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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Achievements have made games worse.

    I discovered this after buying a steam game that I had pirated. All of a sudden I’m doing boring and repetitive stuff that I don’t enjoy, just to unlock some dumb trophy.

    Any enjoyment for the players and creativity by developers has been long eclipsed by the lazy paint-by-numbers boring achievements who’s only function is to artificially extend “engagement”.

    They should just sell the platinum trophies.








  • The thrust of the article is good. However the Chamberlain/Munich “appeasement” is a bad reading of history.

    First, Chamberlain had a mandate to prevent another war. 1914-18 was fresh in his constituent’s minds. Second, he had fresh intel that if a Czechoslovakian resistance existed, Britain was not in touch with it. Thirdly, Chamberlain had zero leverage because Britain was powerless to prevent German tanks from rolling East. The idea that Chamberlain didn’t do enough implies there was something else he could have done. Something Churchill would have done! But what was it that they could do?

    Czechoslovakia was not “given away” by Chamberlain any more than Poland was “given away” by Churchill. What Chamberlain achieved was to make Britain 5 years behind when war broke out instead of 10 years behind.