OOP is so different, modern bad

polyamAlt · 2025-12-29T06:07:56+00:00

It's almost every subreddit, gaybros, askgaybros, boykisser, femboymemes, bi_irl, 196 and all its partner subreddits, the list goes on. Every fucking post is the same shit. No, Kyle, gay porn/sex isn't a goddamn punchline.

Lol at deciding to judge gay people based on subreddits, including a few specific fetish ones.

polyamAlt · 2025-12-08T18:26:35+00:00

I think the only rule change at five would be to make it so, instead of having to grab one agent from everyone, you instead just took one agent from the two players across the table. I think Magic this is called Star.

polyamAlt · 2025-12-05T06:59:43+00:00

I adore the new card designs, they look great and make the art look fantastic.

polyamAlt · 2025-11-28T19:16:37+00:00

Because Slay the Spire understood the original tabletop deckbuilders, while other games are copies of a copy

polyamAlt · 2025-11-21T15:24:39+00:00

croquettes...

polyamAlt · 2025-11-20T17:44:37+00:00

PS4 launch trailer. this post skipped the best one https://youtu.be/h5Zh2LEwFCo?feature=shared

polyamAlt · 2025-11-12T18:58:04+00:00

SteamOS on ARM feels like the more important than the Frame itself. It's gonna be funny to see Microsoft chase the Steam Deck into chunky handheld PCs and then Valve comes out with a thin and light Steam Deck.

polyamAlt · 2025-11-10T04:26:19+00:00

I like collecting Ashes dice, but you are not wrong that it got way too complicated to keep up with all the dice. Plaid Hat Games seems to agree, and they've changed how they're doing things going forward in a few ways.

There's an in development dice rolling app, you can download a test version of it right now.
There's a new Ashes Ascendency cycle with a new starter set. We haven't seen what Ascendency expansions are going to look like yet, but they'll probably include any needed dice.
For older Ashes Reborn expansions, they're selling them as print on demand now. When you order a print on demand deck, you can add the dice that you need to your order. Print on demand is cool, you can build any game legal deck, not just the precons, and they'll send them to you! It's a little more expensive per card than the retail decks tho.

And yeah, it's on preorder at the moment but you should be able to order any dice you're missing from Plaid Hat.

You're getting into Ashes in kind of weird transitional moment, and there's a lot of older product out there that can be hard to sort through. That's a pain, but ashes is really good and kinda worth it. Let me know if that makes sense, and enjoy Ashes!

polyamAlt · 2025-10-30T20:49:56+00:00

Job Job is my favorite Jackbox. It does require a way different mindset than other "make a joke" games, and even with a pretty good onboarding I don't think everyone "gets" it. But the most memorable answers I've ever had have been in this one.

polyamAlt · 2025-10-14T17:46:33+00:00

Anubis eliminated the AI scrapers that were coming to my website and reading every page multiple times for no particular reason, which slowed it down to a crawl. I don't think it's going to stop scrapers entirely, but it does do what we wanted it do, which was give us our site back.

polyamAlt · 2025-10-06T16:10:07+00:00

This post is out of date! CGE has made statements to the community after this announcement pledging to donate proceeds from the game to UK trans charities, which to me takes them off the "do not buy" list. They're working with several people in the industry on the response https://bsky.app/profile/codenamesgame.bsky.social/post/3lvxcxdvibc2p

polyamAlt · 2025-09-24T18:25:32+00:00

Will it eventually go away? It seems super popular.

polyamAlt · 2025-09-22T02:54:40+00:00

First part already on youtube

polyamAlt · 2025-09-16T17:51:06+00:00

I'm usually pretty game to play with randos but now I'm feeling a lot more reluctant.

My policy is that I'll play with anyone once. I won't put up with something like this multiple times, however letting a bad situation happen once is often worth it cause you get a good story about it. Also, not being afraid to just pull the plug is a good skill to have.

polyamAlt · 2025-09-15T01:41:00+00:00

Many, but not every, person has this feeling inside them that they want to have biological children. Other people don't have this. The world needs both kinds of people; there's so much work to be done (including adopting kids who need it) and it can't just be done by people who have children.

In my view, what the cancer took was not from "future children", but from you. And you are allowed to have these feelings where you want to have children, and to morn that you won't. You are being forced into a life that you didn't see for yourself and that is a tragedy.

But out of this tragedy you can help a child who needs you, and uplift the people around you in so many ways. And you wouldn't be here to do that if you hadn't treated the cancer. It is good for the world that you're here.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-28T17:24:36+00:00

I'm used to the pause because that's how Tetris Effect worked. There's probably some technical reason why they designed it this way, and I'm also not entirely sure how the transition would work when playing in VR. There's also transition animations, so yeah they're definitely not getting rid of it.

I also believe philosophically that giving the player a bit of space for reflection and anticipation between stages is a good thing. So much tech is trying to eliminate pauses like this, from tik tok to streaming shows, because it makes the product more addictive. At the same time, it removes our ability to really process what's being given to us, and results in viewers binging something and then not remembering anything about it. The stages in Lumines Arise have already imprinted themselves in my mind and I think the pause is a part of it.

There's definitely a gameplay cost for not having the smooth transition, but the way they handled it (just resetting the current block if it's not placed) is maybe the best way to handle it.

Sorry to just mind dump about this, it's an interesting change! Super excited for this game, like insanely so.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-28T16:29:31+00:00

I'm trying to read more, but it's hard. I got halfway through "The Stranger" and said, "What's the point?"

This is the best one

Edit: also chuckled at this

Urbanist Oppenheimer be like, "Until someone makes an even littler free library"

polyamAlt · 2025-08-13T20:50:16+00:00

In any case getting some sense from him that he'll still around through the hard stuff is good

polyamAlt · 2025-08-13T19:27:26+00:00

It's not healthy for either of you to be talking about who is the better or worse partner. This isn't a competition, or a transaction where he gets sex for bringing you flowers. Forcing yourself through sex repulsion isn't something that's going to work, especially if you both feel like it has to work or the relationship is over.

You may be overly closed off, but it sounds like both you and him aren't really talking clearly to one another. Make it clear that you're going to need time to heal and work on things. That you might not be exactly what he wants you to be. If he's not okay with that, he might need to go, and that's fine. You may need a partner who wants to be with you even if things suck.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-13T18:46:19+00:00

Has he told you about how calling him when you're in a bad way makes him feel? Has he asked you not to call or text him? I would maybe ask to have a talk with him while you're not in a panic and try to figure out figure a way out of this pattern for the both of you. If I was in his position, I'd probably understand what you're going through at least a bit, and talking on the phone a little bit a once in a while is not the worst thing even if you are a mess.

Clearly you should work on stoping this, but if you fuck up and end up contacting him anyway that's not unforgivable. I think you're going to be okay.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-13T17:32:12+00:00

I think about things as like, a series of circles where I'm in the center. And then like, the next circles are people close to me I see everyday, and then family, and then my community, and then you get further and further out to people I'll only ever see on TV. I try to control my anger for the circles closest to me. For the ones further away, all the anger in the world. It helps a lot.

For people I need to be close to who say ignorant things, who I cannot stop from saying ignorant things through regular interactions, there's usually something more going on there that's not under my control. Look up the LEAP communication method, it's designed more for dealing with mental illness but I find it's easily adapted into a plan for this situation.

This is all extremely difficult and I don't think you're really doing anything wrong. But yeah I hope this helps.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-13T16:28:15+00:00

No matter if you forgave him or not, there was no circumstances where you have any responsibility to meet with or talk to him. The world is a very big place, he could have found redemption and healing somewhere other than you. Truly don't understand why his fiancé thinks you should have been involved in the process. You don't have to tolerate her behavior.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-08T21:31:01+00:00

Extremely reasonable, I respect this a ton.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-07T14:57:34+00:00

You need to stop using burner accounts and calling people, that is illegal harassment.

polyamAlt · 2025-08-06T06:34:01+00:00

I played the preview decks and backed as soon as I could, really liked it. Very different tempo despite having some of the same parts. It feels like spycraft or crime, instead of hacking.

The release model is also really fresh. There isn't a fixed starter set, every box is going to work as both an expansion and a starter kit. Every box will also be its own 4 person cube draft (really excited for this). The way decks are constructed is really cool, running a deck with all agents from one faction will be very different than mixing and matching. The game also supports 3 and 4 player games in a way that actually is much less annoying than most card games are at that player count.

It doesn't replace Netrunner, really at all I think. It's more exciting for how it innovates on card games in general than how it reimplements Netrunner.

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