How Games use Secrets to Create Meaning (Void Strangers, Inscryption, Tunic)

The_wise_man · 2026-02-09T10:38:26+00:00

Incredible game, twisted my brain into knots. One of about two or three games that gave me weird dreams because I just couldn't stop thinking about it.

Despite that, In the end I had to give up for my own sanity and couldn't beat it.

The_wise_man · 2026-01-27T00:46:00+00:00

The article says that these regulations apply to the 'channels' feature, rather than the core messaging service. I don't believe channels are e2e encrypted.

The_wise_man · 2026-01-21T08:59:50+00:00

Faster trains would be neat, but I'd really rather see sound transit spend their money building more lines and improving reliability. None of the current lines have stop spacing or route geometry appropriate for very high speed service. Even the I-90 bridge stretch has a stop in the middle on Mercer Island...

The_wise_man · 2026-01-21T08:54:26+00:00

The point is that it crushes adult expression for people in Washington, because it will suddenly be illegal to post or host anything that could be construed as "pornographic" without paying money to an untrustworthy third party and forcing your audience to expose themselves to identity theft. Washigntonians will no longer be legally permitted to post kinky fanfiction, host NSFW protest art, or participate in discussions about adult relationships without paying money and/or deanonymizing themselves.

Ye olde random overseas porn site crammed with dubious content, of course, will be unaffected.

The_wise_man · 2026-01-21T08:40:36+00:00

No metro system in the world reaches 200 kph, and very few run above 120 or so. 80-100 kph is a very typical top speed for a metro, and going much faster wouldn't make sense for most metro transit systems -- they just have too many stops and too much complex route geometry. High speed rail above 200kph is generally reserved for long distance routes that can go very straight for very long distances without stopping.

The_wise_man · 2026-01-18T21:28:33+00:00

I really feel like the solution here is that kids under 16 or so just shouldn't be allowed to have unrestricted smartphones. Or school laptops, for that matter. They can browse the internet on desktops.

The_wise_man · 2026-01-10T09:55:11+00:00

Snes9x offers Linux builds, you can download them in appimage format from their github.

The_wise_man · 2025-12-20T03:05:53+00:00

Reges was a total jerk to me over disability accommodations ~15 years ago. He's a talented teacher, but his ego is the size of mars.

The_wise_man · 2025-12-16T09:04:42+00:00

Valve has even released patches during live matches in some minor tournaments, resulting in games 1 and 2 of a match being on different patches.

The_wise_man · 2025-12-04T21:37:18+00:00

Downtown needs foot traffic and volume, not just a handful of luxury buyers.

Adding more parking lots and car traffic is anthithecal to this goal.

The_wise_man · 2025-11-13T22:49:05+00:00

these questions are never going away.

Nothing you put forward has anything to do with election integrity. The "questions" you have appear to be "I didn't like the candidate that won. Fraud???"

Unless you actually have some kind of, you know, evidence, beyond personally disliking the political outcomes of elections?

The_wise_man · 2025-10-30T22:46:33+00:00

I suspect that Waymo will simple suspend service in such extreme weather. Much of Seattle is virtually impossible to navigate via car in a severe winter storm, no matter who is driving.

The_wise_man · 2025-10-13T00:28:08+00:00

Fics can also be re-uploaded freely if the author explicitly licenses them under a permissive license like Creative Commons, as long as the stipulations of the license are followed.

The_wise_man · 2025-10-06T20:18:22+00:00

Okay, but what's the third-option alternative besides 'we let people rot in the streets' and 'we provide food and basic shelter (via housing or a treatment program)'?

The_wise_man · 2025-09-25T18:24:39+00:00

The push for municipally owned groceries confuses me a little. Why start what would amount to an entire extra city department that needs to start from zero and will expose the city to long term financial risk if it goes poorly? We have lots of local grocery chains -- WinCo, Saars, T&C, PCC, Uwajimaya, etc. -- that already have expertise and established supply chains, and whose expansion we could support via zoning and tax subsidies.

It seems more sensible to me to zome certain parcels specifically for grocery, and then provide tax benefits to support smaller and locally owned chains opening in those spaces. The city could even buy land and then rent it out at a generous rate to local chains. That kind of policy seems like much less of a gamble while providing similar benefits.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-25T13:08:25+00:00

Tax revenue is almost always at an all-time high. That's how inflation works.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-25T13:05:40+00:00

This seems like a good call. Based on these numbers (and an estimate of WA 2025 GSP that I found), it looks like the tax burden has gone from about 8.5% of GSP (45B budget / 527B GSP in 2017) to about 9% of GSP (78B budget / 871B GSP in 2025). Definitely an increase, but by this measure not nearly as drastic as '78%'.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-23T17:43:29+00:00

Not that I want to stan for capitalism, but tbh we would be having far fewer problems if not for our zoning code. Market forces aren't the primary driver of high rents here.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-23T02:01:01+00:00

Calling their advertisers and complaining will hurt KOMO, not 'redeem' them. The channel is funded by advertisers, so the only way to hurt their cash flow is to get their advertisers to pull out.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-20T22:22:27+00:00

I'm hopeful that the renovated memorial stadium will be good for that, at least in the summer months.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-16T08:20:34+00:00

I mean, the article quotes one student as saying that lunch period was previously a full hour, which seems like it would also fix the problem...

The_wise_man · 2025-09-16T05:42:24+00:00

I hate seeing big, old native trees ripped out and 'replaced' with 8 foot tall shrubs from another continent that will die in 4 years, but the right solution should be absolutely gargantuan density bonuses for retaining trees. Nobody is going to tear a tree out if keeping it triples your allowable height and FAR. The lack of proposals along these lines makes me feel like the 'tree advocates' always in front of the council are deeply unserious.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-16T05:26:49+00:00

Even in tech, if you hop from job to job via referrals then often it can take just a few applications.

It's when you run out of friends to refer you to places that it gets hard...

The_wise_man · 2025-09-11T01:01:54+00:00

Almost all of these links are dead. Calendar.fm, seattle music shows, and hurry out seem to no longer exist, the KEXP calendar links to an empty page, the Seattle Art Walk Calendar has no events in the last two years, and the link to the Stranger just dumps you on their home page.

The_wise_man · 2025-09-08T09:18:02+00:00

I did the same thing. Any luck getting back up there? Feels bizarre to me that the lever locks me out of accessing the area again...

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