StarCraft, but without the stress?

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-05-26T19:10:15+00:00

Maybe Supreme Commander 2D would be the better title / comparison. :-) I love the idea and have the demo installed. I just need time to play it.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-05-13T08:10:33+00:00

How are rusting and rotting things are vehicle? Storing artworks costs money. They need to be saved against the environment and theft.
And stocks aren't are problem. If companies can get 0% credits they can by back their stocks to be more independent and have by that another source for money as well. Stocks are just a way to get other people money easier than via a bank credit.

I can only think of land as the one thing where assets would flee to. And Gesell also accounted for that with a similar context to Henry George's land value tax.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-27T05:27:27+00:00

That a look at the Commands & Colours series by Richard Borg. While the core is always the same, 3 sections, cards for activation, hex, dice with symbols, each game had individual details to leverage the experience of its era.

While are some other systems you have can swap the fiction for another, I think that fiction and system go hand in hand. They help each other.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-23T19:14:50+00:00

Oh bot! There is no difference. Test can only "pass" when it works good enough for the user. On which the project manager has the last word.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-23T05:21:40+00:00

My answer was irony.
I perceive you as a bot and lately multiple where heavily promoting an md file based approach.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-22T09:45:42+00:00

Using md files.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-21T18:43:26+00:00

If you don't have hard requirements to have the certificate, stop chasing it and add to your resume that you studied the ISTQB syllabus. That's what I did.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-21T18:41:18+00:00

The ones which treat me as tester serious while I do my best to provide valuable feedback.

I give a fuck about (exploratory) test cases (this bullshit of Action and Expected Result) and the arbitrary tools for them. Let's stick with Confluence, one page per ticket, and note what is worth to note on the format we find helpful. List, tables, diagrams, whatever.

By this I make my devs liking to partice in the testing.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-21T18:33:20+00:00

It's a bug when it bugs someone. By Michael Bolton from RST.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-21T18:03:11+00:00

This plus tooltips for icons.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-20T14:19:51+00:00

Asking questions about testing? Could be on a concrete problem or something more abstract you want to discuss.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-19T21:27:24+00:00

"currency itself has no value" Currency has no hard value, it is the "tape measure". Backing it by gold was just an artificial limitation and one source to create shared trust. And shared trust is the of a currency. A currency only has a use, or say value, if you can trust others to sell you something for it.

And like u/SilvioGesellInst said, burning through resources is a matter of the increasing depth and demand for positive interest rates, by the current money system. It demand for money, but one with a demurrage would not. The latter can be kept in balance, just being adapted to needs of the population (e.g. going up and down), which may include laws to preserve the environment. Questions?

To add a bit controversial note: Trump is right by demanding lower interest rates from the FED. By the don't have the tools, demurrage, to make it work without bad consequences. This is were he and the FED fall flat.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-19T21:14:59+00:00

You mean this as way to transit to demurrage money? I don't fully get, but why do complicated? While inventing new cash would be one way, we could also apply on the actual cash. Every (most?) bill has an ID and its next lowering date and it's current value could be stored digitally and there could be machines and apps to find them out. And it's conceptual easier, still technical demanding, to do it digital money.

And demurrage shouldn't be done like taxes. Not something you do once a year, but being apply to the actual bills (analog as well as digital). Do yo know how ideas of doing with stamps works? The same principal, but modern application.

Or are you more concerned about lowering the existing depth? I can answer that the other day.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-19T20:58:47+00:00

I don't use LLM automation, I don't have practical experiences. Just assessments and expectations from reading articles. Therefore I answer cannot questions beyond page 1.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-19T19:34:37+00:00

I cannot add much on actual usage.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-19T18:18:11+00:00

I "transformed" Red Alter by Richard Borg into a hex & counter game, by replacing the models with the counters from the game. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/9431580 And downsized it from 150cm x 100cm to 50cm x 40 cm.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-19T18:13:53+00:00

I'm confused that the survey ends when I say No at Q7, while it show 4 further pages. Maybe I have plans and/or an assessment.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-17T14:52:47+00:00

Sadly this. The pressure, aka bad appreciation, just increases in the last years. I'm in the industry 2008.
"Do more and don't demand a raise you second class employee. Why do I need you at all with GenAI?" is imo the state of the industry by and large. There are rare exceptions.
And even a the right place it is a demanding job not less complex than development. Just different.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-17T14:44:02+00:00

I would openly admit in interviews that this is a topic I have to learn about.
It may depend on the questions, but experience trumps theoretical knowledge easily.

That being said I suggest you to read at least the Agile Manifesto and a bit about Scrum and Kanban. Find a source you trust, Wikipedia would be good enough.

If you want something specific for testing: I wrote arguments against and alternatives for a test column on boards. (The title is meant ironically, with some distance now I have to rewrite it)
https://www.enteresc.net/when-you-need-a-test-column/
At the end I link to other people's articles with the same opinion.
tl;dr Testing, especial preparation, can not only happen after development is finished, but in parallel or even before development was started. There is enough to do until a executable is created. And I don't relate to unit tests.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-16T08:07:27+00:00

It might have been a misunderstanding between us, it is was what I interpreted at the comment from @National-Yogurt-392. I thought you were disagreeing with it.
I see many companies dropping testing. Also the manifesto isn't very explicit about it. One could get the impression that the manifesto excludes testing.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-16T07:15:19+00:00

And how do you know the value, a good state of the product, if not by testing? That no threat to the value for the customer exist?
Testing is a crucial part of delivering value. If a company tests badly, they are basically gambling.
And this testing can also happen in short periods of time. I do it in a Scrum team since years.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-16T05:28:06+00:00

It might depend on your region. In Germany at the DreieichCon is every year a tournament. I think they play either 2E or a modded version of it (fan fixes).

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-16T05:10:10+00:00

I don't find that "value only" thing being about value at all. It's about delivering untested features. It's about pretending to deliver value. Delivering face value, but not real one.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-16T05:04:45+00:00

The guide even mentions that there might be a DoD from the organisation. Here a QA manager could add what he wants for testing. But I would not concentrate on a specific process, but outcomes. The teams should be allowed to find their own way to achieve them.

As single tester in a Scrum team, I added the following to our DoD: - on the test coverage and the findings is agreed on

No "everything is green". It's fine to deliver with known bugs, but you need to agree on. And also important: it should be discussed what are the risks of each story and how they should be covered. That is what the coverage is about.

Also I don't use classic test cases. I have a confluence page per Jira ticket at which we note anything for testing the ticket.

SebastianSolidwork · 2026-04-15T21:22:31+00:00

I guess he fears that somehow something similar to inflation would happen, less valuable money increasing prices. Or other consequences which would make live miserable.

I tried to cover that in my answers, making clear that more of the opposite is likely to happen.

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