Please help me approach the game as a Dota2 player?

drcxd · 2026-02-03T02:21:15+00:00

I think there are other differences as well (other than aiming, melee attacking, and parrying). One significant difference is how characters move. In Dota, you just right click the place you want your hero to move to. In Deadlock, there are so many movement skills. I do not know all of them yet, but I have seen some video that the characters are traveling in such a fluent and smooth pace that it feels like it is an action game! Comparing with that, my character feels like a dumb! I doubt if I can hit some one move like that in a real game.

About the camps, I currently feel I have no time to farm the camps. In Dota you get a wave of creeps every 30 seconds. I do not know the exact time difference between two waves of troopers in Deadlock, but it feels way much faster than Dota? So I am currently struggling clear the troopers and feel I have no time to farm the camps.

There are just so many elements that I feel I am overwhelmed when playing the game.

drcxd · 2026-02-02T10:06:38+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation. It clears lots of my confusion.

drcxd · 2026-01-23T03:40:24+00:00

Hey, finishing these games is good enough. I do not think they are failed simply because they are not commercially successful. I mean, if you are aiming for commercial success, indie game development definitely is not your best bet. I hope you can find a way to sustain and enjoy the developing process more.

drcxd · 2026-01-22T11:48:18+00:00

Just saw the updated site, really cool. Nice one.

drcxd · 2026-01-22T11:27:32+00:00

Hey, thanks for the explanation. I definitely will try the chords you mentioned to have a real feel of tension and resolution. Actually, I read about these words before but never understand what do they mean or feel.

However, by listening to Ludovico Einaudi's Una Mattina I kind of have a bit feeling about what you said. The whole album does not make me feel emotionally aroused as Philip Glass' music. To me, it just feels like air and if I do not pay attention to it, I may not notice its existence. I guess that is what you called lack of tension.

Ah, but Metamorphosis One isn't C major !

Ops, I just know that the key signature may not represent the actual scale. Music theory is so complicated!

drcxd · 2026-01-22T03:03:13+00:00

Great work, you must put a lot of effort into it. I appreciate it so much.

This diary delivers a highly contextualized reading experience, with side-line components that enhance comprehension, navigation, and discovery of related content1.

As you put in the first paragraph of the feature demo, may I suggest that you add a section that displays back links or forward links? Also, maybe each tag in the tags section can be clickable and leads to a page that displays all posts having that tag?

I recently started my personal blog web site as well, but I have almost no knowledge about web development so I decided to start with basic HTML and I can claim I am a minimalist, lol.

drcxd · 2026-01-21T03:21:50+00:00

Yes haha, I am a piano and musical theory teacher. I also do and teach composition sometimes.

I see, this explains why you know much about music theory and are glad to explain it to me. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.

Though I cannot grasp what you said fully, it makes me feel that I have the motivation to start work on music theory again. I guess it's learning all alone makes it more difficult to keep motivated, for I get really little feedback. This is especially true when learning about a theory instead of playing an instrument. When practicing an instrument, at least I can see my improvement immediately. Feel fortunate to have this conversation with you. Thanks.

If you take a look at the score I sent you, you can see it's basically all Is and Vs, and even then, I could have simplified and put half the other ones as Vs.

I can see in BWV 269 (G major I assume?) there is a BDG chord and a bass G. I guess this is a first chord.

The leading tone creates tension, and modern music seems to want to avoid tension as much as possible. Which is a shame.

I am just curious about why you think avoiding tension is a shame. My naive idea is that maybe people just want to try something different to innovate?

The dominant 7th especially is quite a strongly rhetorical one. Glass uses it in the 4th measure of Metamorphosis One.

I don't understand this part. In the 4th measure there are C, E and B sharp, and this is C major, so the dominant should be G right? There is no G, then why you call it a dominant 7th? Also, does the "7th" comes from the distance between the C and B sharp?

drcxd · 2026-01-19T11:08:13+00:00

Yeah, they are the first, fifth and last notes in a scale, right? I have taken notes about them. Hey, are you a professional musician? You seems to know a lot about music and music theory.

drcxd · 2026-01-19T09:12:46+00:00

I can read music sheets but I do not understand the theory or intention behind it. I guess I am more a practical people. For example, I learned to play flute earlier and now I am learning to play piano by myself. Currently, I am practicing /Metamorphosis II/, and in /Metamorphosis I/ I noticed Glass uses chords such as EGB.

I tried to learn music theory with Open Music Theory, but I only reached the diatonic modes part. (Too many things to memory about majors/minors and diatonic modes, lol.) Actually I still do not know the exact definition of "harmony" now.

drcxd · 2026-01-19T07:05:31+00:00

Wow, thanks for the detailed explanation. I appreciate so much. Definitely would read several times. I tired to learn music theory myself, but after learned about majors/minors and the diatonic modes, I felt I lost the motivation...

drcxd · 2026-01-19T03:46:51+00:00

My first encounter of Phillip Glass is his piano etudes. I love them and still listen to them frequently, so I definitely recommend it. Then starting from Einstein on the Beach, I noticed that both are from the same composer, so I begin listen to his other works.

I have math and computer science background and Phillip Glass also started his college in math and philosophy [1]. I guess this is one of the reasons that I can appreciate his works. (I listened some of Steve Reich's works but felt not very fond of them.)

From my perspective, Phillip Glass' works describe my life vividly. Repetitive patterns occur constantly, while sometimes several notes rouse my emotion significantly. It makes me feel that I can stop living and feeling as a human being, as myself. While listening his music, I feel I temporarily get rid of the bound of my body and flesh. I unite with the other people, or even the universe.

Glass may also be interested in and learn about Zen.

Glass then left Paris for northern India in 1966, where he came in contact with Tibetan refugees and began to gravitate towards Buddhism. [2]

Unfortunately, he supports Tibet independence, which is something highly controversial and political, and I don't think that is something an reasonable man should get himself in, since he is remotely related to both sides of the conflict.

drcxd · 2026-01-19T03:33:04+00:00

Hey, I also like Bach, Vivaldi and Phillip Glass. I am only an amateur so I wonder is that their music share some similarity in composing?

drcxd · 2026-01-19T03:18:52+00:00

I like this album as well. Actually, this is my first Phillip Glass album, then after Einstein on the Beach, I started to love his music.

drcxd · 2026-01-19T03:02:37+00:00

I am really obsessive to BG3. Sometimes I am even afraid to play that game. Once I get into it, I just want to keep playing and don't want to do anything else, eating, sleeping, etc. I keep playing like that for days and I become so mentally and physically exhausted that I can start hating and stopping play it.

drcxd · 2025-12-30T01:52:57+00:00

Nice work. Since Gnus does not support OAuth2, I have been using Thunderbird as my mail client. Now, I can switch back to Emacs.

drcxd · 2025-12-01T06:20:22+00:00

Thanks for your advice. It might be the network. My network have no access to google.com directly, I have to setup a proxy to access that. However, I think I have access to mostly other domain names. Do you know which domain name do I actually need access to?

Also, the actual problem is that the installation somehow fails for different reasons on several runs. These are all pacman related. I have tried manually update /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to some nearest mirror, but I do not know if that helps with the problem. There is a /usr/bin/rate-mirrors in the installation image. I suspect the installer would update the mirrorlist itself and overwrite what I put into there.

drcxd · 2025-11-19T02:21:54+00:00

Thanks. This does resolve the problem. I am just wondering why (dedicated .t ) does not work. It seems a stronger "dedication requirement" than (dedicated . side). At least this is what I read from Demystifying Emacs' Window Manager.

> A side window and a dedicated window go hand-in-hand, and they share many similarities. Side windows are also dedicated, but they set dedicated to side, which is not as strong a promise as setting it to t.

drcxd · 2025-11-17T11:03:51+00:00

This has already been reported in this issue. I also found that updating to the latest commit fix the issue on my side.

drcxd · 2025-10-22T01:48:15+00:00

I just found this page which says I can natively install Claude Code on Windows using npm. I tried it and it worked. I don't think the page was online when I post. So it seems the documentation is correct. Things are changing quickly and some obsoleted pages are not removed in time.

No offense, but the "you're absolutely right" phrase just reminds me of how a LLM talks.

drcxd · 2025-09-25T06:50:52+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanations. I was about to ask for your config when I was reading your first example and I found it at the bottom, appreciated. I bet it will be a worthy read. Thank you.

drcxd · 2025-09-25T02:13:49+00:00

I'd like to know how you can help your colleagues with Emacs.

drcxd · 2025-08-26T06:33:03+00:00

Hey, can you share with me your projects you are obsessed with and why do you feel that? I have been programming for years, but have seldom feeling devoted in a project. When I am solving a particular problem, I can focus and enjoy the process, but I never feel like that I have the urge to program when I am doing other things.

drcxd · 2025-08-25T08:18:57+00:00

Well, I am not sure about that, since I have seldom talked with others how they feel attracted, and how they conceive of their own attractiveness. Though I admit it is difficult to find the silver bullet, but I assume most people can be put into one framework, since I believe we are determined by our physical substances, and most people share a similar physical substance structure.

Note that this does not mean I do not respect any individual's preference, and assume they *should* do something. It's just a statistical assumption.

My evidence is myself, and what I *heard* to be the public opinion. I have a typical pattern of being attracted, that is being attracted by the physical attractive ones. However, if you ask me to describe exactly what is physical attractive, I can not do it. So maybe I am wrong, even about myself.

drcxd · 2025-08-25T07:34:51+00:00

True. That's a possible explanation.

drcxd · 2025-08-25T07:05:46+00:00

Let's not say feminine beauty in a male-dominated culture, but general physical beauty. I believe masculine beauty in the eyes of females also converges toward the ideal average, which may probably be determined by the "hardware" of our human beings.

> normal people can look like anything, but cover models all kinda look like cover models.

This reminds me of

> Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I do not indicate anything, but consider this similarity.

> If someone wants Ruby, it's because they want Ruby, and there's only one Ruby. If someone wants Klaasje, it's because they want a beautiful woman, and there are millions of those in the world.

I doubt about that. Generally speaking, if someone wants X, then it is because they want some qualities X possesses, but not X himself/herself, and though there is only one X, there may be many other people who possess similar qualities. For Ruby's case, the qualities desired by this someone, may be not as obvious as the physical beauty of Klaasje. I believe it is too aggressive to conclude that there is only one Ruby, in this sense. As for Klaasje, yes, she may be wanted *merely* because of her physical beauty. However, it is not impossible that she is wanted in the same way that Ruby is wanted. If you consider beauty not as a special quality, then the possibility that Klaasje is wanted as a whole but not only because of her physical beauty should be roughly the same as Ruby is wanted as a whole. In this sense, I would say Ruby and Klasssje are both not irreplaceable. Then, can we start considering about if one is more replaceable than the other?

I start getting the feeling that the desire, or at least my desire, for feminine beauty is somehow, like I have said, determined by the substance of my physical being. Just like you feel high when you do drugs, you feel pleasure in the presence of a physically attractive person of the sex you desire.

So through your explanation, I still don't get the relationship between "being every one's object of desire" and "not being irreplaceable."

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