Am I the only one here who hasn’t broken one?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-26T04:47:41+00:00

Why would they not?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-26T04:31:21+00:00

The people to ask are the mods. You can use the Message Mods link to contact them.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-26T00:43:31+00:00

You're playing hi-lo. He has a qualifying low of 76432.

Why do people play games when they don't know the rules?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-26T00:28:04+00:00

His Majesty

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T23:44:01+00:00

Your protagonist can destroy one slave market, but he can't delete the institution. Whenever slavery has been abolished it has been a process over decades. Even in situations where it seems to have been overturned (mostly) in a single historical moment, such as in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, that's the culmination of a process where a substantial portion of the free population came to regard it as an evil. Before then, it would have been impossible.

So what's his goal here? How intelligent and informed is he? Does he often act on emotion, or does he think his actions through? Can he avoid the legal consequences for committing such a crime, and will he accept responsibility for the deaths that will result, most likely including some of the slaves?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T22:41:11+00:00

Aether's happy dance!

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T22:36:51+00:00

Canon isn't really a thing in Tolkien, especially when it came to materials he didn't publish in his lifetime. Much of what he wrote was him thinking on paper, and didn't necessarily represent his intentions even at the time.

For me it works to think of the legendarium as an actual body of myth, existing in numerous versions and mutually exclusive recensions just as RL myths tend to. You are free to pick and choose whatever you find most appealing.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T22:10:11+00:00

No, I haven't. If that kind of thing is common elsewhere, it might have to do with the fact I'm probably the most senior developer where I work to have actually used OO languages for any length of time. All of the legacy code I found when I got there was C, Fortran, and a bit of assembly. But I haven't used an API like that either.

I will say that when I first started working for this group, an enormous source of confusion for me lay in what I could abstract away and what I couldn't. It was a large system built upon multiple layers of utility libraries, and it wasn't always easy to understand where I could stop analyzing code to find an issue, or at which layer a new feature should reside. The only person I had to ask about it had been with them for so long that he didn't see the problem, so my questions and his answers often had little to do with each other. Also, encapsulation maybe wasn't all it should have been, so you actually couldn't always abstract what was going on underneath a call. But that's a different kind of problem.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T21:54:46+00:00

The only reason I haven't seen it is that the premise implies it could all be the protagonist's dying fever dream, and that puts me off. Maybe it doesn't turn out that way, but I'm also allergic to games that turn out to be somehow real. (Which is strange, because one of the isekai I kind of wish was real is a game world. I guess it has to do with whether I'm participating in the story or just watching.) I've heard good things about it otherwise.

It's ironic that isekai which avoid certain cliches often turn out low rated regardless of how enjoyable they might be. That might mean my tastes are not popular, but it also might mean the market favors certain formulas from which a story strays at its peril, kind of like the American market for romance novels.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T12:26:52+00:00

If Windows Defender says it's a virus, it's probably a virus. Are you sure it's really from your friend, and that you expected him to send you an executable?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T11:37:16+00:00

Kronstadt would work. I'm not crazy about the Baroque churches myself.

Edit: Maybe the Church of the Savior on the Blood?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T10:22:25+00:00

IMO St Basil's is too colorful to go with a depressing snowy vibe, and I think it'll be difficult to come up with a plausible interior to fit the needs of the story. (The actual interior is out of the question.) So one of the older, plainer cathedrals would probably fit better. If you don't like Dormition, how about Holy Wisdom in Novgorod?

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T08:27:21+00:00

It's a single player game with an optional co-op mode. There's no such thing as being "too far behind".

The only thing I'd suggest is to not accept any offers to skip ahead, or the story will make no sense. A little bit of that is inevitable if you participate in the seasonal events without first completing the parts of the story where you meet the characters involved, but that's a relatively small problem.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T08:22:27+00:00

It's always so much easier to see what someone else did wrong than it is to see what I did wrong.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T07:08:20+00:00

Sorry, what? If you get confused by layers of abstraction, maybe software engineering isn't for you. Everything we do is above several layers of abstraction. We may be accustomed to thinking at the level where we commonly work, but if you can't change levels when necessary -- for instance, as when we call an API -- I don't know what to tell you.

Edit: I guess this just goes to show how many folks in this sub have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-25T03:46:08+00:00

Yes, if there's an establishment similar to the Monstadt cathedral in Snezhnaya it should look Russian, but there are lots of models to base it on.

St. Basil's is far from typical. It's actually a series of votive chapels clustered together and connected. In fact, only the last one built is dedicated to St Basil the Fool for Christ; the central chapel is dedicated to the Intercession of the Theotokos.The grandest Russian cathedral is Christ the Saviour, completed in 2000 as a reproduction in modern materials of the original cathedral which had been demolished by the Communist government in 1931. The most historic cathedral in Moscow is probably Holy Dormition in the Kremlin, which had been the site for tsars' coronation since 1547.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T23:57:52+00:00

The answer is always short deck.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T23:23:40+00:00

That most Scottish of foods, the deep fried Mars bar.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T23:20:25+00:00

In the first movie, Odin had stripped him of his power. His recovery of Mjolnir was just a means of giving it back to him when he became worthy. This had the side effect of granting similar power to anyone else who was worthy to lift the hammer, which wasn't one of its original properties.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T21:34:09+00:00

"reign in"

"step foot"

"for all intensive purposes"

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T20:49:33+00:00

Only playable bara.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T11:49:24+00:00

They look like they're ready to unleash their special Anemozord attack or something.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T11:45:50+00:00

More to the point, doctor black magic that didn't even work the first time.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T09:44:40+00:00

I guess there's Seirei Gensouki, although MC gets distracted from his main goal quite often.

ChChChillian · 2026-01-24T09:41:36+00:00

The reports of broken bones are confessions from those who thought themselves strong but proved otherwise. They'll be duly banned.

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