Currently reading: The Praised, The Loved, The Deplored, The Forgotten: A View into the Wide History of Finnish Games by Kultima, Annakaisa; Peltokangas, Jouni 📚
Finnish games introduced briefly, but also contains a handful of interesting interviews. 🎮
If you think about what your average citizen of today should know about the demoscene, the least would be the fact that such a long line of digital culture exists. Even if it’s quite hidden from the mainstream, it has given rise to a huge amount of talent. Another is the existence of such media art and a community, of which not much is known, but which has been very active and played a significant part for those involved. Rather than thinking of whatever useful business skills were acquired, I would like the latter point to be the takeaway from all this.
–lecturer Markku Reunanen 💬
Clash Royale
Supercell is a successful Finnish mobile game company known for Clash Royale, a strategic real-time card game where players use various units to defeat opponents' towers.
GitHub
My GitHub account is located at github.com/ZeroOne30… Micro.blog claims these posts can be synced there automatically. Let’s see if this triggers the sync! 💻
Watch woes
The number 6 has come loose in my watch. I got a quote for 60-80 € for fixing it. 🤯 That exceeded my expectations 3-10x. I’m still considering what to do… 😞
Currently reading: The End of Everything by Katie Mack 📚
Really interesting stuff! 😃
💻 Cheated by Intel
I feel rather cheated by Intel… I got a new desktop PC in 2020 with an i7-10700K CPU that uses the then-brand-new LGA1200 socket, thinking that as it was brand new, it would have a long and happy life ahead of it and I could safely just upgrade the CPU in the future.
Well, they used the socket for like two years only. Apparently the socket life spans have gone down dramatically from what they were earlier (like 20 years ago; see e.g. the LGA 775 socket), but Intel is especially bad in this respect, vs. AMD who has longer socket life spans. AMD released the AM4 socket in 2016 and the next socket, AM5, wasn’t released until 2022.
I didn’t feel bad for Intel when the news broke the other day that their stock value is plummeting. My next PC won’t feature an Intel CPU.
Hello!
Hello people! 👋 I just learned about the Micro.blog platform from the Hanselminutes podcast and decided to join. 🙂