That's fair. When I had a low spec machine I'd always just try it, but not everyone does that

I'm planning to make an arcade machine of one of my games soon, and the only spare hardware I have to put in it is a first generation raspberry pi, so I'll likely be eating my own words soon 😂

Yes! But bad art will stop players even clicking the link. Bad music or design might stop them at the trailer. Bad code might stop them playing after download - but it might not. To be so bad to be meaningful on a reasonably modern device is fairly impressive (but I admit a lot of people manage it)

I tend to think that programming is both the easiest and hardest part of gamedev.

I've seen a lot of successful projects made by people muddling through code with tutorials and plugins, and projects

And a lot tanked by unmanageable codebase 🤷‍♂️

No, but a Glasgow kiss is a headbutt. I'm sure there's a load of things named after places like this, but I don't know many of them

I think a lot of beginner (and intermediate, and some experienced) programmers suffer from a definition of good code that doesn't particularly help with maintainablity, or even run speed

There's probably a lot more I could say, but little of it is particularly original 😂

My favourite thing about working on a large codebase with a big team over years, was I could frequently tell who wrote something at a glance. Which ways they preferred to organise their branches, or order the functions in a file, or how exactly they named things.

You forgot the Wigan kebab!

(it's a pie in a bread roll)

I will say in our defence uh..

Uh...

I got nothing, but now I want a chip butty 😅

Yeah I could tether the TV or tablet to my phone data, but instead I'm not going to do that

Full Nintendo zoom setup: gamecube keyboard controller, snes mouse, and gameboy camera

Yeah, you gotta appreciate it, even if they're only doing it for their own ends!

Right? I'm uninstalling the crud from my windows 10 machine (which luckily couldn't be upgraded to 11 due to some compatibility problem) and just putting Linux on anything I can in future

Importantly, if no-one was using them, they'd be much less harmful!

(at least on the eological axis)

I think the one I had had a regular thorn elemental in the deck, but it was so long ago! I (regrettably) offloaded my collection after university before starting playing again recently

Ahhh! 7th edition was the same time right? easy mistake to make!

If it was the 1999 one I think it must have been the same cards.

I remember one deck had Vizzerdrix, and the other had... Trained Orgg? Both vanilla big boys for too much mana. Completely unplayable, but I loved them at the time

mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Starter...

The gift box version of starter 1999 came with a VHS instructional video, and an oversize thorn elemental card, which must be what I had 😁

(also, great change for an easy mode, for all the reasons)

The video tape it came with is burned into my mind, I'm gutted that I don't still have it!