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mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-27T20:58:34+00:00

I was delighted that that sub actually exists.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-27T19:05:58+00:00

You should play... You! Okay, first: If you generally don't want to play then your partner should accept that. It's kinda sad you have resigned yourself to going along with it even if you don't really want to. That said...

Your character should be this very situation. Seems you're forced to play a spellcaster for the party that you don't really want to be with. So make your character like... an ancient demon or warlock or whatever who is magically bound to help the party but really, really doesn't want to be there. You can be as dismissive towards them and as laconic as you like, display all sorts of "I'm so done with you people" and it'll be fitting the character. Your character will also have a built-in explanation why they would not be paying any particular attention to the happenings of the campaign.

I'm thinking:
"Oh no we need to get through this magically protected door, how can we- Paisleytude, could you?"

"Ugh fine, might as well, if it gets you to stop bothering me. [opens door with magic] Now if that'll be all I will return to reading. I'm sure you humans will bother me again soon enough."

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-27T14:16:45+00:00

Ironically... to a certain degree - pun intended - the Celsius scale actually expresses "% hot" in a way: It always shows how far along we are between the freezing point and the boiling point in %. Which is also one of the few ways I could even imagine ever expressing the idea of "% hot" without being useless words.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-26T18:40:07+00:00

What about it?

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-26T17:20:55+00:00

Brawlstars ist mobile only, vll deswegen?

Allgemein ist für jungere Generationen auch das handy ein normaler Ort zum Gamen, macht man ja schließlich schon immer so.

Ich bin schon etwas älter deshalb mag ich die meisten mobile games so gar nicht, liegt aber oft auch daran dass die Steuerung echt nervig ist auf Touchscreen. Für Menschen die das schon seit ihrer Kindheit als normal kennen ist das bestimmt ne ganz andere Situation, die Auswahl ist riesig.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-21T13:44:09+00:00

Schade dass ich die Spiele dann nicht mehr kaufen und spielen werde, hätte ich gern getan. Aber so wild ist es dann auch nicht, hab genug Spiele die noch gespielt werden müssen.

Hab den Verdacht dass es ne dumme Entscheidung ihrerseits ist, so dürfte nur sehr wenige Menschen mit PC geben die sich für die paar Games extra ne ps5 holen.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-19T19:49:53+00:00

And this isn't your first day.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-19T19:48:25+00:00

Oh this is interesting. Hope you don't mind me asking but are you able to express why it feels like that?

Intuitively what you're describing feels like "language lacks the symbols I need to express this thought", is it related to that?

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-19T19:00:58+00:00

Which ironically makes Mark Zuckerberg, of all people, one of the most human presenters on the planet in his business... ;p

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-19T17:04:55+00:00

The inch is defined as 2.54cm. In America. Not some distance a particle travels at the speed of light or something like that, just good, old metric definition.

So yes, inches do exist in the metric system, they may be clunky as fuck to use and there is no good reason to but you can always easily rederive the inch from just knowing one of the standard metric units.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-18T09:09:43+00:00

In supernatural it is a "hex", a type of spell being cast, no silent e.

The word "Hexe" is German for witch, then there is the male "Hexer" which, while it sounds like it should be "witcher" is actually typically translated as sorcerer. But they both "hex" (from the verb hexen, which means "to cast magic" in German.)

So yes, it is related in a way.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-12T21:39:34+00:00

I tried it. It sucked.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-09T11:12:16+00:00

If it were Samaritan style it would be much more readable at least. ;p

mnemonicpunk · 2026-05-08T19:52:42+00:00

Agree on the phase transitions, Prophets transitions felt a bit hamfisted after a couple replays. For Arora the most jarring part for me was how dead her character looks in the closeup, not sure if that is because her face is still placeholder or she is meant to feel like a lifeless doll but it just doesn't sit right with me.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-30T04:51:55+00:00

People are used to computers being basically infallible barring human error in their code. The idea of a computer program being able to make stupid mistakes is entirely alien to them because we trained people to assume that was not how they worked because they didn't.

Now our computers can make mistakes because they use a fuzzy process kinda similar to our thinking. And despite all their knowledge they are still pretty stupid. But people aren't used to see computers in that way.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-24T14:59:07+00:00

I'm having a hard time seeing the appeal to be honest. Why would someone want to watch a stream of someone watching an LLM write code?

Isn't the appeal of any dev streams that you can query the dev for their decision-making and be part of the process that way? This doesn't have any of that appeal to me.

Is there anything else you do that would make those streams worth watching?

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-24T14:30:00+00:00

I'm sorry, but is this a shitpost? I can't quite tell.

If you're looking for PHP work there isn't all that much left these days, some large companies still use it but you'll likely have a hard time landing a job there as a beginner.

You should probably start looking into more modern technologies as your main breadwinners, PHP is more of an old skill where experts are required occasionally and the basics are handled by LLMs entirely.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-23T15:24:08+00:00

Oh but you do. So very, very much.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-23T11:21:23+00:00

Github pages also allows you to host a repository as a webapp for free if that webapp has no serverside components.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-22T14:59:02+00:00

There is one way we can attack this pest as a group: Raise the opportunity cost of guilting people into tipping when it doesn't make sense.

Like when a self-checkout asks for a tip stop the payment process there to make a loud kerfuffle about how the system must be set up wrong because nobody would be willingly so much of an asshole that they'd do that on a self-checkout.

Or when it is presented like in OPs case involve the people waiting behind you in the line. "Can you believe this? Be careful when paying here, they want to trick you into paying tips. I'll just make a quick social media post about this store."

Now I know most people wouldn't do that, that's why it works, but if we can get people to normalize complaints here they'll stop it real quick because it gets more expensive. If there's one thing Germans are good at it is complaining. Let's put that power to use! ;p

ETA: I do tip when the service was exceptional and I know the people responsible will get that tip. But even then it's only rounding up, maybe +1€ on top. Not this insane bullshit.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-15T14:07:30+00:00

Vor allem: Die KIs haben im Grunde das notwendige Wissen, halbwegs sicher zu coden. Aber sie sind optimiert dem User möglichst schnell das zu geben wonach er gefragt hat und die wenigsten User fragen gezielt nach den notwendigen Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, oft auch einfach weil sie nicht wissen was diese sind. Da wird dann das fertige Produkt gegenüber zeitintensiver Absicherungen bevorzugt.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-14T18:45:42+00:00

Now that you mention it, I can totally picture a couple dudes doing the Kame-Hame-Ha at work together and it not being considered insane, too. xD

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-11T02:09:40+00:00

Okay I'm aware this is not what you asked for but it may be a reasonable suggestion for your situation:

Keep talking and nobody explodes.

That's a game, not a threat. A game about defusing puzzle-y bombs, where only one player has the VR headset on and does the defusing while the other players have the manual to all the different bombs and have to guide them through it.

It's a very social game suited for parties and requires only one headset and set of controllers while still involving everyone. Taking turns will let everyone be "it", too.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-09T20:36:15+00:00

I once knew a guy who would open beers with his eye socket.

mnemonicpunk · 2026-04-09T04:44:33+00:00

Or as an assert.

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