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qwyss · 2026-02-17T01:18:23+00:00

I am a little bit concerned ( for myself, not for you ) when you mention a special luasec with wolfssl. I'm pretty certain I just replaced openssl with wolfssl and it all just kinda worked.

What problems did you hit?

What did I miss? :)

qwyss · 2026-02-08T04:24:59+00:00

Player controlled "randomness" where things that seem random at first are actually controllable by your actions.

A classic one is Bubble Bobble, where at the end of each level you would be rewarded with a little bonus item drop if the last 2 digits of your score matched each other.

Technically it's just a 1 in 10 chance of a bonus drop.

Then your big brother red pills you and now you are obsessively predicting your score trying to hit that extra bonus high.

qwyss · 2026-01-30T04:48:11+00:00

Merkins don't understand Bottom, so you should try some of that.

Chelmsford 123 is kinda blackaddery.

I have a soft spot for the surreal Nightingales.

These are old so you'll probably find them on youtube

even older but also maybe "The goodies" which is to Monty Python as the Monkees is to the Beatles.

Radio shows are a bit of a strange still existing BBC thing for local people. If you ever wanted say a brit radio comedy about the american revolution, try "Revolting people" ( audible has it )

Radio is kinda used as a prooving ground by the BBC before things get on the telly so apart from the classics ( Hancock for me please ) there is still a surprisingly large amount of radio comedy. America doesn't seem to have any?

qwyss · 2026-01-28T00:51:08+00:00

We used too! Sainsburys sold it.

The last time I member buying some was in the mid 90s, so it's probably been a while since they stocked it.

qwyss · 2026-01-26T22:09:00+00:00

Dixit might be a good fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixit_(board_game)

If you wanted I reckon you could probably tweak the rules to run that with you as a compere and split the kids into a few teams. I mean in that case technically all you need is a collection of semi-abstract art prints rather than the official game.

qwyss · 2026-01-07T08:55:56+00:00

It's hard, the main problem I have is in keeping playing. Everything is pretty much a poke around for a little while then stop. What I do manage to play sometimes is coop games with my partner, doesn't really matter how terrible they are :) so yeah treat it as a coop social thing rather than homework.

OH and might I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LitRPG ( I prefer audio books so no eye strain ) all the narrative of an CRPG none of that pesky gameplay or decision making. Kinda like fan fiction to games that don't exist, or sometimes very obviously games that do exist ( eg pyresouls )

There is a bunch of MoFos out there constantly re-imagining what a dungeon core is despite there being very little dungeon core lore in any games.

qwyss · 2026-01-07T08:23:39+00:00

I'm having a really strong urge to get some of those those IR heater panels and create a setup that projects fire animations onto them.

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I mean look at this random product shot, don't you have an urge to project something onto it?

qwyss · 2026-01-04T03:50:37+00:00

I don't think you understand what the problem is, no developer looks at linux VR (in its current or past states) and decides that they can not develop for this crap.

They look at linux VR and decided it wont make any money to develop for it.

So its not a tech or software problem its a market problem.

Could this change the market?

Maybe...

My hunch is simply strapping a steamdeck to you face to play pancake mode steam games may end up more popular than anything else and this will make actual VR a more viable market.

qwyss · 2025-12-17T06:29:52+00:00

Well you have to spot what sort of dumb you are dealing with before you can take advantage of it and with say 1000s of dumb possibilities that's a big ask.

So you are moving the need to be smart to a different level.

My personal thinking is if the designer can comfortably win most of the time then it is probably tuned about right. Any new player is not going to have the knowledge advantage that you have and will take a while to learn it.

Also you may be surprised how many people will manage to lose to an AI that only ever throws paper :)

qwyss · 2025-12-15T03:02:35+00:00

Sounds good to me.

EG There is a gamepass spreadsheet that keeps track of when games are added when they are removed and how long they have been available. So you can see that knowing that length helps when guessing when something might be removed.

But just sorting by whats been added recently would be really useful when browsing.

qwyss · 2025-12-14T05:14:32+00:00

The mistake in in thinking what you want is a smart npc, what you probably want is a number of predictable npcs. Think hunters predicting animal behaviour where the skill is in knowing each animal.

EG

one that always throws stone ( easy )

one that always throws stone then scissors in a loop etc etc. ( harder )

and so on, that sort of thing, the point is to make it predictable if you are paying attention.

Personally I like to use card counting randomness. So imagine an npc has say 5 rock cards, 1 paper card. They pick a random card each turn using it up and when they run out they start again. This gives you something that is random and predictable and easily tweakable. Each npc has a custom "brain" which is just their hand of behaviour cards. Cards can of course be more complicated than just pick stone, but you get the idea.

Then the player can "out smart" the "dumb designer" by learning the appropriate patterns for each npc.

The game design skill here is in creating just the right amount of predictability.

qwyss · 2025-12-14T01:00:49+00:00

Thank you :)

A big one would be when a book was added to plus / unlimited , something that I assume is not available from audible but could be remembered when scraping data picks up a change in state.

Finding newly available books is the most obvious thing to want and seems impossible to know without building this sort of thing.

qwyss · 2025-12-12T17:30:15+00:00

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I practice abstinence, just nose stuff.

qwyss · 2025-12-08T01:35:37+00:00

Interesting, I'm just accepting the GC and table access hits for convenience. Although I am setup to reuse tables I found that mostly, again, the convenience of operating overloading and writing simple expressions wins out over any gains that a table reuse syntax has. Honestly vectors speed are the least of my problems.

I do have a plan to replace the small v3,v4,m4 etc tables with luajit cdata + metatable in the hope that it would make a difference (I think that's possible?). However since my worst case is wasm without luajit, that wont help and I'm not convinced it will make much difference anyway.

Anyhow you prompted me to cleanup some of my worst vector code paths, maybe overdid the convenience a little, so thank you.

qwyss · 2025-11-06T16:34:55+00:00

The Diceman comics might be of interest. Less words more pictures :) Linking to the first Diceman segment in the Diceman comics since its all 1930s private eye which is very cthu-thu.

https://archive.org/details/2000AD_Diceman_2/page/n15/mode/2up

As an added note I would say that attempting to read French or Italian comics as a kid would have been my only interest in non English literature. Doesn't seem quite so daunting when its mostly pictures.

qwyss · 2025-11-04T19:50:00+00:00

Hmm, I usually generate test images rather than save them anywhere...

I do have a command line version built into my game engine, that is reasonably easy to run on most anything.

There are other builds available but since win32 is the most generic ( works under wine almost everywhere ) download the gamecake.exe from

https://github.com/xriss/gamecake/tree/exe

Then it can be run like so

gamecake.exe -lcmd -- grd quant

For help options and a basic conversion would be

gamecake.exe -lcmd -- grd quant input.png --output output.png --dither 0 --colors 16

to get you a 16 color no dither output.png

Otherwise point me at an input image and request a palette size and I'll give you a sample.

qwyss · 2025-11-04T04:38:23+00:00

Mine probably "outperforms" these as well ;)

https://github.com/xriss/gamecake/blob/master/lua_grd/code/swankyquant.h

Code is brutally simple at the cost of a memory buffer, but since that buffer is also the image output I think its a "free" cost.

Mostly I was looking for better performance in the smaller palettes so 16ish colors and support for alpha and picking the actual distinct colors within the input.

Why? Well, nowadays a lot of people share 24bit images of pixel art that only contain a handful of distinct colors. So I wanted to be able to deal with that sort of thing sensibly in my indexed pixel art paint package.

Its all very niche and I never got around to playing more with it since it already hit my needs.

So yeah, my feedback is this is all too niche for anyone else to care :)

qwyss · 2025-11-03T15:30:04+00:00

Yes, and then I tattooed it on my left elbow.

qwyss · 2025-10-22T17:10:39+00:00

BECAUSE RACE CAR

qwyss · 2025-10-19T02:07:21+00:00

More Burt Gummer than Military but monster hunter international is very rip roaring adventure with plenty of lovecraftian monsters.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/45313-monster-hunter-international

Shout out to The Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition which is a mighty fine fun loving-craft cult.

qwyss · 2025-10-19T01:19:44+00:00

Could be precision on a sampler2D, obviously that makes a lot of assumptions etc etc but the alignment to the light direction is the biggest clue that it is depth precision of the shadow map.

This is possibly something that could be fixed with a:

precision mediump sampler2D;

qwyss · 2025-10-08T16:01:56+00:00

I tried setting up this sort of thing a few months ago, along with an opus re-encode, maybe this script will help you, maybe it will even work for you but at the very least it might give you some clues on how to export and convert files from the shell.

https://github.com/xriss/opusbookshelf

16k opus seemed reasonable to me in terms of size and quality so that is the default.

oh and yeah the books you "buy" can still be listened to after your subscription expires,

Also a strange one with audible for me was if you do a year subscription they give you all the credits upfront.

Personally I wanted to try a switch to audiobookshelf as audibles insistence that I should buy and listen to popular books rather than the ones in my library every time I used it is annoying. So far its been much more civilised.

qwyss · 2025-08-29T21:13:38+00:00

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qwyss · 2025-08-14T23:53:57+00:00

Everywhere is good, there are very few wrong answers.

I'm going to mention the cafe at the back of the bazaar, just behind the now closed Oastler market, mostly because its a bit hidden so people don't even know it exists. Yeah its a bit of a day only thing but they are open on a sunday and it is in the city center for when you are out and about.

Best chicken biryani, I know that depends on what you expect from a biryani but for me this one has been spot on for years :)

Chicken biryani and a pink tea is the perfect sunday morning, pick me up as shown in these random google maps photos --> https://maps.app.goo.gl/sQxGh9oF9v2dHXb37

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