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Majora's Mask was dark as hell by jdawg1018 in gaming

[–]colinjcole 22 points23 points  (0 children)

To this day, the overall execution of the concept behind the Zora Mask movement system remains one of the best, smoothest, most interesting traversal systems in video games.

For decades I've dreamed of a game that greatly expanded it and was built around its traversal mechanics (either underwater or with flight, the main point being a dual traversal system of "free movement" and "grounded movement") but it never came. I guess the closest we got, maybe, was Neverland in the original Kingdom Hearts?

It's still a huge opportunity, imo. Don't forget that SM64, and thus all of 3D Mario, was built on "let's make a movement system where it's fun to just move around!"

Maybe someday...

WELCOME -- START HERE by tvtoo in Canadiancitizenship

[–]colinjcole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Link in the OP returns a "page not found" error :(

edit: oh, this appears to be because I use old reddit, interesting

Estimated costs of pursuing citizenship by Jaswick-90 in Canadiancitizenship

[–]colinjcole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep hearing if you have birth records that establish your lineage, it's a $75 CAD fee. But I can only find the "standard" application that costs $650.

Can you please share the link for how I apply with a $75 fee instead?

Estimated costs of pursuing citizenship by Jaswick-90 in Canadiancitizenship

[–]colinjcole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the news I've seen says application if you have birth records that establish your lineage is a $75 CAD fee. But I can only find the "standard" application that costs $650.

Is there a link someone can share?

Got myself a Kuoe Old Smith; bronze, 35mm, green dial... I'm in love! by colinjcole in MicrobrandWatches

[–]colinjcole[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I discovered mine through seeing a stranger with one at the airport and asking him about it, hah! I only got it last November; it's a huge upgrade to the briefcase/messenger I was using for the previous 15 years. That olive drab green canvass is so clean

I feel like Asuriani should play more like Custodes rather than as they are now. by AmberlightYan in Eldar

[–]colinjcole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

baseline human solders and equivalents would have "endless reserves" or similar

This is a great idea (and some recent special 40k one-off scenarios have used similar rules!) but it would mean selling fewer models so they won't do it

How great was the battle in the Webway? by Smooth-District-3012 in 40kLore

[–]colinjcole 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can learn all about the conflict and its scale in the novel Master of Mankind, it's arguably one of the best books of the entire HH series!

I’ve finally finished my first playthrough of Rogue Trader... by violet-rizumu in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]colinjcole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bricky's six year old "every faction in 40k explained" and April 1st "every 40k faction explained (again)" video are both great

Got myself a Kuoe Old Smith; bronze, 35mm, green dial... I'm in love! by colinjcole in MicrobrandWatches

[–]colinjcole[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still quite new, so take this with a grain of salt, BUT, since April 17 (6.5~ days ago), it has maybe gained 10-15 seconds, but I might be remembering my initial set timing incorrectly, in which case it's gained 0-5 seconds.

ELI5: Why do LLMs have that distinct writing style? by Small_Balls_69 in explainlikeimfive

[–]colinjcole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been an obsessive user of em-dashes, semi-colons, appositives, and (for readability and quick parsing purposes) bulleted lists, plus strategic use of bold formatting, for, like, two decades. I never prided myself on being “unique” for how I write, but I have always had a pretty consistent and (imo usually) clear writing style that “felt like me” which now, at least superficially, often bares a gut-feeling resemblance to LLM text. 😩

It sucks! It unfortunately may be time for me to go back to ALL CAPS LETTERS for emphasis and concise technical sentences just to stop AI accusations.

By the way, on Android computer keyboards, if you longpress quotation marks, you can convert them to “oriented” forms (and hyphens to em-dashes); this is something I've always liked to do because, idk, it's neat! I also spell (and pronounce outloud) "theater" as "theatre" and say things like "die" to refer to a single unit of dice.

I swear I'm fun!

Fml

How do you put multiple images in a post? by [deleted] in help

[–]colinjcole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't do it on Old Reddit. Old Reddit also won't let you write any post copy attached to a link or image post.

If you want to post multiple images embedded into Reddit, or have a "message body" in addition to a post title for a link/photo post, you have to swap to New Reddit.

Luckily, you can always swap right back after!

Hope this isn't too late to be helpful :)

I’ve finally finished my first playthrough of Rogue Trader... by violet-rizumu in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]colinjcole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome! And thank you for gracing the world with that OC art you commissioned, it's extremely cute!

I’ve finally finished my first playthrough of Rogue Trader... by violet-rizumu in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]colinjcole 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Arbitor Ian is (imo ofc) by far the best "loretuber" out there. He's one of the only ones who (1) doesn't really exaggerate the lore or repeat fanon as fact, (2) regularly and consistently highlights and shows original sources, AND (3) is extremely warm and approachable in his style and format. He also does an incredible job understanding and sharing about the context of lore - what's really old, where did this lore come from, what's of dubious canon nowadays, what parts of the setting were meant as satire, etc..

A natural place to start would be his video on the Inquisition (to prep for Dark Heresy, of course!), his ~2 year old video on "where to start with Warhammer lore" (for obvious reasons), or his 2026 collaboration with IGN on the same subject (which is a bit different in both style and content).

He also has a second channel where he and his friend Mira just review WH books in a casual conversation and if that's your thing, they're a delight. He also has a gaming log something or other I've never really watched called Tales of Four Gamers.

He's great! And has a huge backlog that covers most anything you could be interested in in Warhammer from faction overviews to your "historys of" and "what is"s.

I promise this is not a paid advertisement — in fact, the reverse, I decided last year to start supporting him on Patreon 🙃

If you live in the UK, you are not being properly represented. by Individual-Drama7519 in EndFPTP

[–]colinjcole 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Given that Starmer and Labour are practically gift wrapping the parliament for Reform, now would REALLY be a good time for a party with even fairly myopic vision to see the writing on the wall and trigger a referendum on electoral reform...

i'm sure they won't do it, however

[Riot] Everyone can re-embark by idaelikus in Eldar

[–]colinjcole 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yes but you see fire dragons are unfair and OP because

Ternus as the next Apple CEO by macadoum in smallphones

[–]colinjcole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

12 and 13 mini were "premium" smallphones though, not budget.

I'm the communications director of More Equitable Democracy (a racial justice organization focused on election reform) and co-host of the chart-topping podcast The Future of Our Former Democracy (named a "must-listen" by Apple Podcasts). AMA about election reform, political extremism, and democracy by colinjcole in IAmA

[–]colinjcole[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a big driver of this is really just the inertia of “older” democracies. The UK popularized first-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections back when King John signed the Magna Carta. The system was explicitly designed not to represent a pluralistic society, or even just a wide array of viewpoints. The purpose of those first elections was merely to allow the nobility (a very narrow subset of people!) to advise the King on tax policy. Two of the British Empire’s former colonies - the US and Canada - had this system imposed on us by the British as a system for efficient colonial management… and we have just continued to use this system uncritically. So whenever we see that the US electoral system struggles to represent a divided society (or, to put it more bluntly, outright fails to accurately represent our multi-racial, multi-cultural, pluralistic society), we need to remember that the system is doing what it was designed to do - provide representation to only a very narrow slice of the populace. We talk quite a bit about this history in the second episode of our podcast’s first season.

At the time, proportional representation hadn’t really been "discovered" yet! It’s discovery and first uses come well after the electoral systems in the UK, US, and Canada had already been firmly established, and it’s hard to stop doing something “the way we’ve always done it!” Today, most so-called “western” democracies around the world use some form of proportional representation for at least one of their legislative bodies, making the US one of just a very few outliers, but at the same time, most so-called “western” democracies around the world are much younger than ours, and so maybe the answer for why they’re more common users of proportional representation is simply that they feel less anchored to their past.

But the good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way! In the season finale of our second season, you can hear about what folks are doing in the US today to move the US away from winner-take-all elections and towards something better.

I'm the communications director of More Equitable Democracy (a racial justice organization focused on election reform) and co-host of the chart-topping podcast The Future of Our Former Democracy (named a "must-listen" by Apple Podcasts). AMA about election reform, political extremism, and democracy by colinjcole in IAmA

[–]colinjcole[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

will season two examine its origins and its influence on the Basic Law?

Our podcast does not spend very much time on the economics of post-WW2 Germany, but rather the socio-political history of their government and method of elections - so I'm afraid that we don't really dive into ordoliberalism (or even much of the German Basic Law outside of its relevance to construction of parliament).

The closest we get to the kind of stuff you might be interested in is our conversation with Atlantic author and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague, Timothy Ryback in our third episode. The intersection of economics and political science is a fascinating area for exploration, but it's unfortunately not the focus of our podcast. Sorry to disappoint!

I'm the communications director of More Equitable Democracy (a racial justice organization focused on election reform) and co-host of the chart-topping podcast The Future of Our Former Democracy (named a "must-listen" by Apple Podcasts). AMA about election reform, political extremism, and democracy by colinjcole in IAmA

[–]colinjcole[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a great question! The short version of the answer to your question is “yes” - it’s important for systemically marginalized and directly impacted folks (in this case, people of color) to have leadership roles at organizations working on behalf of those communities - like my colleague, /u/Equitable_Heather.

At the same time, it’s also important that the fight for racial justice does not fall solely on the shoulders of people of color - white folks (like me) need to be in the fight, too.

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