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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 31, 2023, 12:05:13 am »
That's... definitely odd. Could be autocorrupt, I guess, but... still. Frankness isn't that close to franchise.

Is there any kind of commentary on the change?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: July 31, 2023, 12:02:30 am »
Just in general, gloves when using tools is a good idea if you want to reduce the chance of some kind of hand related annoyance happening.

I used to be kinda' lackadaisical about it, and then going a little too hard with a rake ended up causing the right kind of damage to get a wart to settle in to one of my thumbs. It took multiple doctor trips and like a fucking year to get rid of that thing. Ever since: Gloves. Every time.

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Other Games / Re: Idle games (2)
« on: July 30, 2023, 02:01:24 pm »
Quote from: Astral on July 30, 2023, 07:06:49 am
An idle game that has kept my attention for the past four months made it to a Steam release!

Unnamed Space Idle has a pretty basic core gameplay loop to start, but there are a lot of options that all feed back into it.
Checked that one out. For the curious, the relevant value type is Double, but be careful about adjusting values when the game's in the middle of doing it, itself (i.e. right as a synth part finishes construction, if you're pushing the XP up). Can cause the game to crash :P

If that doesn't make any sense to you, don't worry about it. If you know, you know :V

... anyway, more generally I've found a lot of times I'm kinda' interested in what's going on with idle games, but as a general thing I just hate the grind aspect of it. It's nice when you can, uh, manually adjust that without much trouble, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: July 30, 2023, 10:56:33 am »
Well, no, he's apparently already taking the trip to the country in question? More saying swing by if you're in the borders, and from what I understand of most of europe that's a hell of a lot more reasonable of a proposition than it would be stateside, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!
« on: July 29, 2023, 04:37:26 pm »
Quote from: martinuzz on July 29, 2023, 03:14:36 pm
I would not be surprised if he has implanted himself with one too many of the things. The way he speaks non-fluently, almost robotic always makes me think he has some kind of brain damage.
I also genuinly worry about his kids, I hope they aren't his personal cyborg projects.
It's... probably the drugs more than anything to do with cybernetics. Forget which is public knowledge, but it's fairly well known he abuses at least one or two sorts, iirc. Between that, rich person brainrot, and whatever else is going on with his fucked up personal life, it's probably not the best for cognitive functioning.

If he wasn't such a colossal asshole, it'd almost be sad how much of a mid life crisis the blighter's been going through for the last while. Unfortunately, he's doing things like willingly platforming people that share pedophile snuff videos, so, y'know, fuck 'em.

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Other Games / Re: The "Recommend me a game" thread
« on: July 29, 2023, 03:47:34 pm »
... anyone happen to know if there's any spawn based RTS games out there, ala the old starcraft LotR maps, that aren't custom map style stuff? Actual stand-alone games. Basically you conquer regions and they spawn units on a timer rather than you manually building them or anything. Limited base building at most, lots of events when one thing or another happens, all that jive.

Random youtube vid of a WC3 one (this) reminded me I used to kinda' love those things, and I can't recall any dedicated games for that kind of playstyle. It'd be neat to see something like that not hobbled by the control restrictions inherent in the engines all the ones I've seen are built in.

Closest would maybe be those unit stream ones where you take over planets and they spew stuff at the next over... there's a term for 'em, I think, but I can't remember it. Quick google has an example in whatever this is, something called bitplanets. They're very much not what I'm thinking of, but it's relatively close.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 28, 2023, 11:28:58 pm »
Today I learned about this... rabbit hole of youtube videos collectively based around. Games aren't the right word? Toys? Something. There's no player input whatsoever, it's entirely automated, etc.

Anyway, it's based around various permutations of marble races, basically rube goldberg machines where circles bounce around until stuff finishes happening, usually colored and "competing" (there's no, like... agency involved, it's entirely RNG) against each other.

And, like. It's weirdly enthralling? I've spent hours today watching these things. They'd make really good screensavers.

The WTF is mostly from somehow having never encountered the stuff before, there's apparently at least several hundred videos of folks running these things. One of the more popular channels seems to be here, where someone's managed to rack up over a million subscribers doing vids of this stuff. Core Destruction #22 was the first one I ran across, and it was pretty neat.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: some people notice when 1 change the title
« on: July 27, 2023, 09:27:52 am »
man, rip mf doom

... still haven't gotten around to actually listening to any of their stuff, but the fellow was a legend.

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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: July 27, 2023, 09:20:05 am »
Yeeaaah, if they done done it once, they gon' done do it again. It's a fundamental destruction of any trust you can reasonably extend to the company in question, because they've proven they're able and willing to reach the point that sounded like a good idea, and then act on it.

... now I kinda' regret picking up WotR earlier this year.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: July 25, 2023, 08:58:54 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on July 25, 2023, 07:57:12 pm
Quote from: https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
idk dude I legit think there is something wrong with the US education system. It's like they teach people wrong on purpose so they have to believe anything they're told because they can't read or understand things that show them how fucked things are
I'd... probably recommend looking more into what the study's saying, because eyeballing it the US's results aren't particularly out of line with (most) other applicable nations.

Beyond that, piles of people read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level largely because that's the normal level stuff's written as. Most published fiction hovers around 5th-6th grade level so far as that kind of thing goes. It's completely unsurprising great swaths of the country don't read higher than that when it's largely unnecessary and unencountered. Too damn tired at the moment to go looking myself and the data wasn't immediately accessible, but you're probably going to find similar numbers for most developed english speaking countries just due to that.

US education system has its problems, but they're largely either no worse or somewhat better than they used to be, though there's definitely been a hit from everything going on with the plague.

Any case, whatever its issues they're bloody peanuts when it comes to general public sentiment compared to our media efforts in regards to stuff like inflation. Most folks have spent a lot more time stewing in that mess than they have in a classroom or classroom equivalent. Put the blame where the impact's happening, y'know? Even folks equipped with the best education background in the world have trouble keeping their head straight in the face of that junk, especially decades after they're out of school.

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Other Games / Re: Idle games (2)
« on: July 25, 2023, 06:47:38 pm »
... y'know, I'm checking that evolve thing out and... can you really not progress without researching currency? My autoclicker powered mold people wanted to live in a moneyless society ;_;

e: seriously though how do these people know to demand money to build more buildings if the species has no concept of money, what is this nonsense

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: July 25, 2023, 05:52:54 pm »
Joke aside, if the seed's still able to sprout (i.e. is still alive) then, uh, yeah, it's still alive? There's a pile of different plant seeds that can sprout without being planted in soil.

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General Discussion / Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« on: July 25, 2023, 05:18:38 pm »
Eh... it's just a unicode character? Very, very literally, the "Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X". I'm not sure I'd call it corporatist art at all, they klepped the thing basically unaltered from a friggin' font set. It's lazy plagiarism more than anything.

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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: July 25, 2023, 04:14:44 pm »
For what it's worth, there's nonogram solvers online, and some of the basic maneuvers are on the wikipedia page.

Past a relatively simple point, those things give me a headache. I can do pretty intense sudoku but nonograms are just, like... no, no, I'm just going to not :-\

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 25, 2023, 04:05:52 pm »
Yeah, that's the emergency maneuver. It works, but the cat knows what that's about and hates it rather more intensely than she does the dropper :V

Quote from: askovdk on July 25, 2023, 05:09:39 am
?!?!???
... and they are even ugly IMHO.
Y'know what it reminds me of? Old series themed handheld games. I'd almost swear I actually saw a hell, I checked midsentence, and there damn sure was. Konami put them out. That design is almost certainly intentional nostalgia bait.

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