yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
14hr ago
Fantastic intro. I did not get bitten by the bug of Papers, Please and I may have the same challenge here - my time is precious enough that sinking multiple 5 hour cycles into one game to get maximum enjoyment out of it is a tough ask. Other games include me socially interacting with friends or having a checkpoint I can go back to after only 30m of mistakes.
But I can't help but feel like if I could invest the time I'd have a blast. Thanks for the review.
Had a very similar experience at a smaller scale over the past couple of weeks. I was tasked with producing an exercise for an enterprise IT software team that utilized some lite RPG and board game elements along with the reality of what they do.
The premise is "The Iron Triangle" of time/money/quality and how that influences up across the 4 core factions in every organization. They each have fundamentally different mandates but and ways to get there but a broadly similar goal.
I was able to produce a board game with monolithic rendering engines for web and print, rules, a pipeline to pump it on version increments to our file share, and the flexibility to add scenarios to the base game or rebrand it with the client's colors. There's a sim and strategy engine that updates balance figures.
Human playtesting was utterly necessary and seamless to integrate. I'd literally point claude code at the transcript file from our playtest and we'd run through another version iteration iteratively over 20 minutes and a couple thousand tokens. After 3 cycles it's at the level of quality I find acceptable, and the half day session with 8 participants was worth $13,000 to someone!
Beyond that it's just... fun? With the right facilitator the dry flavortext about the shit we have to deal with every day is actually kind of funny. The scenarios bring in real tension, arguments about what to do next, and a cool combination of teamwork and competition among the factions.
I cribbed a whole lot from Dune Imperium, Sycthe, Magic, and go knows what else but even as a pale imitation of what a real artist would make it was the most fun I've had at work in a long time.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
Maybe. I think sending someone $100 worth of AKs and $100 worth of Kevlar is $200 worth of war aid.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
Believe me when I say that I understand that Israel is very often just defending itself. But I don't think it's useful to segregate defensive and offensive spending this way. War begets war, it's two sides of the same coin.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
It's a good data point - I got other numbers exclusively for third world countries.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
If that's included in aid figures, then yes.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
Good point. Couldn't tell you why - it feels like that tack is more common during presidential election cycles
yofuckreddit
3d ago
Both the magnitude of aid to a first world country and its purpose I find distasteful.
I understand Israel is a proxy and the money creates utility, it doesn't mean I like it.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
After looking up the data, Israel gets $350 per citizen almost exclusively for war. Meanwhile Africa gets $7 and Central America gets $10 on a blended basis.
That's pretty horrifying.
yofuckreddit
4d ago
It's a bummer that those two were too steep, The Martian is at that YA borderline IMO.
What about Animorphs? Actually kind of dark, but I did enjoy them as a kid.
yofuckreddit
8d ago
Reddit's gone and dead. Things have gotten WORSE since then, even as the left's censorship powers enjoy less support. I was terrified when we left but I would never trust going back. They could kill the community on a whim.
yofuckreddit
9d ago
What's your roasting gear? Sorry if you've mentioned it before. Dabbled with a popcorn maker and gave up after a while
yofuckreddit
9d ago
I suspect it's 50% luck and 50% the daycare. We had an easy time of it - I didn't get in my kid's faces, spent a lot of time outside, drank emergen-c
yofuckreddit
11d ago
Did you ever read any Wendell Berry? Finished Jayber Crow recently and it was of this genre and had that quality.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
Yes, the Russian configuration of women is appealing the me. I agree that's vaguely her motif.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
We've discussed this before, and I cannot believe people are arguing Madison Beer isn't an 11/10. Yes she's unrealistic and plastic, but jeez.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
The short answer is I would much rather be me than Antonio Brown. The problem with being really strong and fast while also being violent and dumb is I don't think you appreciate your body as much.
The other problem of of course, I can reach half of Antonio Brown's physical prowess through exercise, whereas he's always going to be the same mentally.
That said, I would trade some of my IQ points for some improved baseline athletic ability. If this were an RPG character screen, then I'd shift some things around.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
I think the exercise is only fun if you exclude Russia.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
You know you raise an interesting point. Anthropic's biases show up all the time in their models, but it's still far more reasonable than the default redditor.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
I know that may seem fast - I have family who was hoping to have a couple years of being newlyweds before kids but jumped the gun by 21 months. They're freaking out a little but getting started early has some advantages to it too.
It's awesome man. Congratulations.
It's pathetic. The people who have trouble getting out of bed in the morning or keeping a job are belittling the first realistic flying car. Talking shit about Trump accounts as a "tax dodge" when billionaires are giving money directly to children instead of going through the government.
As you said, I've spent the past 20 years after reading Atlas Shrugged and complaining about how unrealistic it is, but it's just too on the money.
yofuckreddit
23d ago
The cost and expertise to run an actually secure home intranet has dropped precipitously, which is great. I do think this is the future for programmers and DIY experts, but many people prefer a nice UI and a subscription to plugging in devices!
yofuckreddit
24d ago
This is a poetry of stupid and the hackers are the least guilty party here. Lets start with the obvious. Why freezers needs to be visible, why do they need to be remotely managed, why is not this done on dedicated internal network, why do they need firmware updates. How did we get to the point where a device that should be pid controller, compressor and alarm can be hacked.
OK, I'll be the idiot here. Managing 3 houses manually with retro thermostats fucking sucks. Setting up a reasonable HVAC plan is excruciating to begin with, and then making sure these move back to "Eco" mode when you leave and "Active" mode when you're on the way is immensely helpful.
Same with my pellet smoker. It's connected to Wifi so I'm not tethered to the backyard for a 14 hour brisket cook. That's worth the risk of a hacker getting access to my ReqTec credentials and being able to burn it.
And I'm just a lazy American trying to save $200/mo on my energy bills while enjoying smoked meats. Being able to monitor and change systems at scale is incredibly valuable, and the risk algebra actually does favor some centralized control from the corporate nexus.
This connectivity being insecure is a totally separate issue that I would agree with being "poetry of stupid".
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I'll just say that Biryani + a Red Bull in the park is a very alpha male meal.
To be clear that's what I charged for the session, and I am using the $20 tier of Anthropic subscription. Printing the game board and collateral cost more than the AI.
Like you I've been humbled. I still see areas in which my taste and strategy are required, but the water has risen from my knees to the chest.
I could stress about it but building the things I want without endless conversations with humans has felt amazing.
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