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Bumping to say... chengband. Tonberry Ninja. Abandon ye' all hope, for reality no longer holds mercy for thine flesh. The butcher comes.

I will say, the heng/etc. Ninja is one of the more interesting critters I've seen in a roguelike... game in general, really. Inverts some stuff, add some interesting tricks. They're just... nice.

Can't sleep, but binaural beats are making me feel very mellow. I really need to play with this stuff more, but for the time being randomly playing mixtures of the sample stuff does alright. Current mix: Catnapper and chakras.

And Darvi speaks like a sane Floridian.  Let us treasure those precious few weeks where elements exposed to the sun don't double as cooking ranges.

Dunno how they're managing it. I've just got normal sleeping problems. Went to sleep around 10:30ish, I think. Woke up at 11:50. Spent a couple hours reading, then an hour+ staring at the back of my eyelids. Though daylight saving shift would manage to explain how my brain's registering four hours of fruitlessness when the clock's saying only three or so.

Days like these I really wish I knew how the blue hell those people that just nod off manage it. I only half joke when I say I'd kill to be able to do that

Sometimes I wonder if it's because they actually see blackness behind their eyelids instead of a roiling orgy of color. I mean. It's pretty. But maybe a little distracting, I'unno.

Coin-based decision making is probably a bad idea, but I've heard that flipping a coin to decide between two options is a good idea if you're indecisive, because while it is in the air you'll know what you really want to do.

Yeah, more along those lines is what I meant. If you've got two (or a few, you can break it down pretty easy using a single coin) options that are as good or nearly as good (or at least you have no particularly strong reason to choose one over the other), then a coin flip can save some time. Mostly I'm just sorta' curious if reality has some kind of strange coin-flip bias where choices made like that (between two relatively good options) tend to come out better than not. Maybe it (reducing your field of choices to a small pool of acceptable ones and then choosing pseudo-randomly) is a more optimal strategy than actually deciding! I don't think anyone's actually ran the numbers, so... it could be.

Not sure if I'd use indecisive particularly, though. More of an ambivalence thing. Indecision would indicate sitting around and trying to figure out the better choice instead of just choosing and not really caring what the outcome is. Most of the decisions I make via coin flip (which, being fair, mostly revolve around what's for dinner) certainly aren't made in mid air, though. I just don't really care what I eat (well, among the foodstuffs I keep regularly) and flipping a coin is more fun than grabbing the first thing I pull out of the food bag* sometimes. Heads means the food that comes earlier in the alphabet, tails the one later.

*I keep most of my canned food and non-perishables in a single large bag (I think it was originally a laundry bag or something, I'unno.), which I reasonably refer to as the food bag. Lunch generally consists of reaching into the bag and cooking whatever comes out, but sometimes I flip for it.

Franz I remember, Gavvy not so much. Honestly, I'm not even sure if the history book they foisted on us in grade school mentioned it. And damn, I actually paid attention in the history classes, which... yeah.

But hey, being remembered by a few hundred people is a thing, I guess. Doesn't take much for that. Dude that invented the slide ruler was awesome. Probably be remembered longer than Gavvy or Lee will be, too. Hell, already managed a few more centuries, I think.

I have no idea who Phlox is, but Phlox has the best name. <Indeterminate gender> gets my vote.

Quote from: Sensei on March 10, 2013, 08:23:35 am

Yeah, I believe last year they discovered Kim Jong Un invented cold fusion and an energy drink that makes people younger.

ftfy

No, no, discovered was the right verb. Ancient ruins, man. The god-kings of yesteryear had the best loot. Just a couple miles out from the unicorn lair and a few hundred feet from the unicron lair, which is why it took so long to find the unicorn one after digging up cold fusion and the elixir of life.

Should do whatever you feel like

Boss Toad doesn't usually come down unless there's complaints and minor derailment or topic meandering doesn't tend to generate them down here, so you don't have to worry much about that.

As for spaceships... I've never really been particularly enamored to star trek designs, I think. It's either a case of not enough spikes or them all looking... I'unno, flimsy. Even the big ones just feel really small or somethin'. Borg stuff is about the only things that look solid that I can recall and they're kinda' prickly, just a little boring. Gimme an SDF or a dropship or something, I guess.