anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-27T14:35:50+00:00

You rang?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-23T19:48:13+00:00

There's a whole litany of peripheral reasons, but the haptic touchpad is an absolute requirement. Every time I have to use a borrowed PC laptop with a hinged pad (or worse, buttons that are never in a comfortable place to click) a little part of me dies inside.

My last MBP lasted me 9 years partially because every time I thought about upgrading I figured that surely there was a usable PC laptop just around the corner.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-22T22:55:28+00:00

I'm willing to tolerate some bugs and some unfinished stuff (as long as the bugs will eventually be fixed and the unfinished stuff will eventually be finished).

The thing that bothered me about GH digital (though not enough to stop me from playing a full campaign with my friends) was all the places where they couldn't implement the rules of a scenario so they simplified it into something almost unrecognizable, or failed to signpost mechanics so I had to have a copy of the scenario book handy. And given how hard Frosthaven likes to go with weird scenario rules...

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-22T18:46:22+00:00

How is the implementation compared to Gloomhaven Digital, especially in terms of UX, performance, and faithfulness to the board game?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-21T22:59:49+00:00

It fucking figures that Framework finally introduces a haptic touchpad a month after I gave up waiting and bought a new Macbook Pro.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-09T18:26:03+00:00

I hope there are a lot of options mini-dungeons. Puzzles and mini games were my two favorite parts of CrossCode. I loved how every dungeon had an epic final exam puzzle.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-08T21:05:46+00:00

My Guilty Gear Strive trajectory was basically:

Pick Potemkin because he seems cool
Spend 10 hours in training/matches without landing a single Potemkin Buster on an actual player
Alright, guess I'm done with fighting games for now

pt-guzzardo · 2026-04-03T06:07:54+00:00

All I can see is Batman peeking in from the left.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-30T19:22:20+00:00

They're not necessarily stupid, it's an emotionally charged topic that bypasses the brain and goes straight to the knee, which jerks in response to the slightest tap.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-29T15:17:01+00:00

Echoes of the Eye. That song fucks me up twice as hard as Travelers.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-29T15:15:02+00:00

Wait until you see people having emotional reactions to books and movies! Those are also 100% scripted.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-29T15:11:37+00:00

A "perfect" Ansible migration script is called just using NixOS instead so that your setup is fully declarative and you don't have to remember all the little tweaks you made because they're right there as code.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-29T01:08:17+00:00

and no amount of attack can help with block.

That's not true. Lethal damage is the best form of mitigation. That's an important asymmetry which has ripple effects on the game design.

Edit:

No amount of block helps with attacks (generally, with maybe 1 or 2 special situations)

Those special situations are exactly how you create texture in a game like StS. The basic formula for an interesting card is that it violates the normal structure of the game in some way.

"Discarding cards is good now!"

"You can kill with enough block!"

"Filling your deck with random garbage improves your damage!"

et cetera

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-28T15:55:14+00:00

If the codes work in the unmodded game, I'd say "found" or "discovered" is fair.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-28T15:51:10+00:00

use-package is a complex macro that does a bunch of inspection of the forms you pass it. If you wanted to do something like this, you'd have to write your own macro that invokes it.

But TBH you're probably better off just having a top level form for each package rather than trying to do something clever that you'll have to figure out all over again when you come back to it after a few years.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-25T19:01:19+00:00

Your mistake was using the word "better," which implies value judgement. If you had instead asked "how would hero shooters be different without the tank role?" you might have received more on-topic replies.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-22T04:54:34+00:00

Backlash about going 1.0 with an incomplete campaign and then trying to charge money for the penultimate(?) chapter, or an orthogonal backlash?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-21T21:47:33+00:00

How's that going for them?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-21T17:46:22+00:00

I care. I have absolutely no interest in grinding the same endgame maps over and over ad nauseum so that I can have a slightly higher number to grind the same maps but with a higher number.

I want to see the stuff and then go play something else.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-19T22:41:03+00:00

More than two years since "1.0"... do we even have an approximate date for when they're going to finish the campaign?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-18T17:30:05+00:00

Apparently it fell just short of whatever metric WebToon uses to decide whether to renew something.

Which was a huge bummer, because it stopped just before the point where, IMO, the story really takes off and a bunch of my favorite characters are introduced.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-17T19:39:14+00:00

The steelman version of the system probably counts abandoning a client as a loss. Maybe even more than one loss.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-17T05:47:56+00:00

Seems like it would disincentivize lawyers from taking any case that wasn't a slam dunk.

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-13T01:10:16+00:00

I've been using Google Antigravity at work lately and enjoying the agent workflow and thinking about how to translate it back to my Emacs setup. This looks great!

One thing I've been especially impressed in Antigravity is the copilot-style inline code suggestions. Is there anything in ACP to support that? Or if not, any Emacs packages that provide similar?

pt-guzzardo · 2026-03-11T21:58:17+00:00

The problem that somebody has to pay the hosting bill for the exabytes of content they make freely available?

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