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Just recovered from a Kubernetes outage in my homelab. Since a few days ago, I’d been experiencing reduced performance across all the machines in the cluster. Even though they all seemed normal, I noticed the master tended to report high CPU usage and low available RAM. This would cause HTTP calls from the client machines to fail, so their status or deployments could not be updated. The main…
Frank Lloyd Wright once said that “Television is chewing gum for the eyes”. Well, “that gum you like is coming back in style”… Well lodged within the Hollywood Cabal, Lynch is one of the most well-respected “Auteurs” I know. Everything he worked on, down to the most ridiculous advertisements for Japanese television, has his signature style of strobe…
…Pragmata is very good. *REVIEW OVER* Okay, seriously now: Pragmata is the very only game other than Nier Automata that I could declare an instant classic. It’s pretty much the new Resident Evil 4: a game that’s so polished, smart and well-rounded that it holds infinite replay value. People will be replaying it decades from now. But the first time I saw Pragmata I was not…
It’s happening again.
Static typing zealotry is such a spiritually castrated activity: there’s this mentality that “real programmers” would never even fathom using dynamically typed languages. I also find the idea of “but correctness of the program is in the types” a pretty deficient premise –tests are what gives you confidence that your program is correct, not types. The compiler…
Merry Christmas from the null log 🎄🎅
Metroid Prime 4, a game 18 years in the making which went through two different versions made by Bandai Namco and Retro Studios respectively , has been one of the gaming Holy Grails for the longest time. Announced back in 2017 at the end of the Wii U era, it went into development hell to everyone’s concern over the years; fret not, for it has finally materialized for the Switch and Switch…
ripempezardexerox : Intentaron circuncidarme, pero mi prepucio solo volvió a fortalecerse. Desde entonces, me han circuncidado cada six meses. Mi prepucio ahora es más fuerte que el acero. Siempre que estoy en peligro, lo coloco sobre mi cuerpo como una capa exterior. Es completamente a prueba de balas, ignífugo, impermeable y extremadamente liviano. Tengo planes de venderlo como un material muy…
I have finally sat down to write my thoughts on Hollow Knight because it’s a fascinating phenomenon. It’s the second most peer-pressured game I’ve ever played, number 1 being taken by Dark Souls, “The King of Rowdy Little Shits”, of course, which people literally shamed me into playing back in the 2010s when I was working at Epicor because if you don’t play it…
I grew up in a broken home because the modus operandi the Christian sects have in the Mexican ghetto (and most elsewhere when you think about it) is to convert the more psychologically vulnerable wife first, so the husband has to convert by proxy, else he faces demise. My dad is very stubborn so he never gave a shit about the creed; my mother is a schizophrenic as well, so eventually things came…
2004 and 2005 were incredible years for games, due to the release of Half-Life 2, Cave Story and Resident Evil 4, among many others. I consider these three to be the most influential games of the 2000s, and possibly of all time, because they broke molds and created new ones for every subsequent game to follow, even to this day. There’s a little bit of Half-Life 2 in Halo Infinite, a little…
In 2015, an exploit surfaced for the old school Club Nintendo. Basically, they allowed you to redeem coins by registering your console’s serial number, but they wouldn’t check whether the number was actually real. What I did is that I made a little python script that bruteforced many serial numbers. To my surprise, it worked: I got enough coins to redeem for a set of Smash 4 posters…
The Visual Novel (or VN, also called “Dating Sim” by some when romance-centric, and “Eroge” by the Japanese when explicitly adult) is a game genre that doesn’t get time in the spotlight at all, because they are icky, yucky, ugly and cringe games made for ugly otaku losers that smell of cheese, whose self-loathing mothers didn’t love enough to make them…
I was going through some old files and I figured that I would share this. It’s a cup and ball demo made in lua, with gravity and rope/rigid-body physics (think Box2D). https://github.com/nullset2/cup_and_ball/tree/main I used some pre-implemented rope simulation, so it’s not completely of my devise, but I hope somebody finds it fun somehow. Big shout-out to the LOVE2D forum community,…