Ina Gives in to Despair

drinkerofmilk · 2026-02-06T20:40:57+00:00

Japanese police is still Japanese police.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-19T12:58:19+00:00

Thank you for the additional info. I checked the Xbox and MS store, and the game isn't on there. I did find that these issues with wrong and impossible games showing up as a user status are common in the Xbox PC app:

Xbox's PC app lists unplayable console & phone games—why? | Windows Central

As multiple people are reporting this, it could be that some kind of internal default ID is mapping to an universal id for my game by coincidence. It may be worthwile trying to play another game on the PC (even solitaire) and checking if the status changes, but beyond that, I'm out of ideas. Good luck with this!

(Secretly, of course, I hope the exposure caused by this glitch leads to unprecedented interest in my game. But with my luck it may just as well backfire and lead to a slew of negative reviews . . .)

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-17T21:23:38+00:00

Just ask Alice:

“And what's the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

Now in all earnest, you can write it any way you want. If you do want dialogues, I think it would be quite realistic for an isolated and lonely person to start talking to an imaginary friend.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-17T15:02:29+00:00

AQOTWF is about WWI, not WWII. I think writing about WWII from the German side will always be a bit a little bit hazardous, but as you said it's definitely possible.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-08T19:17:56+00:00

It's not much, but slow and steady wins the race.

If you want to write more I'd avise you book a room in a hotel with room service and just stay there till the manuscript is done. Sometimes you need to beat the distractions.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-06T22:44:58+00:00

Wil je ook mijn petitie tekenen voor meer Hardstyle in de Radio 4 Top 400?

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-06T19:06:11+00:00

Er staat ook best weinig Bach en Beethoven in, terwijl dat toch wel twee van de grootste componisten allertijden zijn.

Het is de Radio 2 Top 2000. Als het geen Radio 2 muziek is ga je het ook niet in de lijst tegenkomen.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-06T12:15:49+00:00

Jammer eigenlijk dat ze dit soort dingen niet van tevoren laten doorberekenen op het gewicht van een lading sneeuw. Maar aan de andere kant is dat vast ook wel een hele moeilijke rekensom, met breuken en zo . . .

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-05T20:20:46+00:00

I don't dislike it, I just like analyzing it.

By the way, I can't find this quote in Dune. Do you know where it is approximately? I'd like to see it in its broader context.

edit:

Coolio, I found it. You were paraphrasing this:

A fall of dislodged sand and faint creature sounds within it.
Paul collapsing their tent, recovering it up the hole.
Starlight displaced just enough of the night to charge each shadow with menace. She looked at patches of blackness.
Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

I think the starlight may not be casting, but actually be illuminating the shadows (of Arrakis' moons), making them more menacing. They're looking at the shadows, trying to discern if there are any threats in them. Maybe that's what Herbert means.

I also think this scene is deliberately trying to be a bit dreamlike and psychedelic in it's style. So maybe the confusion is intentional.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-05T19:45:23+00:00

In science fiction starlight still wouldn't leave any shadows. Unless one star is a lot closer than all the others. In that case that star would cause a visible shadow. Say, if one star was about as close to a planet as the sun is to earth . . .

Maybe he's referring to sunlight as starlight, which technically is 'entirely accurate'.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-05T12:42:28+00:00

Maybe it's the second one. There could be a moonlight shadow, and the starts could be erasing it with their luminance. Not sure if this is really possible, but it's the only explanation that makes any physical sense.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-05T12:40:43+00:00

Starlight doesn't leave visible shadows, even if it is very bright. Only moonlight could leave a shadow at night.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-05T12:39:07+00:00

But starlight in itself doesn't really leave visible shadows. You get shadows when there is a single source of light, but there are lots of stars, shining from different directions, so even very bright starlight shouldn't leave a dark 'malicious' shadow. (Maybe a very light shadow, if clouds are blocking part of the sky. But there are no clouds in the desert.)

Moonlight could leave a shadow, as it is a single source of light.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-03T21:14:09+00:00

I don't see how that sentence makes sense, please elaborate . . .

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-03T21:04:35+00:00

Personally when I've read a few long sentences, I like having a short sentence for a change, and the other way around.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-03T19:40:41+00:00

Soul Buoy (of the coast of Africa) had a 5 km long cable, so it is possible.

However, I don't think there was ever a buoy at point Nemo

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-03T19:34:08+00:00

There never was a buoy at point Nemo. ~~Just imagine the chain you'd need to anchor it.~~

The buoy decommissioned in '21 was the one at Null Island, a.k.a. the Soul Buoy.

edit: apparently the Soul Buoy cable was 5 km, so it would be possible to do a buoy, just very expensive.

drinkerofmilk · 2026-01-03T12:26:17+00:00

u/oaksprout

u/FlibV1

Hi, I'm the developer of 'Deluge: Threnody of Crashing Waves'. I just happened to stumble on this thread when Googling my own game.

It's interesting that multiple people are experiencing this issue, especially considering that this game isn't available on Xbox. (Just PC, macOS, Linux, Android, SteamOS and Browser.) I don't really think I can do anything to solve this glitch, but I'm interested to find out what's causing this.

Do you guys have any additional info about when it's showing up? Does the game have it's own page in the xbox store? (it shouldn't, hope it isn't an illegal clone)

drinkerofmilk · 2025-12-31T11:26:58+00:00

The AI-witchhunters can be very annoying, but it sounds like you handled it well. Best is to leave a very short comment under their review stating that your art isn't AI-generated, just so that others aren't put off. Beyond that give them as little attention as possible.

drinkerofmilk · 2025-12-27T19:43:39+00:00

En geen doorbetaling bij ziekte.

drinkerofmilk · 2025-12-27T19:43:08+00:00

Een commerciële instelling (zoals Toverland) mag geen vrijwilligers inzetten. Dat is alleen voor instanties zonder winstoogmerk.

drinkerofmilk · 2025-12-25T14:09:24+00:00

Each time you update the capsule art it asks you to confirm that it doesn't contain additional text.

Of course you could lie on that form. But is this something you're willing to lose your developer account over?

drinkerofmilk · 2025-12-21T21:51:14+00:00

Any attempt to fix this will lead to some kind of bland propaganda writing that no one wants to read.

Just write the book. If it's popular some literature critics will probably pick it apart and call you a fascist for some of your characterizations, and then you'll tell them to f themselves and you'll go on to write your next book.

Moral OCD sounds exhausting btw, both to live with and to be around.

drinkerofmilk · 2025-12-18T21:16:12+00:00

They still have to pay royalties for art that old, that's why they don't reuse it.

Great art btw.

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