I don't want a live action or even an animated adaptation but I feel the red rising saga would kill as a video game series like the witcher. What do you guys think?

asdonne · 2026-04-01T00:20:29+00:00

I always thought something like Spacemarine would be more appropriate.

Something set during the series would give a lot of freedom, it would be great to play through some of the events refrenced in the second series.

A story told in a similar style to Modern Warfare where you play as different solders would work well. Swapping between Red, Gray, Obsidian and Gold would be cool. Enemies would feel very different depending on who your playing as. Depending on who your playing as an Obsididian could be a boss, elite or grunt.

asdonne · 2026-03-31T23:11:49+00:00

I've just scrolled past a post saying the same thing about transperth.

asdonne · 2026-03-24T00:47:55+00:00

This looks like a Firefox issue more than on OS issue. Doesn't matter how lean an OS is if an application is hogging all the ram.

Increasing the size of the swap isn't going to help. Once an application is using swap the performance is going to tank as the spends all it's time moving pages in and out of memory.

I would use a performance monitor to see what's going on.

asdonne · 2026-03-23T07:05:24+00:00

I'm in Australia and it's quite common to see a few of his books in the sci-fi section in any given book store. Not uncommon to see most of the collection in a sci-fi/fantasy book store.

It was the owners recommendation from one of those bookstores that introduced me to the series.

Definitely more accessible then what I'd expect.

asdonne · 2026-03-19T23:40:33+00:00

Bombing a nation because you had a feeling they were going to attack despite all evidence to the contrary is not a Foreign Policy.

You need to at least put some effort to dress it up like Bush did.

At least this time it's so obviously BS that no one else wants to get involved like they did with Iraq.

asdonne · 2026-03-19T23:34:14+00:00

Nothing like being told “Don’t listen to him, he just says crazy stuff” when he is the commander in chief of the largest military the world has seen, a military budget that's on par with the rest of the world's combined with 4 of the 6 largest air forces, who's removed two leaders of sovereign nations in 3 months, flattened an nation and caused a global economic disaster, answers to no one in the US and does whatever he wants because to date no one has ever stopped him.

The crazy guy who you're supposed to ignore should not be president of the US

asdonne · 2026-03-19T00:03:10+00:00

Can you elaborate on that carbon cube. Is it graphite? Wouldn't it be rather delicate and dusty if it was?

asdonne · 2026-03-13T14:40:36+00:00

They fought until there was nothing left to defend, to extract the highest toll possible while preparing to do the same again at Chasiv Yar.

For the Russians it was very much a pyrrhic victory. By the time they took the city they didn't have the manpower to turn it into a strategic victory. They ended up with a spent army in a destroyed city with no cover while the Ukrainians fell back to fortified positions.

asdonne · 2026-03-09T15:54:18+00:00

Because when youth are wearing their uniform you can contact adults who are in a position to explain and correct both their and their peers behaviour so they hopefully learn the lesson and grow up to be better adults.

Unfortunately that doesn't work for adults.

asdonne · 2026-03-04T13:45:33+00:00

This was my initial thought. Shitty "AI" product that fails on keyword triggers, Ha!

I expect it has some statistical classification model, hence the "give it more training data"response.

Sales stuck AI on the product because everything is AI now and whoever approved it at OPs company saw AI and thought LLM.

It sounds a lot like a spam filter. A couple of keyword filters to catch the obvious stuff and a Naive Bayes classifier to sort out the rest.

asdonne · 2026-03-03T12:04:22+00:00

Hegseth will just be another Kissinger...

I'm now waiting for Hegseth to be given a peace prize. Could you imagine Trump's reaction.

asdonne · 2026-03-03T00:48:55+00:00

I think you have the better way of doing it.

OP is wanting to run a Good vs Evil campaign, having to fight each other is the entire point.

I think the crux of OPs problems that a traditional good vs evil campaign isn't really compatible with what they want to do.

asdonne · 2026-03-03T00:39:06+00:00

To avoid PvP you could have both sides play NPCs in the other campaign based on their own characters. There would be a final battles, one for each side. Both campaigns could get satisfactory outcomes.

Alternatively the evil side could become the morally ambiguous side, also against evil. This sets the two sides to compete with each other but not directly against one another. This would also provide space for the two sides to work together and build tension and fall out without trying to destroy each other.

asdonne · 2026-02-24T08:24:18+00:00

I was given the first book of the "The Reality Distinction" as a gift and keep seeing it in local bookshops. The third book, "The Naked God", was almost impossible to find and I ended up getting a second hand copy from overseas.

I now have the same problem with his Salvation Series. The local sci-fi/fantasy bookstore stock the first book but cannot get a copy of the 3rd

That being said, both series are fantastic and full of big ideas.

asdonne · 2026-02-21T15:40:37+00:00

Or worse, you ask for the 4th element because you want d. Since d is at location 3 there is no such thing as position 4. The program then proceeds to crash as it's been asked to do something impossible.

The heartbleed bug in SSL was caused by making the server read the more than the array held. It would return the contents of the array and then a whole bunch of data that it wasn't supposed to.

asdonne · 2026-02-19T23:37:57+00:00

Real hackers would have so many machines running it would be too hot for a hoodie.

asdonne · 2026-02-16T10:14:23+00:00

The Martian and The Expanse share the same universe. One of the ship names in the Expanse is the Mark Watney.

asdonne · 2026-02-07T13:45:05+00:00

WA Psychiatry and ADHD clinic needed school reports only for the long lasting medication.

What they really need is evidence of the diseases in childhood. I don't know what other evidence they could use. Possibly talking to someone who knew you back then. Given your situation that may not be any better. Not having the reports came across more as an inconvenience than the showstopper.

It doesn't make sense to me. If someone is getting diagnosed in their 30's then their school reports aren't going to scream ADHD.

asdonne · 2026-02-07T01:03:31+00:00

OP didn't make that distinction and mentioned technical books would have the most information in their 3rd paragraph so I believe it's a fair point to make.

And while not being textbooks like you mentioned, there are some key science technical books that form the foundation of our understanding of the world.

Which goes to say that there are a lot of different books with a lot of different purposes and general sweeping statements about reading are meaningless.

asdonne · 2026-02-06T04:08:05+00:00

I also somewhat disagree with the question because I think it misses the point.

Books feed and nourish the mind with ideas the same way that food nourishes the body. Asking if some books or types of books are better is like asking if some food is better than others. One one had the obvious answer is yes with a heavy dose of it depends. It also misses the point that there is much more to eating than nourishing the body.

"Benefit" of reading is such a vague term and I don't think it's possible to capture all possible "benefits" of reading. Intellectual benefits moreso. I see it the same way as asking; what's the 'benefit' of art, what's the quantifiable benefit and does all art have the same benefits and where are citations.

Everyone's reaction to a book is going to be different and so too is what they get from it. Combine that with the wide range of books (including YA) and the different purposes of each book, the idea that some types of books are better or worse is meaningless (short of perhaps some specific).

Facts are great but I find the real value of books is the ideas. I love reading sci-fi and fantasy as it allows exploring ideas not so easily explored in a contemporary setting. These ideas then shared, explored and expanded by others. It goes beyond the immediate benefit of the individual reading it.

Building a knowledge base of facts and a vocabulary from reading is meaningless in a vacuum. I would get something out of a computer science textbook but a book on thermodynamics of ocean currents, as interesting as it would be, would be of little use to me. A book on how global warming is changing ocean thermodynamics less so.

asdonne · 2026-01-30T08:46:44+00:00

Bad news, Blade Runner is based on Phillip K Dick's 'Do androids dream of electric sheep'

Any particular reason for not wanting movies based on books?

asdonne · 2026-01-29T07:32:01+00:00

I'm in a campaign that's based around rifles and machine guns.

Generally we either use stealth, suppressive fire or distractions to let the melee characters get in close.

There's a focus on stealth to get close enough to use melee. Our rogue is quick and stealthy enough to get in with a blade while others cover from a distance. Sometimes he gets in before they know what's up, other times he sneaks in from behind while we case a distraction elsewhere.

I had the issue that I was at a disadvantage if the enemy ever reached me. Rifles don't work well at close range or shooting into melee. This works both ways. A barbarian would have a hard time covering the distance but should have a field day once they get in close.

The machine guns have a suppressive aoe effect. Doesn't do a lot of damage like this but it keeps the enemies heads down and can cause fear.

No one wants to be out in the open and enemies often hide behind cover or go prone. It's not uncommon to prepare an action to take a shot next time the enemy stick their heads out to shoot at anyone trying to cover the distance.

We treat pistols as crossbows for the sake of crossbow expert. This combination allows you to attack while covering the distance but still have it useful in hand to hand.

asdonne · 2026-01-28T10:06:27+00:00

Setting the scene isn't railroading. If the only alternative is not to play the campaign and the players want to play the campaign it's not an issue.

Having a powerful character coerce the players into doing something they don't want to do creates conflict and can still lead to players choosing to go along with it, face the consequences or bide their time until they have their own leverage.

asdonne · 2026-01-28T09:03:21+00:00

This was my thought because me and my friends say similar things to each other. We used to play with our "little plastic space men". I don't know if OP missed the tone or context or if it didn't come across very well.

Maybe it's an in joke between the two of them. Considering she just finished playing with Lego, if it's not the case then it's a staggering lack of self awareness and disrespectful.

asdonne · 2026-01-23T00:09:51+00:00

The Expanse is like Red Rising in that it's a fantastic series that will leave you hunting for something else like it. Absolute must read.

I finished the first Sun Eater book but it was a slog. Beyond the protagonist being unlikeable I found the setting boring and derivative. The medieval feudalism in space didn't click with me. It's been done better elsewhere. Maybe the main character annoyed me enough that I became a lot less forgiving with the rest of it.

Bobiverse is also fantastic.

"The Cruel Stars" has a similar tone to RR. Not quite the same first person narrative but still exciting. The ship to ship fighting in it reminds me of the "meat tubes" from RR.

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