 +0000

"Telemetry settings in Kibana" indicates that it is about telemetry settings in Kibana. Which is what the article is.

"telemetry.optIn defaults to true" indicates that some setting, somewhere out in the world, defaults telemetry to true. It's a clickbait title.

Poster should have titled it "Kibana Telemetry Is Opt-out" if they wanted it to be a proper title.

New comment by mylasttour in "I Tried to Visit OpenAI's Office. Hilarity Ensued"

mylasttour — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:29:43 +0000

His due date to publish an article was still there.

New comment by mylasttour in "Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?"

mylasttour — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:26:51 +0000

Quite sad to see this hands-off approach being praised. I was raised in this kind of environment, along with most others I know, and that's how we all got to see our first beheading, suicide, or some grotesque sexual content before we even hit 12. It's not something you seek as a kid, but you get presented with it.

Sure, this would be considered the "excess", but I'm not sure if it's the kind that children should be made to deal with at such an age in such high volumes.

New comment by mylasttour in "Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?"

mylasttour — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:46:57 +0000

Agreed, I found that writing also chose to use quite manipulative, or even emotional language to subtly get the lean towards the author's way. Which is completely fine if the book were presented as "Here's just my opinion on what may have happened", rather than presenting it as "Scientific history of mankind" - this aspect is what bothered me the most.

But we suppose the group who would fall for this kind of strategy is the exact audience the author was going for.