Ask Lemmy

Record of Lodoss War: Advent of Cardice, on Dreamcast - despite being a glorified fan game with non-canon story - deserved more notoriety than it received. That and other Neverland action rpgs like Shining Force Neo, and Shining Force Exa.

Rating things on a numerical scale is pointless and only meant to give the false impression of some objective standard, when really knowing what the person meant requires knowing what their tastes are anyway

If you're gonna review something, just give me insight into your personal tastes, and then tell me whether you liked it or not

I have a few, I'm sure, but the one that comes to mind is my hatred of PDFs. Or, I suppose more accurately, the things people choose to use PDFs for. If something is not primarily meant to be printed, then a PDF is a suboar choice to something like HTML. Worse, virtually EVERY place you're getting a PDF from is already a website so they already have the ability to give you HTML.

You can create a single HTML file, embedding all images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. directly into the file. Then you can open it in your browser. It works. It's easier to read too, unless you want to print it. I would argue that in the vast majority of cases they actually aren't being printed. And get this, you can actually print HTML files too, ya know. So PDF is really only better if you need to print something with a very specific and strict layout, like a brochure or something.

"But Jackby, I use PDFs and I love printing them"

Okay, that's fine, I just think you're the exception. I think most people open them in browser or some PDF viewer and never print them ever.

My favorite response to this opinion was someone telling me that having all the CSS and JS in one file makes it load slower. Like uh, off my computer? Because I'm talking about distributing the file itself, not hosting it on a website. I think web folks just latch onto best practices for the web.