I find the idea of playing fair in a single player video game insipid
People love to talk about "fun trumps rules" or "rule 0" in TTRPGs and the same applies to videogames.
I actually think it applies less in TTRPGs because of the multiplayer aspect, rules are expectations, and changing them matters more and should be thought out
oh i mean in video games
sometimes you can totally ruin a single-player game by giving people a choice to do something un-fun rather than something really fun, even though it's just a *choice* the player is making
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@Alex P. 👹 Oh! that! Yes! I am definitely the worst about that.
But I am the kind of person who will be like "Oh, Morrowind wants me to be useless for the first four hours of gameplay, this is dumb, I'm going to edit my save file", which is what I'm talking about.
If you give me a bad option I could spend 20 hours grinding on, I'll just skip that 20 hours in the game of "How did you encrypt your savefile" instead of "Develop an RSI"
This is a shockingly clear explaination of the asymmertry of power
Those Clever Hacks are *innovation*
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@silverwizard And VC are happily funding those “cool hacks”, right?
And that’s how we get Uber, Theranos and FTX.
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I had an issue where there was a repo that made no sense
And then I looked closer and saw that I had committed documentation with all the reasoning behind the weird decisions, and made it make sense. Committed it right after I started at this job (probably when I asked all the same questions)
Document people!
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So my 4yo son said to me "I want a computer, inside a pumpkin, with a microphone on tap, and a speaker on top, and a cable out of it, and we can talk through the pumpkin."
So I grabbed a few things
-a https://Libre.Computer LePotato I was gonna try to build a tablet with
-a speaker/mic I use for testing
-a battery pack
And so current status
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@Bob Jonkman Yeah - I tried to download the image with lynx, and uh.... useless
But it's a fairly reasonable RasPi competitor
And look at the timeline on getting one:
https://convenient.email/display/2c704a81-1365-1485-c43d-eee576813660
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Prefacing that I know this is a longshot
My brother in law is using #TrueNAS with #ZFS, he didn't backup.
He imported his disks by different names (ada4p2 and Long-GUID-Goes-Here for the other)
He had an issue and his disks got relabelled. Now only one of his four disks in his pool is available. I can see the correct gpt ids when I run GEOM, but on the wrong device names.
Any way of forcing ZFS to rescan names or relabel my device nodes? (my mknod searching is failing me)
#ZFSHelp
(NB: No experience with TrueNAS.) "sudo zpool import" should scan all drives and report any pools that can be imported (and likely any that cannot.)
@PracticalZFS (and the related forum) for more help (from people who know more than me.)
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: THESE NOT USING CUT
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@argv minus one The issue is that Wayland just bans them outrightly
But if you need permissions for them, fine, but if they are able to self-declare then you can use that to bootstrap a perm bypass.
This system you envision is just a tool to annoy people with *no value*
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"Oh, we inspect all HTTPS traffic, we block HTTP and block USB mass storage"
"What if I open a VPN?"
"Oh, then this wont work"
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Levy fines of a few million a month to enough places for crimes inherent in their business model
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And for my biyearly post...
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my middle one listens to audiobooks for bedtime when he’s with his mom.
When he’s with me he always wants to listen to that one episode of a podcast about war history where the hosts decided to talk about Warhammer 40k lore instead…
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Ok - someone has stolen a cool fucking WorldCoin orb - will you send it to me? I wanna make it a server.
Fuck - I want a spherical server forever
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So I have a Shadowrun GM who wants to run deep political intrigued and complex cons
But he's absolutely awful at it
So he trying to run a political grift that we're opposing and we found why the politician who had backed down, they had received a note saying "Change your vote, or else"
And I was like "ok, but this is a grift, what the fuck is actually happening, we gotta figure out why nothing made her fold" and then the GM was like "oh, it had an explicit death threat"
And I think I'm offending him because I keep thinking that "a politician receiving death threats" wouldn't even crack the top ten surprising things that had happened to her in a day. But he keeps saying how this is deep politics and no hints we have to figure it out.
"Or else" isn't very specific. At the very least include a photo of the politician's children at their school or something. That's what makes a threat at least somewhat credible.
I'm also running a somewhat political game, but it's not that deep. I'm mostly following the SRM4 adventures, fleshing them out a bit more here and there. I want to do a bit more with the corruption around the Backhaven administration, but I'm not sure how. It's mentioned a lot in various sources, but never very fleshed out.
@Martijn Vos yeah that makes sense!
And yeah! It is a very minor unactionable letter with no proof they can *do* anything. As I read it, it's a violent person blowing off steam, sure, it could be a problem, but that's why you have security!
I was expecting some level of:
inside person who was leveraging a weakpoint to talk her into being stressed out and afraid, balanced by threats and perhaps demonstrations, but apparently not
Wife's birthday is Saturday
I think the cake plan is a Queen Mother Cake, a nougat middle layer, a peanut butter frosting, and then cover that with the standard queen mother hard chocolate icing
Going for a "chocolate bar but it's a cake", as was the request
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Youtube is a weird fucking beast.
It's a first class media type. It is definitely the new Television. But no one is making money from youtube ads, and external services (sponsors, patreon, and so on) is where the money is. But the *value proposition* of Youtube is supposed to be money.
But the value is obviously discoverability. Not even just the recommendation engine, but because if you search for a thing, Google will give you YouTube links early in the listings, and lots of people search for media on YouTube first. To the point I suspect it's the most popular music, book, video, and podcast platform.
There's literally no value to youtube basically. But because of how centralized everything got, it's nearly impossible to break out of. We *just* need better tools to search the web. It's literally all we need. And because of that, they're all getting incredibly bad.
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@Hypolite Petovan It does fucking look like it doesn't it.
I'm so fucking annoyed. This is three times I've put together a valid zpool and then booting from it fucked up. On three HBAs and two chassis. I've also replaced all but 3 disks
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@Jay Hannah oh - is that because it's good or real bad?
I am trying to write a card game for fun - but in order to do that I wanna put routines on cards, so that means objects. But uh.... blah
Conway's OO Perl book from 20 years ago was AWESOME at the time, changed our code very much for the far better. :)
Nowadays OO Perl is Moose https://metacpan.org/dist/Moose/view/lib/Moose/Manual.pod or one of it's many lighter-weight alternatives (lightweight is unnecessary for your use case).
~Soon-ish OO Perl will probably be Corona, but it's only (partially) in bleeding edge Perl for now, if I understood correctly. Check out @ovid for his many posts about that if you care about bleeding edge Perl stuff.
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@Jay Hannah @Curtis "Ovid" Poe ok yeah, I've used moose a lIttle, not sure what edition my OO Perl book is (again, bought as joke), but I think I saw Moose in it
I am kinda... anti bleeding edge, I like stable and boring.
But thanks!
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@deafferret Be aware that it's still experimental not not complete! `perldoc perlclass` should tell you which features are implemented.
The MVP for the core itself is here: https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/master/rfc/mvp.md
You can use the latter to see what will be coming up. @leonerd is doing the implementing, so he might have an idea on the time frame (though I don't think there is one)
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Also, for a more realistic view of what can be done now, check out @perigrin 's Roguelike Game Tutorial using the new syntax. He's up to part 6 now.
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Well fedilab still says pending, but I'll have to get on a computer at some point and look there.
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@ovid huh. I thought github used to render POD? Did they stop? Is there a HTML render of this anywhere? https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/master/pod/perlclasstut.pod
(This is the landing page for people (like me) who want to learn how to use Cor?)
(Apologies for calling it Corona, that was NEVER the name. Whoops! 🙂)
@deafferret I drank a Corona last night. Perfect for hot weather, so I've no complaints about that mistake :)
Yeah, github not rendering POD there is disappointing, so I created a better version a while ago: https://gist.github.com/Ovid/4cc649c1eb3142b6a856d94c54b1d4ed
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•If you're looking for CD-quality downloads, iTunes unfortunately still only sells with lossy compression. (Why, when their streaming service has lossless across the board?!)
Recently, Qobuz became available in Canada, so their download store is now a decent option for finding lossless downloads from artists on major labels that won't be on Bandcamp.
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@Jay Hannah I was a kid who thought DRM was bad and so bought CDs, and now I can't even figure out where to buy CDs!
Most of my buying has been Bandcamp, but for the last year and a bit (since the Epic buy) it's been only on Bandcamp Friday
And now it seems like I need a new vendor! (It turns out Qobuz might be my thing, but I bet it also sucks)
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•ya, I’m older so my mountain of CDs was getting to be a pain in the ass to move around, so one by one I stuck them all into iTunes to prove I owned them “in the cloud, forever.” I’ve been “stuck” in Apple DRM ever since, which is only a bad thing if artists aren’t getting paid.
Recently a win-win: @shannoncurtis sold me her entire back catalog on a thumb drive, which I assume is max profit for her, I stuck that drive into iTunes so I (an individual) have those rights “in the cloud, forever” so now I’m not afraid of losing that thumb drive, or it’s inevitable eventual failure.
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