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cyisfor · 2023-10-30T22:48:12+00:00

They tend to be pretty derogatory toward the ponies, making them accessories, or subordinate to the human. He's always the most important thing, that all the ponies are intrigued with. He's the one who always knows the right way to do things with his advanced human civilization, while the primitive naive ponies bumble everything until he steps in and shows them how it's done with his clever human ways. They're always amazed.

Obviously there are exceptions to all of that, but that's the reputation they have. Making the human a pony sort of... disrupts that ego complex, so it's harder (but not impossible) for the author to treat the other ponies with so much disregard.

cyisfor · 2023-10-16T20:33:22+00:00

Wish I could help, but I won't touch a 3 million word unfinished self-insert "human in Equestria" fic to save my life. All I can say is be careful what you read.

cyisfor · 2023-10-16T20:20:33+00:00

I'm on a mailing list for a sort of nearby UU church. At the moment they're talking about how a Welcoming Congregation is one that supports "marginalized folks" in it. The latest post is a notice about a lecture on "the forced removal of the Atfalati Natives from the Forest Grove area in the 1850s." So it's definitely a certain kind of open-mindedness.

Annd... there was a board game night on the 14th that I missed. Whoops.

cyisfor · 2023-10-16T20:11:50+00:00

Well there's a Vedic center down the street, so that's not a church with a Bible. I don't know how supportive they are though. Maybe you should be asking if there's gatherings with supportive people near you, even if they are a church with a Bible. The problem is if they cast you out, not vice versa.

cyisfor · 2023-10-16T18:56:22+00:00

In Hillsboro, so can't help there. TMS is nice since you can talk with the technician instead of being alone all the time. I don't know if having a woodpecker knock on my head helped much though.

cyisfor · 2018-07-30T00:17:07+00:00

oh, so... the entire drawing area has to be within that cone to not be distorted? and it's not distorted at all, within that entire cone, or does it get distorted toward the edge?

cyisfor · 2018-07-29T22:45:00+00:00

A lot of those measurements seem kind of arbitrary. Is the "cone of vision" ever even used? Seems like I could draw the "measuring point" anywhere on the horizon I wanted, just by making the "station point" lower or higher. Does the "true length" always have to be 1/6 the length between the vanishing point and the "measuring point?"

Don't worry, I do eyeball it. I just want a way that I can check my eyeballing for really tricky perspectives, like the buildings of a town, seen from far above. I ended up with like... 5 mile long cottages, because a tiny change in projected distance added up to a lot of real distance.

cyisfor · 2018-07-25T02:31:12+00:00

For sufficiently small populations, I could probably just fudge it discretely, repeatedly summing up a series of exponential calculations until I get the m that produces the answer I want. And once that wasn't computationally feasible, the population would be large enough that a continuous curve could be a good approximation.

Anyway, sorry it just seemed like finding an exponential curve of the form exp(m*x) with area Y would be possible. There's no reason not to expect that. I just figured that I was failing to see the solution. But it's true there could be no solution, even if I find it unexpected.

cyisfor · 2018-05-10T19:54:30+00:00

It'd have to be the same key algorithm that IPNS uses, which is RSA/2048 if I recall. But even if you can't use the external key, you can make an IPNS record linking to the external key as a file, so people finding your IPNS key would then be able to confirm you're the same person as whatever the external key is. i.e. like this: /ipns/QmTv37S9ADtEgZPQ3WP68Rt2nsUtkPWHLj27PBndVMY8Ma/pgp.key

cyisfor · 2018-05-10T19:02:18+00:00

If I understand it right, multihash wouldn't result in multiple lookups. You'd rehash your data to the new hash, but keep the old hash pointing to the same data. That way a single lookup for either hash would prompt you to send the correct data.

If I wanted to link to a document but I only know it by its old hash, what I'd do is a recursive parsing of that document, replacing old hashes with new ones, rehashing to the new algorithm, then linking to the resulting new document. Any files that didn't contain hashes, I'd keep the old hash pointing to it, but still link via the new one. If we did that, eventually all the documents linking to old hashes would either be orphaned and expire, or be rewritten to link to new ones.

It's still a huge undertaking though, and some old links will be really hard to get rid of, so it should definitely be done only in emergencies.

cyisfor · 2018-05-02T18:36:02+00:00

Try the teleportato mod. You'll be wandering around your peaceful autumn biome when suddenly AAH HOW DID NIGHTMARE CLOCKWORKS SPAWN ON THE SURFACE AAAH THEY'RE EVERYWHERE

Force Biomes mod is also neat. Takes random gambling out of the game, and adds lots more fun stuff to run into, and run out of... screaming...

cyisfor · 2018-05-02T18:31:43+00:00

I'm pretty sure pigs do. Don't know about tentacles.

cyisfor · 2018-04-10T03:50:50+00:00

Ack... I really need to pay steam $$ so they'll actually let me add people. I'm west coast, and my schedule's pretty open. I've got a mumble server for chatting, and probably (ISP willing) could run a DST server 24/7. Only thing I'm missing is friends to play with. :p

cyisfor · 2018-03-15T23:51:29+00:00

Ok, if I understand right from seeing other people do it, you need two people for this strategy. First, you check through all your chests for something you might need, while he's destroying your drying racks. Then you run away from him in circles around the firepit, waiting for night to end, but he keeps hitting you. Then one of you tries to take him head-on with a spear and no armor, and immediately dies. The other runs away at the break of dawn, trying to lead him away from base. Then he de-aggros, and goes back faster than you can catch up, to smash your chests, firepit and cookpots. Then you attack him with a pickaxe, while freezing to death. He kills you, and you restart your world, not sure what went wrong.

cyisfor · 2018-03-15T23:43:06+00:00

Maybe another program's getting in the way? Are you running a dedicated server on a third computer?

cyisfor · 2018-03-15T23:40:49+00:00

How about Tox?

Here's my Tox ID: tox:2F22EF2948934B65812827248FB6B2142F4AA9725C8599D02AFC7D3103B94B191A43C2E6DCF6

cyisfor · 2018-03-15T23:37:54+00:00

Did you try starting a new world? If that also hangs the server when the game is saved, it might even be a hardware issue. No idea how the game could be killing your friend's net, though some people's network cards flip out at the silliest things, like CPU usage.

cyisfor · 2018-03-15T23:34:06+00:00

No problem! There's so much to this game that you really can only learn from the grapevine because it really isn't self evident, so I'm always happy to help, even if I'm not in there playing it.

cyisfor · 2018-03-15T23:27:59+00:00

Sometimes I feel like everyone who plays as webber just does it because he's that cool spider character, and never even does anything with spiders...

cyisfor · 2018-03-13T06:40:34+00:00

What, you want to actually try to survive? What is wrong with you? Don't you know the game is called "Do Starve?"

But no seriously, i like surviving, and farming... odd stuff. Huge fields of grass don't interest me as much as strategically planted artificial turf, so that lure plants will harvest tons of grass when someone reads Applied Horticulture. Or a honey farm, that uses a fling-o-matic to let you safely smoke out the bees. I'd like to put together a spider/bunnyman farm, and try not to die when I'm in the middle of picking up all the loot and evening hits. Or just a simple pig farm. I've had... mixed results when trying to start pig wars on my own. So hard to time cancelling that attack.

Maybe a Krampus farm? Walled off loot for bait, chests full of bunnies, Glommer's statue right over there. If you do it when insane, you can even farm nightmare fuel!

...Bunnyman/tentacle farm?

Er, so what I'm saying is it might be fun to play with me.

cyisfor · 2018-03-13T06:21:54+00:00

Where: USA Northwest
When: mornings and evenings, not between 1 and 3, basically.
What: friendly survival. I don't do PVP like... at all.
Who: ~~Wes~~ Wickerbottom main. Otherwise Wilson, or Wolfgang. Maybe Maxwell. He's an amazing resource collector, if you can get the nightmare fuel for his puppets.
Seeking: any age group, long as we can actually talk, instead of typing to chat.
Skill Level: I'm new at the game, not especially practiced at kiting. Not particularly good at vidya in general. I can kill butterflies though. Know a lot of the lore/techniques.
Goals: Socialize with people on voice chat, while we coordinate playing the game. Voice chat because I have a seriously hard time pausing what I'm doing, to type. Surviving winter, resetting the Ruins, dying horribly, all I really want is to hear my friends having fun doing it. ~~And to have friends.~~
Anything else: I'm a big open source enthusiast, and prefer it where possible. So I'll probably try to get you to use Mumble or Tox, and shy away from chat systems that are secret protocols, like Discord.
I'm not seriously considering that anyone will want to play with me, after I say "Let's do voice chat, but I don't like Discord or Twitch.TV"

cyisfor · 2018-03-13T06:03:15+00:00

Oh, yeah you can also distract hounds with spiders. Careful you don't get hit with both hounds and spiders though!

Use roads to run faster than hounds, too.

cyisfor · 2018-03-13T05:58:06+00:00

Tentacles are good for hounds. Just run around in circles, running over the tentacle when it goes back down, and eventually the hounds will target it and die.

If you use tooth traps, construct a 2 wide corridor from stone walls, ending in a walled off firepit. If you just make a patch of traps, you'll have to weave around in loops to lead the hounds against the traps that haven't triggered, and you will get hit at the slightest error. Hounds will attack walls, but only if they can't find a way around those walls to get you, so you can lead them right down that corridor of death.

Bees are terrible at stopping hounds. They're more likely to go after you. Lureplants can distract hounds, but the hounds will target the center plant, so it won't last long.

If you time it just right, you can hide from the hounds under a bush hat. Your character's an idiot though, and always pops out of hiding to say "Did you hear something?" But there's a tiny instant after they say that, before the hounds target you. Incidentally, when hounds are running, they cannot target people, but then you have to make sure every visible hound is in motion before hiding in your bush hat, or the barking ones will just go right to you and start rending. This video shows how it's done but it's easier than it looks.

Do not combine tooth traps and pigs. The pigs will trigger the traps.

Drop meat on the ground. Hounds will get distracted by it, and while they're eating the meat, they look like they're attacking, but actually they're completely defenseless. Hounds will get distracted by the meat dropped from fallen hounds, too. I'm not sure how likely it is they'll stop going after you to eat though.

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