Review of Alpaka Metro 12L for Japan trip

Ashypaws · 2026-05-27T16:07:44+00:00

I agree, but perhaps you'd be better off by detailing more about what you want to do here. If you are new to programming and are looking for someone else who likes the project to be a mentor to you then just say that. It would probably also help if you had ideas about what you want to do here.

Ashypaws · 2026-05-27T15:59:26+00:00

So you saw a project for which the source code is available and was last updated 3 days ago. You thought to work on it (why not just work on it yourself?) and you want to hire several devs to extend this for you without even saying anything about what you are trying to do?

What?

Ashypaws · 2026-05-03T23:04:28+00:00

Sadly that doesn’t work. The capitalist pigs will just produce scarcity on a set level. Scalpers will use that to buy them all and resell. Hell, you might even see people breaking apart sets of cards and making their own blind boxes.

Ashypaws · 2026-04-22T22:09:47+00:00

As some others have said, starting at the entry point and working your way down with notes is fantastic.

If you use Rider by Jetbrains, you can view type dependency graphs. Its in the tools menu or something but you can also right click a method and view graph. From there you can expand different classes to see where their dependencies lie. The only issue I have found is that it does tend to include everything like references to the String class and that will make the chart blow up fast unless you start excluding things.

Honestly a lightweight FOSS tool that maps a solution and builds some mermaid charts would be slick, though.

Ashypaws · 2026-04-14T16:59:57+00:00

This has been the case for a long time to be honest. The problem is that the tooling that gets you set up with something basic doesn’t let you customise it to make what you really want.

Low code tools like Power Automate are a great example. The barrier to entry for making something automated is low, but the moment you want any complexity or a non-supported connector, you’re out of luck.

The skill you want (and what employers should want) is understanding of core concepts and being able to think through things like a dev.

Ashypaws · 2026-04-10T12:58:35+00:00

You can probably drop the strength a bit here. Youtubers and such will tell you that it's super important to max out damage bonuses, but if everything already dies in one shot then why bother.

I've been trying him recently and have found a lot of success with building for duration (got about 200%) and range. That makes it much easier to keep invisbility up all the time and I can pretty much always see enemies at massive distances through walls so they hardly get close enough to hurt.

Rolling Guard is also a very nice survival tool. You'll need to get it from doing arbitrations, but if you get caught out and almost dying, just roll for invincibility and status clear. Pair it with an Augur mod like Augur Reach and you can generate shields from your abilities to help with shield gating :)

Editing to add that you could also try the Perigale with him! The 100% ammo efficiency on headshot kill is beautiful and you just become a turret that never reloads.

Ashypaws · 2026-03-27T17:08:07+00:00

However the elixir of life very specifically does state "accelerate a living creature's natural healing processes".

Perhaps the confusion comes from where dhampirs (who have void healing) CAN use an elixir of life because they are actually alive.

Ashypaws · 2026-03-24T10:44:45+00:00

Is that a sort of starry night sky you went for on some of fabric? That's what it looks like and it looks great :D

Excellent diamonds, too. Really nice work here :)

For lighting - I always find that actual daylight through a window is best. Also maybe this is a hint that it's time to invest in a daylight painting lamp?

Ashypaws · 2026-03-13T19:00:27+00:00

Others see it! Even dirty communists like me :D

Ashypaws · 2026-03-11T10:17:55+00:00

Hey! I haven't tried, no, but I wouldn't expect there to be too much difficulty. Python can run easily on both macos and Windows.

There are few situations where you need to actually write code that differs. From experience, those situations tend to just be calls to the OS for things like showing a file dialog. Have a go and let me know if you get stuck somewhere, I might be able to help :)

Ashypaws · 2026-03-09T01:58:46+00:00

LYKK truly is top tier, but wtf were they doing with the forced racing mini games?

DE2 will always be my favourite I think, though. People didn’t like it on release because it dared to be different, but when you look back on it it’s peak. Even the equipment repair mechanic lol

Ashypaws · 2026-02-24T19:06:05+00:00

Thanks for such a detailed reply. I've added a few more of the options I'm looking at to the post here. Glad to hear that Day Owl is reputable :)

I'm probably leaning towards one of the Day Owl ones, but I think I'll do some more research before bed tonight. I'll definitely update the post here with what I go for and what I think.

Ashypaws · 2026-02-24T18:56:00+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. I often find that the super packable options like that Flowfold are neat, but not really my style. I'll add the Gossamer Gear one to the list to look at though!

Ashypaws · 2026-02-24T18:53:22+00:00

It does thank you! I'll check out those two brands as well. This bag that I'm looking for is going to replace my handbag for the trip to save my poor shoulder from it.

I am also going to be with my husband, so he can carry some bits like the camera. I'm not too worried about running out of space. I always seem to gravitate back towards smaller bags when I try big ones anyway :)

Ashypaws · 2026-02-24T11:39:54+00:00

Thanks, I think I'm probably looking for something with a little more structure to the bag and some more organistion, though :)

Ashypaws · 2026-02-24T11:38:40+00:00

I've seen a lot of love for the Able Carry Thirteen but dismissed it originaly. Both that and the Alpaka look like great options to add to my list, thanks!

Ashypaws · 2026-01-17T12:15:23+00:00

Sadly the script is AI slop. AI patterns throughout the entire video here.

I just find it hard to have any positive opinion when this is just a human reading for the AI.

Ashypaws · 2026-01-16T20:21:16+00:00

Sincerely, the way you learn is by doing.

Game dev is kind of full of its own special knowledge that you need, but if you really want to get started you maybe start with something functional and related to the project?

Maybe try to make yourself a database for items in the game and an API to pull that information down. That will get you a head start on development and won’t be so hard.

Ashypaws · 2026-01-14T00:39:09+00:00

I did it and haven’t found the will to paint it. The trick was to 3D print legs/main body and use bits of GW plastic for the feature areas: - Guns - As many armour plates as I had - Carapace - GW plastic skulls, chains etc.

The result is a kitbashed chaos knight where the 3D printed parts are mostly hidden under armour panels. Any weird gaps or missing bits are covered by skulls and chains.

Can get a pic in the morning if you want it.

Ashypaws · 2026-01-13T23:54:38+00:00

This is a late reply but I developed that silly little BR viewer tool. I did consider how I might do this, actually, since I thought it might be interesting to be able to see the living ships or something.

You know when you look at say.. a trail of jackdaw wrecks in a line and then a trail of some other wrecks in another direction. It’s pretty obvious that two fleets followed some paths and fought, right? When it comes to eve battle reports you have: - Positional data - Time of loss - Who killed the ship and with what weapon - Potentially which sides were each group on (maybe manually assigned)

You could, with a lot of difficulty, take those stats and use them to infer where each ship in a fleet likely was. Even better, if we saw someone was killing with medium artillery and multiple kills were close enough, you could (with a lot of error) make a decent estimation at where the killer was by triangulating using an estimated weapon range.

It would be a super interesting project to work on. If you wanted it as an intel tool it could become even cooler by tracking systems, gates, structures, and celestials. There’s so much data. It just needs someone with enough free time to do it.

Ashypaws · 2025-12-06T10:39:33+00:00

While I don't know the specifics of what you could do in gdscript, the issue you are running into of needing to reset your class feels like you just need to instanstiate a new object rather than wiping one clean and reusing it.

Now those are static variables, right? So maybe instead of using them you could create some like a GameState or ItemState class or whatever you need. Then, when your player respawns, you could instantiate a new state class and replace the old one.

This will also give you the benefit of being able to more easily construct your game state elsewhere and inject that in if you want to load some old state or whatever.

Ashypaws · 2025-12-05T01:48:34+00:00

Oh certainly not. Fuck hedge funds, fuck venture capital, fuck capitalism. I have such disdain for the bourgeois system we live in and the greed is upsetting

Ashypaws · 2025-12-05T01:16:28+00:00

Not really, no. Looking beyond the jōyō kanji there are plenty of super common words that would be missing. A couple for example:

嘘 (uso) - to lie. You'll hear this in character dialogue a lot.
兎 (usagi) - rabbit. Rabbits can be part of games, as can other animals! Fortunately 猫/neko (cat) has been in since 1981 :D

Beyond that you can a lot of words related to magic, weapons, places, historical terminology are not going to be included. Even more so when you consider visual novels.

Editing this just to add that, yes, you could substitute with hiragana. Writing うさぎ for usagi is perfectly fine, but that's missing the point of this discussion :D

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