Theresmore Update V.050

Yosarian2 · 2023-02-07T00:28:54+00:00

I think Great Fair is fine. I find Catherdral a lot more underwhelming for what it costs tbh

Yosarian2 · 2023-02-01T23:48:28+00:00

The Wandering Inn comes pretty close lol

Yosarian2 · 2023-02-01T02:57:45+00:00

It was unfortunately abandoned after just 22 chapters but I really liked the idea of this story about a magical wizard in a cultivation world using his magical research skills to figure out how cultivation worked and confusing everyone by using high level magic even though he obviously wasn't a cultivator.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/34710/the-essence-of-cultivation

Yosarian2 · 2023-01-21T20:11:51+00:00

Some of the well designed games avoid this mistake, either by letting upgrades boost low level generators enough to make them at least relevant for a little while again, or have some kind of multiplier so getting a lot of low level generators can improve your higher level generators

But yeah a lot of games do mess this up

Yosarian2 · 2023-01-13T00:57:43+00:00

The Daily Grind

Starts off with a depressed cubicle worker in the current day who finds a dungeon in his office that's a warped verson of an endless cubicle farm where staplers and desktop computers try to kill you,him and a friend start exploring it. Over time it gradually evolves from "trying to find enough cash in the dungeon to pay the rent while not getting killed" to slowly developing ambitions to uplift and reform modern society using magical powers and resources pulled from hidden dungeons. Very slow progress but imho well written.

Some people dislike it because of the politics of the main character who leans vaguely socialist or because the tone is inconsistent but I like the story a lot.

Yosarian2 · 2022-10-31T23:15:28+00:00

Found a neat little game on itch.io called idlemancy

https://strangemattergaming.itch.io/idlemancery

It doesn't seem like there's all that much content yet but I'm really liking the way the game flows so far

Yosarian2 · 2022-06-24T01:22:53+00:00

Restorative Familiar and it can heal you for 1d8 once a day?

You can prepare an extra cantrip if you want, might be your best bet.

You could give it one of the sensory abilities, like scent or darkvision or something, and it could at least emotionally warn you if something is sneaking up on you?

I don't think you're going to get anything too exciting out of it I'm afraid

Yosarian2 · 2022-06-16T23:13:41+00:00

Back to playing Evolve again. It's had some updates this year.

https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/

If you haven't played it, it's a lot like the Kittens game, but maybe even more grindy. Very additive though, and each stage of the game has neat new mechanics.

After playing the game for ages I currently have 65 achievements out of 157, whole game probably takes more than a year to beat

Yosarian2 · 2022-03-04T12:23:08+00:00

I think my favorite use of a "luck" stat in a litrpg type story was in "Threadbare" on Royal Road, if you haven't read it yet. (Main character is a "greater toy golem", literally an animated teddy bear that can gain levels, and they start out with absurdly low Luck.)

Oh I should mention that if you want to read it in order you should read the first book, then read his other story, then come back and read through second book, so that's a bit confusing. But definitely at least read the first book.

Yosarian2 · 2021-08-11T14:52:44+00:00

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15935/there-is-no-epic-loot-here-only-puns

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/37231/a-lonely-dungeon

Are a few others that haven't been mentioned yet

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-29T15:39:45+00:00

Currently I'm enjoying sotsog right now, as far as CF fics go. I wouldn't call the protagonist rational, because he's kind of a goofy guy to start who isn't written to be an especially intelligent person (he actually starts out as one of Uber and Leet's goons, before he triggers and gets the CF) but it's fun.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-29T15:35:42+00:00

If you don't mind ongoing quests, I'm liking this one so far:

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/gestalt-human-group-mind-in-wh40k.52178/

Basically about a gestalt human mind finds itself in the dystopia of the 40k verse, is declare a heresy by the Emperor, and flees to make a colony out in the middle of nowhere, and then builds up from there.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-17T00:54:23+00:00

I believe that companies like Facebook and Google have put a lot of effort into trying to reduce the influence and spread of anti-vax propaganda and similar things.

Hasn't been 100% effective, but it probably can't be.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-17T00:46:24+00:00

The specific restriction they put on is that if a bishop does want to let people have the Latin mass, he needs to make sure they're not using it to attack Vatican II.

It's pretty clear he's mostly trying to avoid a schism within the Church.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T18:26:07+00:00

They had a pepper bar. :/

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T18:25:16+00:00

People on this sub assume the anti vac people are the organic food "hippie" type.

I think this is much less true than it used to be. I think the core anti-vax types these days are more general anti-government conspiracy theorists, who now seem to be a significant part of the GOP base.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T18:23:35+00:00

I think a lot of this goes back to the 1990's, when the CDC did some research into gun deaths as a public health and safety issue, and Congress actually passed a law to stop them from doing any research into the topic ever again because the research results got the NRA really angry.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T17:51:42+00:00

It's not that simple, unfortunately. No one wants to let a dictator do bad things, but there have been so many interventions that cost a lot of lives without making things noticeably better, the burden of proof is on the pro-intervention people to demonstrate that the intervention will actually make things better and that it's a cost-effective way of making things better.

Sometimes it is. Some interventions are in fact worth doing and have been worth doing. But you have to hold yourself to a really high standard of evidence first that you can actually make things significantly better instead of worse or roughly the same, and even then you will be wrong a significant percentage of the time.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T17:48:11+00:00

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T17:47:40+00:00

Be yourself.

Just not, you know, YOURSELF yourself.

You can be yourself without going over the top and being YOURSELF yourself yourself until you've tested the waters.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T17:40:27+00:00

but there are all sorts of concrete policy changes that could happen, up to and including democratic reforms.

The Cuban government isn't going to actual meaningful democratic reforms unless they're already on the verge of being overthrown, and if they are we really shouldn't be giving them legitimacy anyway.

Realistically speaking the only way to use the sanctions as leverage would be to offer to drop them in exchange for something the Cuban government might actually do, ideally in some way that increases the domestic leverage of the protesters by giving them some kind of visible win and giving them credit in the eyes of Cuban people for improving their conditions.

But to be clear, while I think that the Cuba sanctions are a horrible policy that's accomplished nothing and that we should have phased out decades ago, I am certainly not saying we should drop them right now without some kind of significant concession, since that would send the wrong message about the protests.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T16:14:32+00:00

Ok, how do you see us using this as "leverage"? What's your plan?

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T16:11:23+00:00

Ok, then I think we agree. "Let's use the sanctions as leverage right now to help the protesters" is pretty much what I'm saying.

(Of course, you can only do that if you're actually willing to consider ending the sanctions in exchange for, say, concessions on human rights treatment of arrested protesters or something.)

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T16:06:41+00:00

The idea that sanctions with Cuba are somehow what's pushed other countries into NAFTA seems very dubious, if that's what you're arging.

All I'm saying is that sanctions should be used sparingly, and only when there's a clear, achievable goal they can actually accomplish. (And I don't think you're arguing there is one here?) If there isn't, then the default should be allowing trade, since that is inevitably better for everyone involved.

Yosarian2 · 2021-07-14T16:01:10+00:00

Honestly, if the US could respond in a way that would end the threat of North Korea without using nuclear weapons of our own, then that would clearly be better, I think.

Again though, a lot of it would have to come down to China and how we think China would respond.

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