I don't think JIRA is fully capable of being truly awful without people adding most of the awfulness to it. A awfulness-vessel rather than awfully-complete, but it is certainly part of the torment nexus humanity is building for ourselves.
I like to think of it as a Torment Nexus SDK. Start with a punishing UI (the web UI work and become unresponsive frequently, always wait at least 1.5 s before responding to interactions, etc.), add infinitely customizable bureucratic rules on top, and then make people's jobs dependent on making the numbers go up in the correct manner.
I absolutely loved JC2 and JC3 with more than 500 hours in each! Despite the author's thoughts that the games were a buggy mess, I feel like I never noticed the bugs in JC2 and the very literal road bumps in JC3 were only problem when I was doing laps around the first island out of boredom.
I could never quite put my finger on why the large island felt so... empty? in the north, but it being canceled for most of the development cycle is an insight I never thought I'd have, so thank you very much for the insight.
The volumetric terrain of JC3 was an awesome improvement on JC2, with the second island being very for the terrain and vertical bases.
I tried JC4 and it was disappointing... It never clicked with me and (just like the author) I felt it was worse than JC3 in almost every way.
Major thanks to the author for the blog post, growing up and working in software I really appreciate the perspective and both Avalanche studio and the author for their work on these two awesome and timeless games. Despite the apparent hell of development, playing it always felt magical to me (maybe not the car handling in JC2 but I digress) <3
Yeah, I feel the same way. JC2 and JC3 are great. Never clicked with JC4.
I had always thought the north island was empty because it was used for the train mission. Like, the island existed as a backdrop for a few missions near the end of the game.
Also nice to hear that the devs also thought the wingsuit was overpowered. That’s part of what I like about JC2: no wingsuit.
> when I was doing laps around the first island out of boredom.
I spent hundreds of hours driving around the Just Causes with a podcast on. In versions 1,2 and 3, I circumnavigated every single island along the coast.
Yes these games are buggy (but got better each release), but they are so much fun.
The app was built to suit my needs with my Sony a6700 but it uses the official SDK. So it should theoretically support all the cameras the SDK supports.
Exactly- linking to I'm feeling lucky is the 80/20 of it. We use DuckDuckGo's "I'm feeling Ducky" in most cases since Google usually adds a redirect interstitial page (with the exception of links to youtube).
This is just plain wrong or a terrible misinterpretation...
> central banks
What are you trying to say here? Each member state has a central bank. They are independent from, coordinated by, the ECB. Each central bank assumes the responsibility of regulating the member state's banks, with the ECB paying close attention to system-critical banks.
The US also has a central bank, singular, the Fed.
What's your point?
> no local culture, blur national and ethnic identities
Have you been to Europe? Each country has it's own, completely distinct culture based on the nation's historic identity. Hint: you know when you're crossing borders (the language usually changes).
Central bank: just see what they did with Greece, Italy, etc. Perennial debt in exchange of control. The central banks of the countries are completely at the mercy of Frankfurt.
Yes, the US central bank is quite controversial itself, but the states don't depend on loans from the Fed. Or at least not directly, AFAIK.
Of course Europe has culture and my point is they want to neuter it by moving a lot of people across countries, in particular the top of the graduate crop (as the original post pointed out). They blur the identities on purpose. Go to any major city in the bigger countries and you'll see they are losing the national identity very fast. Some are just unrecognizable.
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