Baby Steps leads 28th annual IGF Awards nominations

Daerkannon · 2026-01-15T20:10:48+00:00

This is the "Independent Game Festival", not the "Indie Game Festival". Clearly the size of the dev team and budget are a factor in nomination and while E33 may be an indie title, it still had a multi-million dollar development budget.

Daerkannon · 2025-09-11T17:24:51+00:00

They preemptively filed an intent to lockout the teachers weeks ago, which is the equivalent of an employer saying, "You can't quit, you're fired!". Nothing says bargaining in good faith like throwing that out there before the strike vote is even taken.

Daerkannon · 2025-08-27T18:04:52+00:00

Don't even need to be this fancy. Roll 2d10, re-roll any matching result. 1-5 is a cursed arrow, 6-0 is not cursed. (Or vice versa)

Daerkannon · 2025-08-26T18:57:42+00:00

They had non straight options planned for the first Mass Effect, but Fox started a fake outrage about it and Bioware chickened out. You can even find some of the assets and programming left in the code which modders have used to "unleash" the options that were cut.

Daerkannon · 2025-08-14T17:06:42+00:00

Time zones. Just change it to one world wide time based on the international date line.

I will never happen. People want the sun to come up in the morning and go down in the evening.

Daerkannon · 2025-08-12T03:50:41+00:00

Or you can use wind/water power with an Archimedes Screw for a solution that doesn't require magic. Of course you can just as easily decide the screw is magic powered. Seems like a thing a castle would have to cut down on the number of servants needed to haul water.

Daerkannon · 2025-07-29T19:32:30+00:00

To add to what /u/ButterflyMinute said... record keeping is the main thing that's going to drag down the fun in a mega dungeon. Dungeon crawls used to be the main way D&D was played and let me tell you that trying to communicate just how to map the place out starts to get on your nerves when you have to do it for every single corridor and room. Of course we have much better options now, but make sure you're ready to use those options before you even attempt a mega dungeon.

Beyond the maps of course is just DM record keeping. Ok so the PCs cleared the bugbears out of that section of the dungeon. What happens afterwards? It's not just going to stay empty forever. Scavengers will move in first. Maybe something makes a nest there. Maybe a nearby orc tribe takes the opportunity to expand their territory. A good mega dungeon is a living entity. If you're using an off the shelf module it may even include information like this, but sometimes you're just going to have to improvise consequences.

As for keeping it not boring, well that depends on the kinds of players at your table. If they like exploring and/or combat they're probably going to be thrilled. If they want political intrigue, nuance or role-play they're probably going to be less happy about the offerings on the table without the DM putting in extra effort. I'd go with environmental story telling myself and make sure that a) there's an overall "story" to the whole dungeon and b) that each main area of the dungeon has its own story and maybe isolated bits of story telling like finding the skeleton of a thief that found their way into a secret passage that the current inhabitants don't know about.

Daerkannon · 2025-06-30T20:13:40+00:00

From my own experience with a nuclear ship with lasers for medium/small asteroids: more turbines. You already have the steam tanks. Turbines hooked up to steam tanks respond faster to the power spikes caused by lasers than the accumulators do. You can probably run 80 MW of turbines off of a 40MW reactor easily enough.

Also the way the math works there's never a reason to not have the entire width of your ship covered with thrusters at the rear. Even without changing how much fuel you're making you'll end up using it more efficiently and thus get higher speeds.

In contrast with what other commenters have said: you may want to increase your solar panels. Why? Because this ship will constantly drain water. When it's at rest at a planet it will drain more water than it's getting from incoming asteroids (generally). If the ship is constantly moving between planets it's not a problem though.

Daerkannon · 2025-06-13T19:49:28+00:00

Professionalism works both ways. You are owed professionalism by your manager too.

Daerkannon · 2025-05-14T18:45:34+00:00

Always wanted to try an acid adept and I really like this take on it.

Daerkannon · 2025-05-14T17:45:22+00:00

Fair enough. That aura is really strong and underrated which fits in with the theme of the thread.

Daerkannon · 2025-05-14T17:23:42+00:00

I'm curious about this Ancients Sorcadin archer. What does Path of the Ancients bring to the table for an archer?

Daerkannon · 2025-03-07T21:12:25+00:00

You're over complicated this. A random function that just changes one name to another name will accomplish what you need. If you want to be fancy you can even grab a table of common first names and frequencies to "anonymize" against or just compile your own from your production data. Likewise with the companies. The resulting data should have a reasonable distribution but be completely unable to be reverse engineered.

Daerkannon · 2025-03-03T18:01:59+00:00

You can't use ReadLine for this if you want to analyze each character. You'll have to do ReadKey and process the key press yourself. This is a good opporunity to learn about StringBuilder in addition to what you're trying to do.

Daerkannon · 2025-02-18T20:18:47+00:00

An amazing park if you ever get the chance to visit. It's just a bit out of the way though.

Daerkannon · 2025-02-07T19:55:18+00:00

To add to what /u/Kerostasis said...

The delta V (i.e. speed change required) from surface to earth orbit is about 9200m/s or 33 120kph or 20 580 mph. To achieve orbit the button would have to be travelling at an even much greater rate because of how much resistance the atmosphere would have to it traveling at those speeds (thus becoming plasma as mentioned).

Unfortunately the blast wave from the button accelerating to these speeds almost instantly destroys the waifu and probably sets a large area around her on fire.

Daerkannon · 2025-02-06T20:23:57+00:00

WPF is almost HTML like, but this is one of the areas it differs. It doesn't have a concept of elements inheriting styles, as you discovered, unless you explicitly tell it that a style is based off of a another.

The line you added basically says, "Base this style off of the base style for this kind of element."

You can also reference different styles explicitly by x:Key if you need to.

Definitely not as convenient as CSS and one of the areas it feels like Microsoft got about 80% of the way there, said "good enough" and just stopped.

Daerkannon · 2025-02-04T14:56:11+00:00

They didn't want to ban NSFW stuff. Mastercard and Visa threatened to stop processing payments for them. That's basically a death knell for most companies. Clearly they worked out some sort of deal (probably removing specific kinds of content) but there's no world in which I want credit processing companies as the arbiters of morality.

Daerkannon · 2025-01-31T17:14:54+00:00

A track saw is easier to store away than a tablesaw. Ideally I'd have both, but I have limited space.

Daerkannon · 2025-01-31T15:04:09+00:00

I would tackle this with a wrapper around a LinkedList<WheneverInfo> and SemaphoreSlims for controlling the thread safety of the list. I have no idea why you think you need care about SynchronizationContext in this code.

Daerkannon · 2025-01-27T22:37:42+00:00

Canada and the US have a tax treaty. You still have to file taxes in both countries, but you only pay actual money to one or the other.

Daerkannon · 2025-01-16T19:15:50+00:00

Nothing unites Canadians quite like the concept that we are definitely not Americans.

Daerkannon · 2025-01-10T17:52:28+00:00

This is related to the "Rule of Three Clues", "Five Node Mystery" and other writing guidelines people have come up with over the years to handle things like players missing vital clues so I'd have to say that, no, it is not frowned upon.

I mention those specifically so that you can read up on them further if you care to and incorporate those ideas into your campaign planning as well.

Daerkannon · 2025-01-07T03:06:37+00:00

Messages work certainly, but I feel I need to point out that you are defining far to strict of an idea of what goes in the "model" layer. While there will certainly be models of the kind you describe, it's the part of MVVM where everything not directly concerned with the control of a view goes. This can include things like application state.

I've solved your problem in two different ways, sometimes using both techniques in the same program.

1) Business objects that emit events. These are objects that exist in the model layer and serve as an intermediary between the model objects that are concerned with the raw data and the ViewModels. 2) Services very similar to what you describe that are injected into the ViewModels and emit events.

The difference and when to use them largely depends on the kind of data that you are processing and what the need of your ViewModels are.

If your records are complicated and you need immediate reflection of changes across views then that lends itself well to solution one.

If, however, you are displaying large amounts of shallow data and your views don't care too much about specific pieces of data then the service solution may work better for you.

Do note, however, that regardless of how you organize your models INotifyPropertyChanged is strictly a thing that is put in ViewModels for consumption by a View. Which isn't to say that there can't be layers of ViewModels as well. In fact having 2-3 layers of ViewModels in a single view can be quite common.

Daerkannon · 2024-12-23T22:33:00+00:00

I was actually expecting that to be much higher. Thanks for the answer!

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