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hackers.town: 2023-11-09 Thu 11:15
Been enjoying an XBox Game Pass subscription for several days so I can explore big titles I wouldn’t otherwise have the budget for.
Key takeaway: AAA games are boring.
I think most good games run on one good idea. The great ones get two or three. This is not science. I will not be citing references.
The AAA games have that too. I think. But it’s all buried under the budget need for mass appeal, so their one good idea is buried under a dozen mainstream ideas. Indies and mid-range titles don’t have the budget for that much cruft, and I love that. My brain runs on novelty, and AAA so far doesn’t cut it.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-08 Wed 07:06
@whalecoiner We’ve been rolling down this hill long enough to notice there are deaths, injury, and hardship caused by our decisions. Facebook in Malaysia jumps immediately to mind. But yeah collectively we work hard to convince ourselves otherwise.
hackers.town: 2023-11-08 Wed 08:07
@darq And nothing of value was lost, since I avoid both of those sites.
hackers.town: 2023-11-08 Wed 08:09
@darq This was during an online install on a fresh partition, so I was a bit flummoxed. A specific component of KDE Plasma couldn’t be found.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 10:49
Well using the same tools as everyone else was a nice novelty, but I gotta get work done now. Time to grab the dot files.
hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 10:59
Ohhhh “SALT life” right right gotcha
I misunderstood.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 11:09
@IamMrsGeek the song of my people!
🎶I’m gonna eat me some Chicken and Corn
hackers.town: 2023-11-07 Tue 12:42
@maddiefuzz Well, it would’ve been, could’ve been worse than you would ever know
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hackers.town: 2023-11-06 Mon 10:56
@joelle oh lord watching and listening to someone try to blow the leaves off a wet lawn.
hackers.town: 2023-11-06 Mon 11:03
ah nothing like the brain not noticing AdjectiveNounNoun and AdjectiveNounsNoun type declarations in immediate proximity and going “why did they define AdjectiveNounNoun twice?”
hackers.town: 2023-11-06 Mon 11:05
@earthshine hey as long as nobody gives them a gift horse its fine. I mean ten years of bloodshed and loss, but other than that.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-05 Sun 09:09
@WuMargaret me too. Maintained by professionals ie not me
hackers.town: 2023-11-05 Sun 09:42
There’s a #Jupyter plugin for #SiYuanNote and after a little puttering I got it to work!
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hackers.town: 2023-11-05 Sun 14:32
@tithonium Hopping a bit right now, with majority of attention in Dendron and Trilium.
hackers.town: 2023-11-05 Sun 19:38
@tithonium If you like outlining and mostly Markdown, Logseq is great. If you like mostly Markdown and tons of extensibility, Obsidian is great.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-04 Sat 19:30
After a couple hours of chasing fish with food and making good progress, I decided that wasn’t how I wanted to play #Chillquarium. Reset and trying a real time challenge instead. Don’t feed them extra. Just let the fish grow on their own.
Like the opposite of a speed run.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-04 Sat 23:01
It may be chill, but #Chillquarium is still basically the capitalism game. So I sell off the fish that don’t generate much ongoing revenue as soon as they mature. To buy more fishes, which may or may not grow up to be profitable piscines.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-03 Fri 09:05
Oooh new #TriliumNotes release. Oh oops maybe wait for trilium.cc to update if you’re using them to sync.
https://github.com/zadam/trilium/releases/tag/v0.61.11
hackers.town: 2023-11-03 Fri 09:50
@chrisjrn I have heard “I need to finish eating something,” but I used to work at a buffet, where the phrase served as an admission of defeat.
hackers.town: 2023-11-03 Fri 09:52
@chrisjrn I mean yeah that describes the average American buffet diner rather well.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-02 Thu 14:35
Answering stupid security questions.
“Who was your high school mascot?”
Ah, the beloved Tdm6tkVQ8zhjRSbBquc8DYqrQ2xAdmLa.
Their chant took an hour.
The other team would forfeit and go home because it was bedtime.
hackers.town: 2023-11-02 Thu 14:45
I hate those “what street did you grow up on?” or “who was your high school mascot?” security questions. Anybody who needs that info can find it online with a little effort.
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hackers.town: 2023-11-01 Wed 08:27
Holy heck, a functioning laptop and access to all the resources I need to work, and we aren’t even done with the first week.
I don’t think this employer realizes how much better they are than the average.
hackers.town: 2023-11-01 Wed 09:53
@Johannab thank you!
hackers.town: 2023-11-01 Wed 12:16
Me, explaining why I avoid movies with unsatisfying endings:
“I don’t need a slasher killer that refuses to stay dead. I’ve got Henry Kissinger.”
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hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 08:10
@masukomi @CynAq @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe My group had Time Blindness as a -5 or -20 depending on severity, with the severe version requiring per-turn IQ checks to avoid losing actions in combat.
hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 08:53
@masukomi @CynAq @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe that’s why we had the severity split. The lesser version was just an extreme quirk that impacted social obligations but not survival stuff.
The extreme version was our friend Derek. But yeah it could’ve been addressed by existing disadvantages. We were just having some fun with the game system.
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