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Somebody complained about GTAV online which I’ve played a lot, and the feeling is the same. Someone, in charge of development, doesn’t understand their own product. I pretty much only played on PS4 in a super-cheesing crew, which made the game as cooperative and social as the 30-going-on-13 gen-pop properly public public sessions never were.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Mentioning Blender isn’t crazy, one way to make 2d art is to make 3d models and render the poses and orientations you need.

Well, you can do the composition on the fly, by having the different sides of the diagonal on different tilemap layers, that’d make things easier, right?

Check my thinking here, but you’ll get a checkerboard pattern alternating diagonals, right? Then, I’d suggest

• two layers, ‘far’ and ‘near’, for the tile-halves
• a parent ‘control’ tilemap layer, with ugly editing tiles offset half a tile, (so it gives you a way to draw using the materials you care about) and code to render that into the fragment layers.

It’s how this works: https://github.com/aes/autotile3d and it would work.

But then, there’s this, I guess: https://youtu.be/dclc8w6JW7Y

First thought: Wow, that looks just like how Syndicate works.

Second: that’s a terrible idea. (at least in 2025)

There’s a tutorial (this one, I think https://youtu.be/i_XV78N7Zuo) on how to make a tool to compose your tiles.

If you want to make a tile-space renderer, that’s harder, but having done it, I can probably talk you through it. You need to look through tile-space diagonally to make in-front/behind work correctly. The way I’d do it today would probably be to ‘shoot rays’ from the view direction, into the tile-space, and record the first, or however many tile fragments necessary to completely obscure the view. Then, just* render from that look-up-table. (there’s a fruity view(x, y) to tile(x, y, z) transform, and you still need to render transient objects at the correct depth. Also, scrolling/panning, do you only do that by tile, or do you also do sub-tile-fragment pan?)

If you can get away with just stacking some tilemaps, do that instead, but ask if you need more.

Tap water is so cheap it might as well be free, and it’s probably included in the rent in a lot of places.

I guess it’s not free in places that need to have a revolution first?

Fair, but it’s also just a way of saying that programming isn’t a task for humans. (At least not in the correctness aspect)

Axioms are not like the others, they’re assumed to be true even before considering any evidence or even arguments.

Yes, typo

Yeah, that. Typo. It had grown by a factor of 7 or so. So, basically, that part of the pay was cut by 85%

Going all in on the stock option program, even if it was a little risky. I remember the argument: There’s no lottery or casino that’ll give me odds like these. I also left when we’d grown to the point where middle management didn’t want to understand that when the program ran out (4 years) and had to be restarted at the new validation, that was basically a static pay cut for me. I get paid a lot more now, but I still made more from stocks than work last year.

Second, our apartment. It’s a lot like a row house, except it’s in the city. The other part backs right up to the park.

Third, maxing out parental leave with both of our kids at a company that (as, more or less, a recruiting gimmick) topped up parental leave pay from the capped 80% to, iirc, 100% with no cap. They turned out be quite dumb about this and had shuffled me into a corner when I came back. I was ready to put my back into it, but well, I guess not then.

(The one without the parentheses is older Python 2, the example with is newer Python 3)

What part of 25% below market makes you compare him to the food oligopoly? He likes trouble-free tenants, and I’m pretty sure his tenants like this arrangement too. By contast, you come off as very tiresome. Do you have any skin in the game? What are you doing to help make housing affordable? Do you do anything besides exemplify why having revolutionaries in charge would be terrifying?