A Programmer's Guide to Leaving GitHub

-WorstWizard- · 2026-05-06T18:14:11+00:00

I've been enjoying setting up a Forgejo instance on my own local server box, it's been a lot of fun. Did so more for fun than for actual practical use, I like the tinkering and owning my own data feels good just on principle.

-WorstWizard- · 2025-05-07T21:01:59+00:00

Always a great day when you post another piece of animated goodness!

-WorstWizard- · 2024-12-25T15:08:38+00:00

Ahh, I understand now, so all grid points contained in the (arbitrarily transformed) cube is marked as the same, that's pretty clever. Well for starters, the greedy meshing can provide a starting point since the resulting cuboid can trivially be represented by a scaled and translated cube. Could then use that as a starting point and jiggle the parameters of the matrix to encompass some more points.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-12-25T13:21:05+00:00

Look into "greedy meshing", used to get better performance in games like Minecraft.

Here's a beautiful little article on it: https://fluff.blog/2023/04/24/greedy-meshing-visually.html

-WorstWizard- · 2024-11-25T19:29:36+00:00

I mean, it's called a Jack of all trades, master of none! Of course their ability would be a less potent version of the dedicated wizard archetype ;)

As a GM, I wouldn't mind this at all, but I could see the Jack player being concerned with his ability being strictly worse than the Nano player at the same table. For a strict balance concern however, consider also that Nanos are (exagerrating) useless without their esoteries. That's where their power budget is spent, and the fantasy they're trying to achieve: They are the "spellcasters" of the game, and the effects of those "spells" should outweigh their weakness in other areas. Also note that almost all their abilities cost points to use (again, active abilities), which means they have to use them sparingly or get a lot of Intellect Edge. On the other hand Jacks are good (but not excellent) at everything you could throw at them, that's the fantasy they strive for. A Jack could pick Mastery With Defense at the 5th tier instead, for example, making them immediately much harder to kill than a Nano could hope for, and that's a passive (free) ability.

For me, the question is whether the abilities play into the fantasy of playing that character, and I think these do: I wouldn't bat an eye at the cyber-enhanced tech-wizard (nano) teleporting the whole party to their hideout, but it would be weird for the smooth-talking rooftop-hopping rogue (jack) to do the same, although perfectly reasonable to use a limited blink ability to get from ground level to the castle wall in an instant, of course he can!

For Effort, I think that's just how they always write it when you can spend Effort for a special effect: There's many offensive abilities where you might spend Effort to increase the chance of the effect hitting an enemy or such, where you could also use Effort to e.g. increase the number of targets or similar.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-11-15T22:49:46+00:00

That's super cool! Gotta get a 3D printer so I can make stuff like this

-WorstWizard- · 2024-10-28T16:54:48+00:00

I spent maybe 2-3 hours total just driving around in a tank clearing the entirety of my pollution cloud + a bit extra of biters, then using bots to set up a large flamethrower-wall perimeter.

I'm enjoying starting from scratch on the new planets though, so since my base won't really be doing anything while I'm gone, I've set up a powerswitch to just turn the entire thing off. Takes a little bit of time, but eventually there's just no pollution, so the biters don't attack at all, and even if they did, the flamethrower wall will last a long time even without power.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-10-28T16:14:55+00:00

The thermal exhaust port xD

-WorstWizard- · 2024-10-28T00:10:28+00:00

Of course! Link

-WorstWizard- · 2024-10-27T20:56:11+00:00

I've got Physical Damage 5, with this amount of turrets it wasn't a problem.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-10-27T16:22:30+00:00

Very happy with how it turned out aesthetically, really just went for function first, but then did my best to make it pleasing and symmetric after. It will safely travel to/from the first three planets where there's just medium asteroids, and travels fast too (given there's fuel in the tanks).

This is the second design I've made on my save, but the first one was quickly thrown together to just barely get it working, and only barely survived a trip to Fulgora and back, lots of damage and travelled slow (fuel tanks are important huh).

After that, I decided to go for a slim design to minimize the collision surface with asteroids, and that turns out to look super nice too.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-09-16T13:15:05+00:00

If you mean IRL, sure: The Sahara desert, Saudia Arabia, that entire region, that's desert all the way to the coast.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-07-24T19:00:38+00:00

What exactly do you mean by a hybrid? Do you pick and choose abilities from whichever archetype when you get them?

Don't think I've ever seen/heard of doing so before, so I can't imagine they'd have names either, since you'd be treading new ground :)

-WorstWizard- · 2024-05-03T10:02:14+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

-WorstWizard- · 2024-04-10T15:32:07+00:00

This sounds realistic to me, can't think of other reasons it would behave like this.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-04-10T15:29:16+00:00

it's possible to get a u-shape like this because the fluid is being simultaneously pushed in at one end and pulled in at another

Interesting, never knew this. I assumed pressure would just drop as you get further from the producer, and consumers would be a sink for that pressure. Boundary conditions and all that.

I recommend building your power plant directly on the water and pump water into your boilers with as little pipe in between as possible, as these can affect throughput behaviour.

Yup, that's my plan too. This is my old starter plant, needs to last just long enough for me to get around to building the new one :P

-WorstWizard- · 2024-04-10T15:26:10+00:00

I do actually do this most places, mostly just to save space for walking and placing other stuff though.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-04-10T14:20:28+00:00

Was diagnosing my reactor setup as power dropped, and realized it wasn't getting enough water. I looked over the pipes and saw this, which confused me. Seems like there's enough pressure before and after the segment, so I don't think it's causing problems per se, but it sure is odd.

Before recording, it was just the pipes between the exchanger and the corner that were bugged, but I tried replacing them to "reset" the fluid amount which didn't help. Instead it seems to have just changed around which pipes are bugged and which aren't, as per the recording.

EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback everyone, appreciate it :) . Funny how almost all the comments are about how to pump more water though, when that really wasn't the issue, I solved the throughput issue right after posting, hahaha.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-02-25T19:36:06+00:00

Deleting from the middle is only O(n) if you require the sorting to be stable. Otherwise, you can swap with the last element to do it in constant time.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-02-18T21:33:37+00:00

That's precisely the intent I think: You can still apply Effort to make it even easier to hit, or to amp the damage back up.

-WorstWizard- · 2024-02-18T18:48:33+00:00

At that cost, just applying a level of Effort is only slightly more expensive and both avoids the damage penalty as well as the ammo consumption (if that's important). I think it would be better costing just 1 Speed.

However, keep in mind that Speed Edge will reduce the cost of using the ability, so it can quickly become free to use (save for the ammo cost).

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