novodantis.bsky.social
https://centauri.itch.io/
Vulnerable to superluminal projectiles and sudden conversation. Primary objective: To be as stubborn and reasonable as possible. Developer of games, enthusiast of science and pontificator of philosophy.
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Ice Cream NOMA: chocolate, caramel, honeycomb and the like are in the Cream Magisteria; while fruit, sorbet, bubblegum and tutti frutti etc are in the Candy Magisteria. You can combine any flavours, so long as you do not cross between magisteria
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My kids regularly do this, using chocolate coins from their stashes as literal currency to buy Haribo from the family Federal Reserve. It started out harmless, but has degenerated into such byzantine complexity that I sorta regret it at this point...
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I enjoyed that a lot
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Can relate. Words of encouragement are always great; but to creatives slogging it alone, they can mean the world.
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Pluto had it coming
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Using the wrong "your" hurts too much, I think I'll just have to live with zero engagement 😂
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Most have at least some hereditary basis. There must therefore be some effect on the gene pool of improving survival rate to a civilised standard. I say this not because I think such survival is bad (obviously). But because this effect then gets blamed wrongly on something else, like vaccines.
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Money is a flawed measure of value; gov employees being seen as "waste" due to their efforts being difficult to quantify monetarily (but vital). Compare a finance consultant; making one group of humans rich at expense of another. Who is really creating value, here? It's broken, on a societal level 🤦
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Always felt this was the fate of consoles as they got more like PCs... they've lost some of that simplistic charm. Of course, the fact modern tech is obsessed with being up-to-date doesn't help
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100% this
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I'd actually rather they embraced the continuous ebb-and-flow of real history and did away with nations and leaders altogether, but that's arguably not Civ anymore. The slightly goofy "boardgamey" simplification of it was always part of the Civ character.
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I never really felt like that with Civ. The leaders are presented —quite deliberately— like players of a boardgame, "playing" their faction in a very meta way. At least that's how my brain deals with the anachronisms and predetermination fallacies.
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Ah, the ol' Protestant Work Ethic is every bit as warped here in the UK as well. If there's one things Brits cannot stand, it seems, it's somebody getting a thing that they did without having to go through the same misery.
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The idea that a Federal employee should ever be expected to follow tweets is just ugh... and without context, yeah it belongs in the spam folder ( *with* context, it's just sketchy and shitty)
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Idk, still a tall order
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Oh, shout-out to the awesome Rich Webb of Webbtunes who did the music! www.tiktok.com/@webbtunes
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It's too bad I missed this, looks interesting!
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That is the weirdest error. Can't install at Administrator level?? What, are there *too many* permissions?
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Those didn't exist (and Unreal was still just a game) when I got into game dev and was using BB/RPGM. But over the years I've tried enough of them to appreciate a different engine has its merits sometimes.
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Yeah I agree it's a good thing; I've used a number of other game-building solutions from RPGMaker to Blitz Basic. But the problem is, I barely seem to have enough hours in the day to work on games, let alone learn more engines. I guess it's a balance.
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Indeed, there is confusion between generative and ML; but also I think a large part of the hostility to generative is driven by anger at problems which are arguably economic. If people block those who attempt polite discourse simply because they don't agree, that to me indicates a brittle position.
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It's a little known fact that bacteria only jumps on board if they see you do it
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Yeah, if the consensus is "that's where the market is", it's probably also where the market is already *saturated*, too.
Meanwhile, PC gamers: "Where's my puzzles at??"
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I still haven't put up links to the novel I wrote. We should start a club here #selfdemotion
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I hear ya. I have always felt that marketing doesn't come naturally to me, because I have that (otherwise healthy) social instinct to assume nobody cares about me going on about that thing I made. But it does make exposure rather difficult
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The mechanism for moving that bell striker is really satisfying to watch. Love that attention to detail.
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Can relate. It's like when I look at my supposed "main project" in Unity Hub and it's like "hi, yeah, you opened that 5 months ago, you fraud"
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Definitely trying that one
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Absolutely! Probably also works with notsits too
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It's not like anybody's gonna write a game specifically for m—
*Geoguessr-inspired detective game on an alien planet*
Oh, hello
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Right. And not GPS directions, or answering a prompt. These technologies do different things well; "how well" seems to become a matter of opinion when the uses are more nuanced.
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Well, actually closer to every 20-40x you use it; but I get your point. There's a high environmental cost to the Smartphone, too. The point is, they're both non-essential and relying on them will make your innate skills degrade; but they also can expand what's possible.
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Actually, amendment: strategy games with edge-scrolling go under full-screen too! All too easy to go out of bounds. Or just implement WASD scrolling, of course.
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I think it actually depends on the game type for me. If I'm playing something first person or that's likely to lock the cursor, I'd say full-screen. But if it's strategy or the kind of thing you might multi-task to, windowed makes a lot more sense (maybe borderless windowed is the happy medium here)
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To be fair, this process was already well underway. I wonder how many of the Outraged think nothing of using SatNav for directions, Calculators for maths or Autocorrect for spelling. Any external augmentation has the downside of atrophying innate ability.
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"What dev log?"
... ah. Bollocks.
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That's right, you follow for the dev log, and stay for the weird snack recommendations