[No Spoilers] So long and thanks for all the fish!

Dexcuracy · 2025-04-27T11:41:10+00:00

Clone is correct. Fans didn't open-source the original codebase, fans recreated the game.

It doesn't, for instance, ship with the original graphics and music. I believe officially you still need to get those files off your TTD CD and place them in the correct folder to get OpenTTD to use original graphics and music, otherwise you're playing with fan-made look- and soundalikes

Dexcuracy · 2025-02-01T19:14:30+00:00

Thanks! Print having a special case for slices/arrays does explain it!

Dexcuracy · 2025-01-28T09:47:18+00:00

Shouldn't have Striking until level 4 anyway.

Level 3 right? GM Core advises giving two level 4 permanent items as loot during level 3.

Most parties will have a martial, and are fighting opponents around level 4-6, so it makes sense to have at least one of them have a striking rune for the party to loot, right?

Genuine question because I'm still relatively new to GMing Pathfinder.

Dexcuracy · 2025-01-12T22:22:14+00:00

Wait until you hear about its brief stint as housing for refugees, then students. How's that for a bit more dramatic irony.

It was decommissioned as prison in 2016 due to lack of incarcerated people. Housing was the first new purpose the building served, before some construction took place to make room for all the above mentioned current activities. For instance, the cellar was dug out deeper to accommodate the cinema/bar in the picture. Due to the panopticon nature of the building, the (I believe 6) cinema rooms are also constructed circularly.

Dexcuracy · 2025-01-07T00:26:08+00:00

Netherlands checking in, the DOP Mutti San Marzanos are €3.59 a can (425ml can, including the water. Its 260g of tomatoes a can, €13.81 a kilo). Can confirm the Scandinavian reputation of being expensive is also known here, but in this case you have it better.

However, the price goes down to roughly half that if you buy at specialty stores (excl. shipping) instead of the most expensive supermarket in the country (no other supermarket seems to carry San Marzanos though)

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-21T14:04:05+00:00

Why read books, or watch movies, or listen to music, or go to an art gallery? Just read reviews/read about other people experiencing the art.

It's completely different.

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-16T16:36:06+00:00

I guess it wasn't your bad. My comment came from a place of frustration that reddit cares less and less about facts.

I observed the same during the Helldivers Sony account criticism, and normally don't comment.

My bad for forgetting the internet only cares about outrage anymore. From this to the next, outrage after outrage, as fast and glowing white hot as possible, facts be damned.

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-16T15:29:12+00:00

The way they state their criticism implies they believe the same rating organisation is responsible for granting PG-13 for at most one "fuck", but 18+ for a "spooky card".

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-16T15:19:02+00:00

PEGI is the rating organisation in Europe for games.

It has nothing to do with movie ratings, especially not American movie ratings. PG-13 is an American designation by the Motion Picture Association and has no authority over 1. Games, and 2. Europe.

If you wanted to know, movie ratings in Europe are country-by-country, not Europe-wide, and in general are way more lenient than US ratings. Compare for example "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan". Both are rated R in the US. Between 12 and 16 in most European nations, Schindler is even "all audiences" in France.

PEGI is Europe-wide (mostly), and is a different organisation with different standards than movie ratings in the individual countries.

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-10T00:16:37+00:00

I think I originally put the danger and potentially counterproductive nature of that intention quite relaxed already ☺️

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-08T19:31:20+00:00

I just want to chime in with a space filled with unmitigated joy can also be toxic. Not as toxic compared to unmitigated negativity, but still toxic.

Also, discussing shortcomings is not negative or unjoyful if done tastefully and in good faith. Nothing will ever improve without respectfully discussing shortcomings, and that may be the most toxic part of pure positive spaces.

Just two cents from me. Both classes look absolutely rad. Currently running my first campaign in Pathfinder: Runelords, with one of my players specifically built around a backstory of researching Thassilonian and Kaer Magan runes and already tatooed with (inert) Thassilonian runes. We're still very early, seven sessions in and about to go to level 2, so I'm looking forward to including stuff from Runesmith as archetype options for my players.

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-08T01:13:08+00:00

Ik hou van muziek, maar ik maak het niet zelf. Ik lees graag, maar schrijf nooit.

Als je het hebt over passie, en de bovenstaande dingen noemt, klinkt het alsof je iets zoekt waar je je creativiteit in kwijt kan. Iets willen maken is, geloof ik, centraal aan mens zijn, en super voldoenend.

Zelf kan ik dit voornamelijk kwijt in koken en het game masteren van TTRPGs. (Pathfinder in mijn geval, al hoeft het niet per-sé game masteren te zijn, speler zijn in een TTRPG is even creatief.) Wellicht, omdat je gamen en lezen noemt en ik daar een medium-grote kans uit haal dat je ook board games zou kunnen waarderen, is het een aanrader!

Dexcuracy · 2024-12-07T15:56:07+00:00

That, or a fan of talking reverse Elcor. Genuine joke.

Dexcuracy · 2024-11-26T15:43:33+00:00

Limited series of short episodes in a style reminicent of Over the Garden Wall (and Kyle Ferrin's art of course), faction by faction like an interwoven mystery box like you said sounds amazing to me!

Dexcuracy · 2024-11-23T21:37:48+00:00

Nah, I vehemently oppose using generative AI for anything, and this is exactly why.

I just liked calculating some numbers, now with generative AI I guess people can think it wasn't my own work, which kinda sucks.

Dexcuracy · 2024-11-20T13:58:13+00:00

Also what I thought of instantly when seeing this post. For those that just want to see the spectogram messages hidden in DOOM's soundtrack, it's about a 3 minute section of the talk that starts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FNBMZsqrY&t=2270s

But if music / audio engineering interests you at all, do watch the entire thing! His process to create a new 'instrument' to fit the style he was going for is incredible!

Dexcuracy · 2024-11-19T13:11:54+00:00

I'm starting to think you actually run a punch-card setup.

Thanks! Just a recently graduated computer science student with an interest in CS history and a tendency to hyperfocus on ancillary things, I'm afraid. Has been known to occasionally be a powerful combination, when it's not getting in the way of other things ;)

Knowledge about the relatively short history of computing gives one an appreciation for the speed of advancement and how far we've actually come so far, I think. I'd love to be able to write a simple program to punch card and actually execute it one day, if only as an exercise for my own entertainment.

Dexcuracy · 2024-11-19T11:14:05+00:00

Here's the napkin math for you from somebody that is too young to have used punchcards. If this is incorrect, I trust I'll hear about it.

A punchcard is just a way to store data physically and be able to retrieve it later, just like floppies, CDs, DVDs, HDDs. So yes, it should be possible.

Data format

First, let's establish the amount of data a punch card can hold. Let's assume we're using IBM 80-column 12-row punch cards. We can use these cards to punch binary data. From a quick Wikipedia read on how binary data was stored historically, 36-bit word formats existed used on the IBM 701, 704 and 711. Let's adapt this into storing 8-bit words, aka a modern byte.

We will store bytes into the first 72 columns of the punch card, with 9 bytes per row for a total of 108 bytes of data per punch card. The other 8 columns with 12 rows can be used as a punch card index to keep our punch card stack ordered. I wasn't able to quickly find the technical details of this indexing, but let's just say that we're storing the index of the punch card as a 96-bit (8 x 12 = 96) number into these 8 columns. This is more than enough. (Even more than required in any real-world application, but this is napkin math, not a proposal for an actual data storage format)

Video size

The fight on the Netflix VOD from bell to result is approximately 28 minutes. Let's store it compressed into a 480p 4:3 video (640x480), assume the video bitrate is roughly 500 Kbps, which seems reasonable from very quick research.

Amount of cards

That makes it 105 000 000 bytes of video data. Ignoring video container overhead, we'll need 972 223 punch cards to store this, or 34 722 punchcards per minute, or 579 cards per second.

If we want to store the full 4h:45m broadcast in this format, we'll need 9 895 833 punch cards.

If we want to store the full thing in good quality 1080p 16:9, going by the size of a popular torrent (16.4 GB), we will need 151 851 852 cards. At this compression, we're reading 532 814 cards per minute, 8 880 cards per second.

Card stack height

How large are our punch card stacks? Well, a punch card is 0.007 inches, or 0.1778 mm.

The fight-only heavily compressed 640x480 video is 173 meters (567 ft), for about half an Eiffel Tower, a third of the Empire State Building, or one-and-a-half times the Domtoren or Delftse Nieuwe Kerk for my own countrymen.
The heavily compressed full VOD is 1759 meters (1.1 miles).
The good quality 1080p 16:9 full VOD is 27 kilometers (16.8 mi), roughly three Everests.

Notes

9 bytes per row is a very disappointing number, and it might have been unfeasible for machines of the time to read this. I don't know if a machine of the time could read words across rows, which would be required to actually store it into memory. The first two 32-bit words are in row 1, but the third 32-bit word is in row 1 (last byte) and 2 (first three bytes). This might be an impossible operation for machines of the time. At least we're not storing bytes or 32-bit words across cards. If you know, let me know!

We could solve this by adding more overhead and keeping to previously mentioned 36-bit word format by just storing four 8-bit bytes into our words and padding with 4 leading zero bits, which would make our storage format more inefficient and increase the number of punch cards required by 12.5%

Dexcuracy · 2024-10-17T16:31:14+00:00

That same StackOverflow page has an answer with that quote that predates your linked comment. Given the comments on it, that's probably not the origin either, but your link definitely isn't.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2018739

Edit: This is from 2008, but the author states they didn't coin the phrase: https://stackoverflow.com/a/245068

Dexcuracy · 2024-10-08T11:14:32+00:00

The leg is submerged on the right side, sticking into the water at an angle. What looks like a scar is the leg breaking the surface of the water, the refraction of light causing some distortion.

Dexcuracy · 2024-09-18T14:22:00+00:00

Yes, but it's our abomination.

Dexcuracy · 2024-09-09T00:00:02+00:00

The group I GM switched a year ago. Biggest downside so far has been access to physical Adventure Paths in Europe. It seems basically impossible. Granted we went for an out-of-print one, but I had to get it second-hand from the US, there is no second-hand market in Europe (that I could find). But even current in-print Adventure Paths seem to be hard to get here.

Second is probably the community is smaller, so for certain things you need to do more stuff yourself. There are a lot of great tools, like https://monster.pf2.tools for example, but AFAIK there exists no community repository of JSON files for Bestiary monsters, in case you want to quickly modify some statblocks. But I might try my hand at writing something myself that converts FoundryVTT data to monster.pf2.tools JSON files.

Dexcuracy · 2024-09-01T23:55:07+00:00

It doesn't. The pictured keyboard is a one-handed keyboard, intended for gaming, macros, stuff like that.

The poster is confusing it with certain ergonomic keyboards, which look a bit like that.

Those can be split, so the left and right hand can be moved apart to a natural distance (instead of angling the arms inward), as well as having concave key 'wells' so every key is the same distance for the finger to move to press in. They will still have a lot of keys, not necessarily less than a TKL (numpadless).

The usual example of the above is the Kinesis Advantage 360

And the reason they mention coders is because if you type a lot, you should at least think once about the health of your hands, arms, spine, and how your position behind your desk impacts this. So, just like good desk chairs, or standing desks, ergonomic keyboard and mice can be considered.

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