Recent content by dbolack

My memory MAY be faulty here, but I thought he was running as an agent in front of Lightning Print in its "Oh ((&^ we have to expand fast" days. If so, the Lightning Print QC was REALLY bad for a spell due to understaffing and training up vs the rush to get things done. Source on the QC: My...

While I have yet to employ it here, I have found on other platforms that preemptively blocking folks who ping my "This guy is gonna make me lose my...." radar makes many platforms more enjoyable. I've also found that those folks usually don't last long.

The old-fashioned way. He earned it. Let's start by refusing to pay a widow for her husband's work after he died....

Not gonna lie, I can't think of a single one of these in the last two decades that did not smell like either a phish or a trap more than a reminder for training.

I still blame the Hadron..

Lace and Steel pretty much did that in the 80s.

I got annoyed enough at Rufus (amazon's "hlper") that I wrote a Tampermonkey script to nuke it. I get that.

Just to dovetail this, I cannot recall AP being used in the hobby online as someone who came into the online space via FidoNet and other FTS-001 based networks and USENET starting in roughly 1990. There were other networks, and I wasn't in the APA scene much..

It's also showing progress on the regular.

I appreciate this answer. Thank you.

I raise you Epiphany.

Really? I rather liked that game. Though never pushed the mechanics hard. Mostly loved the presentation as an entry game.

Is it actually an Affinity template rather than a "clean" document?

I won't argue any of the timeline complaints. It was catestrophically awful on pretty much all levels. Some of the reasons are understandable (multiple hospitalizations, an artist skips out with a lot of undelivered work), while others are completely WTF (completely changing the game engine?) to...