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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • I’m not a DRG superfan and didn’t expect to enjoy this, but the progression feels very solid and it’s a lot of fun. Surprisingly addictive.

    While it’s not DRG, it feels extremely faithful to the original game and doesn’t have that “too-vampire-survivorsish” feel that some of these games suffer from.

    I can’t really pin down what makes it so playable - my best guess is the pacing of the upgrades and the mix of the 4 classes feels like it’s just right. Tunnelling through walls (and the mining speed upgrades) is also a particularly interesting mechanic.




  • Can I play devil’s advocate a little bit here, because I was really unaware that this ever worked for anything except indie artists on Bandcamp. So Bandcamp works for them or for discovering new music obviously.

    I didn’t know artists ever sold digital music on their websites, but that does make sense, so I checked - if I google Taylor Swift and go to her website, there it is, digital music purchase. Great.

    I went to U2’s website, and the only music I can buy there is vinyl. I don’t want vinyl, I want digital. You can buy merch, but I’m after music, not merch. Looking further, there’s all sorts of galleries and information about each album and song, but you still can’t buy the music.

    Other mainstream artists I googled didn’t even go that far. Googling them brought up a wikipedia link, social media links, tours. All stuff I don’t want. Now your list has “contact artist via social media” - setting aside the fact that it’s unlikely a popular mainstream artist will even reply to anyone at all about anything, this is a real point of friction. I don’t want to have to contact an artist to find out some alternative way to get their music. If I’m buying something online, there needs to be some way to buy it online and ready to go. If we have to wait a couple of days or weeks for a reply that may or may not come - the process failed.

    If I had to guess, they would probably say something like “it’s on spotify”.

    So yes it probably is a supplier problem, but it seems to me that this is happening for the majority of popular artists if a majority of music people like is mainstream. I assume if you like the majority of indie music then that’s probably not the case.




  • They created the “inbox” button on the desktop client because when you’re in a ton of servers, finding where the notification was a big pain point. The notifications tab covers the same thing for the app, and it’s very readily accessible now. I think before the update it still took about 3 taps to get to the “Inbox”, and only then if you knew where it was hiding.


  • I just signed up and tried to figure out how to join any remotely interesting community. There were none.

    There were a bunch of public communities - not many - and I think the most interesting ones in the public room list were either Element Android, Telegram, and Rust. And Rust is one of my most hated games that I wish I’d refunded.




  • Do you have discord open on your desktop PC?

    10+ minutes sounds like about the amount of time it takes for discord to recognise you’re away (ie. auto-away status). If it thinks you’re there (ie. online status), then it shouldn’t be also pinging your phone. It’s the same as when you have discord on your phone and open and it doesn’t ping you with every message while you’re already looking at it.

    I just had a look at Matrix and it seems that the settings let you choose between Off/On/Noisy. Apps like whatsapp default and keep you stuck on “Noisy”.