the hydraulic pylons from the rocket silo. They're there because the artist thought making the banner even more cluttered spaghetti was more visually appealing, was mentioned here or in a FFF towards the end, not sure off top of my head.
Yes and no. Yes, they are the hydraulics for the rocket silo, but it's not fromt the banner, and we don't cheat in a way that we would just paste random stuff in a screenshot to make it seem busier. :)3
Being a dev doesn't mean he worked on the banner. That was made by albert IIRC. Can't find where it's mentioned, only reddit posts with the same question that refer to it being mentioned before.
The banner == the original factory + some extra edits. These screenshots are specifically for 1.0 release and although they do originate from the same save, there's a bunch of stuff on top.
In this case it's both my save and I did work on those banners. :)
But what is it?
It's the arms that raise the rocket in the silo. It's just that they're a separate layer and the whole rocket silo section of these pictures is artificially put in to be able to position the rocket easily, as there were many variations of this kind of banner picture for the 1.0 release, it was very useful to have it flexible, as the rocket is one of the most important elements of the composition.
It's not a bug, it's a spider.
Yea ... I think it is ok to leave it as it is :)
Edit: When I was developing the queue + follow features, I made a huge infinitely moving circle of spiders, I certainly recommend trying it.
Oh wow XD That's a mistake.
I played an SE run with TD's and the base looked really cool having separate factories (walled off) connected to a street of drones. Used trains for long distance like mines. Probably the coolest looking base we ever built.
We had to abandon the run because the FPS/UPS started dropping somewhere mid into the run. I can't be sure to blame TD mod for the drop in performance but i have my suspicion.
If you can provide the save game I can take a look at some possible optimizations
Read moreI think that at this point, how we got here isn't the most important part. What's more important now is how we go from here. As always, I think the best approach is to assume the best of everyone involved.
At this point, whether or not Uncle Bob deserves a platform is largely irrelevant. What's relevant now is that many people in the community are feeling betrayed, and some unsavoury people are feeling empowered. Trans people in particular are feeling alienated, and Steam is getting review bombed with people praising a "transphobic dev". As far as I can tell this seems to originate from Kovarex's use of terms like "cancel culture", and how those terms are tightly coupled with racism, transphobia etc. in USA culture. I've found nothing in Kovarex's comment history to support that he is transphobic, racist or misogynist (some comments display a lack of empathy, but not malice), but nevertheless there is now widespread worry that he is, and actual transphobes are now seeing th...
This is a first explanation of how, even remotely, could anyone thing that this had anything to do with trans inclusivity.
For some reason, people took this very indirect information, and based their projection of me on that. And then, some people hate me for it, and some love me for it, I also find it pretty distrurbing when I get a positive comments based on me hating on someone, especially because it isn't true, that is absolutely absurd.
As I said before, I have nothing against trans people, and the issue I criticized is completely and uttery unrelated to it.
Read moreHere's something important to understand, in context of your recent posts about free speech:
The NFL is a gridiron football (rugby but intentionally smashing each other, essentially) league that is disproportionately peopled by dark-skinned African-Americans because of the way the US's society is set up. Before each game, the players and the audience are treated to the national anthem as a point of tradition, and the common practice is to remove any head coverings, stand, and usually cover your heart.
In light of recent perceived social injustices - whether you agree or not - some players and teams have taken to instead kneeling during the national anthem, in a similarly respectful but noticeably alternative pose. This is to bring attention to these issues and recognition of African-Americans' contributions to the NFL.
In response, your boy Bob and many of his GOP pals, while getting red in the face talking about cancel culture all the time, threatened to ...
Well yes, the way you describe it, it seems quite unreasonable to hate on the act.
I just wanted (and I have to repeat it again and again), to stand against the culture of labeling people by their political opinions and statements to the
point, that people suggest labeling any link to the work to need a disclaimer.
And, yes he seems to be guilty of the same thing I stand against, but it doesn't changes the principle never the less. I never ever defended his political views, as I stated, i wasn't even aware of them, I didn't search for them, and I didn't care, because it wasn't relevant to that context.
But when I don't agree with his political views, the solution isn't to bash him and contact all the people around and warn them aboud him being dangerous. The solution is to contact him, and try to have a debate. There is a minimal chance of someone changing his worldview by having one debate, but showing reason has way bigger chance of making him rething hi...
Read moreBut right after that you said "If teacher seduces his/her student and the act is voluntary, we can't really talk about rape right?" which does sound like defending child abuse.
As with most of these things, the devil really is in the details. What kind of teacher/student are you talking about? You will clearly get a different answers when you talk about 12 years old child from elementary school, or 25 years old grad student. Rape is very serious thing, and it feels like the term gets stretched little bit too much, and it might lose its severity. Again, I'm not a native speaker, maybe the conotations are different.
Do I need to say that I don't actually support child abuse? Well, then I state it just for sure.
Read moreYes. Bob's blog post was referring to that.
Because no one is saying that "women are genetically inferior coders" there.
... that's kinda what the whole Google memo was about? Like the entire "Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech" part? The whole reason the memo was news 4 years ago in the first place?
Some quotes for people who won't click the link:
"I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership"
"Women, on average, have more: Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things"
"Women, on average, have more: neuroticism"
The whole memo's argument is: "Google says their hiring bi...
I still don't see anything that would state the orignal quote about women being inferior coders.
Read moreExample 1 is someone hating on Uncle Bob for wanting to disprove ideas instead of hating the person who said them.
The specific idea here being, "women are genetically inferior coders".
Imagine someone said Czech coders are just genetically inferior. And then I said "wait hold on, I know it sounds racist but we should hear him out, what if he had a point?"
Now imagine that there's already lots of science done about this gender difference, but we're both still saying the exact same thing.
Would you want to argue for your own non-inferiority with someone who had not bothered doing the research, and will never actually be convinced by anything you say?
Not all ideas are worth "debating on the marketplace of ideas".
Example 2 is a dead link, it contains just so...
Are you referring to this?
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
Because no one is saying that "women are genetically inferior coders" there. If you didn't refer to this, tell me what you are referring to.
I don't know what Bob believes in his heart of hearts, i will however confidently state that he actively spread racist beliefs at one point in the past at least, with evidence.
As such, unless there has been a concrete change in Bob's engagement with political matters, i would prefer that my second-favourite game in the world does not provide even indirect free publicity to Bob's political opinions without at least a disclaimer.
Also yes, i'm one of those trans folk who love Factorio.
I honestly want you to explain your thought process to me. I just didn't see any racist beliefes in the post. Try to explain it like "for dummies" for someone who doesn't really care that much about football or the US drama.
I suspect highly, that this is the "two tribals" situation again.
Read moreImportant context here that apparently a similar law doesn't exist in CZ.
That does not mean that CZ has shitty child protection laws. It just means that they deal with that differently. Frankly, the fact that US/anglo law isn't the best solution here is illustrated that in some jurisdictions, a 17/18 couple can not have consentual sex, while a 17/16 and a 18/19 couple can. Because the law treats these situations quite simplistically.
Compare continental European laws which (to paint a few dozen countries with a single brushstroke) tend to see more nuance and look for abuse/power imbalance/grooming instead; however, these laws can often also apply to other personal constellations, like patient and caretaker, (adult) student and professor, etc.
Is it a shitty take to frame a decades old legal concept as SJW newspeak? Yeah, probably. Could kovarex have read up on the term before typing that? Yeah. Is it necessarily a pedo/pro-rape take? Absolutely not. It's un...
I honestly didn't know that term, and it sounded to me like one of these newspeak terms (mensplaining and similar), and I thought that it means when someone has sex based on status (aka rock star and his/her fan).I searched it up right after, just to find out that it actually is an official term for child rape. That is all to it.
I could easily imagine that the mob will call me child abuse defendee or something like that based solely on that. But, who cares what the mob says, when it is basically just lies right?
I think that this is an issue of left leaning American not noticing how much of a trauma Communism was for former Soviet countries.
I will say that kovarex made a mistake in responding to one post that complained about political differences politely with venom, which basically means all of the stupidity that came out is his fault.
People were ribbing Uncle Bob for being a big advocate of Unit testing (i.e. separate code maintained by devs) when a whole bunch of bugs are only found by people using the software in ways the devs aren't able to classify in code. and kovarex didn't say anything there.
I actually say it directly in the original FFF, where I say doubt the idea of tests being completely independent, and advocate for usage of end-to-end tests in many cases, where I find the test dependencies to be a helpful tool.
Yes, he has given talks in the past about software development where he basically said women are unfit to be software engineers (in the middle of the talk he said masculine traits are good and strong, and feminine are weak and bad, which made several women feel very insecure and excluded from the software community).
He did apologize for these comments, but in talks years later he continued to use that argument and basically repeated what he said.
Aside from that, his views on software engineering itself are outdated at best and outright damaging at worst.
Example one, example two, example three. Also why even his tech views are not that relevant
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None of the examples supports your claim in any way.Example 1 is someone hating on Uncle Bob for wanting to disprove ideas instead of hating the person who said them. The hater is the guilty one there, not Uncle bob.
Example 2 is a dead link, it contains just some random tweet of a women saying she felt isolated. How is it relevant?
Example 3 Him not wanting to change the word craftmanship to craftwomanship.
And the last link is sum of the 3 links again.
This shows how empty this whole hate his, there is literally NOTHING AT ALL.
Can we talk about why Uncle Bob is problematic enough to warrant essentially a content warning for his inclusion in the FFF?
I clicked the summary in the original comment to find that he (a) made a sexist remark (can't find what he actually said) and later apologized for it saying that he misspoke, (b) deleted so idk, (c) thought that people complaining about the word "craftsmanship" were being overly sensitive, and (d) said that defunding the police is a terrible policy.
Genuinely, this feels like not enough to warrant any sort of disclaimer. Are there more "problematics" that weren't mentioned? How narrow is the range of acceptable disagreement that you can't mention this guy in an apolitical way without distancing him as a villain?
Exactly. I find it really interesting, that people have all these very specific quations of all the things he said, which just aren't true. They are simply fabricated lies.
In one place, someone said that (and I can't find the source anywhere), that he "hates black people for existing". In these kinds of situations, I always asked for source, because that is the sensible thing to do right? And I got nothing else than those mentioned by u/lazygibbs, which is clearly in the territory "whatever".
The real result of this is, that whenever someone is marked as bigot and racist, it makes me expect it to be just a lie or wild projection of someone to allow for a hatred reaction.
Bob has a tendency to fragment an easy to understand routine into a dozen pieces that are hard to put together and call it clean.
But with anything, it's possible to find insight in a lot of places, so long as you don't treat it as dogma.
Yes, the boolean argument is an example of where I also don't agree.
Since code duplication is the most important thing to solve, we often end up with a generalised functions being configured by parameters that specify some detail in the middle of the logic.
I agree, that booleans passed as true/false are hard to read, this is why we created a simple NamedBool template wrapper for a True/False enum, so almost all of the bool parameters are named statically safe from being mixed up.
Read moreI know the discussion about u/kovarex is probably well covered by now. But it is just not letting me go the past hours to express my feelings. Honestly finding out that he (kovarex) is not giving a damn about marginalized people is a punch in the gut.
I've let go of blindly following seemingly nice companies years ago. But Wube never ever let me down. I was so proud of supporting this team which was immensely pro-consumer at so many places it doesn't have to be. Starting with a lovely crafted weekly blog about what exactly is currently happening in development to multiple patches on the same day. But now I have to open my eyes and ask myself how it is to work under such management. Is he as fierce to his colleagues as he was in this comment section? Is he openly "a-political" at work and is it infkuencing the team and development. And is the Wube team agreeing with him here. I know it's probably hard to speak ill about ur boss but I'd also like to s...
I would really like to know where is this coming from, I think that you just see ghosts.
Trans (queer people in general) are almost always pretty far-left, you're a right-wing bigot, that shit's like water and oil. It's of course not a big deal with you (you will not be hurt financially/arrested) since cancel culture isn't real and there aren't a lot of LGBT+ people, but you've definitely pissed a lot of them off. And again, this game was like, a really big trans game.
Why am I right wing bigot again, I hear it again and again, and yet, I didn't hear any reason for that claim.
This clearly shows the weird one dimensional world you see. Everyone is either a friend or an enemy, and we need to decide fast!
All I did is to deny bashing on someones proffessional work for his political views, I didn't even know what they are, and somehow, you had to put me on your political axis somewhere, and sicne your political axis is so full of hate, you assume that I hate you or LBGT+ people, or whatever you don't like about the other side your axis.
You have to understand, that I'm not from the US, and I'm nowhere on your little axis, I'm not your friend or enemy, I'm just a guy who would like to decouple ideas from people.
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