KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
That's the one. How did you find it? I couldn't get DDG nor Google to cough it up.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
So the Doge of Venice wasn't part of the pun?
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
My current strategy for Gleba is to think about it later. I'm not yet sure if it's going to be fun or "fun", but I'm hoping for the former.
KingOfTheBailey
8mo ago
If you buy it on factorio.com (which goes through Humble) they let you generate a Steam key.
KingOfTheBailey
10mo ago
Personally, I would like to pass on my own terms before I lose the ability to consent, and do not want to see my elderly relatives tortured to life by the medical system.
Unfortunately, Canada has showed how easy it is for euthanasia to become a vehicle to shuttle out any medically inconvenient citizens. This has flipped me back from supporting euthanasia to opposing it.
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
And for those who weren't around back then, we know that Brianna Wu manufactured at least some of the "hate", because GG caught Wu forgetting to switch to a sockpuppet on the Steam forums.
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
I guess that's where Rowling conjured up the Wizengamot from.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
It turned out that gender woo was way more memetically contagious than (it appeared|its advocates thought|its advocates were willing to say). I think poly will prove to be as contagious or worse; we just haven't seen the floodgates from legal recognition yet so it's still "a weird SF/alt-lifestyle thing". Poly requires new people to be poly with, once the people you were seeing have moved on, and that means evangelizing to normies. And if you believe that most people are not capable of practicing poly without causing xkcd#592, this boils down to going up to people and saying, "hey, have you tried this sweet new infohazard?"
I was once briefly involved with an attractive ENM girl who only wanted something casual, and while that might sound the start of a salacious story that'll makes the reader say "tfw", it was the most stifling period in my dating life. Anyone else I wanted to see, I would have to have the "poly conversation" with, and I couldn't bring myself to do that. It just felt too much like peddling bad memes to decent women, and after I missed out on a couple of relationships with decent girls that way, I decided it was better to be single than help worsen the modern dating world.
And once I broke things off, it turned out that even a relationship that casual couldn't go back to being a friendship. Either she was only keen to hang out as friends because of the possibility of adding a sexual element to the friendship, or breaking things off hurt too much to stay friends. Whichever was true, poly opened a branch of the decision tree which only had bad outcomes.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
It was technically amazing, the custom maps scene was probably where custom maps peaked (the success of DotA inspired at least three spin-off games, and probably put dollar signs in Blizzard's eyes for the SC2 arcade), and I never played the native RTS in serious multiplayer but it seemed good.
But I also think the campaign was pretty... ehhh, and the expansion campaign was similar. Not like Wings of Liberty (which has great mission design and structure, but bad writing) or the SC1 campaigns (which still have "Blizzard writing" but are a lot better, and discussed upthread).
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Seconded. Please make a top-level post about this, @UnopenedEnvilope!
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
I knew it had to exist, I just didn't know who to follow.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
How does 3D Aella have the stranger hand position?
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
The big problem I had was the two-hundred-rupee-a-pop deciphering fee for each of the eight McGuffin shard maps. That made the whole thing feel bloated and not worth replaying.
And the lack of tacking.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Scott edited out the fire in later revisions of that post, try this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20140801022058/http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
To provide a contrary data point, I find that building you linked utterly repulsive.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
I was a aware of the technical fix (even Doom Eternal does it, and speedrunners combined it with the weapon wheel to turn that physics nudge into an abusable catapult), but I had never seen it called "coyote time" before. That name is perfect.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
First time I've seen "grognard" used to refer to old-school computing people as opposed to old-school RPG/wargaming people.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
I see you have also discovered the speedrunning community.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
That's some great context, thank you.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Congratulations! I assumed you were already married and I hope he realizes how lucky he is. No actionable advice from me, I'm afraid — I'm still going on first dates.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Would it be fair to call them the "rap interludes" of their time?
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I thought "plushie" specifically referred to stuffed toys with a particular outer fabric.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Please provide a pitch deck in next week's Tinker Tuesday.
Nice hat...
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