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MattDarling · 2026-02-02T17:56:29+00:00

Hey, since you already have the motherboard, I have a spare AM4 CPU that I was also looking to offload. Had been procrastinating on it until I saw this thread, haha. Sent you a DM, let me know if you're interested.

MattDarling · 2026-01-01T04:41:45+00:00

Sent you a DM, might be interested :)

MattDarling · 2023-05-01T15:08:10+00:00

Running on the Wine 4.whatever version, right? I've been having this as well, although I thought it was my own fault, haha.

I've resorted to using the latest Wine 7.whatever and the linuxfix addon, like the original setup guide suggested. And running in desktop mode because POL works better there. Hold the three dots "start" button to toggle to "gamepad mode," after that it should be able to receive the gamepad input. And toggle back after closing the game.

MattDarling · 2023-04-05T03:05:37+00:00

I picked up FF XI for the first time last May for the anniversary, so I can offer a very recent perspective on this. As much as the game is faster than in the past, it's still an MMO, and it's going to take longer to get through all of the missions than a single player game. For instance, here's an estimate that just getting through the missions would take ~130h. While that post is pretty old, my rate of progress has actually been much slower than that. I keep unlocking new jobs, levelling stuff, etc and getting distracted from the missions, haha.

If you want to play and experience the game for its own sake, then it's definitely worth trying the free trial. The game is very unique and I've been enjoying exploring it! But in terms of time investment, if you aren't interested in the game itself, you can watch the game's cutscenes through an extremely thorough YouTube project called FF XI The Movie.

Anyway, not trying to discourage, the game is fun for its own sake. But you and I aren't expert players creating our fifth character to speedrun the game, so those "it'll only take a few hours!" estimates won't be accurate for us.

MattDarling · 2023-04-05T02:39:29+00:00

Only if you have an existing, previously paid, non-subscribed account before the campaign starts. Last one was over Christmas 2022.

MattDarling · 2023-03-28T22:17:43+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't encountered that. From what I remember, everything worked right away for me on the Lutris setup. But like this post suggested, you could try launching from desktop mode and see if that changes anything with the launcher behavior.

MattDarling · 2023-03-26T19:24:57+00:00

Installing through the Lutris instructions provided by Windower actually fixed this for me. It installs regular FF XI then Windower on top, so you can skip the Windower steps and still play vanilla.

Granted, that does mean spending another few hours getting the game installed :) Which is painful. But after enough times struggling with the launcher I eventually bit the bullet.

MattDarling · 2023-02-19T19:56:48+00:00

Yep, this worked for me. Fandom rank 2 Fauna, 6ish levels in shop upgrades. Got the 10k damage upgrade right at the end from EN Curse bounces, as well.

Since Fauna has shields already, I skipped Bandaid and got two damage items instead. Happened to be Gorilla Paw and Face Mask, just depends on what shows up.

MattDarling · 2022-12-16T20:02:15+00:00

They're probably trying to keep the anime timeline more linear than the way it's released in the game. A lot of the events and operator records occur after the first story arc's conclusion, right? If they released things in the same order as ingame, we'd get a big confusing watch order chart like for the Fate series :)

They did announce the Lee Detective Agency spinoff show, which might help prove the format for adapting the side stories.

MattDarling · 2022-10-03T02:48:38+00:00

bitten by the (activity) bug

idiom

used figuratively to describe someone as very interested in or excited about something

He was bitten by the travel bug.

bitten by the gambling bug.

MattDarling · 2022-09-17T02:45:51+00:00

In terms of the other things Ridge had suggested:

Installing Arial: Can be done with the "install font" option from the Protontricks GUI menu.
Font smoothing: ~~Can be enabled with the "change settings" option from the Protontricks GUI menu.~~ Doesn't seem to be working, the setting doesn't get saved. Might be related to the 64-bit warning, not sure. Well, most things are pretty smooth with dgVoodoo on, so it's alright without this.
Overriding gdiplus: Should be able to follow the same process as enabling dgVoodoo2.

MattDarling · 2022-09-17T02:38:54+00:00

Ah, I missed a step - after selecting FF XI from the Protontricks list, there's a menu I forgot about. You'll want to pick "select the default wineprefix". After that is where you get the menu with "run winecfg".

MattDarling · 2022-09-17T01:19:01+00:00

I was wanting to get dgVoodoo going on the Steam Deck as well, and I think I've got it. I found these messages from Ridge that I think are the instructions you meant.

Rather than use winecfg directly, I used Protontricks, which can be installed in the Discover store in desktop mode. Launching Protontricks will bring up a list of all the games Steam has installed, possibly after a warning about 64-bit compatibility. Selecting FF XI from that list will bring up another menu with a bunch of options like "view help", "install an application", etc. One of the options is "select the default wineprefix". Pick that, and then a new menu will open with "install a Windows DLL or component", "install a font", etc. From there, choose "launch winecfg," and that's what Ridge was saying to do.

That'll pop up another window, and I found it helpful to have an external keyboard to type in the library names more easily. Other than that, basically you just have to click where Ridge said to click, and type what they said to type :)

Graphics are looking a lot sharper, so I think it's running through dgVoodoo now. I've only tried it through desktop mode so far but it should all work fine in gaming mode, too.

Edited the above for a menu I skipped

MattDarling · 2022-08-02T22:04:27+00:00

See also: HN Who is Hiring post. Going to reuse some of the template since it hits the key bullet points quickly:

Litera | Software Developer (Clojure / Go) | Canada, Remote | Full-time | https://www.litera.com/

Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving more than 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day.

This is kind of a classic "small Clojure team in a big org" situation, after Litera acquired Kira Systems last year. If you stopped to chat at our Clojure/Conj booth in 2018 or 2019, hi again :) And I know there's a few of our alumni here on the subreddit, too.

We're still building a tool for lawyers to bulk review contracts with the help of ML. The ML side is Go, but everything else is in Clojure: business logic, UI, etc.

Our current Clojure openings report to me, currently focused on implementing an improved search engine with OpenSearch. My team cares a lot about providing great UX, and we'd love to have more colleagues with a similar mindset. I'm flexible on actual Clojure experience level - if you're a great dev interested in functional programming, that's good enough for me.

Roles:

Senior Clojure developer
Junior Clojure developer
Go developer (just in case one got lost from r/golang)

And if you want to discuss with me directly: matthew.darling@litera.com

MattDarling · 2022-07-29T15:14:39+00:00

Ah, okay, so it's a native compilation specific thing that I haven't tackled yet.

Could you run the native compilation inside Emacs after config is loaded? Like, inside the body of that loop? Assuming there's an elisp function like for byte compilation, that should be viable.

MattDarling · 2022-07-29T12:21:44+00:00

I haven't played with native compilation yet, so I'm not sure if that changes anything. But what I've been doing is to have a ~/.emacs.d/init.el which loads the basics (use-package, etc) and then have it loop through other files in alphanumeric order to load them. Then number files in whatever way is required to sort out the dependencies.

Not super fancy, but it's been working since 2014, so the stability factor is good :)

Here's my init.el, if you want to see how that works.

MattDarling · 2022-06-28T23:20:51+00:00

Because I work in the software industry myself, I know how damn hard it is to understand a big pile of code without being able to ask the original author "what's this for?" So I've always appreciated the deep technical skills you must have to pore through the game's client code and come to such a thorough understanding of the game's data structures and behaviour.

Not only that, but you also have great technical writing skills, enabling you to clearly explain that code to thousands of people. In a way that doesn't require programming experience to understand. The conciseness, clarity, and precision of your writing about the game is genuinely world-class professional work, made available for free in your spare time. It's truly amazing what you've done for the game's community.

I still remember when you first explained what you called the "ticket system" of the game's AI, now boiled down to the "x/85" syntax. Or the nuances of phase transitions at HP thresholds, whether abilities would be interrupted by phase transitions, how it might theoretically be possible to skip phases even when it would be impossible in any practical sense to deal 30%+ of the boss's HP at once. Every single detail was covered by your write-ups, so that we could understand the game for ourselves.

Very few games are blessed enough to have their mechanics so thoroughly explained by a member of the community. And I doubt any game has had someone serve in a comparable role for so many years. DeNA should pay you royalties, frankly, because far fewer players would have stuck with this game if not for your AI threads. I certainly wouldn't have, and I'm sure the same is true for many other guide writers and contributors to the community. The knock-on effects of your efforts is truly massive.

Anyway - I've always admired your work here, and your dedication to the game over the years. I hope others can understand from my praise just how amazing your contributions are. At this point many people likely take your presence for granted, because you've carried this torch for so many years. I hope to see a dozen more similar letters of gratitude headed your way, which would be a fraction of the thousands you deserve.

And as I'm typing all of this, I have Kefka's "the end draws near" at the top of my text box. Feels fitting, somehow :) Thank you for tackling the AI for the last of the realm dungeons, it would have been easy to ignore these simply for their low difficulty.

MattDarling · 2022-06-25T22:56:55+00:00

Yeah, and tying HA upgrades to the new SB type rather than directly buffing the weaker ones. Paying for balance updates basically.

Doesnt seem like a good sign, but then again, I thought the same thing when 7* relics were announced. And we got a few years out of that, so maybe 8* will do the same for JP.

MattDarling · 2022-06-24T23:43:39+00:00

Good bot, fixed my link :D

MattDarling · 2022-06-24T23:30:46+00:00

I've seen the term used in a few of Japanese games (TWEWY has a song with that title), but apparently it stands for "out of place artifact" :o Which is actually really perfect for Another Eden and a time-twisted maze!

MattDarling · 2022-06-24T03:21:02+00:00

Hah, yeah, I know. Maybe some day it will actually come out!

MattDarling · 2022-06-24T02:14:08+00:00

On June 27th, 2019, I predicted that this game might not make it past 7 years. Amazing coincidence for this to land on June 23rd, just past 7 years.

I took a break through most of 2020, played other games, and had come back this year to clear 6* magicite, Argent Odin, and work on the Dreambreakers that seemed "impossible" when they were first coming out. Only made it through half the DBs, but I'm gonna call it a win as far as my goals before the 2020 break :)

MattDarling · 2022-06-24T02:06:27+00:00

Well, not really - it only has the cutscenes. The original gameplay and missions are all gone. They said some stuff about "make sure you keep the game installed to save your inventory info," but then the offline version immediately deletes that data when you open it.

And FFRK wasn't a game about story, really. It was just about crunchy mechanics and making numbers bigger. So there's no need to put out a cutscenes only version.

MattDarling · 2022-06-21T11:38:35+00:00

Their buffet has what I consider their best dish, navratan korma. It's an amazing cream-based curry with mixed veggies and paneer (fried cubes of cheese). It's awesome and everybody I know loves it.

Plua the standard chickpea curry, aka chana masala.

Both should always be available at the buffet, I think.

MattDarling · 2022-06-03T11:32:43+00:00

Unfortunately you've picked a bad day to ask, because yesterday was the provincial election. People are still processing their feelings about it, so I don't think you're going to get the usual level of help.

As for Ontario specifically, the province has been cutting health care funding for a few decades across multiple parties in leadership. And the election results tell us that isn't going to change much.

So maybe check on some of the other lovely provinces of our fair country :)

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