I’m still annoyed that they deleted classic D2 from my battle.net account. I used to be able to download that and get several classic games installed from registering CD keys back in the day. Now it’s just a prompt to buy remastered :(

Some people called Romans, they go the house?!

I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.

I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.

What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.

…well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.

Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.

For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder

That’s a great idea if it’s possible, but I want to say it wouldn’t have helped with our environment at the time.

I almost wish I could look back at that repo and share the yaml file here, maybe I was missing something back then. I’m certainly more proficient with yaml now.

I do recall wishing there was a way to simulate the execution locally. I think I remember hearing about a local runner, but it had too many caveats to help.

We use Azure Devops at my current gig. It works pretty well for our setup. I’ve used GHA before; it definitely didn’t “spark joy”. I wastedspent way too many hours in the “update yaml file, commit, push, wait 5 minutes for it to fail again” spiral of despairfeedback loop.

Nice thing with ADO is its release dashboard – you get a really nice summary of recent builds and where they went:

$project - dev - test - prod

I didn’t see anything similar for GHA.

Are you a programmer?

Hudson? Man, that’s a blast from the past.

“That’s not a continent, that’s an island with delusions of grandeur!”

Personally, I include it.

No one you knew read PC Magazine? There was an article from 1989 (and quite a few more in the early to mid 90s).

OTOH, I do agree that “program” was more common than “application”.

Mostly – your comment about “no apps” dredged up the phrase “killer apps” in my brain somehow.

Ah, the plates! Thank you.

Huh, I would think you’d drop Australia before Antarctica. Still, yeah, I suppose that works to get you down to 3.

20?!

My own view is 4: Antarctica, Australia, America, Afro-eurasia. I’m not sure how you’d get to 3, unless you disqualified Australia.

I’ve also heard 7: Antarctica, Australia, split North + South America, split Africa + Europe + Asia.

I suppose you could add a few – I’ve heard the phrase “subcontinent of India”, so that could be an 8th continent. Then maybe Greenland for 9. Beyond that, though? IDK what would even make sense.

BRB, I have to go search for expansive continent definitions.

saltwater between it and Asia

If the Panama Canal doesn’t count, neither does the Suez Canal, IMO.

Same thing applies to Africa and Eurasia, no?

there were no such things as apps

FWIW, people were talking about “killer apps” for various platforms back in the 1980s.

For context, when I looked, there were less than 5 votes. So “more people” is really just “a couple of dogs”.

(Oh, wait, on the Internet, no one is supposed to know you’re a dog)

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