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I've played 2 minutes of Astrobot and holy shit this game is definitely going to be a GOTY contender. I made it about 30 seconds after the intial intro before my 5 year old took the controller from me.

The graphics are incredible and the style reminds me a lot of Mario. Really stoked to play this with my kid!

Crappy stuff....

Well, looks like I'm not out of the woods yet. Seems I have a dead tumor in my brain that doesn't want to go away. Two weeks ago, it was putting pressure on my language center, and I could barely talk or type...it was scary. Steroids have kind of treated it, and I'm pretty normal, but getting surgery on Wednesday! I was a bit freaked out, but I'm pretty comfortable with it. I trust the doctors and surgeons. I'll be awake for it, which is kinda crazy, but they say I won't remember it. They say they want me walking around that day. 3 days in the hospital, and about a month at home recovery.

Lol, just the idea of being back in the hospital is awful, but it be what it be!

Also, unrelated, I started making a comic book about 5 years ago, but got busy with other stuff and haven't touched it. Ive recently dug it out and I've been plugging away at it!!

Concord servers are offline. I hope everyone had a good 14 days playing it.

So I have talked about my job drama this year, restructuring, founders and leadership laid off/fired. I got “promoted” via hostile takeover and now I support 4 brands as a designer instead of one brand but I’m kind of like an adopted child with this new team now. They’re a tight family and absorbed my company (the ones who weren’t fired or quit), essentially.

There is a Program (brand licensing) that is a major revenue source for my original brand whom I support which I really enjoy helping, they like me a lot and am passionate about this aspect of the business. I love solving their problems. I’ve helped it grow 400% since it started in terms of design support. It takes up a decent chunk of my time now and I’m supposed to be training my direct reports to do this stuff but I want it all to myself, and fuck the rest of marketing.

I’m writing a proposal to the Brand Licensing Program Director to basically “poach” me so I can support them full time but I have a feeling the marketing team I’m on won’t let me go.

Otherwise I have a phone interview next week with an agency that would have me embedded with Microsoft but it would be a $30k pay cut and RTO.

I want to tell the BL director this but I’m not going to. “Hey if I can’t transfer to you, I’m out”, and then they don’t have me AND marketing doesn’t have me either.

Have any of you created a role for yourselves at your company? Non-entrepreneurs that is.

https://i.imgur.com/Bz9wMXT.jpeg

Best Museums to Go to Based on Games You Enjoy

Let's pick a game and pair it with a real world museum that would be fitting for fans of that game. Commentary for that museum would be appreciated as well as any links. Also please reply with any additional Museums or exhibits that would be good too as there's going to be a lot that would be missed aside from the obvious. Places you went to or want to go. Vice versa too with other games perhaps that are relevant.

I want to build a list of places I like to go in the future and I'm sure others as well. Some of these I went to recently on my Sweden trip and being there reminded me of these games.

Starting examples:

Sea of Thieves | Assassin's Creed Black Flag | Sid Meier's Pirates!
Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.vasamuseet.se/
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7PEAcHRFiRjFGHu2A

Microsoft Flight Simulator | DCS
National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, USA
https://airandspace.si.edu/

Chivalry 2 | Kingdom Come | Witcher 3
The Royal Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ouZ3xaAqiwBCaW9x9?g_st=ic
https://livrustkammaren.se/

Politics

JD Vance Says the Solution to the Childcare Crisis Is to Have Grandparents Do It for Free

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/jd-vance-solution-childcare-crisis-is-to-have-grandparents-do-it-for-free

He's the gift that keeps on giving.

Stonks are dead. Rip

Satisfactory 1.0 final details video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtPseN3OyNU

- Belt STRAIGHT BUILD MODE, easily make 90 degree turns all the time
- New power building that creates 500MW + adds 10% to your total power grid
- CLOUD STORAGE FOR INVENTORY -> Upload parts to cloud storage so you don't run out of parts in inventory while building new factories
- New overclocking option to double output without changing input
- Easier snapping belts to buildings
- Building guidelines UI updates
- Blueprint Designer Mk2 -> Bigger blueprint designer

Just in case anyone is looking towards upgrading to AM5 anytime soon, found a great resource on Motherboards.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQHkDEcgDPm34Mns3C93K6SJoBnua-x9O-y_6hv8sPs/edit?gid=2064683589#gid=2064683589

Just fantastic. I love that there are people out there that care this much to put together a resource like this. Even has pictures of the back panels. Just amazing.

Developers

I have a simple web app to make as part of a hobby. Was thinking Postgres, c#, and react. This is an excuse to use docker too. Any recommendations on additional tools to help get this going quickly?