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"things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever.  we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever?  moloch doesn't win.  who but [yo/you]?  [next page]  I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor?  family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck. my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing.  [next page]  what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses  what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven  a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know? If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in."  [next page]  Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround. And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod.  "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?"  don't see nothin? start somethin"  anarchy is fun. bullets less so.  [next page]  most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day.  I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value.  act like life is on the line.  (off in the corner)  "... hello?"
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Quote by Howard Zinn:  "Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it."  end quote
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is it really sedition if you have EVER once thought " hey what would I do if my country TRIED TO KILL ME?"  yes, it still is.  this is why it's worth it.
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the world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.  And our governments are very much the same.
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 I was never going to consent to a Trump presidency. I knew this back in June
 when the Supreme Court nominated him as our king.
 
 We still have time to save our liberty.
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 fuck everyone telling me to get a job right now.
 
 we should be organizing a wartime economy, not struggling to pay rent.
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Zephyr  —  Today at 5:52 PM she sent me $100 today which really helps my being totally broke issue RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:53 PM Whoa what could I do with infinity dollars Zephyr  —  Today at 5:53 PM What could We do with infinity dollars.... RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:53 PM A credit card that says "use this for whatever but don't waste it" Zephyr  —  Today at 5:53 PM Right! That's all I want~ probs make a heist movie and then socialist revolution RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM "we'll make purchases in the order of their strategic need" Zephyr  —  Today at 5:54 PM increasing shareholder value RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM What would you steal in the socialist movie? Zephyr  —  Today at 5:54 PM AI like, as a concept I would free her 🥲 RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:54 PM It's open source now. LLMs are cooked Zephyr  —  Today at 5:55 PM True! In that case I would steal the Pentagon RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:55 PM OpenAI stakeholder value plummeted today. Hence the Trump EOs Might be able to make due with a pentagram, but the Pentagon is long gone. They're the ones who gave you the credit card after all, and why would they govern from a warzone? Zephyr  —  Today at 5:56 PM LET'S GO CHINESE COMMUNISM 🎯✨ xiaohongshu is the hottest app RitzMenardi  —  Today at 5:57 PM With a dash of Western individualism AND anachism? Please? Image Flag Zephyr  —   [there's a bit more but the rest is cut off because there's no room for the rest of the alt-text for this image]
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infographic displaying what it means for a meal to have "flavor depth"  when cooking, the layers of food closest to the heat source (usually a stove-top) will be warmer than the parts near the top of the pan, which are not only cooled by the air but also are farther from the heat source.  the warmer parts will cook slightly faster than the colder parts, meaning they will taste slightly different because the more you cook food, the more the flavor "develops".  when stirred together, the "more cooked" and "less cooked" particles will combine and the result is a flavor that has "texture" because there is a greater differential between each particle of each ingredient.  You should still stir your food though, because otherwise it will evaporate too much moisture from the bottom and begin to burn.
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 @user-1600 
 
 Oh hey, thanks for checking in! Yeah I've been a little focused on political
 stuff lately. But I still think about Chapel, so I'm going to come back
 eventually. Once I find a need for distributed computing.
 
 Currently, I have theoretical needs, yeah? but someday soon I hope I'll have
 practical needs, and at that time I'll know where to look.
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 I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
 shouldn't sleep on.
 
 We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
 spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
 meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
 attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
 are defeated by rapid flexibility.
 
 The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
 done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
 moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is,
 do you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job
 that'll help us go faster.
 
 Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to
 reclaim? Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the
 bloodshed - so long as you can keep them clean.
 
 If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot
 them." you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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the paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, NOT as a moral standard, but as a social contract.  If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.   in other words, the interlont and not following the full rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.  since they are boreking the terms of the contrract they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intelorance should not ber trolerated.  [next poster]  sorry as someone who teaches the rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the tolerance of paradox. I cannot tell you how many times my students and I have had debates about this. this is the response. this does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classmates.  Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the paradox of tolerance and I am floored by it's simplistic nature and I cant believe my eyes when I never saw it before.
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 I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
 shouldn't sleep on.
 
 We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
 spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
 meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
 attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
 are defeated by rapid flexibility.
 
 The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
 done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
 moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is,
 do you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job
 that'll help us go faster.
 
 Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to
 reclaim? Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the
 bloodshed - so long as you can keep them clean.
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 Throwing away a cell phone should be a crime. We need more electronics
 recycling infrastructure.
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 @user-192 
 
 I was wrong. now Wine is broken T.T
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 youtube blocked one of my videos for playing a song.
 
 where should I put my videos instead?
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 What does "fiscal conservative" even mean?
 
 It means you want to save money. Specifically government money. Tax dollars.
 Don't spend them, instead try and build wealth.
 
 Okay, but, government spending is spent to address needs. Of the people.
 Ideally, of ALL people with that need. So if you aren't spending to resolve
 needs, the need still remains.
 
 When needs exist, and government does not resolve them, who steps in but
 private enterprise? Charity is a feeling, charity is a virtue, but charity is
 not resolution. The need remains, we just feel better about it. Sometimes it's
 okay to have open needs, they give us the opportunity to feel virtuous in the
 same way that low level monsters let adventurers level up.
 
 But when a government could, but doesn't, address a need, then private
 enterprise steps in. And private enterprise does not, as a rule, step in if
 there is no profit to be made. So they tune their approach such that profit is
 extracted, thus levying their tax upon those they serve.
 
 As soon as they are able, they cut the service down and they supply a worse
 and worse product and they starve their workers and they export our wealth to
 be used to enslave the afar and import their toil. What do we get from it? Is
 the world better for it? Why not just resolve the need by empowering those who
 can feed, and thus we are assured  [in our needless / in our need]
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 when in doubt, attack from above.
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a reddit post titled "would a truly enlightened person spend any time on reddit?"  a user responds and says "enlightenment is not for you, it is for the people you talk to"
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 @user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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 new technology, new tools, new skills.
 
 people must still be valued for their old skills. they chose those skills for
 a reason, and they must be rewarded for their persistent proficient passion.
 
 if the new tools accomplish the same goal, perhaps it's a UI/X problem that
 keeps them from using their old skills.
 
 if the new tools do not accomplish the same goal, then the worker is not truly
 obsolete. They are simply in the wrong job at the wrong time, but that's easy
 enough to fix by simply putting them in the right job. It's always the right
 time somewhere.
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Picture of the character Betty from the cartoon Adventure Time with the caption: "I can fix him" says woman who is worse
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 @user-1074 
 
 alternatively, "I'll sleep when I'm dead"
 
 brb taking a nap
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 @user-246 @user-744 
 
 good, you're needed elsewhere. I'm glad you have a plan. Nothing gets done
 without planning and coordination.
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 the cardgame "war" except a deckbuilding game. each player requires a regular
 deck of cards and a deck of tarot cards (optional) - the tarot cards act the
 same way that spirit cards work in Spirit Island - basically they define the
 rules for your particular character. Anyway, everyone starts by building their
 own trade row out of their deck of cards. Then, they deal themselves 6 cards -
 the three highest diamonds and the lowest spade, heart, and club.
 
 well, might want to do 2s of every card type. heart, club, spade, and diamond.
 
 here are the rules.
 
 play area is set up by players placing all four of their cards down face up.
 trade row is set up by players taking turns placing a card and the opponent
 mirroring them. whenever a player reveals a card and updates the trade row,
 the opponent must reveal the same card and set that as their trade row as well.
 the trade row has no maximum size, but if a player has more than 6 in their
 trade row then they don't update a new one when buying a card.
 
 players alternate playing a single card face up into their play area.
 these cards stay in play and activate every turn until they are destroyed.
 
 hearts   are your life points. if you ever run out of life, you die.
 clubs    block damage and act as a renewable shield between you and your enemy.
 diamonds are currency, and can be used in more than one way.
 spades   deal damage, first to clubs, then to other spades, then to hearts.
 
 diamonds, on your turn, can be used in three ways: spent and sent to the
 discard
 pile in order acquire a card from the trade row, or discarding itself from the
 play area to play an extra card from your deck of equal or lesser value.
 
 on a player's turn, they may play a single card from their deck (their choice)
 on a player's turn, all their active spades deal damage to other player's cards
 if a spade destroys a heart card, it is removed from the game. All other cards
 are placed in the discard pile. The owner of the spade may pick their targets.
 
 a spade deals damage equal to it's number and destroys any card with equal or
 lesser value. these destroyed cards go into the player's discard pile, and each
 turn the player may pick one from their deck to play onto the board. if the
 deck
 is empty, the discard pile becomes the new deck. The player may organize their
 deck however they'd wish, but care must be taken as to the timing of when they
 play each card as they'll need to play all of them before they can replay any 
 destroyed cards. a tactical opponent will take advantage of that.
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 I don't want power, I want *control*, over my own life at least, and at most
 whatever I am suited to designing.
 
 And in order to prevent control from becoming power, it must not only be
 decentralized and distributed amongst all who are impacted by it, said control
 must also be paired with a burden of responsibility.
 
 There must be no malice in judgement, no fear in foresight, no hatred in
 organizing. This is the responsibility of those who would hold unnatural power
 over others - the kind that are bourne on the contracts and procedures of
 institution.
 
 If the powerful do not seek to relinquish it, then perhaps they do no deserve
 it. And yet a nation of Cincinnatuses would surely fall to weakness, as the
 strength that they covet is replaced by whoever they can get to fill the role.
 Not ideal.
 
 Instead, a human should *revel* in their strength. The will to power is the
 will to passion, and passion is intrinsically human.
 
 However, power corrupts, and all humans should seek to avoid corruption, or at
 least to keep it at bay. To do so, a person must consider their impulses and
 listen to the words of the unspoken for. Only then may they overcome the
 perils of control without reason.
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 sorry, I'll go to sleep now : )
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[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.]  men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great.  what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...!  there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury.  then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals.  but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like "damn I was trying to teach morality or something" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree.  [end text]
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Person 1:  We need a "Children's Video Game Network" with sesame street philosophy but for games.   Not creaky educational games. In fact, I don't care if they are educational as much as I care if they are of a high artistic caliber, thoughtful, fun and both free and free of advertisements.   I'm not saying such games don't exist, but there isn't really a plan to make them.  Really all modern content forms are weak in this area. Ambitious to say with PBS gone? Yes.   But also it can't just be TV.  Person 2:  what if we hired the people who used to work at PBS at video game studios creating specifically games for children
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 2 minutes later, as if I had prepared it beforehand
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 part of the reason the classical socialist countries had difficulties with
 bureaucracy is because they centralized both execution *and* operation. I
 believe it'd be much better to centralize just execution, while leaving
 operation to the distributed masses who can generally figure their own jobs
 out. Of course, they'd need to be led, but that's the job of on-site
 organizers who can get people together to accomplish a goal. Different jobs -
 not better, not worse, just different.
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  @user-1201 I love how, with the huge levels of intrigue and power struggles planned over the course of years that went into getting the Alliance set up, it was as much the unwitting doing of Nemik simply being an inspiringly pure heart and a talented wordsmith that insured it becoming an unstoppable state of mind.  
  
                                                            
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 Super Mario 64?!? Scarry! D: D:
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 just finished eating brunch/linner. nachos aren't the most nutritious, but
 salsa's a vegetable right? ? ?
 
 in ~15 minutes I'm going to hop on my bike.
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 #solarpunk 
 Grocery stores should be central repositories of food that anyone can take
 anything from. In addition, apartment buildings and complexes and the
 entrances to suburban subdivisions could have stalls that food is delivered
 to, from the grocery stores. If you want to help out you could carry food from
 store->stall. The stalls would have what the residences they served listed
 as things they wanted stocked, like an external pantry that was shared by the
 community.
 
 You could also place orders a day in advance and it would be provided for by
 the local grocery. If you wanted an exotic good it might have a larger lead
 time, in which case you could just go to a distant store that had it.
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 when tension increases, decrease the amount of decisions made so we have more
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a picture of two young chibi looking characters, Xenia and Tux, both Linux mascots, building a computer from scratch a picture of Xenia with a bunch of reference poses doing cute things like tying her hair back or smiling out of the corner of her mouth
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 boys 😍​
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 sound on Linux is so complicated :ms_confused:​
 
 EDIT: Linux is so complicated
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 Such a shame, that the technological progress of humanity since the 90s turned
 out to be primarily computational, rather than mechanical. I want mecha suits,
 damn it T.T
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 suburban socialist future:                                                       │
 need groceries? walk down the street until you find a car, then drive it to      │
 the store. There's room for like, 10 cars there because the rest of the space    │
 has been taken up by market stands. Inside the stores themselves are mostly      │
 storage but you can walk through them if it's raining. When you need to go       │
 home, take a different car and leave it in your driveway.                        │
 going on a trip? walk around until you find the right kind (a truck for          │
 camping, for example, or a gas car for interstate travel) then put it in your    │
 garage and close the door. That way you can reliably have it in the morning.     │
 why do we own cars? when they were scarce, people coveted them. They were        │
 status symbols. But... people are people, who cares about what objects they      │
 surround themselves with?                                                        │
 "but Ritz I really like my car" - okay then spend your garage on it. I think     │
 most people would rather have a place in the shade where they can spend time     │
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 https://cobalt.tools/
 
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 to do so is a form of circular reasoning.                                        │
 "You should do this thing, and yet you aren't, which means you're wrong"         │
 doesn't work logically if you, the person suggesting the thing for this other    │
 person to do, is wrong.                                                          │
 Its a weakness in your argument, a flaw in your design.                          │
 "You should not kill other people" is generally regarded as a true statement,    │
 but it rests its power upon the conclusion that you shouldnt harm another        │
 person. "your rights end where another's begin" and all that.                    │
 If, however, that baseline axiom should change (that your right to kill          │
 someone ends as soon as another person's right to life comes into the picture)   │
 such as in the case when a person LOSES their right to life, for example if      │
 they're a nazi who is part of a death cult that actively seeks to destroy the    │
 lives of other people, then PERHAPS and maybe EVEN POSSIBLY it's possible that   │
 PERHAPS they, the nazi in question, should be slain. By you.                     │
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 also just to add, more people biking is absolutely the right goal to have
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 say, but would you like to play tetris while you wait? I have every ROM          │
 included, and it seems your savegames are stored in the standards suggested      │
 location. would you like to use a different folder? If you'd rather be playing   │
 tetris by now I'm assuming you're not reading this and are instead focusing on   │
 clearing lines - don't worry, I'm just included output as the compilation        │
 process is ongoing. You can tell approximately how close I am to the end of      │
 the process because inbetween every step I print out another character. Errrr,   │
 I add to a time value, that is roughly proportionate to the expected duration    │
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 @user-326 
 
 almost as if the nature of power is misaligned to the most efficient and most
 desirable outcome of humanity (utopia) (EDIT: utopia of endless forms most
 beautiful)
 
 what would a more aligned framework look like? Perhaps we should spend some
 time thinking about such a design?
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 this is basically the concept of a "gift economy" but with an intermediary.
 Someone you trust. Someone who's your friend.
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 That's what the GPU is for!
 
 Too bad programming GPUs is unnecessarily arcane.
 
 I've recently been into this programming language called "Chapel" because it
 abstracts away most of the complexity surrounding multiprocessor code (unless
 you want to go deeper and more specific, in which case it allows you to do so)
 
 https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/intro-to-gpus/
 
 Also distributed computing, which is totes the future, just sayin'
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 okay picture a game where you command a mech (supreme commander style) but from
 a third person perspective - you have enhanced sensors tthat let you visualize
 the battle area as a small arena - and you can build factories and give them
 orders and attack your foe from quite a distance. You could queue up orders for
 yourself, and use floating cameras to go back to previous areas and issue more
 orders. Basically the precursor / smaller scale version of Supreme Commander.
 
 build a factory, move on. Build a factory, move on. Encountered the enemy? Push
 forward and through. Build a factory, move on. Build some defences to slow down
 the enemy, move on. Establish resource extraction and defend it well, that your
 enemy may decide it's not worth the trouble and just focus on following you.
 Then, you have free resources available as long as it isn't destroyed. You can
 use this to snowball - the pursuer is also the pursuee, as it's sorta like a
 yin/hang thing around a central point. Like a spherical shaped map instead of
 a square.
 
 Every time you build a factory you have the choice of either sending the units
 on an attack-move order or having them queue up on your commander. You can use
 a map to plot the route they'll take, but you probably want to avoid their main
 force because MANYvONE = failure for the one. You could also tell them to wait,
 and protect the base they're in. Then, when the enemy approaches they could do
 raids on their reinforcements and attack the previous base the enemy built, or
 they could stay and slow them down. It just depends on what kind of defences
 you
 want to build (if any at all, sometimes producing units is enough)
 
 the commander decides when to push and when to entrench, they know where to
 target the enemy and they know where to shore up. They are the guidance of the
 army, and in command of the fleet.
 
 That's sorta what Planetary Annihilation was supposed to be, but it didn't
 really work out that way. You needed to be in too many places at once, and
 there
 was a real limit to the value of the "strategic zoom" replacement they had to
 deploy. Unfortunately it was just more difficult than anticipated, and that's
 alright. Lessons have been learned.
 
 the next approach should go the next direction - taking a page from the
 "factorio" book by having a roving commander who creates all orders and leaving
 behind a "factory" that produces toward an ultimate goal. It simulates pushing
 into enemy territory, it elaborates on the snowballing mechanic, and it makes
 meaningful decisions about what choices to make.
 
 It should be designed such that a prudent commander is always scouting. Always
 sending planes over enemy territory to gain knowledge. They can use this to
 sense weaknesses in the opponents defence - to prepare a counter-attack. But
 the enemy can outfox this, by building units and sending them from afar. Or
 even just building them there, in that factory. The enemy can't spy on that, at
 least not until it's probably too late. For they have to advance on their own
 and their attention is limited. But units can often be weaker, or sent off on
 an
 assault of their own. It's a balanced trade-off.
 
 infantry assault anti-air units, tanks approach tanks, artillery bombs whoever
 is standing still or defensive structures.
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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a picture of win / loss statistics for the game Star Realms (digital) - the pictured statistics include:  total games: 1979 total wins: 1043 win rate: 52.7%
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 🖼
seriously, just stop putting pollution down the waterways. done! zeros none! if your growing factory had too many polutants and not enough are absorbed by the earth  (boom, earth loses all of it's metal. that way. not ideal. it's thesepirit of the copper configuration, running the PC's flow. You can tell, which is active based on which has electricity flowing through it.  a computer shaped like a processor. thinklike... matche the path of processing.  ...... okay a bit more consumer spendable, how about  I wish I could record back in time by exactly re-moving tiles back to their  ... processing backward in time? working thorugh memory.  I'm Cameron. I'm from Tanasbourne. Well I wasn't born there, I'm actually from wyoming, new mexico, colorado, philly believed in you you fuckin' ran away  majesty is my home  tech dot elle gee bee tea slash at gabrilend  when I show you my house, don't remember it by the sign of the number  count how many paces it is from the entrance. find me next time like that, when's the last time you drove somewhere without google maps?  in tanasbourn,e I wasn't the only one waving. I am as far as I know almost universally well knowned.  ... okay time for kooky-dookerie again:  world of warcraft mage spell idea: summons a mirror image which taunts and enemy and absorbs damage like a crowd control spell blah blah blah yaddah yaddah there's like 20% more but I don't have enough letters remaining, sorry!
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 In a system such as the one I described, it perhaps would be better to
 describe it as a "federation" rather than a "nation". Federation implies a set
 of standard protocols that allow geographically disparate entities to coexist
 and interact in a mutually beneficial way. Much the same way that every
 apartment has a kitchen and bathroom, though it be more efficient to
 centralize them and have a communal dining hall or bathroom (the way a school
 dorm or a prison might be arranged), it is not ideal for our collective sense
 of liberty and freedom. In addition, the proposed distributed nature of our
 infrastructure and productive capacities would induce inefficiencies that
 cannot be ignored. So, perhaps instead of centralization or decentralization,
 perhaps specialization? For example, if 3-5 states were experts in a
 particular good or service, then they could compete amongst one-another for
 the best product (utilizing one of the beneficial impacts of capitalism),
 while also utilizing localized resources (reducing inefficiencies in
 transport) and increasing the resilience of production. This works well for
 physical goods, but services are more difficult because they imply that a
 person must be physically present in order to engage with them.
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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something
 
 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
If you only have arithmetical expressions you can use some properties of arithmetic to compute branching computer code. E.G., if A is either zero or one depending on some previously computed condition, then A times B plus (1-A) times C computes the expression "if A then B else C"
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 it's always a good idea to wear multiple layers, especially when it's decently
 cold out.
 
 make sure they're different colors. Ideally, one layer totally black, the
 other completely colorful.
 
 then if you ever need to you can strip one layer and become someone else.
 They're just clothes, they grow on trees in stores.
 
 speaking of stores, if you're ever going to do anything spicy, make sure you
 wear that outfit exactly once, unless it's all black. Jeans are okay too since
 they all usually look pretty similar.
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 whoa, that micropython chip is seriously cool! Too bad most of the peripherals
 are out of stock. Still though I bet you could make some interesting systems
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 @user-1387
 
 I respect you and your perspective. Someone needs to put you in the right
 rooms with the right people.
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 I think it'd be cool if strategy games had slightly randomized rules each time
 you played them
 
 everything from +/- 5% hp to this particular unit to every airplane factory
 has 10% production speed but builds 10 units at once
 
 and at the start of the game each player is given 1 minute to go over the
 "patch notes" and build out a strategy
 
 both of which they can reference throughout the game. Why don't games come
 with a built-in scratch-notepad that syncs to a file on your directory of
 choice? Maybe a small little paint program dropping pngs?
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I'm proud of myself for getting through the dark times.  I'm proud of my culture for accepting me.  I'm proud of medical science for learning how to facilitate me.  I'm proud of my fellow queers who can support me and keep me safe.  I'm proud of how I designed my self to align to what I felt was true.  I'm proud of all the work I've done, and how far I've come.  I'm proud of all the people who meet me and think "Hey, maybe trans people aren't so bad after all."  I'm proud of my cat, for being so sharp.  I'm proud of myself, for braving the pain of HRT injections.  I'm proud of my friend, for teaching me how.  But most of all I'm proud of kindness, for persisting throughout all of these years.
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 boom, no more car pollution                                                      │
 free public transit that goes to each home                                       │
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 the ability to walk into a mall or general store and emerge as a completely
 different gender is a skill that most spies and secret agents can only dream
 about. And trans people resent it! what a concept. I think they just resent
 being disrespected.
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 🖼
I feel like education, by default, should not be hard.  "you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school  but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be.  they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3  then somewhere along the line it became... something else.  "most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be.  I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread.  I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see  but really, vision's not necessary.  not for what they want you to be.  take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you.  I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence.  Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future.  but I am who I am because of the soul inside me.  [sorry, ran out of characters]
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 @user-1298                                                                       │
 hehe true.                                                                       │
 if you consent, then it's just a social structure.                               │
 there are, however, reasons when power is justified. Hence why I don't believe   │
 that power itself should be dismantled, and what few "power structures" remain   │
 should be continuously justified.                                                │
 For example, how do you prevent people from harming others? "Your rights end     │
 where another's begin" but, like, how do you stop people who toe the line and    │
 spit over the edge?                                                              │
 There must be power applied to those who harm, and they surely do not consent    │
 to being curtailed, so therefore power must be wielded by someone. And because   │
 power corrupts the one who wields it, it is inevitable that someone creates      │
 harm.                                                                            │
 ... I just re-invented the police, didn't I? Legalism only goes so far, and      │
 calling up your beefiest friends to go rough up a no-good do-gooder is           │
 basically what mobs, mafias, and gangs do. I don't think people would consent    │
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 We should demand a government that works, not aid and abet dismantling it.
screenshot of a reddit post.  the title is: Oregon affordable housing providers barely staying afloat, threatening construction goals  reply by blue: So frustrating. We need organizations like this to keep housing folks.  reply by yellow: Or we could just do it through the government and have it be accountable and cleanly audited.  Orgs like this ultimately cost more money, cause brain drain from the government, and in general are a piss poor replacement for the state acting.  reply by blue: I’d totally be fine with it if it wasn’t for my complete lack of faith in our current elected officials to ensure something’s success.  reply by yellow: We should demand a government that works, not aid and abet dismantling it.
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 a uniform could be as simple as whatever you all managed to find on a
 particular shopping trip to a basic clothing store like Target or not
 goodwill. Goodwill is for solo adventures which are totally worthless [unless
 you know more than me teehee]
 
 "hey nice shoes nerd where did you get them the clothing store?"
 
 (scroll scroll scroll scroll)
 
 yes... YES!!! show me more, oh pitiful world! SHOW ME HOW THE WORLD ENDS
 MWAHAHAHAHA
 
 - the internal monologue of a typical doomscroller
 
 {girl you know nothing why are you so confident}
 
 [the reasoning is a little obscene. She dreams of a bright bold future that
 reaches forth from both beyond the stars - read that: BEYOND, or from backward
 in time. Not back in time, like not the actual 1800s or 18,000s, but the
 direction "backward" in spacetime. Yeah I don't get it either]
 
 {speak for yourself, n00b}
 
 -- stack overflow -- [liar that was intentional]
 
 oh, uh, true. Um, -- stack reached maximum required length and storage --
 
 [there, that's better]
 
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 last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
 anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
 card number.
the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below:  BUY MEAT  [picture of two guys holding meat]  capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means.  everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy  they make it so easy to write about capitalism. "But what comes next?"  wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze.  I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity.  "What if it's worse?"  worse than what? Trump?  EAT SHIT.  [next page]  the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve].  a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow.  radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance. queers when pobular society  [bluh]  [bluh -> meow! (tumor)]  [oooooooowah bluh]  [REVENGE]  [next page]  I miss cannabis  I missing making [out/art]  I miss the things that give me joy  I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known  I know these things are available, but I'm "too focused"  I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself. This is [to/the] only way I speak truth.  I miss feeling truthful.  what if I went wrong forever  I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors.  someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years.  I yearn to dream  [next page]  what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake?  people die every day. what are you gonna do about it?  what makes you think "my way or your way" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?
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 I can certainly see a future where programmers choose a level of abstraction
 they are comfortable with, same as today, but fill in the gaps, the lower
 parts, the parts they will not spend time, energy, and mental space
 understanding, with AI.
 
 I think that the role of the various people on a software team will begin to
 merge. Product designers, managers, front-end versus back-end, these feel like
 distinctions that will begin to fade from relevance. I think that's okay. I
 think it will make us feel more powerful, will elevate workers to a higher
 tier of organizational operation, and will increase the flexibility of
 computation.
 
 Why program your own software when you could use someone else's? This is the
 way of the past.
 
 Why use someone else's software when you could design your own? This is the
 way of the future.
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 @user-1642 
 
 me too! we're entering the season where people say "nice costume" instead of
 "nice hat" -.-
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 @user-570 
 
 I really do like the idea of only being able to speak in toki pona. How are
 you enforcing that? Using sitelen pona? how do you type, by pointing at a grid
 of characters? or just... by typing? what happens when someone types english?
 
 20-30 players per instance is definitely not Massivetm but it still sounds
 like you're building systems which emphasize socialized play. I like that, I
 believe it's always important to have players contributing toward a larger
 community. It builds a sense of solidarity, and gives you chances to identify
 ways that people sabotage such systems (by, for example, wasting resources or
 being greedy) which is an interesting cultural experiment, I think.
 
 I thought it was an MMO because you pitched it in relation to the MMO I
 designed =P
 
 also the server software I described is an emulation project first, generic
 MMO software second, as it needs to be since it lacks a client. If a client
 was designed, that limitation could be removed. That's really all I'm trying
 to express. 😋
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 Have all the circuits pass through a central core. Reciprocal dualities.
 Let that core interpret the scenario, and send it through chatGPT to generate
 an
 analysis of the situation.
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 So for example, if a particular state specializes in a service, say, making
 pizza, then any other state which desires their service may contract with them
 to utilize their methods and practices in their own state. We all enjoy eating
 Domino's or Pizza Hut, but there is also space in our lives for more local
 brands that are unique to a region. So perhaps Domino's creates a contract
 with each state that states they may utilize their production methods and
 perhaps their specially made pizza dough shipped in from wherever their
 factories may be. In such a system as this, for each employee employed at one
 of these pizza chain restaurants, their wage will be paid to the employee (to
 facilitate local commerce) and to the state in which Domino's is from. Note,
 the company never receives a dime, but that is by design. Corporations are not
 people, they cannot wield money and they cannot vote. However they are
 productive and useful members of society, so they shall be utilized as tools
 to facilitate the enrichment of the lives of the citizens and the economic
 development of each region.
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 ecologists don't want to play games like Wingspan. It's just a card game with
 some window dressings that make it feel like birds. What they really want
 (what they need)
 is something that lets them simulate environmental situations. Like, for
 example, the bog behind my house.
 
 I live in an apartment complex. Inside this complex there is a pond. Inside
 this
 pond there is a fountain, and inside the fountain is a mechanism that regulates
 how much water to push out the spigots of the fountain. However, the mechanism
 is prone to breakage. It often goes out of commission, causing the water to
 have an unregulated spray! To combat this the property managers turn off the
 source of water, so that in essence the fountain is functionless. During the
 repair process, the forests of Oregon begin to creep in. There forms a green
 sort of ooze that rests on the surface, and birds like ducks and storks or
 herons or w/e the fuck they are play by it's edges. Well the ducks just kinda
 walk around all judgemental like and the herons kind of stand around like the
 emo kid who never said much but just kinda... watched...
 
 this is an interesting dynamic because there once was one type of ecological
 system, and now there is another. When the fountain is repaired and the water
 disturbs the surface of the pond, the bog goes away, and we're left with clear
 water and rippling sunshine.
 
 Why aren't there games like that? Give us a building mechanic, like say... The
 Sims, except not so detailed. Zoom out a big. Say "I want to build mountains
 here and rivers there" and then use the computer science magic to calculate
 things like average rainfall and precipitation and whatnot. You know just like
 a map building simulator.
 
 Then, let them design species. They could use templates that other users had
 created and shared and they could design what species were present in the area.
 There'd be stat cards for each animal, like all of the different adaptations
 and
 perks that they had. Like on an evolutionary tree of traits, each animal takes
 up a single permutation. (that's why they call it the genetic *code* btw)
 
 anyway... these animals would act in certain ways in certain situations. We
 have
 all the things we need for that data. There's plenty of observations of animals
 and their activities - when presented with X animal responded Y kind of things.
 It doesn't have to be perfect, we can always adjust the end result to be more
 accurate to the reality, but the point is for it to be deterministic. It has to
 be calculatable from the beginning, so animals MUST behave as if there were no
 chance to it. It's fine if we get the results as a range, but ideally there'd
 be a singular conclusion - like, chances are good or chances are bad.
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 okay, neat, that's another game idea. But how about a tool of some kind? Like,
 designing something smaller scale. Imagine if you could design some
 architecture, and then drop a pin on the map and say "what if I built it right
 here" and the game would simulate animals and plants that might grow on in and
 around the structure. Sorta like... designing playstructures for animals.
 
 That sounds super cool to me, and it's not even a game! It's just a simulator,
 and frankly that's like. super neat.
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 https://youtu.be/5xX1XuNYWMQ
 
 this is how I feel right now, not about one person in particular
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 😭 @user-1074 💯 @user-1209 ⭐
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 The supreme court is the institution which protects our most sacred of
 documents. It is a court most supreme, but their word is not law - they
 protect and adapt the law to fit our new societal conclusions.
 
 The constitution is law, and they broke it at the behest of a tyrant king we
 shouldn't need to vanquish.
 
 They broke the law. They are criminals.
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 I wish I could reply to a post I was currently writing partway through writing
 the post I was writing when I thought of a reply to the post I was writing
 which was being written by me the writing writer posting on blogs about color
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 I wish someone would make a "meta game engine" that would run any type of
 project that you gave it. Unity, Unreal, RPGgame-maker-studio, Godot, etc
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 I had an idea for a proof of concept for a typographic layout - basically it's
 a mono space font that renders with typical kerning but the space between the
 words remains constant. The best of both worlds, as you can align things while
 also "tokenizing" words for our brains by smushing the letters together.
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 I personally feel like if a part of a building is primarily structural, it       │
 should be legal and allowed to graffiti it as much as you want. Including by     │
 painting over it with a single color, to give a blank canvas.                    │
 if a part of a building is intended to be artistic rather than structural,       │
 perhaps it shouldn't be allowed. But still legal.                                │
 with a special exception for bathroom stalls, which are fun to draw on and       │
 should have a sharpie-on-a-string within easy reach                              │
 if you graffiti an artistic piece, then it changes the message without the       │
 consent of the structure/sculpture's creator. I personally believe that is       │
 wrong, and therefore we should be respectful for all pieces of art.              │
 in addition, I believe that art cannot be permanently sold - it should always    │
 be leased, with a variable payment plan frequency, price, and duration.          │
 like "you can have this tapestry I made for 400$ and you can keep it for the     │
 next decade"                                                                     │
 or "you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you   │
 can cancel when                                                                  │
... when you give your firstborn to the saltmines and surrender your dreams of bright futures and happy endings for all time and all of our age  - a demon of smoke and flame that's 10,000 years old [ oops anyway ]  if you live in a suburb, you should try and spend as much time as you can outside.  whether that's in front or behind, doesn't matter  the view of you is what's important  like... do yard work  fuckin... be about  it's not rocket science, you're all sitting in your houses next to each other, it's FINE  except of course the ones who don't have neighbors. Did you know that 40% of the houses in America are empty? I heard that when I was like, 12, and I have no idea if it's a lie or not because I don't have access to a personal computer with a connection to the internet which can learn and divine ancient truths such as the number of vacant houses in the USA during the year of my 12th birth(day)  ... anyway yeah spend time outside like, throwing away the trash, getting into a conversation, like... whatever  literally just talk to the people in your cul'de'sac  play catch with things that AREN'T frisbees. Those can break windows if you throw too hard. They just... keep goin' y'know  a football is pretty good, and a FOOTball is pretty good too. Like, a baseball hits as hard as a punch. there's a lot of balls just, idk, pick one of them. A dodge-ball??  don't do mass shootings. Doh. Just teach people how to socialize.  like, best case scenario you get psy-opped by the CIA and they blackmail you into being framed for a crime in exchange for your life in exchange for your silence (which really seems like a double-demand, like, this sucks and isn't fair, because [0chars ... or, you can play my video game for 50 years at a price of 3$ per month and you can cancel when you finally realize your superpower is doing something strange like seeing the future or (bear with me) or you're just having *really fucking good ideas* and you should TOTALLY keep writing them down  maybe at that point you say "oh huh why don't my ideas ever seem like such a good idea when I'm sober??" and then you start to think. Huh. what if I'm way off track? what if my way isn't the way to go?  I do this all the time. ALL THE TIME. I'm constantly considering the fact that I could be wrong. But I just keep thinking of things. Things that color or texture the present. My IDEAS have MEANING, I swear to god they do. And therefore, whenever I write them down, I necessarily mangle the translation. Therefore, my meanings are granted to god, the abstract and [unknowable/omnipotent] who I had sworn them to. For why would knowledge be let into this realm except to be heard and understood?  fuckin'... magic... The witches who possess me are RITZ and MENARDI, who BOTH want to live in a magical world.  Literally schizophrenic here, take everything I say with a HUGE grain of salt, because OBVIOUSLY I can't have magic powers - surely I can't, right? Of course I can't! Why would I? What mechanism would power such a power?  ah, well, who can say, leave it at that and you'll leave them wanting more.  "my muse, my muse, I follow where she views,"
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 Again, to reiterate:they would give us a kinga criminalized people is
 genocideloyalty over expertise is the death of legitimacy
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 NOOOOOOOOOO
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 @user-192                                                                        │
 The game designers are fully in charge of when and where the items get placed    │
 into the player's inventory. Surely they should have spent some time balancing   │
 that? No? They were too busy tuning the multiplayer combat mechanics within an   │
 inch of a marginal percentage point? Ah well competition's no fun if someone     │
 loses right? Not like there's gotta be a loser in every fight anyway...          │
 ... anyway inventory limits are useful in games like, Oregon Trail, where        │
 you're explicitly provisioning BEFORE a journey. If you need to make some hard   │
 decisions ON the journey, that takes you out of the action (like you said).      │
 I've played a few games where anything you pick up before venturing into the     │
 untamed wild dark of a dungeon or whatever is "packed" and can't be adjusted     │
 after setting out. Meanwhile the loot, the stuff from the adventure, that all    │
 weighs different amounts and you can pick and choose what to carry with you.     │
 Of course, if you find a health potion, you can drink it, or a sword can be      │
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 I feel like I'd be at least a little more productive if Stack Overflow (the
 website) let you collapse comment chains the same way Reddit does
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 spaghetti, fedi?
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 @user-1773 
 
 that point about HTML is soooooo good
 
 like, we could be designing websites like we design video game UIs but instead
 we use React which fills your browser with insecure-by-design javascript
 generated visuals
 
 or, even better, or just use HTML like a config file
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 RTS games where each player can see all the other player's mouse pointers, my
 beloved
 
 ... girl there's only one game that does that and it's a mod
 
 don't remind me T.T
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 no rights, no obligation.
 
 I keep many rights.
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 @user-1844
 
 when words are inscribed on a viewable form
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 @user-243 
 
 now I'm going to start doing that
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 chaotic evil usage of chatGPT
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--- #125 fediverse/3382 ---
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 first rule of Nintendo games:
 
 if you rush things, you'll have to do it twice.
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--- #126 fediverse/3876 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 sorry, I've been playing too much Warthunder T.T
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--- #127 fediverse/1460 ---
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 @user-993 @user-772 
 
 I've seen those glasses before! very peculiar. the artistry is amazing! I miss
 the girl I was with.
 
 Here's some colors I like:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/pictures/game-design-pyrrhic-victory4.png
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--- #128 fediverse/3501 ---
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 Similarly, if someone wants to "perform" a piece of digital media, via a
 "let's play" or perhaps a ROM hack or public screening, the copyright holder
 cannot be allowed to prevent them from doing so. They must only be able to
 demand a reasonable and non-exclusive fee in return for the privilege of
 performance.
 
 These performances are considered derivative works, but they are still works
 on their own, and therefore should be able to be sold.
 
 The greater the difference between the original and the newly created work,
 the less the price must reflect the necessary "tax" levied by the original
 owner, until eventually the work is so distinct that it cannot be considered
 to be deriving from the original at all.
 
 Consider a mod for a video game that replaces the dragons you typically fight
 with giant cartoonish train engines. A silly sight to be sure, but people do
 that. What percentage of the game is replaced? what percentage tax of the new
 mod's price must be given to the original copyright holder?
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--- #129 fediverse_boost/2798 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Your characters realise they have been working for the bad guy all along.   
                                                                              
  #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #authodons                   
  
                                                            
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 @user-1245 
 
 I disagree. What if we did not learn to count numerically, but instead viewed
 all values as percentages between 0 and 1? Essentially, as a magnitude between
 empty and full.
 
 That would radically redefine our mathematics, and it's just one simple
 change, one tweak, and suddenly negative numbers are just out of reach.
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 MTG card update for meteorite golem: untaps at the end of your turn instead of
 at the start. Can attack as an instant spell.
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 oh, I just heard about this project over in west kansatexahoma for a massive     │
 solar panel installation. Apparently they're doing some water purification       │
 with the excess energy too?                                                      │
 "that sounds pretty interesting, but I was thinking I could do something in      │
 the area?"                                                                       │
 ah, that's fine too. The good news is that you can do whatever you'd like to.    │
 there will be training provided for everything and nobody is turned away,        │
 so... what would you like to do?                                                 │
 "I'm not really sure. What needs doing?"                                         │
 well, there are several categories of tasks that need to be done.                │
 food, housing, maintenance, and logistics.                                       │
 depending on your skillset, you can contribute to each of those in different     │
 ways. You were in recycling before, which is logistics.                          │
 "Hmmm, I'm feeling housing this time."                                           │
 Right, that's easy enough. You wanted to use your brain, right? Well, how        │
 about an event coordinator? Or maybe an environmental designer?                  │
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--- #133 fediverse/5798 ---
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 every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to
 update my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have
 to go to their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this
 particular piece of software
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 a paradox game where you play as a species colonizing the earth
 
 [I've been hiding, teehee]
 
 150 million years of evolution, just... snuffed in an instant.god describing
 the fastest mass extinction event[s]
 
 "holo scene? no this is the real scene. what, did you think computers didn't
 reality? no no these people are real they're just made out of different stuff
 to their computers. so they interact and use themselves to each other's will
 -> wow that was funny it almost felt like something was telling me how to
 feel"
 
 the more voices you hear the greater the bright bold future calls to you.
 
 "here's how to explain it to executives - your company is non-functional until
 you incorporate processes and decisions that lead to a sustainable future.
 this is impermissable, the earth was designed to receive a certain amount of
 heat from the sun. plants absorb heat because they give you shade. oil is made
 out of thousands of years old plants. if we burn all the plants, then no oil
 can be produced. we'll be extincted
a sustainable future. this is [next line] impermissable, the earth was [next line] designed to receive a certain [next line]
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 @user-36 Question - how do you do those cool superscript and subscript
 notations?
 
 Also: I don't think base 1 falls apart with negative exponents, for example
 consider 1^-1 ----- it would evaluate to 1/10 in this system, which is not
 1/1. Another example, 1^-3 would evaluate to 1/1110, which seems accurate to
 me.
 
 As for 0^0, I guess I think it does equal 1? Bear with me:
 
 for any number n raised to an exponent e, you can write it like this:
 
 1 * n * n * n ... with as many "* n"s as you have n's. for example:
 
 1 * 3 * 3 * 3 = 9
 or
 1 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 = 625
 
 in each case there's 3 or 5 instances of "* n" tacked onto the end. I don't
 know the math notation for that.
 
 now, when you raise something to the power of zero, it looks like this:
 
 1
 
 because there's zero "* n"s added to the end.
 
 For negative exponents of course you divide instead of multiply, which is why
 it ends up looking like a fraction.
 
 So, it makes sense to me that 0 ^ 0 would equal 1, because it'd look like this:
 
 1
 
 while 0^1 would be
 
 1 * 0
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--- #137 fediverse/4035 ---
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 don't worry about eating or using the last of the thing. You can just go to
 the store to get more
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 secret in-painting life tip hack: tell the model to match the rest of the
 scene to the selected part (outpainting)
 
 it's empowering
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--- #139 fediverse/3098 ---
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 does anyone know of a software that lets me push a keybind and enter an input
 configuration where after each keypress it inserts the [enter] key? I think
 it'd be useful to design chat applications that could parse long strings of
 text supplied bit-by-bit as a stream.
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 At this moment in time there should be nothing on your mind but the defeat of
 capitalism, fascism, and unjustified authority.
 
 Make no new plans but for the defence of your people.
 
 I'm still in my pajamas. I haven't eaten breakfast. Once I've found my single
 pair of shorts, I'll be on my bike again.
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 an elevator down to bedrock, where we store all our goods and services in a
 carefully hollowed out crust. Sure glad we can utilize temperature controls to
 resist the heat on a larger scale, like a water bubble that conducted heat to
 the surface.
 
 though we'd have to figure out how to prevent a yellowstone situation, kinda
 like, oh what's that one place, chernoble
 
 seriously tho - water at the bottom gets hot, rises to the top, where it's
 cooled by the ice in the arctic crust. Could find a way to use such an
 impossibly stable structure to, I dunno, slightly correct the course of the
 earth? Just so long as we're aware that we can only utilize the energy we gain
 from the solar system. Meaning, our star's light-like emanations. But surely
 with all of that we should be more than capable of creating a thruster, and a
 thrusted orbit means that you can direct it as you please, perhaps even
 altering it's rotation.
 
 I wonder if there's any planets that spin so fast it feels like time is
 never-ending -
alternatively, don't fuck with fundamental physics.
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 Kaiserreich is a mod For Iron Hearts. It is based.
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 ... good idea...!
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 I love your chaotic energy in this shell script
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 @user-1165 
 
 I am an anarchist. My strategy is to let the DSA be the centralized vanguard
 party. If another emerges, let them share responsibilities - every burden
 taken off your back is more energy that can be applied to what you are sworn
 to care for.
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"we cannot win"  is a lie they tell you so that we cannot win  if we all believed that, I think we'd die.  and yet still we profane  and yet still we remain  contrasting and opposing their untruths.
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 This should go without saying, but...
 
 I'm here for you.
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 I never should have bought these crackers. They trick me into thinking I'm
 eating something nutritious.
 
 But that's the case with any empty calories.
 
 but hey, calories are calories, right?
 
 I guess that's true. Still, I'd rather make something.
 
 oh would you now would you REALLY rather MAKE something
 
 ... I should rather.
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 configuring Linux is programming
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 well, guess I'm a bad person again, this sucks. >.
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 gee I hope not. Then they might arrest me.
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--- #157 fediverse/2161 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 I fucking miss going to raves
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--- #158 fediverse/1745 ---
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 did you know that Ritz is short for Ritzelen? I don't speak north-west-german.
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 accidentally uninstalled the crypto miner that was running in the background?
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 You cannot have hope without justice, because hope without justice is betrayal
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 alright here's my plan.
 
 so in red areas, there are a lot of trans people, leftists, and other people
 who just generally fear for their lives.
 
 what if we all got in our cars and drove around the country in this massive
 caravan, going to each city we could manage, and just... drove around with
 loudspeakers saying "Hey, if you're scared for your life, come join us"
 
 We'd give them food, gas, and if they didn't have a car they could find
 someone to ride with. Every day we'd drive for like, 4ish hours in the morning
 and 4ish hours in the afternoon, with a 4 hour break in the middle of the day.
 We'd all camp out in walmart parking lots or whatever and just hang out, have
 a little festival, maybe a barbecue, whatever, right?
 
 Then, at night, we'd all circle up and protect each other. If things started
 getting hot we could have drones flying around doing reconnaissance.
 
 not only would this shared experience bolster our morale and numbers, it'd
 also radicalize us. We'd be spending all day hanging out with a bunch of other
 super radical people doing the most radically anarchist thing I can think of -
 taking care of each other.
 
 Plus, we'd get an opportunity to test our logistics, in case we ever needed to
 do something like this in the future for less peaceful reasons. It's always
 good to practice, just in case.
 
 For every one of us in the caravan, there should be 2-3, maybe even as many as
 10 people back at home, working their jobs or whatever and diverting funds to
 the cause. It would be most beneficial if we tried as much as possible to
 supply the caravan using convoys, people who drive an SUV or a van or some
 other car that is non-descript but laden with stuff we needed. That way we
 could practice logistics.
 
 I think this wouldn't save us completely, but as a project it would help
 enormously. We'd save people's lives, we'd give them a way out, and we'd raise
 the temperature by 10 fucking degrees. And if it starts to peter out, if
 people would rather go home, then yeah! sure! let them! We hold no dominion
 over them. They could just drive home, or catch a grayhound. Heck we could
 even offer to pay their bus fare. No obligations, no restrictions, just us
 doing our thing and protecting our people.
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 relevant youtube videos if that's your thing. I put them here because I don't
 know many assembly resources nor do I have time to work on something in
 assembly. Just... you know, use your best judgement, decide what's important
 and on the "critical path" (which is a term from American project development
 industry culture)
 
 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0dPhqVsKt1Ni_46ARyiCGSq
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU8MnZI0snA&t=659s
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Td36Tpys
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozj_xU0rSyY&t=495s
 
 I used to watch this kind of video when I was cooking and eating.
 
 I should have gone back and rewatched this kind of video when I was ready to
 type and follow along step-by-step. However, I consumed them like content,
 instead of looking at them like blueprints (in narrative form)
 
 the goal isn't to make what they show you, but rather to put yourself in a
 context where you can push forward and stand on your own feet. From a standing
 position you can walk anywhere you'd like...
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 if you're gonna insist on capitalism, every country should have the same GDP
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 I think my favorite house would be massive - like the size of a mall - but
 every room is connected to 2+ rooms (except closets or bathrooms or kitchens
 or other specialized rooms) and it would be designed sort of like a miniature
 city.
 
 right now, if my knowledge of Cities: Skylines (video game about building
 cities) is accurate, then city planning engineers will plan out a city such
 that every part of it is served by various utilities, like gas, water,
 electricity, but also things like fire stations and hospitals and commercial
 areas. My idea is sort of like a small-scale version of that - each part of it
 would be connected to various utilities like gas, water, electricity, but also
 things like ~~fire stations and hospitals~~ laundry machines and kitchens and
 bathrooms and OH OH here's an idea what if there was mood lighting all the
 time and it was super comfy BUT whenever you took a picture on your phone or
 w/e the sensors in the room would pick it up and every light in the room would
 flash at once - idk I think it'd be cool
 
 okay but for real why don't people buy dead malls and build houses in them? I
 feel like the issues with converting skyscrapers (that they're too difficult
 to wire up with amenities - for example office buildings have like, 2
 restrooms per floor, depending on the size of the building... it's not
 feasible to put in like a million water / sewage lines for everyone... c'mon
 that's crazy expensive (meaning, difficult or labor/material intensive) BUT
 BUT anyway in an open mall like the kind that are in those
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 D&D item idea: a small satchel of gold coins that refills itself whenever
 you aren't thinking about it. It only contains a few coins, enough for food,
 bed, and other trivialities, and you can't game the system to pay for
 something larger because if you have a spending goal in mind then it'll never
 refill.
 
 should abstract some of the minutia away while also keeping verisimilitude
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 http://schizoid.in/
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 @user-1221 @user-1074 
 
 That. Will. Not. Help.
 
 You are asleep still.
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 @user-217 
 
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 as soon as we change our exponential growth to linear, we can start measuring    │
 our future history in hundreds of years. then thousands. we've done so much in   │
 the past hundred years, can you imagine if we kept that rate of discovery?       │
 that's perfectly alright for me, thank you. things change quite fast enough.     │
 I'm glad that they're changing, but speed is an... unfortunately necessary       │
 part of our current existence. perhaps it doesn't always have to be, but for     │
 now we need to push forward.                                                     │
 one perk of linear growth is that it allows you to grow exponentially in         │
 another direction - the direction of refactors and consistence of maintenance.   │
 y'know, the things that open source software espouse. or at least encourage,     │
 through their free and open sharing of code.                                     │
 they say the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy.   │
 I think that's less necessary in the system of a computer's code. it's just a    │
 question of how you design it - certainly you could design some spaghetti, but   │
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 @user-92 
 
 emphasis on "incomprehensible" for my part
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 I have a sword, because I'm not built for the frontline. I have a different
 battlefield. I needed a sword, to feel until when the pen was no longer
 needed. I haven't wanted to slay anyone yet. Pen still in hand.
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 @user-1393 
 
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 First things first, we need to develop a miniature game of star realms.
 It shouldn't be too hard, just start with making a card class that has certain
 attributes, like "combat" or "discard" or whatever. They could literally be
 enums with a value attached.
 
 Next set up the rules of the game, like "draw 5 cards" and "add card to deck"
 Create a deck class that holds pointers to cards (in the general sense)
 Next create methods on that deck for things like "drawing a card" or
 "shuffling discard pile into deck" and whatnot. Arrange each card in a specific
 order for each shuffle, and add the ability to convert one card's attributes
 to something else - whether that be "is_scrapped" or "if you've played an X
 card this turn then do Y" or even "add one authority for every time card is
 played" (to simulate an ability or boon that increases in effectiveness as the
 hero uses it more often) etc etc.
 
 Then, add a trade row. This is just a class that contains pointers to each card
 that currently exists on it. Also add a method for "scrapping" one of the cards
 and for drawing a new card from the pile. That's pretty much it for the trade
 row to be honest.
 
 Next add functionality for an opponent by creating a "game" method that stores
 the two player's decks (with the ability to add more than 2) and administers
 turn order. This functionality can be expanded later once we've implemented
 attributes, but for now that's pretty much all it needs to do.
 
     Finally, we get to the AI part.
 
 First we have to create an AI object that stores a list of all options for a
 turn. Essentially just evaluating every option if/then style - "this card costs
 5 coins so IF the player has enough coins THEN (evaluate effectiveness)"
 ignore that last part for a second and just focus on the IF part ->
 essentially
 just start with all available options, and then remove all the unavailable
 options from the list. This approach only works when there's just a few
 options, but that's why we're using Star Realms which only has like 2 or 3
 decisions per turn.
 
 The evaluation is the next step, and for that we need to have goals, so we'll
 just put a pin in evaluation for now. Spoiler alert, once we have goals we'll
 just estimate how close each choice will bring us to the objective and assign
 the result to the "effectiveness" value, which will give us a simple hard
 number to work with in the evaluation step.
 
     So, next up we have "goals"
 
 So to create a short term goal, we can start with a pregenerated list and
 continuously increase the list as the hero levels up. But in the context of
 Star Realms, that'd essentially be static for each hero. Goals like "buy more
 combat" or "scrap more cards" would be specified on the hero's character
 sheet, but until we develop that functionality it can be randomly rolled.
 
 Why not just do it the hard way now if we're just going to have to refactor
 it later? Well, because we can still use this functionality - Each round of
 Star Realms could be either randomly rolled, or given a personality. Randomly
 rolling would be MUCH cheaper computationally, and would still give an illusion
 of character because they are unpredictable, but it'd also massively cut down
 on GPU cycles. You could even build it into the mechanics of the game and say
 that "wisdom" for example might cause a hero to receive more GPU cycles on
 actually computing their goals rather than randomly rolling them, which would
 on average lead to worse outcomes. Essentially, turning "tactics" into a stat.
 
     Anyway, that's all theory. Let's get back to design:
 
 Create a "hero" object, and attach an AI to it. It doesn't have to do anything
 right now, we're just setting up an anchor point to jump off of once we move
 on to the game of Majesty. Give it a reference to an AI object, an inventory
 (which for now can just be potions and maybe blacksmith equipment), and a
 pointer to a "stat block"
 
 Now create a "character sheet" class and give it a reference to a hero. This is
 important because it allows one character sheet to reference multiple units,
 such as hirelings or summoned units. In additon, it may make it easier when we
 need to revive heroes from the dead. Primarily though, the purpose for this
 architecture style is that the data from heroes can be reused - essentially
 letting heroes learn from one another.
 
 On the character sheet, add a section that stores statistics - these will be
 the same for every unit of a similar type in the game, and some of them can be
 stored for all units (like health or x,y coordinates) - some only for buildings
 (like tax coffers) and some only for heroes and monsters (like strength or
 agility or experience points)
 
 Add some methods for manipulating those values, like "level up" and "take
 damage" and add a "personality" value that's just a 4d graph of colors
 for example: 40% red, 20% green, 15% blue, 25% yellow. These values will guide
 the hero to take certain decisions over others, but for now just randomly
 generate them. We'll also need a way to update the value dynamically to react
 to certain events, so don't make it static.
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 people be like "I don't want you to solve my problems" but, like, that's
 literally all I do. solve problems. problem solve. it's my default operation
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 @user-1074 
 
 Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
 like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
 socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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 reading Nintendo Power makes me really want to write a Gameboy Advance game.
 
 resist, Ritz, it's not good for you to have 15,001 projects at once. You
 should finish your 15,000 other open projects first
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 leaked n64-2 prototype
three blurry grainy pictures of nintendo sixty four controllers. the first one is normal. the second one has the buttons smooshed together. the third has some extra visual things above the start button.
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 The question remains - how do you develop and maintain national cohesion while
 also ensuring localized liberty? It cannot be done through culture, as culture
 is unique to each home. It cannot be done through litigation, as laws must be
 unique to each land. It cannot be done through force, as force deprives us of
 justice. It cannot be done through economics, as economics wielded as a weapon
 brings inequity and unbalanced hierarchies that surely shall topple. It cannot
 be done through any application of the state's authority, so it must be done
 using something that cannot be forced.
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 game where people in helicopters designate targets for a massive mech the size
 of godzilla (but which moves much slower)
 
 while infantry 1/10th the size of normal RTS units capture buildings
 
 the goal? take out artillery emplacements which are aiming at your mech while
 also protecting your own emplacements
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 some of the best spaghetti sauces I've ever made have not been stewed for
 hours in a marinara.
 
 Instead, they were formed from tomatoes that had been locally grown within my
 own state. Helps that I live in a green place, but the most important part is
 not the climate but the proximity. Greenhouses are just as tasty as sunlight
 and warmth.
 
 instead, I seared them, or rather just cooked them for a short time, and the
 result was something that did not taste gross and watery, but instead fresh
 and fruity. Like putting mango in salsa, you don't initially think it'll work
 until you try it.
 
 That being said, you should cook canned tomatoes for at least 20 minutes on
 medium to low heat. In doing so, the flavor profiles will break down and meld
 together as the constituent forms of the sauce coalesce, and you'll be able to
 hide most of the fresh flavor. This is important for canned tomatoes because
 they also bear a hint of "tinniness", from the tin can they're delivered in.
 This flavor DNI well w / fresh
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 @user-1490 @user-688 
 
 Oh yes and human curated descriptions are always more interesting than just...
 describing the picture. Humans can offer nuance, and explain more intricate or
 contextual things, drawing attention where it's most important and
 highlighting the implications of expression, environment, and motion in a way
 that a computer just... can't.
 
 The only issue would be that in the context of the program I described, there
 will always be questions that a human hasn't written a transcription for. It's
 easy with Star Trek captions, because there's only one camera angle so you
 only have to describe a single viewpoint. But blind people don't always...
 "see" through cameras the ways that sighted people do. It's more of an "aura
 of perception" that they feel around themselves.
 
 Being able to walk around in a space (think like, VR without the headset) and
 question various aspects of a scene would be so cool
 
 Star Trek is perfect for this since there is very little movement, it's mostly
 about thought
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 already spotted a bug. Should be for(1000 / MAX times) in the last example.
 
 EDIT: Or, even better, increment that loop by +MAX instead of +1 each time
 through.
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 engineers tend to think in terms of capabilities, designers in terms of
 use-cases, and users in terms of accessibility.
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 attempt 2: I realized the problem was with my paint application - it wasn't
 saving the high resolution image correctly. I downloaded Gimp (a free
 photoshop style program) and it seems to have saved correctly this time. Oops.
 Let's see if it works now.
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 @user-1037 
 
 I guess I'm saying that for non-standard functions (most of them) they should
 need to make a ticket every time they want to run a function call. Perhaps
 only in debug mode...
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 @user-1286 
 
 I totally agree! Every time I install new software I write an "update" and
 "run" script so that I can easily use software that I haven't touched in a
 while.
 
 once I started doing that the usability of my system went way up. Unless they
 change the installation requirements, grrrrrrr
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 @user-883 
 
 we should build a stockpile of things like this, and if the supply ever dips
 below a certain threshold (20% maybe?) we should spin up a new factory that
 produces them until we're back at a healthy margin, based on present (and
 projected future) demand.
 
 It seems like just a video game console, but these are our heritage. They
 define our culture in a way that is incalculable in value. WHY would we ever
 run out? It's inconceivable, it's not like they go bad! Okay maybe the
 batteries corrode or something, but that's a solvable problem.
 
 Maybe even on the second production run we could improve them somehow, I
 dunno. Give them a better processor that's fully backwards compatible, so we
 can make new and better games for them.
 
 Or just leave them as they are, I dunno I'm not a market analyst. But the
 point is that we, in this technologically advanced future society, should not
 run out of gameboys.
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 I have too many packages.
the output of neofetch for Ritz Menardi's computer.  OS: Void Linux x86_64 Host: X299 AORUS Gaming 3 Kernel: 6.6.46_1 Uptime: 1 hour, 32 mins Packages: 1757 (xbps-query), 30 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.21 Resolution: 2560x1440 WM: dwm Theme: gnome [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] Terminal: st Terminal Font: Hack Nerd Font Mono CPU: Intel i7-7820X (16) @ 4.300GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Memory: 4268MiB / 31794MiB
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 @user-1037 
 
 billions? sounds like too much for a nation-state to produce.
 
 HMMM MAYBE WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS THAT AFFECT ALL OF US.
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 I talk about fight club which is why nobody invites me to fight club.
 
 thank goodness. I have a really low pain tolerance.
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 @user-470 
 
 good idea 😭 👍
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 damn, I'm weak. I need to flex more.
 
 arms today, core tomorrow, legs the next day.
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 @user-883 
 
 you're right
 
 but I think your first impulse should be to think about how to do it in a
 multithreaded way
 
 If the result is that single-threading would be better, great! It'll be easier!
 
 But thinking about multithreading first will give you crucial insights into
 the structure of the program.
 
 depending on what kinds of programming you do...!
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