DoctorMonarch
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DoctorMonarch
29d ago
Just remember he's doing all programming, art and music alone for this one too (or at least that's the current plan, with porting and translation help).
DoctorMonarch
11mo ago
Wealthy Indians are accustomed to tragedy of the commons in every sphere of public life. Immense wealth will buy you a lovely mansion, but nothing will get you a clean city outside.
Have y'all tried home owners associations for general upkeep, and getting a specifically funded unit of local cops to fine anyone littering or otherwise dirtying the place? (or mob to harass...)
DoctorMonarch
29d ago
Coffee-caramel ice cream can be pretty good, but frankly it makes more sense to put caramel sauce on coffee. I'm probably going to go to a different shop and get a sprite + sherbet freeze though.
DoctorMonarch
2mo ago
I don't think I opted out of the automatic nitter conversion when I created account, entirely possible I did.
DoctorMonarch
4mo ago
I don't think one exists, searched for a fair bit. Maybe contact someone at the American University of Central Asia? Either in the television cinema media arts department https://auca.kg/en/tcma_faculty_staff/ or the late film director's son who is a vice president of the university https://www.auca.kg/en/auca_news/5254/
For what it's worth, here's a translation of the book version https://archive.org/details/whiteship00aitm/mode/1up
DoctorMonarch
4mo ago
I hadn't even considered the possibility of yet-born kids being added for credit purposes (I have contemplated descendant trusts at length). Dunno about authorized users requiring SSN or not.
DoctorMonarch
4mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/
Probably start there.
I don't know Chinese and have never made an earnest attempt at learning it.
Depending on how distracted you are on your computer (or mobile) over several hours, get an intro to Chinese physical book from your local library and start using that. If there are several, look online and see if one has free premade flashcards for mobile use. Perhaps also make physical flashcards, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system is a good way to get results via spaced repetition.
Since it will be a slow buildup to learning all the characters, https://www.fluentu.com/blog/chinese/pinyin-subtitles/ may be a good idea for watching Chinese language entertainment.
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
Sure! Caveat: Previous online D&D experience is limited to 2002 NWN+Vent and more recently Roll20+Discord. I'm only really used to 5e but it's DM's choice.
DoctorMonarch
27d ago
Forces outside my control or understanding can determine my entire life- my parents certainly did when I was little! But if I have no actual agency ever then I'd like to petition a higher power to turn my consciousness off forever.
DoctorMonarch
4mo ago
I don't believe any of them have joined, but I privately send links to high quality posts (and sometimes rough drafts of my relatively low quality responses for proofing/critique, almost all of which were never posted) to thoughtful friends and family. Usually the links are related their profession/philosophy or a description of a culture war flareup in their area.
DoctorMonarch
6mo ago
I was born in 1988, one of my first memories is my dad reading out Zork on an Apple II while waiting for my suggestions around 1991. Later, I was allowed to use his 3.1/95 computers under his supervision, and with the 95 I was given a full 2 hours of encarta per day in the family den.
I was given my own pc, a Dell with Windows 98 for my 11th birthday, with the understanding that I could only use the dial-up internet service (AOL) when my mom wasn't using the phone. I made point and click games in powerpoint and played a ton of Civ II, and set up a geocities site for my friends to roleplay our favorite action cartoons- DBZ and Gundam Wing.
DoctorMonarch
7mo ago
You can probably assess whether you'd like a band with 1-3 15 second clips of their music.
Start a blog reviewing the music and plays you like and offer better posts as freelancer content to the small remaining local outlets, get press access to events you could possibly be interested in and interview people?
Go to conventions for things that interest you and try to have friendly acquaintances within an hour of a given metro area, treat them to dinner and figure out the local situation from them?
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
Please elaborate on the obvious and implicit parts of your argument that I missed, past the debatable idea that generic people have chosen their job, and flatly wrong idea that they are happy to do it.
DoctorMonarch
10mo ago
Not sufficiently, because working a 48 hour retail cashier shift or 20 hour ditch digging effort is extremely challenging and not at all ambitious in other senses except an extremely limited context of possible overtime pay that does not reach the relative wealth suggested by ambition.
DoctorMonarch
11mo ago
The kind in the imagination and work of Rudyard Kipling.
DoctorMonarch
4mo ago
Yeah, old mostly lurker, both on themotte sub but also SSC sub CWR threads before that migrated.
DoctorMonarch
6mo ago
My brother and I wrecked a spacebar playing Timon & Pumbaa’s Jungle Pinball
DoctorMonarch
9mo ago
Depending on mechanical skill, Kirby (star allies is easier than forgotten land), Mario Odyssey, DK Tropical Freeze. Kirby and Mario contain co-op, Mario and DK have an easy mode.
Once fairly literate, co-op on Stardew Valley is overwhelmingly fun and cheerful, but one character has inappropriate scenes (alcoholism, suicidal thoughts) after you get to know them well enough.
Virtual console has lots of classic games but many are harder.
Keep an eye out for Super Mario RPG remake in a few months.
DoctorMonarch
10mo ago
My mom did an absolute cop-out and told me that the mailman had taken my "blankie" away, so from ages 3-6 I was absolutely hostile to the postal service.
My replacement was a platypus (search for folkmanis folktails platypus for the specific one) which I semi-personified and was more fully personified by my dad in freeform bedtime stories.
DoctorMonarch
10mo ago
Aside from what others have mentioned (and it's nice seeing so many fellow FFIX fans), Earthbound (Mother 2), Suikoden I and II, and Stardew Valley if it counts.
DoctorMonarch
28d ago
Marked, just because I'd assume it's a lie or demonic scam so I'd walk out on it.
DoctorMonarch
2mo ago
It only takes 25 years to have posted since the 90s.
What's your opinion of the rules on this forum and do you think your quoted remarks are good to go, with no particular citation?
Even though I think the world would be a better place with him dead and he goes against basically everything I value I am begrudgingly astounded and impressed by the sheer volume of vitriol in his heart to be able to keep posting pure hate for 4+ decades.
DoctorMonarch
2mo ago
Testing with link https://twitter.com/caesararum/status/1745808302699635041
DoctorMonarch
10mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's the ~new next to new posts/replies next to timestamp, which makes desktop searching for new content very easy rather than looking for a pale blue highlight.
I think there probably is a way to provide substantially cheaper goods and some services by consolidating retailers, wholesalers and domestic logistics into not-for-profit cooperatives who sell staple goods on an annual subscription model, and who use automation wherever they can. Currently, this entity would have to socially reward (exploit?) many intense thinking and working eccentric people who choose to perform free labor instead of pure compensation.
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