About the mouse control: many times i failed because my cursor went outside the viewport and the paddle stopped moving. So i got to keep the mouse inside the game area, which is kinda annoying visually too. Even in fullscreen there are borders where the cursor can fall and die.
Another feedback: the ball bounces a bit too vertically on block corners, it seems it could bounce a bit more diagonally.
And i found the big-blocks levels a bit difficult because it was hard to send the ball at the top of the screen.
Thanks for feedback. I'll see what I can do with cursor getting out of the play window, would cursor lock be a solution? (click once to lock, click twice to unlock).
Yeah the physics, this is ~ 5th internal version already, there were more pronounced corner angles at some point, but it got unplayable.
Big block levels; The idea is to encourage the player to find two bounce solutions, where first bounce is spinned and 2nd would be to 'correctly' translate that spin into upward speed.
Non-native english speaker here. Any plan adding other languages? I have fun training my vocabulary, but my kids would love a french version :)
Robust UI/UX and well balanced gameplay, thank you!
> A name not already on the official list of approved names must be submitted to the naming committee for approval. A new name is considered for its compatibility with Icelandic tradition and for the likelihood that it might cause the bearer embarrassment. Under Article 5 of the Personal Names Act, names must be compatible with Icelandic grammar (in which all nouns, including proper names, have grammatical gender and change their forms in an orderly fashion according to the language's case system).
A database of those names is no more interesting or personal than a dictionary or list of names ( https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/6536067 ) in another language... which is where they got the data.
> Iceland has a publicly run institution, Árnastofnun, that manages the Database of Icelandic Morphology (DIM). The database was created, amongst other reasons, to support Icelandic language technology.
John may be your given name, but that data isn't personal data. One of the numbers 1969, 1978, 1987, 1996 might be your birth year... but https://oeis.org/A101039 isn't personal information either. Combining John with Smith and 1978 as the year of someone's birth... now you've got personal information that would be covered by the GDPR.
> John may be your given name, but that data isn't personal data. One of the numbers 1969, 1978, 1987, 1996 might be your birth year... but https://oeis.org/A101039 isn't personal information either. Combining John with Smith and 1978 as the year of someone's birth... now you've got personal information that would be covered by the GDPR.
Just the facts "John" or "Smith" or "1978" aren't PII, but any single one attached to some other data is, because then that provides partial identification of that other data. So, for instance an attribution of a forum post to "John" is PII, even if there are thousands of other Johns using the system.
Actually, even that's not necessarily true. The mere fact that you are acknowledging a user exists with that name may make it PII. It's not a big deal to say our usernames include "John", "Mark", etc if there are literally thousands of them, but it's a big deal if one of the usernames is an incredibly rare name or spelling. In this case, the list presented in the article isn't PII, because the list is just a list of names downloaded from a government site that represent possible acceptable names. Just having that list provides no information about whether anyone with any of those names is using your service.
GDPR is about accountability for handling identifiers like full name of actual person. Using parts of names, where each part does not identify any particular person, in generalized list like described here does not fall under GDPR.
Simple and very nice!
i wonder if adding the possibility to lose the rings and die only when hit while having no rings left just like in a real Sonic game would add more fun.
The problem with electric leaf blowers is that they're no good for people who need to blow leaves all day; and most of the leaf blowing is (in my experience) contracted out rather than done by home owners.
I have an electric blower that I use for getting leaves off my decks (you can't rake a deck and it's actually a remarkable pain in the ass to brush leaves off a deck) but if I got a contractor in to do my garden (which I don't, they just get mowed over) then they would certainly have a gas blower.
Dewalt has battery packs that are quickly interchangeable and pods with rows of batteries that can be recharged inside a car or truck while on the go. I'm hoping this becomes adopted more and more as the tech is already here.
I'm in Australia and someone near me has an electric one.
Although quieter than the gas ones, it's still far from silent and the noise is still annoying but higher pitch. Like a high-pitched vacuum cleaner noise.
Most people have the much louder gas ones though, they're the worst, and anecdotally the people operating the gas ones seem to rev them up and down more which makes it even more annoying.
Every time I hear one, I have nothing but negative thoughts about the person using them, and disgust for the society that allows them to ruin the environment for such minimal benefit.
A rake works almost silently... but then you can't irritate everyone within a kilometer radius.
