• @AnUnusualRelic
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    55 hours ago

    The fact that it has a log extension doesn’t necessarily imply that it’s a text file.

  • @[email protected]
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    810 hours ago

    “it’s a text document”?? It’s meant to be read. What else is it supposed to be?

    Looking at you, journald 😒

    • (⬤ᴥ⬤)OP
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      119 hours ago

      making a logging system that saves logs as surrealist artworks.
      “the warbled edges and polygonal artifacting of the apple in front the Man’s face suggests the crash was due to floating point imprecision”

      • @Tangent5280
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        35 hours ago

        The crash logs need to be saved as brainwaves, and dreamt about while the lead dev is asleep.

  • CaptainBasculin
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    351 day ago

    When you trigger an error in a loop but tell your code to not crash but keep logging

  • @friend_of_satan
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    1 day ago

    I’m not disagreeing that the game dev is irresponsible, but NTFS compression would’ve done wonders on that huge, easily compressible text file.

    • @[email protected]
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      518 hours ago

      or … you know … logrotate exists. but i guess the extra few kB from including a logrotate binary would have been bloat.