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The (incomplete) Thief2 and System Shock2 source code was leaked years ago from a Dreamcast development kit. I imagine a Google search would find you a download. I think I saved a copy too, someplace.

A lack of time and energy has a way of killing interest and desire. I expect if you managed to attain or retain more of both of those you’d find some level of passion. And passion doesn’t have to be earth shattering. There’s a lot of joy to be found in the small stuff.

Setting up the audio propagation in the Thief level editor is super tedious but it’s hard to argue with the results. You draw “Room brushes” (basically boxes) to encompass space and sound will propagate across where they intersect with each other. An Environmental audio setting is applied to a room brush and will be applied to all the audio heard by the player when inside the room brush.

I got 1/10… The article shows the percent of people who guessed incorrectly was between 80-90% I wouldn’t be surprised if the images were handpicked out of a set after being found to be particularly difficult to guess. Or maybe I just suck at this.

I don’t recall anything like that in FF6 either. They even removed part of a scene in a rerelease where Celes is chained up and gets punched by a guard.

There are still plenty of other horrifying things in FF6 though.

I’m a counselor that works with young folks and teenagers. A lot of them are up late (1-2am)and some all night on their phone or playing video games. This naturally leads to fatigue, poor concentration, unstable or volatile moods, bad grades and avoidance. And it’s pretty normalized among kids. When parents restrict screen time we often see big improvements in behavior and mental health, even if they aren’t up all night. Screens and social media almost never turn off among many of this generation. I’ve seen four and five year olds with their own phones and I find it pretty worrying.

Licensed mental health counselor in WA here. Been working in community mental health for the past 6 years. Pretty tired of it at this point. Thinking about going private practice, but I’ve no experience running a business. Any career advice for someone in their late 30s with a BA in psychology and an MA in counseling psychology?

Also, what drives your interest in being a developer?

I wonder about the long term effects of making things easier. I’m not sure we’re doing students a favor by lowering the bar. College is a lot of work, and a test that is also a lot of work seems like it would predict success better than an easier one.

It’s oddly distressing to be around others with beliefs radically different than our own. Especially when our knowledge and philosophy are grossly contradicted. It’s often hard to resolve those feelings, and so we tend to try to change other’s beliefs to relieve our own distress. This is pretty exhausting, for both parties and, oddly enough both are trying to do the same thing - change others. I find the concept of “radical acceptance” helpful. It means to fully accept the situation or environment and letting go of fighting it. That doesn’t mean you like the situation but you let go of fighting what you can’t change. And focus your mental effort on what change (if any) is productive.

Burnout from my job, and poor sleep leading to decreased enjoyment in most things. I commonly have very little energy.

Things that I’ve found help, are less screen time and light exercise. But I find motivating myself to do so difficult. It always seems to help when I do so.

I wonder how creative stays in business. I see they still make sound cards, and they sell speakers/headsets. But they’re not exactly ubiquitous like they were back in the day.

I have a couple of PowerMac G5s that I use for retro gaming with my dad. I find them to be fun and nostalgic. I find it really neat when folks are still developing and maintaining software for older machines. It’s a sad day that TenFourFox development has ended, though understandable. With dual 2.5Ghz G5s, Reddit, eBay and other websites could barely render. Some would just lag the whole machine out, like Amazon. I kinda wish websites would be more optimized for older machines, but I’m sure it’s just not worth it for businesses.

I’ve been watching whether there are AMD laptops in retail stores for years. I’ve been pretty consistently disappointed. I’d estimate I saw about 10 Intel laptops for 1 AMD for sale. They typically only ever had lower tier stuff if anything at all. Usually the bottom tier APUs. None of the higher range processors that were competitive. It created an image that AMDs processors are only low range.

The last time I went to Costco though, they had an HP Envy x360 with an AMD 4700u in it. There was maybe a 1 to 4 ratio of AMD to Intel machines. I think AMDs offerings are too good to ignore at this point.

This is a pretty fun resource. I collect old computers from the early 2000s and I might have to see how well this works on them.

I wish there was a kind of “RetroNet” similar to this one, with a curated list of websites that intentionally support old browsers and operating systems.

As a user, I really admire and appreciate the work that goes into ScummVM to preserve old games. I also love reading the development blog. I have a number of old computers with old OSes in them, such as Win98, XP, and Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 on PowerPC. I can’t speak for all the esoteric porting, but it makes me happy to be able to install software that’s in active development on old hardware, and that can even improve the playing experience compared to the original game engines. Thanks for all your work.