Wow, i usually don't like wording things like this but you're really talking out of your ass. Reading your comment about UI i guess you've heard of it regarding usage in World of Warcraft ? (that seems to be a subset of Lua proper by a simple googling)
Lua has de-facto been more or less the standard go-to scripting language for 20 years or so by now, i remember that we picked Lua for scripting a PS2/Xbox game that was shipped in 2004 because it was already gaining popularity among other gamedevs(yes we were probably late on it).
Apart from those embedding it themselves (probably far more than is known publicly). There is literally countless Lua only games since it's the base for user created games on the Roblox, Pico-8 and Love2d platforms.
These platform based games probably far outnumber those that embedded Lua because they are simple platforms to get started with, even my 12 year old kid is making Roblox games and writing Lua to wire up things.
Yes I've used lua for modding old games like Natural Selection 2.
The docs and community in roblox and factorio fill in for the deficiencies of the language. Try using lua without support frameworks. Modding ns2 is a nightmare with zero docs and trying to reverse engineer in a terrible debug environment. Lua just doesn't stand up by itself.
You are only discussing the successes. Even built for purpose, game building applications like Core fail miserably to make development easy enough off the back of lua. Far cry 1 had lua scripts that went nowhere.
What love2d games?? The tech demos and hobby projects listed on the website??
For the three or four big successes there are a lot of obscure failures.
The big successes of creative modding projects came out of Half Life, Half Life 2 and Warcraft 3 which spawned Dota, team fortress, counter-strike, left for dead, garry's mod and many other successes.
War3's editor and XNA are the best modding environment's I've seen for individual acheivement.
Kids dont know better, they just put up with the jank and learn from their friends.
> The docs and community in roblox and factorio fill in for the deficiencies of the language. Try using lua without support frameworks. Modding ns2 is a nightmare with zero docs and trying to reverse engineer in a terrible debug environment. Lua just doesn't stand up by itself.
Yes, Lua is VERY bare-bones and highly dynamic (why it is a popular choice for embedding) so anyone using it for modding is required to invest a bit of time to actually document it.
> You are only discussing the successes. Even built for purpose, game building applications like Core fail miserably to make development easy enough off the back of lua. Far cry 1 had lua scripts that went nowhere.
Exactly, this applies for all games and much else in society. In this case you showed a big reason why modding for these games failed is that they really only did the scripting to finish the game but didn't document it or add hooks to make it reasonable for outsiders, but since there are successes that is probably more on the teams rather than the language itself.
> What love2d games?? The tech demos and hobby projects listed on the website??
The 1500 or so games on itch.io is a good example, now many of these are probably crap but if you look at the top rated there seems to be some nuggets there.
> For the three or four big successes there are a lot of obscure failures.
The same applies for any editor/framework/engine/language , the thing is that Roblox alone is such a big platform these days with the top third party games (100% lua) are big enough to feed multi person studios apart from Roblox itself heading for an IPO.
I personally don't even really like Lua that much (1-indexing smells), but i can still accept that it is capable enough to run a lot of things.
In many ways it's more powerful than JS while sharing other semantics and we're not escaping JS either these days due to the web.
It's wrong because we own our own bodies. The confict of expanding humanity does not go away when you manage the population, people will want to expand.
Giving the state arbitrary powers to limit population growth is a form of violence. Having a state sactioned sterilization on excess children is just as horrific as a war, without any of the spoils of war.
The problem lies in the fact that the gov is the last body left to resolve our deepest conflicts as we are no longer free to commit acts of violence on our own behalf. Making it through life used to be materially difficult and death was far more common. Living in our current heaven-like atmosphere has far darker implications for the age-old conflicts.
Unions depend on making a black and white argument. The whole idea can't work with a nuanced argument. Either the company bows to the union or strikes start up. Either the employee joins the union or he/she gets kicked out of the company.
It's socialism for the majority. If you want a nuanced argument, meet your union leader at the church he goes to on sunday and see how fervently committed he is to his goals. You're more likely to get a nuanced argument in the face of God, rather than these big dick, black and white union arguments people endlessly wave in our collective face.
The union structure is not free from religious, political and justice problems. Some of the largest unions in the US spend union funds on politically charged topics that easily divide it's own membership.
You won't get a satisfying answer because it has little to do with rational answers and more to do with sexual security. Union members secure and promote their progeny.
If I search "Kleenex" on Google, I'm asking Google to find me Kleenex, not some ads. If Google is going to start listing things in highest-to-lowest bid, then it stops being a search engine and starts becoming an auction house of links.
WASP privilege is fading. It's either melt into humanity or lift the future cultural leaders into heaven. They are doing the latter.
The problem with lifting future leaders is they are not ready yet. They need humanity to grow to a point where the next cultural force has something to say.
Marines certainly are closer to harms way generally was the impression I got.
As the child of an enlisted Air Force solidier who served for 20 years, I always thought the Air Force got the worst rap of the branches. The "chair force" moniker didn't help.
What do you mean less valued? My impression is that the Marines are the most respected of the services. (I am not serving nor a veteran of any armed service).
I don't want to tell tales out of school or anything. I've met an ex-marine who suffered damage in training and stories from internet videos all corroborate the general story. The marines are the offensive branch, and the individuals get treated poorly. You get a lot of respect for your title, but other branches have a better quality of life and better jobs available.
https://youtu.be/UMoLKLM8SMg Fun story time by an ex-air force guy who was going to join up to the marines (4:30).
Counter to this anecdote, I’ve met a reasonable number of Air Force, Navy, and Army who retrospectively wished they joined the Marines. I’ve never met a Marine who wished they joined another branch (with the exception of when other branches offered even more difficult opportunities Marines didn’t, like before MARSOC was established)
Going to churches because that's 'just what you do' has completely faded. People are expressing more faith in relationships than old institutions.