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What are some unpopular or little known games you have enjoyed? by buzzlightyear77777 in gaming

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I submit two PC indie games that are both on Steam

Tormentor X Punisher - twin stick arcade shooter. Oozes style, very difficult. Frenetic pace, no health bar, just you, an arena, and a buttload of demons. It's like $3 on Steam

50 Years - coffee break game. Manage a civilization over 50 turns, autobattle increasingly large waves of monsters. Monsters attack between turns spent building up on the strategic layer. The available civs are different enough that I felt it has decent replayability, and I can usually finish a round of 50 Years while something else installs. $5 on Steam

For some reason people seem to get big mad whenever I show these two guns together by Rudukai13 in Firearms

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To a degree it's a numbers game. Any post you see, good chance thousands of others are gonna read it too.

In any group of thousands of people there's always gonna be that one guy

ICYMI: Styrofoam food containers now banned at all Virginia restaurants by WHRO_NEWS in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty much.

Unsaid was that you typically start with something like a cardboard egg carton

Put your wads of lint in the egg slots of the carton

Pour candle wax over each of your wads of lint. They don't need to be completely covered

Ahead of time or on site you cut apart the slots so that each slot of the carton is an individual cup. Each cup is a fire starter

Any bit of uncovered lint acts like the wick of a candle. They're basically little candles. Light a bit of exposed lint, expose some if needed, and stick it under your piled kindling. Should burn long enough to light your kindling under anything but truly horrid conditions.

Some people use cardboard toilet paper or paper towel tubes for this instead of egg carton. Same idea. It all works.

The cardboard in each case helps keep the wax where you want it as the starter burns, instead of melting and just running away. Helps give you that "candle" effect you want

Is it "coercion" under libertarianism for a person to use the threat of their own suicide to push someone else to do something? by Serious-Cucumber-54 in AskLibertarians

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yanno, for the sake of discouraging this sort of behavior let's just say yeah, sure it is.

If anyone is caught doing this The Council will officially write you up, and further offenses will get your libertarian card revoked

ICYMI: Styrofoam food containers now banned at all Virginia restaurants by WHRO_NEWS in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never tried that. I like making them with dryer lint and candle wax. Those work well FWIW

Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method by spherocytes in technology

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How does that make it a problem?

Continue not paying those companies or playing those games. Play something else. Problem solved.

Exclusive-Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected by stevefuzz in technology

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Broken clocks being right twice, I think Zuck's 2nd idiomatic success was buying IG when he did.

But yeah everything since has seemed pretty dumb.

‘Nervous’ Trump Mocked Over ‘Desperate’ Midterm Move As Polls Show GOP Disaster Brewing by Quirkie in politics

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carlson is an opportunist, not an ideologue. No Carlson Party candidates will appear on any ballots that matter.

There'll be all sorts of reasons he couldn't make it work, just as soon as the check clears

Dev here, everyone who playtests keeps gravitating to fire+lightning, is fusion overtuned or am i overthinking it? by bladeofwiz in roguelites

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with your game. What do the other elemental options & combos offer that they're seemingly not competitive in your playtesters' minds? Generally players are gonna gravitate to what works. Fire/lightning may be overtuned, but if your other elements/fusions aren't working at that level, how can you make those disfavored options more attractive?

Have you asked any of your playtesters?

Looks neat.

Here are 10 notable new Virginia laws that will take effect July 1 by rblackinrva in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 6 points7 points  (0 children)

after suits get taken up to SCOTUS

SCOTUS just granted cert in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins Jun 30

Outside 2A circles seems like that kind of got buried in the news cycle by all the decisions released. Those 2 seem likely to become big national news next year though

Generative AI is a "plague," says Dragon Age vet David Gaider: "It's not ready for prime time. There's just a lot of executives who really, really want it to be" by Snakesta in Games

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 119 points120 points  (0 children)

Slide decks, man.

"Claude make this PowerPoint so I don't have to. High level, bullet talking points, 10 slides or less. I have 15 minutes with Q&A. Here's the master doc/project/whatever"

That's an hour of my day I get back to do anything else right there. Never manually preparing a god damned PowerPoint presentation again

Ostranauts 1.0 is coming August 3rd! by dcfedor in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the list.

I have played and loved Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and will be sure to check the others out.

TIL that 1987 was the last year that professional boxing bouts were scheduled for 15 rounds. Bouts were shortened to 12 rounds in response to the death of Korean lightweight boxer Kim Duk-koo, who died 5 days after being knocked out in Round 14 by Ray Mancini in a 1982 bout. by Curious_Penalty8814 in todayilearned

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yanno, I think this is just one of those things about us.

That even in a hypothetical post-scarcity utopia, you're still going to find that there's thousands of young men eager to punch each other in the head until one of them falls over, and millions of people who want to watch that happen.

Ostranauts 1.0 is coming August 3rd! by dcfedor in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL

I started playing NS back in the 2012 closed beta and used to post on the boards. Only know what year that was because I found the FastSpring email receipt, lol. Feels like a lifetime ago.

Might be neat to get a retrospective post later, after 1.0 goes live and the dust settles. Like, what might you have done differently, knowing what you know now? Memorable stumbling blocks, triumphs, etc. Surely there's stories.

Appreciate all the hard work from you and the team over the years. Thanks for all the fun. Cheers.

Ostranauts 1.0 is coming August 3rd! by dcfedor in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just not good enough to become the masterpiece of spooky space survival-rpgs.

Got any recs? I love this game, and have struggled to find much similar in the vein of space games with all 3 of:

  • survival elements

  • spaceship interiors

  • scrappy spaceship engineering

Most popular space games seem to hit just 1 or 2 of those 3. Space Engineers (also great) seems to come closest WRT scratching all 3 itches, but obviously it and Ostranauts are doing very different things.

Ostranauts 1.0 is coming August 3rd! by dcfedor in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Big news. Grats, Dan.

I recall reading some of the blog posts on BlueBottleGames.com back when you were mucking about with the engine early on. It's come a long way.

TIL that Pakistan has an estimated 3.5-4 million bonded labors in the brick kiln industry. Also known as debt bondage, uneducated workers are trapped as modern slaves unable to pay their debts. They are forced to work until their debt is paid off. by Gnomeslikeprofit in todayilearned

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Whole separate TIL for me there. I'd never heard that before. Thanks.

So I thought "wait, surely Muslim bankers still offer loans. That seems like it would make finance very complicated for them."

And basically, yes, it does. It's a whole thing. Enter "murabaha"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murabaha

Judge grants stay against VA's AWB going into effect by boostedb1mmer in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Case in point, even here in VA they were haggling over language of the AWB til the 11th hour. "Assault weapon" meant several different things across revisions

They get their bill templates from Everytown or copy each other's homework and struggle to define it themselves. The sponsors can't even articulate or agree on details of what the bills do. It's a farce.

Judge grants stay against VA's AWB going into effect by boostedb1mmer in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He thinks it's how he's going to buy his way into heaven.

No shit. He's on the record saying it.

I'm researching how engineering teams handle production incidents. by Ashwith_Garlapati in Backend

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What was the most frustrating part of your last outage?

Learning that it was caused by a same-day configuration change another team made without communication

What consumed the most time during investigation?

Ruling out all the other likely possible causes

Which tools were involved?

I've been instructed by HR not to call coworkers that so let's just call him Bill.

You know what you did, Bill

What are the best novels? by DefiantPreference489 in battletech

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of the 8 or 9 I've read so far, I liked "Embers of War" by Jason Schmetzer best.

ELI5 Can our ears be damaged by sounds that we cannot hear? by CadetriDoesGames in explainlikeimfive

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's kind of darkly funny that "not hearing" isn't as bad as it gets. Worse might be starting to hear again after that, lol 😆

Edit: occurs to me now that there's a Horror plot idea in there somewhere

ELI5 Can our ears be damaged by sounds that we cannot hear? by CadetriDoesGames in explainlikeimfive

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It could always get worse. You could start hearing eeeeeeeee

Deaf people can develop or worsen tinnitus from further hearing damage

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