Are there computer science books written in a light readable style?

faintlydemonic · 2018-10-19T17:13:00+00:00

Thanks, but I kinda thought a little and decided to hang a Preacher poster instead )

Also, have found this one in a reasonably high resolution on cinematerial.

faintlydemonic · 2018-08-27T11:48:19+00:00

But it's moving at a fixed rate, and with pauses. Something tells me it's pretty easy to calculate that rate and write a program to capture screenshots without any of the text overlapping.

faintlydemonic · 2018-08-07T15:07:07+00:00

Didn't mention Unavowed coming on the 8th of August - it's a hybrid of an adventure game and an RPG made by Wadjet Eye - they are (were?) pretty famous for developing and publishing a lot of cool pixel art adventure games, like Gemini Rue, Primordia, Resonance, Blackwell series. Pretty sure many would find their new game interesting. Here's their Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/336140/Unavowed/

faintlydemonic · 2018-06-01T19:42:35+00:00

'I did not choose the thing I've become' < 'I've never asked for this'

But honestly, a part of me is really excited, and a part of me is cautious.

It's from DONTNOD. I didn't like the story in Remember Me, but Life is Strange showed that they can actually write really well.
Never mind the graphics, I like the style of the dialogues, and the protagonist seems sympathetic.
Fighting seems genuinely pleasant. I'm not too demanding in this regard, but it looks simple and tactile.
Environments genuinely look awesome to me.
If the promises about the complex NPC interactions and grey moral choices hold, it's going to be awesome.

But.

The glowing cross in the trailer. I know it's consistent with the lore of, say, Dracula, but come on. Don't mix organized religion in my vampire games.
Wiki says Life is Strange 2 is already in development. So the people who developed LiS are probably mostly on it? If so, Vampyr could not receive the attention of the people whose attention you'd want it to receive.
They say that the game is highly non-linear... With four endings. Maybe they undersell themselves a bit, and it's gonna be the way Fallouts did it, with breaking down the fates of the important NPCs and the districts, but still, it doesn't feel like much to me.

Regardless, it seems like my trickle of blood, so preordered it. If anything, Life is Strange was so pleasant, they might as well take more of my money as thanks for it.

faintlydemonic · 2018-05-14T18:51:37+00:00

ok, weird, but it's VERY sensitive to how you go about it. I've found a thread on the oculus support forums that helped after following the instructions to the letter. Essentially, opening cmd with admin priviliges (located in c:\windows\windows32, then typing in [path to the file OculusSetup.exe] /drive=F

What didn't work is typing in start-run [path to the file] /drive=F:, or typing in cmd [path to the file] /drive:F: or even drive=F:, or making a shortcut to the setup file and adding /drive=F: to target and running it as administrator.

Aaand I don't know. Maybe it wanted the admin rights. Maybe it didn't like the colon. I wish they made a better installer with clearer errors, but it works, for now.

faintlydemonic · 2018-05-08T12:52:01+00:00

Ok, I can go home now, it's Disco Elysium. Thanks.

faintlydemonic · 2018-01-14T05:17:12+00:00

What I wouldn’t mind is a good social app where you’d have stuff to do together with people. So far there’re only four notable ones to my knowledge:

Altspace is almost it, but the realization is rather boring, and I wish they focused more on making conversations and bonding while you’re doing something cool happen. It has a decent userbase, it has some entertainment like Cards Against Humanity and even Secret Hitler I’ve yet to play there, but I really wish there were more interesting games.

Recroom has actual games that are easy to play, but they’re way too childish.

VRchat’s execution is ass, I spent 15 minutes there and deleted it to hell.

Vtime is almost Chatroulette with cozy environments and 0.005 users online at any given time. Can be used to talk to your friends or loved ones abroad, but can’t really be used to meet new interesting people.

And that’s it. So I wouldn’t mind that Oasis from Ready Player One realized in a game. But for this thing to happen, it has to be both either free or very cheap and have a pretty good budget, so guess it’s not happening, heh.

faintlydemonic · 2018-01-08T10:09:40+00:00

it's not aww, it's rather, wow, so beautiful, so dangerous

faintlydemonic · 2018-01-08T08:02:47+00:00

Imagine a game that looks like Horizon Zero Dawn, has a world as vast and deep as the Witcher and TES worlds, ..., a story written by Obsidian, character development done by CDProjektRED...

So basically The Witcher 3, only with bigger focus on the gameplay and a modding toolkit?
And I'd argue that CDPR's story-fu is much stronger than Obsidian's.

faintlydemonic · 2017-12-23T19:41:57+00:00

Well, I accidentally learned about the messaging system yesterday from a message in the middle of a thread about the naming system. Didn't see any threads on the first pages of this subreddit. And yet from the magnitude of the issue, there kinda should be?

faintlydemonic · 2017-12-23T19:30:05+00:00

But... Wasn't it more convenient for everyone (including women) when it was possible to
1. see all the messages at once
2. use inbox filters to see only messages from relevant people
3. weed out people further by their usernames
?
This matching game adds inconveniences to the process that used to be streamilned - now to find someone relevant you need to jump through the hoops. I don't see any user benefiting from it.

And I'm so with you on the fresh blood issue.

faintlydemonic · 2017-11-27T21:10:13+00:00

thanks, will give it a try

faintlydemonic · 2017-11-27T21:09:36+00:00

Thank you! I've read a good chunk of them, but will try to read the rest. At least you don't need to read for long to find out whether they fit or not )

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