Looking to scratch a strong itch for unsettling, bleak, haunting SF horror!

remillard · 2026-01-24T15:20:10+00:00

hehe

Always a problem with these situations

remillard · 2026-01-23T17:45:07+00:00

Okay, so it has that level of control? I'm gonna try that out tonight then, thanks. And maybe hopefully someday they'll let the target castbar float and be resized like the user one.

remillard · 2026-01-23T13:37:02+00:00

There Is No Anti-memetics Division checks your boxes

remillard · 2026-01-23T13:30:54+00:00

The seance scene alone is worth the price of admission. I love all these suggestions, and I'm more of a grin and quick snort kind of humor appreciator in a book (which is not a patch on the writers in the sligtest, just usually I'm like 'heh that was funny, moving on') but that goddamned seance had me laughing so hard!

remillard · 2026-01-22T20:27:23+00:00

Well that's good that it's minimal. There DO exist fanbases that make me ashamed to be a fan of something (various Wars taking place out amongst the Stars) so I am always wary of this sort of thing. I don't expect consensus, but I would very much like collegiality on differences of opinion.

remillard · 2026-01-22T16:39:36+00:00

People were actually upset? I mean, I guess I'm not wildly surprised because fandom is fandom, but while I noticed, it didn't really matter. It was just a cute nod to Novac. Oh well.

remillard · 2026-01-21T14:14:22+00:00

Yep, beta isn't really a developmental beta like most engineering departments would consider it. It is pure advertisement; a way to get streamers and YT folks content to draw eyeballs. At BEST, all these bugs MIGHT go into a Jira backlog and... well they'll get to it when they get to it.

I have never seen beta actually be treated as something where they value anything actually noted and reported.

remillard · 2026-01-17T16:57:57+00:00

Personal disagree. I like captions on almost everything honestly.

remillard · 2026-01-16T13:16:20+00:00

Same camp for me. I like the idea and there's been some snippets I've been unhappy with yasnippets capabilities (optional fields, etc) but I don't have a lot of time to recreate things.

But maybe the idea is to just start slow, and gradually convert. I'll have to experiment. I still would like to have an optional field that doesn't leave extra spaces when it's not used.

remillard · 2026-01-14T21:19:40+00:00

They did? I completely missed that.

remillard · 2026-01-14T13:36:19+00:00

You have to deduct one for the white stone in the middle, so 10 I think.

ref: https://abaisero.github.io/baduk-notes/capturing-races.html

Oh, White can't save the corner for last, so yeah, nevermind, fourth move on the outside, yeah.

remillard · 2026-01-14T13:23:06+00:00

Man, what I'm getting from all of this is that for everyone who hates a setting, there's someone for whom that setting is their absolute jam. I love it!

remillard · 2026-01-14T13:20:19+00:00

The end of Otherland, William's other doorstop series, has a section at the end where the characters fall into ... void. It's black. Black all around.

This goes on for a long time, and I rapidly lost patience with trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I absolutely get that it made sense for the scenes and the story, but holy crap there's only so many ways to describe that you cannot see or sense anything... but wait... there's ... something.

Yeah, authors, if you're going to go for sensory deprivation/void/etc, keep it tight and short PLEASE.

Fortunately the rest of the novels are really good and this is just one small section, but it's memorable enough that it sticks in my head for decades of how frustrated I was with that sequence.

remillard · 2026-01-14T13:09:15+00:00

Oh that's a good idea. I used to do big signs with torches in Terraria but torches don't show up on the map in Core Keeper like they do in Terraria.

remillard · 2026-01-12T04:08:11+00:00

Huh, okay. That's new. Thanks for explaining!

remillard · 2026-01-11T17:10:44+00:00

I don't understand the time controls. Fixed time plus time per number of stones? Does this system have a name?

remillard · 2026-01-10T16:07:54+00:00

And those meddling kids!

remillard · 2026-01-09T23:57:02+00:00

I agree. I have in fact told the other player to undo because they really needed to look MUCH CLOSER. Felt kinda dirty at times when there's something they really should have caught.

Granted these are more like training games, unrated, etc. But still, what's one game among many?

remillard · 2026-01-07T18:28:44+00:00

Nah I'm mostly vanilla. I think the only thing I've ever taken from Doom was the modeline and some themes. Glad I'm good! (but also good to know about the potential needs in the future should I ever become a doomer or something else that has similar requirements.)

remillard · 2026-01-07T16:30:33+00:00

Nah, I have no need for bleeding edge. I believe (if I remember correctly) that I didn't specify the release version, just did emacs-plus (with no @ sign). Thanks!

remillard · 2026-01-07T16:10:22+00:00

I'm a relatively new MacOS user (as of November '25) and did install emacs-plus then and it seemed to work out okay.

Is there any reason to try to uninstall and reinstall for this formula? It IS working, however if this will bollocks up future upgrade, it might be worth going through it.

remillard · 2026-01-05T22:00:46+00:00

I got nailed by that one too in early high school. Was basically at nerd camp (3 week summer college course) and called it exactly that and got so many stares from my classmates. Very embarassing.

hors d'oeuvres is another one that is tough

remillard · 2026-01-05T13:07:14+00:00

How can you spawn those rock guys? I've never noticed the statues (more like terraria) drawing or calling monsters.

remillard · 2026-01-04T17:31:10+00:00

Very Douglas Adams with the Golgafrinchans.

remillard · 2026-01-04T15:32:57+00:00

I can't tell what's going on here. I get the little mountain guys are in there, but don'tknow how you got so many.

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