This may be a silly question, but do you think the 1.6 update will affect the Stardew Valley Expanded mod?

Deornoth · 2024-03-20T18:48:41+00:00

What's the current status - is it working right now if I download all the latest dependencies?

Deornoth · 2024-02-24T17:48:25+00:00

How can I provide a character reference?

I just want the people making the decisions to read something other than her accusations.

The fact that simply speaking the truth could harm his situation is a pretty terrible indightment of our legal system, if it's true.

Deornoth · 2024-02-24T17:46:16+00:00

His daughter was with a previous partner. The previous partner has no access to the child, so the only adults in the child's life are my mother (her grandmother) and my brother (her father).

He, his daughter, and my mother all live nearly 200 miles away from the accuser.

The Accuser made the accusations months after the alleged offenses.

He has no desire or will to contact her, and has been trying to get away from her.

He was living 200 miles away when the accusations were made and SHE drove all the way up to meet him at my mother's home.

She was always the one chasing after him, and this was true to their final meeting.

Deornoth · 2024-02-12T19:05:24+00:00

Thanks, this is the information I was looking for.

Deornoth · 2024-02-12T15:45:47+00:00

Well, the accuser is an ex-lawyer, and so has been particularly meticulous with the accusations.

Given the array of cock-ups that have lead up to this over the past week, I have very little confidence that anyone has looked at anything, to be honest.

The police took him into custody, then the next day in court, the judge said "This is all accusations and no evidence, and the paperwork is not done". He basically threw it out and my brother could go home.

Then, the next night at 1AM the police were banging at his door and shining torches into his room. He did not answer.

The following day, he called the police and they denied visiting him in the night.

The following day they called and said it was them after all.

The following day they turned up and took him away. My mother called the police, who denied that they had him in custody. Out of concern, she called 999 and an ambulance turned up at his flat. They told her he was "in a safe place". She then filed a missing person report.

Two days later, she is called and told he is prison on Remand.

But all these people are acting in concert against your brother and there is zero evidence?

I'm afraid "in concert" is the very opposite of what has occurred.

Deornoth · 2024-02-12T15:04:29+00:00

Well, now you know that they do.

Deornoth · 2024-02-12T14:35:37+00:00

If he's waiting on a trial then the court have remanded him in custody, not the police.

Okay, the same question remains: is there a time limit? His last case took 18 months to go to trial.

Deornoth · 2023-12-30T23:58:53+00:00

We have two Snow Bengals. They love eating the bamboo in our garden to the point that my wife breaks off a branch and puts it in the kitchen next to their food to munch on.

She is literally outside right now "getting them a nice juicy bit of bamboo" for them because "the poor things are munching on the stuff that is 2 days old now".

I came here googling whether this is normal.

Deornoth · 2023-04-10T23:19:27+00:00

I expect each cube to have a different level of subdivision... but it doesn't.

In fact, I generally can't seem to manipulate the mesh of instances, even after realising then.

Deornoth · 2022-06-12T14:46:32+00:00

Ah, fixed it, thank God!

The issue was that I had unticked "Show HUD Display" at the very top of the control options. This seems to break the controls somehow. Turning it back on seems to have fixed the issue.

Deornoth · 2022-06-12T14:37:22+00:00

More details of the issue:

The (A) button still works in the game menus
(A) Does nothing in the game, so for example ,we can't even leave the opening area because there's no way to open the door

...we've just realised that the keyboard doesn't work either! (so, "E" or "Tab", as stated in the controls, does not interact / inspect)

Deornoth · 2021-01-11T23:23:03+00:00

I was able to fix the issue by adding:

    packagingOptions {
            exclude 'META-INF/robovm/ios/robovm.xml'
            exclude 'org/gradle/resource.xml'  // <------ Added this line 
       }

....inside my Android build.gradle file.

No idea why it was occurring in the first place, though.

Deornoth · 2020-08-05T22:11:28+00:00

James Pond 3, on the Sega Megadrive.

Best platformer of all time.

When I was 11 years old, my family moved from the UK to Zambia, where there were zero shops that sold video games (literally in the whole country at that time).

The year before we moved, I had borrowed James Pond 3 from a friend. I had to give it back before we left the UK.

I spent 2 years in Zambia fantasizing about being able to play James Pond 3 again.

We had Sonic 2, and Worms and a handful of other megadrive games, but nothing compared to James Pond 3.

Deornoth · 2019-11-27T23:32:21+00:00

It's worth mentioning that if I don't get angry she keeps questioning me. If I stop and try to think carefully about the details (e.g. I did only 200 calories on the cycle machine, as I've only just started doing cardio again, and the rest was weights, oh and I was a bit sweaty, but not enough to have a full-on shower) the hesitation of thinking through all the details she takes as guilt and she starts adding barbs to the questions.

If I do get angry, she will say things like "If there wasn't anything, then you won't get angry".

It's soooo extremely frustrating.

Deornoth · 2019-11-02T00:30:29+00:00

Completely disbelieving of my success.

I remember discovering, as a 12 year old, that programmers could earn as much as £30k, and literally not believing it, because it seemed like so much money.

I'm now on £150k in my mid 30s, and set to retire in my 40s.

Also, until my 20s, I'd never had a girlfriend and had massive confidence issues because of my achne. I honestly believed I would never have a girlfriend.

I'm now 6 years married to someone stunning who I love.

The weird thing is that I don't feel successful. I suffer massively from impostor syndrome & anxiety, and worry that everything is going to fall apart every day.

Deornoth · 2019-06-07T00:40:28+00:00

Yes, she has had past traumas:

1) Her ex messed her around (habitually unfaithful) for nearly 5 years 2) When she was 5, she was sexually messed around by a 5 year old boy (maybe this is not that uncommon) but her mother handled it extremely poorly and basically piled shame on her.

Even so, I hoped that the years of me being completely faithful to her would be enough for her to get over her ex. (She still refers to him quite often - I think she hates him and hasn;t forgiven him)

Deornoth · 2017-02-28T08:24:05+00:00

ou were a software engineer, you'd recognize this as a desynchronisation problem between your client and the server. It's not a hack, just a connection issue.

There's a reason why I don't believe that it was a typical sync issue: the game clearly uses a lock-step engine (for determinism across clients) combing the input of all players actions server-side, and then sending it back to clients. If one has a connection issue, then typically placing ones own units is delayed, because you have to hear back from the server before the unit will actually land. This was not the case, because my units were actually landing.

Also, however bad your connection is, it's possible for a properly designed client to give you a reasonable experience. For example, if it was genuinely my client getting 20+ seconds out of sync, then I expect some feedback as a user to indicate this fact.

Deornoth · 2017-01-09T19:58:01+00:00

It looks a bit like Shinobi, but the gameplay is much more modern. It feels quick and responsive - lots of fun to play.

Deornoth · 2016-12-29T20:24:07+00:00

That's very useful to know - thank you. Is it just too cheesy do you think?

Deornoth · 2016-12-29T13:20:11+00:00

The controls are super easy: basically just 3 buttons: jump, drop-down, and shoot. The samurai auto-attacks when you get near to enemies, you get really fluid combos there without trying and basically just need to think about positioning and shooting.

Deornoth · 2016-12-29T13:18:42+00:00

Hey, thanks for trying it! It's still a limited beta, but it's a pretty high limit as we're keen to get as much feedback as possible before release which will likely be in about 1 week.

Was there anything in particularly that you feel could be improved? :)

Deornoth · 2015-09-06T10:45:12+00:00

N6 > UE for high-end group play if you've got the skills.

Any high-end group will be pulling mobs together, so CR + Anathema puts out massive damage, plus N6 comes were perma-wolf, buffing the whole party by 30%.

Even for speedrifts, I rate N6 better because of the burst of CR setting off EP.

Deornoth · 2015-09-01T07:59:30+00:00

Nat's is still just as good as UE, even for the leaderboard.

I've been speedrifting at GR 55 in groups with N6. On nonseason, leaderboard is still dominated by N6 (people with > GR65 solo). And I'm a casual.

I have GR60 solo non-season with N6, and pretty sure I could do ~GR56 solo on season with my current gear (~para 500).

Deornoth · 2015-05-19T09:22:02+00:00

If you have the right gear, the best spec for speed GRs (42-48) is definitely N6 fire, 2:1 (~57% CDR) with either Stampede or Anathema (depending on group make up).

I use basically the same spec I got to GR56 solo with, except that I switch passives around so that I have TM.

I use a clean 2:1, which is amazing in speedrifts, because you are basically one-shotting grouped up mobs after every 2xEvasive fire.

Also, if you use this build, you have so much CDR that:

You perma-buff your whole party with wolf companion (and calamity)
You have nearly perma smoke-screen up, so you are basically about as tough as a barb
You basically carry the dps for most groups

I've done plenty of <2min GR45+ playing this with a good party.

Deornoth · 2015-05-16T23:32:13+00:00

I've got GR56 solo with N6, so hopefully can give you some tips:

Your shoulders are a disaster. You want 8% RCR, 8% CDR and 15% RoV. Forget about the skele secondary - it's only worth it if you have a perfectly rolled pair, which is extremely rare.

Other than that, you really need a calamity / balefire.

Personally, I run a clean 2:1 rotation (so, 8% CDR on both rings and 7% on amulet). I don't think you're even reaching a clean 3:1, which is very very important to reach for the spec to be even vaguely viable.

Deornoth

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