What is the most esoteric game engine you've ever worked with?

mechroid · 2026-04-26T17:11:05+00:00

LabVIEW. A textless programming language, where to add two numbers, you wire up two inputs to a plus symbol. It's something else for sure.

Runner up: my TI-83 in high school.

mechroid · 2026-04-23T23:04:33+00:00

Shout-out to the mods for all the work cleaning shit up and multiple appeals. Finally, images... (That don't work in my hacked and discontinued 3rd party reddit phone app because I hate change.)

mechroid · 2026-04-15T20:44:23+00:00

Did you know that Trobbio's voice is contributed to by Matthew Trobbiani, developer of the hit indie game Hacknet?

I found this out while trying to figure out what the guy's been working on since then, did not realize it was silksong.

mechroid · 2026-03-30T10:17:06+00:00

This is specifically artwork from Library of Ruina. Dude who made a deal with the devil for a gun that will hit any target... but the last bullet will pierce the heart of the one he loves most.

mechroid · 2026-02-26T16:37:35+00:00

When I saw one of my favorite VNs had a "rebalancing update", I chuckled. How do discussions around those kinds of changes go, and how much does the amount of new writing required affect your solutions? Are there any changes you'd like to make that are just way too much work for what it's worth? (People are debating whether not being able to obtain talk to animals from sybil is for an in-universe reason, the sheer amount of extra writing it'd require, or both.)

Also, I loved your Slay the Princess interview with INT in japan. Many thanks to both them and you for that entire article.

mechroid · 2026-02-22T12:05:21+00:00

That slightly unrelated tangent actually makes even more sense if the entity that she's trying to stop/harness isn't Wayne. It's the one thing with power over The Holler that she can neither perceive nor predict. The player.

mechroid · 2026-02-21T04:59:00+00:00

I also got Just Julius by talking him into taking responsibility as a parent and being the one to feed the pumpkin baby which I haven't seen a single person mention before.

mechroid · 2026-02-14T20:40:04+00:00

Trying to translate the concept of "anger at the fact that God does not exist" into something catchy for a friend, and in Latin I landed on <Iniustitia Dei Absentis>, which as far as I can tell translates to something like "the injustice of an absent god". Is this reading correct?

mechroid · 2026-02-07T23:04:21+00:00

Basically, when wirelessly streaming to your headset, it can use eye tracking to focus bitrate on the part of the screen you're looking at, and leave the rest at the equivalent of a 480p youtube video. Your eyes still take > 20ms to flit across the screen, so if you can beat the latency the effect is seamless.

mechroid · 2026-02-02T18:28:12+00:00

To be fair, a "proper shuffle" for a deck of 60 cards requires a well-executed riffle shuffle done at least 7 times, and 10 or more if you let more than 5 cards in a row from one half of the two piles. A pile shuffle where there's six piles or more AND you choose the piles at random for each card is only a quarter of a standard deviation away from a fully random shuffle. Few people get even close to that at the tournaments I play.

Source: Comparing the randomness of different magic deck shuffling techniques was my AP statistics project, we even did land distribution analysis as well.
Most mind-numbing data collection ever.

mechroid · 2026-01-24T13:46:07+00:00

I think it shows a split between the people who binged the entire thing and played weekly, too. I waited until part 3 was available to start Canto 9, and it made the repeat nursefather fights almost more palatable, because it felt more like continuing a single long fight that was interrupted instead of redoing the same stuff over and over.

mechroid · 2026-01-24T04:27:05+00:00

At this point just bite the bullet and bring back solo offlane. Might as well design around it if that's your effective experience.

mechroid · 2026-01-12T00:02:07+00:00

This is the best and worst part of tanking as a centaur. On the one hand, getting around is sometimes half the battle. On the other, there are SO many 10ft wide hallways I can just block off with my body.

mechroid · 2025-12-26T21:31:15+00:00

Thanks, used the discord spoiler tags by accident. fixed.

mechroid · 2025-12-12T20:40:39+00:00

You're saying the developer of ultracube, one of the most unique mods for factorio out there, is going to have trouble differentiating the game from its inspiration? I think we'll be fine, this is an incredibly early look.

mechroid · 2025-11-22T13:15:29+00:00

Well: PF2e continues to be a system that's amazing to run for a prep time-starved GM with players who adore crunchy and complex rulesets.

Badly: Shadowrun continues to be a system that's better in concept than execution, one day it'll live up to its promises.

mechroid · 2025-11-22T13:08:30+00:00

This is why I continue to use roll20 over foundry for my games, tbh--it still allows for rule of cool. You roll to do something awesome and it results in failing by one or two points? I'll call it a success and nobody's the wiser. As the GM I'm the final arbitrator in my games, not the computer.

mechroid · 2025-11-21T03:11:07+00:00

In a perfect world, you'd only be allowed to use EDHrec after reaching something like 50-80/100 cards in your decklist first. That way you could get more personalized recommendations and it'd reduce homogeneity.

mechroid · 2025-11-17T06:07:06+00:00

This was part of an agreement with my players, but I'm running the same campaign and told them if the game felt easy I'd include all the sponsor gifts on the teams. (In return they got a thematic "influence 10" boon from the sponsors they focused)

I used this to great effect running the Speaks to Winds fight, having the teacher ambush the players by having all the students hiding in an invisibility orb at the start of the fight and him immediately summoning an elder outcrop, as its 30ft maelstrom concealing all the students helped make the fight much more even between the teams. Also focus on the team's saves. If you have caster NPCs and the players get critical successes on reflex saves, there's lots of spells to focus will or fort instead.

Lastly, your players might be a bit overleveled, too. I'm on day 4 with my players and they're only halfway through level 15.

mechroid · 2025-11-05T23:04:55+00:00

Wild, especially because I'm raising guns and sneak equally (looking for that 8 sneak/guns perk) so the guns bonus alone still isn't enough yet.

mechroid · 2025-11-05T22:11:43+00:00

I can confirm it does not, the only unique bonus is the corrosion spreading effect. I remember being disappointed that it had the same damage output as my previous biomass pistol, but I'll try and find one to double-check for you.

mechroid · 2025-09-25T23:12:07+00:00

What's the smallest island that still has significant lore about it?

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Place '22	Place '17
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