I’ve been eyeing Shadows of Doubt for a while and was glad to notice it being part of the fest… Except it’s not on sale. Sigh. And then I decided to read their announcement on taking part in the fest for some absolutely amazing BS:

Shadows of Doubt is a great fit for the event and will be available alongside a host of a bunch of other fantastic stealth themed games on Discount and with free demos available!

Reminder: Shadows of Doubt is not on sale right now. Took me a couple of times reading it to realize this amazing gem of technically the truth:

• Shadows of Doubt is available
• It is in the fest alongside “a host of a bunch of” other games
• Those other games are the ones that are on discount

Who this kind of smartassery would make people buy the game?

Perhaps because people aren’t going around calling others “males” to demean them?

These are not difficult concepts if you turn on your brain.

No one says “women soldiers” except maybe a civilian.

And I’m not telling you to, stop putting words in my mouth. Female as an adjective is fine, “female soldier” is fine, calling a group of human women “females”, as in a noun, is demeaning and incel lingo.

Female/male are used in English as adjectives when describing humans, but as nouns they only refer to animals. “She is a woman” and “She is a female actress” are both okay but calling women “females” is purposefully demeaning and sexist. I do not believe there is any regional difference in this, nor should we really care about such since there are no regions when we’re on a global forum.

I’m from a country with mandatory conscription for men, so yes, I’ve been in the military and I’ve seen the misogyny (among countless other varieties of bigotry) rampant in that system from front row seats. We had a handful of female volunteer conscripts, as well as one of my NCOs was a woman, and it was blatantly obvious they were not recieving the same treatment as the majority of us who were men (and not in a good way, if there was any room for confusion).

Experiences like that are among the key reasons I’m not happy to see people keep perpetuating that kind of behavior, especially in other traditionally male-centric contexts like the IT industry and even here on this forum.

I’d rather sound miserable than incel.

While true, there are some languages that are the wrong tool for every job. JS is one of them. I’ve dreamt of a future where web frontends switched to something sane but instead we got stuff like typescript which is like trying to erect steel beams in quicksand. For web frontends I can understand that historical reasons have lead to this but whoever came up with node thinking JS would be a great backend language has a lot of explaining to do.

“They said”

If only there was some generally agreed upon symbol to denote direct quotes as opposed to paraphrasing an idea in your own words. If only…

they preferred training females

It’s “women”.

They’ve since updated it to allow you to display labels & not condense multiple windows into one button so it’s better than ever. I can’t believe it took until 11 to center the items, left aligning was a literal pain in the neck especially on ultrawide screens.

Which is exactly why you shouldn’t be using them in a situation that clearly calls for a switch.

And there are way too many projects where the documentation is nonexistent or bare to the point of being counterproductive to wade through. I’ve seen way too many open source projects that purport to have documentation but when you open it, it’s just doxygen run over the raw source files with barely any documenting comments in them. If I wanted to see only the names of the classes and functions I’d just pop the source in an IDE, the point of documentation is to point out everything that isn’t immediately obvious just looking at names and to give examples.

“Self-documenting code” is the biggest lie we tell ourselves to get out of writing actual, necessary documentation.