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  1. Comment on The 100 games that taught me game design in ~games

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    I get the impression that he wasn't playing games when those eras of computing happened and so went back to catch some genre defining games but didn't play everything as it came out.

    I get the impression that he wasn't playing games when those eras of computing happened and so went back to catch some genre defining games but didn't play everything as it came out.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on "twitter.com" is now officially dead in ~tech

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    That's always my intention when I use that spelling.

    That's always my intention when I use that spelling.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Is Nebula worth it? in ~tech

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    I bought the lifetime and it's one of the avenues for "de-googlification" for me.

    I bought the lifetime and it's one of the avenues for "de-googlification" for me.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on HADES II Early Access has started in ~games

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    I'm in the camp of "If I'm going to put 60 hours into this game eventually, I'd rather do it when it's done, not while it's incomplete". I'd rather wait for all the quality of life features and...

    I'm in the camp of "If I'm going to put 60 hours into this game eventually, I'd rather do it when it's done, not while it's incomplete". I'd rather wait for all the quality of life features and the potential game breaking bugs to be implemented/fixed as necessary and have the best experience I can. I'll have more fun with it later and there's no rush.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on The unbreakable Kryptos code in ~misc

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    That's definitely my interpretation. I poked around with ciphers for my D&D game and can confirm that it is really easy to make a simple mistake that makes the resulting code uncrackable within...

    That's definitely my interpretation. I poked around with ciphers for my D&D game and can confirm that it is really easy to make a simple mistake that makes the resulting code uncrackable within the expected rules.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Stops along a drive from Texas to Pennsylvania in ~travel

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    BBQ in Memphis is lovely. Best ribs I've ever had were from Rendezvous.

    BBQ in Memphis is lovely. Best ribs I've ever had were from Rendezvous.

  7. Comment on Cartoons such as Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, or Avatar? in ~tv

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    The Owl House is magnificent and deserving of all the praise. It's a shame the 3rd season was cut short, but Disney making weird decisions is par for the course there.

    The Owl House is magnificent and deserving of all the praise. It's a shame the 3rd season was cut short, but Disney making weird decisions is par for the course there.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement

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    These are the ones I have. They're an adapter that lets you run ethernet over coax. So, instead of rewiring the house for ethernet, I'm using something that's good enough and doesn't break my lease.

    These are the ones I have. They're an adapter that lets you run ethernet over coax. So, instead of rewiring the house for ethernet, I'm using something that's good enough and doesn't break my lease.

  9. Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement

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    It wouldn't be a current representation of supplies/groceries, but a standard one. You might not know exactly what was in your cupboard, but it was probably similar to the video, so you can...

    It wouldn't be a current representation of supplies/groceries, but a standard one. You might not know exactly what was in your cupboard, but it was probably similar to the video, so you can pretend that it was.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement

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    If there's coax in the walls already, you can use MOCA 2.5 adapters to get surprisingly good speeds (we get symmetric 500 Mb per second)

    If there's coax in the walls already, you can use MOCA 2.5 adapters to get surprisingly good speeds (we get symmetric 500 Mb per second)

    1 vote

  11. Comment on I bought a house, now what? in ~life.home_improvement

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    Expanding on this idea: Last time I moved, I measured the furniture and then went to the new space with a roll of painters tape and taped out where everything would go. It's much easier to move...

    Expanding on this idea: Last time I moved, I measured the furniture and then went to the new space with a roll of painters tape and taped out where everything would go. It's much easier to move tape than couches and tables and it was a big help for feeling out what the space would be like with furniture. The more extreme method of this is using folding chairs and air mattresses. They aren't the exact right size, but they can still be helpful.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue in ~tech

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    Signal sounds like it ticks all of these boxes?

    Signal sounds like it ticks all of these boxes?

  13. Comment on Tesla's gear-shifting problems known long before Angela Chao's death in ~transport

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    Huh... Good to know. Thanks!

    Huh... Good to know. Thanks!

  14. Comment on Tesla's gear-shifting problems known long before Angela Chao's death in ~transport

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    That'd be pretty cool. I wonder if you can make e-ink pigments with a glow in the good glow in the dark powder. Then you'd have a glow in the dark e-ink display which would still be lit if you...

    That'd be pretty cool. I wonder if you can make e-ink pigments with a glow in the good glow in the dark powder. Then you'd have a glow in the dark e-ink display which would still be lit if you lost power.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Tesla's gear-shifting problems known long before Angela Chao's death in ~transport

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    I thought suicide doors were called that because the front door had to be open in order to open the back door? Not just that they opened backwards. Am I mistaken?

    I thought suicide doors were called that because the front door had to be open in order to open the back door? Not just that they opened backwards. Am I mistaken?

  16. Comment on Tesla's gear-shifting problems known long before Angela Chao's death in ~transport

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    Additionally, you can redesign the UI much more easily than you can move knobs on the dashboard. So, if you want to dramatically change the layout of the dashboard, that sets back production by...

    Additionally, you can redesign the UI much more easily than you can move knobs on the dashboard. So, if you want to dramatically change the layout of the dashboard, that sets back production by weeks instead of months. Faster design time makes life easier in manufacturing.

    12 votes

  17. Comment on Rooster Teeth is shutting down after twenty-one years in ~games

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    That's what an article I read earlier today said (the verge maybe?). Apparently, they're looking for buyers for Red vs Blue, RWBY, and some other show I hadn't heard of.

    That's what an article I read earlier today said (the verge maybe?). Apparently, they're looking for buyers for Red vs Blue, RWBY, and some other show I hadn't heard of.

  18. Comment on What's a "house rule" that has made a game more fun for you? in ~games

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    I don't know. Coming up with it in the moment is part of the fun. Whatever it is, it needs to be something the whole table will tell stories about for the next several years. I'd like to get input...

    I don't know. Coming up with it in the moment is part of the fun. Whatever it is, it needs to be something the whole table will tell stories about for the next several years. I'd like to get input from the table about what feels fair and reasonable. It's also going to depend a lot on the context. Playing a one shot probably shouldn't have the result being the player being sucked into a demiplane and a dozen session side quest to rescue them, but at the same time, in a 100 session campaign, having the party merely lose the encounter also seem wrong. So, basically the same as the 20 case, but bad instead of good.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What's a "house rule" that has made a game more fun for you? in ~games

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    When running my d20 TTRPGs (regardless of the specific system), I use exploding dice. What this means is that if someone rolls a 20 (or a 1 if you're feeling spicy), then they roll again and...

    When running my d20 TTRPGs (regardless of the specific system), I use exploding dice. What this means is that if someone rolls a 20 (or a 1 if you're feeling mean spicy), then they roll again and continue until they stop rolling 20s. If you roll a single 20, then it's just a normal critical success. But, if you roll more than one then the success is successively greater. Usually this ends up meaning that a second 20 becomes hyper-competent and the super rare 3rd 20 is an auto-win for the encounter (I've never had someone roll 4 in a row, but I'm sure everyone at the table can come up with a reasonable reward for a 1 in 160,000 chance).

    18 votes

  20. Comment on The American Idol theme park experience in ~humanities.history

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    Ehh... That one surprises me less. The truly awful ones are weeded out before the stage experience and the bad ones get weeded out by the final stage performance. After that, they handed out 4000...

    Ehh... That one surprises me less. The truly awful ones are weeded out before the stage experience and the bad ones get weeded out by the final stage performance. After that, they handed out 4000 of the tickets and we don't know how many were redeemed.

    2 votes