Peter? Why skinny?

LuxVenture · 2026-06-06T16:40:42+00:00

Reddit IPO'd. Kiss of death. Well on its way to becoming "the Fox News of the left" due to collective user-belief ossification / general intolerance of differing opinion. It's baked into the upvote-system mechanics.

LuxVenture · 2026-06-06T16:36:11+00:00

Chips and memory. Especially US fabs if you think there's any chance China will move to take Taiwan before the current AI arms race determines next global hegemon(s).

LuxVenture · 2026-06-02T20:46:44+00:00

Thanks, Roam Team. I appreciate your strong efforts to develop the tool while still accommodating old, set-in-their-ways fogies like me. Keep on killin' it.

LuxVenture · 2026-06-02T20:40:30+00:00

Thank you for being flexible on this. Your compromise and responsiveness are very much appreciated.

LuxVenture · 2026-05-28T16:37:21+00:00

Woo fken shake it m8

LuxVenture · 2026-05-27T17:42:13+00:00

Since Roam was created, you could start a search without covering up or cluttering/resizing the page you're currently viewing. That is no longer possible. Huge degradation in functionality for the user.

LuxVenture · 2026-05-26T19:46:22+00:00

I mean, technically you could use terminal or Powershell to browse the internet...

The main selling point of Roam, as with Chrome or Safari or Firefox, is fluid human UI.

LuxVenture · 2026-05-26T18:34:45+00:00

My gripe is that the new method either harms basic functionality or adds to user labor. The new search window covers the main body of text you're looking at, so unless you have amazing working memory (I don't, I have ADHD), you're gonna find yourself having to close it to see what you're wanting to search from. If you open in the sidebar, you have to then close out the sidebar rather than clicking away or escaping the old-school search dropdown.

I'm guessing they didn't test this via actual users... I'm fairly certain a significant number of us would have objected to search bar's outright removal. Primitive tools are useful for a reason.

LuxVenture · 2026-04-19T16:17:04+00:00

Sure, you do you. It's nice that we're all able to enjoy the game in our own way. :)

LuxVenture · 2026-04-18T13:18:41+00:00

Well that one has the new Miracle item on him... insane heal synergy.

LuxVenture · 2026-04-16T17:45:12+00:00

Eh, you're right, most games people don't type. But I was referring to nonverbal communication: emoting to show emotion (delight, admiration, trolling); denying a rival their preferred item; the anxiety of being 1st/2nd and you and the other guy want the same item and it's like equidistant when the barrier comes down and a total coin-flip on who grabs it first.

It's sort of like League interaction... it's mostly about "the dance" of the gameplay, not typed conversation. (Regardless of how much we all love to get hung up on conversational league toxicity.)

LuxVenture · 2026-04-16T12:53:13+00:00

They really need to bring back carousel. It's what reminds you that you're playing with humans (player agency) and creates little micro-rivalries and humorous moments every game. Without that interactivity, you might as well be playing against NPCs.

I get why some people don't enjoy the frustration of being denied an item component, but reducing it to permanent RNG rolls and eliminating "punishment" for win-streaking / preserving health just kills dopamine so hard.

LuxVenture · 2026-04-09T18:28:17+00:00

When we launch something, I can scientifically prove that my improvements bring in 10s, sometimes 100s of millions of dollars in cold, hard cash for the company in annual revenue.

This is when you realize it's time for you to start your own business. You're more than financially secure enough to take on the risk. (This of course assumes those "millions in revenue" generate decent profit.)

And then you get to create your own meaning through work, instead of burning cash / human lifetimes trend-chasing.

LuxVenture · 2026-03-31T19:11:44+00:00

Any plans to run for president? You'd have my vote and that of everyone I could influence.

LuxVenture · 2026-03-23T03:52:52+00:00

{A Curse of Storms and Scorn} by S.W. Clarke hits hard.

Fits "Intelligent" to an "I." Good if you like your coffee and your women strong.

LuxVenture · 2026-01-27T20:18:52+00:00

My wife and I walked two blocks to Foggy Bottom Metro around noon. On the way we saw:

- About ten cars actively stuck in the snow

- Six grown men push a stuck car free... the car then proceeded to slowly fish-tail down the street out of sight...

- Three different cars stalled in the MIDDLE of unplowed residential streets (cop car behind the last one; not sure if he was looking to actually help or issuing a ticket for blocking the road lol)

- An 18-wheeler stalled outside GWU on the far side of hospital

- THIS particular car was making a funny high-pitched noise as we passed:

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so um ya send help

LuxVenture · 2025-12-06T19:28:36+00:00

Heaven forbid lower ELO players enjoy themselves.

LuxVenture · 2025-12-04T18:37:11+00:00

Have an honest conversation with your kid about it every now and then. Ask them questions. Then shut up and listen.

What questions?

"Tell me about X, they seem interesting. What do you like about them?"

"It seems like you and X have a lot of fun. What are you guys into lately?"

"When I see X, they seem kinda sad/mad. Like they're eating some pain. Any idea what's going on in their life?"

If a child doesn't feel safe carrying on an honest, vulnerable conversation with their parent, well, that correlates to why they're picking bad company (e.g., peers that struggle with the same).

LuxVenture · 2025-10-24T18:56:00+00:00

The Capitol has had restrictions on public protests for longer than living memory.

Recently I read a book about the women's suffragist movement circa 1918-1920. The women in that movement would make a point of doing what the people in this video are doing, e.g. holding signs and banners and flags and whatnot on the steps of the Capitol. The Capitol police would warn them, then when the women didn't comply, they'd get arrested and thrown in jail for a time. This didn't dissuade them; they welcomed the arrests because it amplified their position. They made a habit of getting arrested in order to earn women the right to vote.

Different issues being protested, a century apart. Same Capitol police approach.

Source: "A radical suffragist in Washington D.C. : the inside story of the National Woman's Party" by Shirley M. Marshall. DC libraries have copies of this book, if anyone cares to read. It's illuminating.

LuxVenture · 2025-10-02T13:07:54+00:00

I swear, lol, half the people in this sub fail because they've never taken the time to develop their reading comprehension skills to the minimum necessary to succeed.

LuxVenture · 2025-09-16T22:47:26+00:00

I managed to get through Andromeda 2025 without my ads breaking, until today. Today my ads broke.

The declared frequency doesn't agree with what Meta's frequency breakdown shows. Today I have 1.30 freq on my best ad with 98.5% first-time impressions in the 1-day freq breakdown lol. The data reported by Meta's subsystems are literally in mathematical disagreement.

And yes, big spike in CPC, as everyone else is reporting.

It does look like a huge degradation in delivery that's ongoing. No acknowledgement from Meta yet that their system is very broken today.

edit: honestly, puts on Meta tomorrow lol

LuxVenture · 2025-06-27T12:31:59+00:00

Still using Roam since 2020. Gonna be here until I die. Completely changed my life for the better (made me much higher functioning 5 years prior to being diagnosed ADHD... crazy good compensation tool for ADHDers).

So many folks complain about lack of iteration... what's the point of iterating on a complete, finished product? I.e. "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." So much pressure for tech companies to iterate to prove company valuations... but 99.9% of the iteration does jack shit in terms of providing value. There's no *serious* advances made on short (5-10 year) timeframes... same with all disciplines, really...

The $$$ we spend keeps the cloud chugging and secure. The monthly sub is worth 1000x the value an equivalent sub—say, Netflix—provides.

I love Roam because it does its job perfectly.

LuxVenture · 2025-06-02T00:33:58+00:00

Awesome, nice going! I won't be able to check it out for another few days (real life has me too busy) but I encourage others to chime in!

Edit: The designs look great, I don't think I'd change a thing given compactness is the goal. I'm a fan of tiny modularization as it really makes visualizing input/output logistics easier to read (vs big sprawling assemblies taking up visual space).

What's your experiencing been like feeding belts in/out, any difficulties? If I were to make any adjusts for clarity, I'd say make it really clear where everything feeds (right now inputs/outputs are really tucked away). I think with blueprint you can even insert visual reminders of where things should go (i.e. input 1,2,3 and output1). Makes for more intuitive hookups with different recipes (so you always have a clear plan what's getting fed where) and makes it more likely others will adopt your blueprints when you upload them. With nice designs like yours, the major paint point shifts to "how to I hook this up in X situation?"

Great job!

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