I suppose more places would do that whatsapp thing if they didn’t have to pay meta for the privilege. At my work, we have a little bot that sends a telegram message whenever you clock in/out. The first option was whatsapp, but having to pay for that meant that was a no-go

For user input, it’s always ? in my code :)

Ok, that’s already what I’m doing, so I should be ok against sql injection. Usernames don’t accept special characters, only [a-Z][0-9], and email is dealt with filter function. I had to sanitize user display names with htmlspecialchars in order to avoid html/javascript injection

tldw; The video looks at it as a system

The (dating) system is failing because men are withdrawing from participation because dating became a “low return, high risk” effort. Unlike women, men are less likely to actually talk about this kind of “social problem” (often because it’s still seen as an “individual problem”) and simply give up to go for something else (work, hobbies). Without enough participants, the system destabilizes. An aggravating factor is how men are scrutinized nonstop while women are shielded from almost every criticism

Also, the entire “engagement economy” that’s causing a significant divide among men and women (also creating ever more unrealistic expectations) keeps making fuckloads of money out of that.

No idea why the woman is almost whispering in the video tho

PS: Lots of angry men in the YT comments, but there was this interesting take that seems to hit right: “Loneliness will only matter when it affects women”

World of Warcraft. After it, a lot of player retention mechanics became super obvious in other games for me, especially because a lot of said games were copying “the king of MMOs”

Dwarf Fortress is my main go-to example of procgen done right. Whenever there’s discussions of “game X sucks and is lifeless because it’s mostly procgenned”, I look back at DF. Lazy procgen is the problem.

I know at some point I saw a game with absurdly high damage and health numbers, I can’t remember which one it was, whether a mobile thing around 2014 or a korean mmo, but that was the point where I very easily understood “big number better” is total bullshit

Elder Scrolls Morrowind was the first game I’ve played that gave almost complete freedom to the player, with lots of things carrying consequence, especially in relation to NPCs. That shopkeeper you killed? Still dead. This essential NPC that is a literal demigod? Yeah, you can kill him, have fun in this broken timeline you just created where you can no longer advance the main quest.

Check out migrations.

Only way to implement those is with a library, right? I did find this tutorial here (Building a PHP Database Migration System from Scratch: A Complete Developer’s Guide), so I might check and try it out sometime in the future

Be careful with tricks.

I am. Every time I have to deal with hashes here (all the time), I die a little bit inside

you have a database field containing a list of comma separated IDs

No, the column is just saving plain text, like Category: "video, blog, news" - from where I do the rest of the string juggling, there’s no second table involved in this.

Wishing you lots of fun with your project!

Thank you! 😄

From my understanding, using the PDO->prepare function, which is what I do with every SQL, is enough to sanitize all inputs. Can it still allow sql injection?

it looks both boring and exhausting from what I’ve seen of it

It’s basically offline Black Desert online from what I’ve seen, so that checks out

Ever since I’ve seen and played systems were armor is damage reduction instead of damage avoidance, AC became silly :)

For most kids, getting rid of something they like for a day or weekend tends to be enough of a punishment. From that story, tho? Parents were going waaaaaaaay overboard

It is also taste tested by humans

I know one that dresses like a ninja and can breathe fire, tho

electric racket noise intensifies

They’re really interesting things. An intrusive, malicious payload that only needs to find the appropriate host in order to multiply itself

Time to start a band: Tubal Ligation Vasectomy

Win over the hearts of academics in arts and literature and you’ll be off

I half joke, but academia loves to act like elitist snobs that know better than the dirty, uncouth peasants and their silly, simple means of entertainment. Only games (board, rpg, video) can offer experiences where player (“consumer”) choice matters and leads to different outcomes. Books, movies, series are all “set in stone”.

It’s not AI gen slop, it’s just that your eyes are Shmr hbegore and Brw lwWhg

Life, uh, life finds a way

No manipulation tactics from me, just a valid equivalence of unusual sex toys

Besides, it’s clear you’re the rotating angry bean here, buddy. I mean, look at how much time you’re spending going feral on every comment in this thread, calling everyone who’s not throwing angry “YOURE PEDO” comments a pedophile bot.