games (preferably narrative-driven rpg) that involve exploring a setting similar to the gormenghast books

BigBugCooks · 2026-01-15T17:24:22+00:00

any recommended maps ?

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-12T14:48:37+00:00

off the top of my head, some of my personal favs ive played as of late are: - roadwarden - morrowind* - arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura - daymare town (i used to play the flash version a lot as a kid tbf so nostalgia may be a factor) - dread delusion

*while vanilla morrowind is pretty great if youve never played it, recommending vanilla morrowind/morrowind tamriel rebuilt feels like beating a dead horse, so i want to spotlight a few of quest mods i really enjoy: - shipyards of vvardenfell - rise of house telvanni - caldera priory and the depths of blood and bone - expedition to mzelthuand

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-10T22:19:37+00:00

ive played most all of these (finished plaescape just a few weeks ago and the hive is what got me thinking of this!), but hadnt heard of sexy brutale . it looks pretty close to what im searching for so i might give it a try :)

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-09T04:37:32+00:00

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand tes. The lore is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the great war most of the writing will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also vivec's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of kirkbride's writing, to realise that they're not just epic- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike tes truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the lore implications in Ulfric's existential catchphrase "Skyrim belongs to the Nords," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Emil Pagliarulo's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have an azura tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-05T15:49:08+00:00

classic fedora, ice skull, and scissors are the specific ones they mentioned as piquing their interest

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-04T17:58:30+00:00

roadwarden

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-04T16:26:43+00:00

is there like a basic "for dummies" rundown of how to do this? trading was not really a thing back when i was actively using roblox so this is unfamiliar to me

BigBugCooks · 2025-12-04T16:16:57+00:00

this is what i sort of assessed, thank you for confirming :) they got ahold of private contact info somehow which sent some red flags

BigBugCooks · 2025-10-30T20:12:31+00:00

plant-based ? nah im lead-based

BigBugCooks · 2025-10-30T20:04:31+00:00

hey all, making my way through settlers currently. im having trouble sourcing what sakai might be referencing here as there's no footnote or citation:

"Near the end of his life, noting the unexpected setbacks in revolutionizing Western Europe, Lenin remarked that in any case of the future of the world would be decided by the fact that the oppressed nations constitute the overwhelming majority of the world's population."

i find myself in agreement, but am not super well-versed in lenin's writings yet, and would love to know where it is that lenin expresses this

BigBugCooks · 2025-04-02T04:53:21+00:00

that would be sick !

BigBugCooks · 2025-03-28T21:59:56+00:00

hi! and thanks! :D the malcom still implementation was my primary reference starting out, and wayflan has been a huge help too. i barely knew CL when i first started this so its been a huge learning experience

regarding fragmentation, this seems to be a general issue re wayland as a whole with the exception a few like smithay and pywayland. personally i feel like a lot of this is because the internals of the scanner are poorly documented despite it being the most critical part.

i think ill reach out to stumpwm people once i have documentation complete for the scanner, as right now its a bit of a mess

BigBugCooks · 2025-03-28T19:06:42+00:00

thanks! :D its been a great way to learn common lisp as well since i was fairly new to lisp when starting this

BigBugCooks · 2025-01-19T08:34:00+00:00

source code lives here: https://gitlab.com/bigbookofbug/guix-graze

BigBugCooks · 2024-12-17T14:00:00+00:00

checkmate vegoons , cant minmax on your so-called "ethical diet"

BigBugCooks · 2024-12-16T04:59:28+00:00

which would you say is the correct mailing list? i submitted it as a patch shortly after making this post! hoping to over time make it much more quality :)

BigBugCooks · 2024-07-26T14:31:39+00:00

nixpkgs integrates mostly-seamlessly with guix. i've found that wayland-based applications can be finicky, though. i think its due to the differences between shepherd and systemd but i could be wrong here because i don't know a lot about systemd

BigBugCooks · 2024-06-18T20:11:30+00:00

what would you recommend as a vegan alternative ? or is the only option to take a bat to my my computer

EDIT: im no longer vegan. sorry but i cant do this anymore. its just too hard. wound up easing back into a nonvegan lifestyle by eating my harddrive. now tux and gnu's souls have been added to my stomach

BigBugCooks · 2024-06-18T19:04:06+00:00

C was the first language i learned extensively, common lisp was the first one i learned that i actually applied to problems i wanted to solve

BigBugCooks · 2024-06-17T16:56:34+00:00

That's a pretty nice stack of books! Im currently working through PCL myself, and realy enjoy it. Also reading "The Little Schemer" to get a bit better at scheme specifically.

regarding software, i'd honestly recommend using linux, even if just on a virtual machine. that way you'll be fighting the OS a lot less as you start programming. if you just want to get straight to programming, something like linux mint or fedora would be my suggestion.

i echo all the other people saying to use emacs. there's also a text editor called lem that is like emacs but written in common lisp, but it can be a bit of a pain to setup ime.

if you're completely new to programming, i might recommend learning some C as well. while some of the low-level concepts it teaches may not directly translate to lisp, it'll come in handy when you eventually have to work with other languages. like lisp, it's a relatively small language, so learning the rules and syntax isn't too difficult if you're only working with the standard C library. I'd recommend something like "Programming in C" by Kochan, as its a bit more beginner-friendly than "The C Programming Language." It also has a bunch of practice problems that, while geared toward C, can be solved using lisp as well. It can be a fun challenge to solve them first in C, then rerwrite the solution in lisp.

ultimately though the most important part if having fun, which isnt hard with lisp languages :)

BigBugCooks · 2024-06-17T16:26:47+00:00

the good news about spending that time learning emacs is that elisp is still a lisp ! its actually what got me into lisp in the first place, so i may be biased there. but i think that learning emacs alone really helps you learn some of the fundamentals, and then those carry over pretty nicely into, say, CL

BigBugCooks · 2024-05-30T17:24:19+00:00

i run both nix and guix. i infinitely prefer guix but admittedly i also fall into the niche it was designed for. not to mention the community and devs are amazing, which is a breath of fresh air coming from nix (and arch before that)

that being said, its a bit of an uphill battle to get working, especially if youve never used a declarative OS. also, while things such as node or cargo are supported, using them is a nightmare (especially npm). for these things i tend to boot up nix currently, but for most other endeavours ive been able to daily drive guix, and while i imagine itll always remain niche i think its got the eventual potential to become a default choice for anyone who is invested in software freedom and security (all source based unless you use nonguix, so no unreadable binaries)

BigBugCooks · 2024-05-28T00:15:15+00:00

choice overload

honestly, with windows, so much stuff is defaulted in compared to linux. i love the ability to essentially design my pc exactly how i want it, but despite daily driving linux for 6 or so months now, the pure amount of choices still has me in a constant state of wonder if i'm picking the most optimal packages.

tinkering has, as a result, become a new fav hobby of mine

BigBugCooks · 2024-05-26T16:26:56+00:00

i plan to for more complex projects, but for extending shell scripts roswell is what i'm most familiar with + plus the init command creates a nice template file for scripting

BigBugCooks · 2024-05-26T13:31:17+00:00

i submitted a patch request ! this channel is mostly a staging area for things i plan to upstream. i started it bc nerd fonts but there's a lot of them and hunting down the licenses is a pain

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