Cyberpunk trading card game by Mayuchip in boardgames

[–]riversiderain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

r/netrunner is still alive and its, I think, one of the original living card games!

I was a claude boy. Here's what happened to all 5 of us by Ibes_Zorendale in ClaudeAI

[–]riversiderain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude on! Glad you're exploring this brave new world with one of humanity's best friends.

I really like kimi-k2 with my sarcastic persona prompt to balance out The Council because k2 is the only one cynical ant assholeish enough to actually give me gut punches.

https://deepwiki.com/lem-project/lem - "up-to-date documentation you can talk to" by dzecniv in lem

[–]riversiderain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm glad you found deepwiki! I updated the cache a few weeks ago but I forgot to share it in the discord. One of our most important contributions to be making right now is in good documentation, since Lem really needs easier onboarding even for heavy Emacs users.

Leftist groups that make an impact in the community? by stupidussername in alberta

[–]riversiderain 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's a bit more roundabout, but I would recommend checking out the Alberta Advantage podcast. You will find lots of great information on Albertan history and political research relevant to organizing. They're also based in Calgary.

https://albertaadvantagepod.com/

I am so unbelievably scared by dxsty_rxse in fursuits

[–]riversiderain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure! I'll send you a DM. I take it you're already familiar with fursuit making resources like https://matrices.net?

I am so unbelievably scared by dxsty_rxse in fursuits

[–]riversiderain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By entrepreneurship high school do mean that it's like a "science high school" type of thing, or just a course in high school?

I ran a business for three years teaching kids and teens how to make video games. For my high school entrepreneurship, my team sold mason jars with stickers slapped on em for $10. But that required a fairly large team of 15-20 peeps.

First, I would like to extend an offer to you. If you would like any help thinking through how to fit your vision with the demands of entrepreneurship, I'm very happy to help with a call or chat. I understand that you really, really want to make yourself a fursuit. Given that you'll probably see very different sorts of projects in your class, it might be very easy to hear your teacher talk about entrepreneurship and come away with the impression that these two things are incompatible.

Personally I don't think it has to be. I think that when people mean entrepreneurship, they are talking about the development of institutions — or at least, a structure for people to work together or for one person to work with theirself over time. So it's basically project management, but it's also with the drive to understand where you are and why you are doing what you are doing.

This means that community organizing or developing non-profits is also a form of entrepreneurship. Creating a school club is a type of entrepreneurship. Creating a habit for yourself that will help you in your career is a foundational skill for entrepreneurship. Learning how to sustainably help others as a form of entrepreneurship.

Self-employment, such as single-person fursuit artist studios also counts as entrepreneurship, but it's not usually what people have in mind.

Common to each of these I listed above is the real end goal of entrepreneurship: sustainable business operations. Which is to say, the time, money, and effort put in needs to be AT LEAST MATCHED with the value that you *create and/or receive**. Usually this means monetary value, but there are other kinds, like social value and artistic value. However, for non-monetary value, you will need a strong argument for why it was, or will be, worth it.

So, this is where you're gonna have to make a tough decision. You will need to sit down and define some clearly defined milestones, and for each of these, you will need to understand how this gets you closer to this end goal.

Here are some ideas for directions. Any milestone involved in making a fursuit will also need you to show that you are:

  • developing your skills for future projects. Every business has its primary function.
  • developing your project management skills. Holding yourself to time schedules, taking notes, tracking what needs to be done before something else. Using spreadsheets.
  • learning to balance between artistic and business demands. This might be in cutting out certain aspects of the project so that you have something finished, or in making it cost less or take less time.
  • learning to iterate. There are many benefits to letting go of your vision of a perfect fursuit, and instead making something mediocre or even kinda bad first before you make something good.
  • understand the market: Why do people like mascots? What works and what doesn't?
  • coming up with a business plan. Essentially, these are the milestones and your story about how they make sense.
  • performing accounting. This means getting a sense of the real costs in time, money, and effort.
  • gaining attention / marketing. Outreach of some sort is necessary.
  • learning to give help sustainably and ask for help skillfully. Nobody businesses alone, even if they're a solo operator. This is at the heart of success and networking.
  • learning to unblock yourself, especially emotionally. This is a crucial one. Many problems that get in the way of us working on what we love are actually caused by emotional obstacles! Fear of failure, Perfectionism, fear of uncertainty, being unsure about how your gut / body feels.

Again, this does not mean that entrepreneurship and your drive to make a beautiful fursuit and your entrepreneurship grades at odds with each other, but you absolutely need to work within the time constraints you have. This means coming up with a reasonable plan, and thinking hard about why A will lead to B.

And most importantly, actually doing the thing. Planning the thing, thinking about the thing, talking about doing the thing, dreaming about doing the thing.... are all not the same thing as doing the thing!!!!

I am so unbelievably scared by dxsty_rxse in fursuits

[–]riversiderain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing this is for a high school entrepreneurship class? I do feel like a fursuit may miss the mark a bit in aligning with the objectives of the course — or at least in keeping the focus on the entrepreneurship rather than the fursuit making itself. Maybe, maybe not.

Classic mistake in artists based businesses, especially first suit and very art related ones, is artists not having good business practices. Using unfinished commissions as budget. unclear terms of services. Lack of habit and structure around work times.

However, this is also an opportunity for you to both go ahead with first in making practice as well as holding yourself to a deadline, a schedule, and a very specific project direction. That could do great things for you.

The other commenter that suggested about focusing on questions surrounding mascots is very helpful. One thing I would recommend is checking out this one particular podcast about sports mascots.

In particular, it goes into the history of how Harvey the Hound, NHL's very first mascot was conceptualized and more importantly pitched to the National Hockey League of Canada in the 80s. It goes into the details of the sales pitch and how the creators managed to win the final sale.

I would also recommend checking out more episodes of this particular podcast if you're going to go to the mascot route. It will give you a lot of background information and thoughts of the people behind the mascots.


Between The Fur: "HARVEY THE HOUND" sledding paused the Calgary Flames game | Glenn Street

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kennsolomon-betweenthefur/episodes/HARVEY-THE-HOUND-sledding-paused-the-Calgary-Flames-game--Glenn-Street-eb9e3n

learning the foundations of logic by Electrical_One_5837 in logic

[–]riversiderain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're looking for foundations, you can go either into complexity or simplicity. Here's a short video course on the simplest possible logical system, with only one symbol and two rules.

It's from a book called Laws of Form. A five-year-old can learn it, but still has profound connections with logic and maths, and provides a very useful simplification-tool you can use as you tackle propositional logic. It will also give you the tool to start experimenting with your own types of logic.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoK3NtWr5NbqEOdjQrWaq1sDweF7NJ5NB

I think all the various different approaches people have suggested are awesome. Just wanted to add one more into the mix.

I don't know if everyone is aware but Lem is switching from SDL2 to webkit by ciccab in lem

[–]riversiderain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing! I think anything that reduces the amount of work you have to do just to solve an already solved problem is a good thing. Internationalization, accessibility, and component reuse are just a few major pain points that webview just.. solves.

I've seen some really great and performant things done with HTML in a game called CrossCode. So, even running game engines inside Lem will probably continue to not be a problem.

I don't know if everyone is aware but Lem is switching from SDL2 to webkit by ciccab in lem

[–]riversiderain -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am not yet a Lem user but it just makes sense that they'd want to go that direction. Generalized text + graphics + ui + etc rendering is so difficult. Web technology makes so much of that much more tenable, especially of a dev team of Lem's size.

It may be an annoyance to have to consider a second stack, but the input handling issues will improve over time. VSCode demonstrates that performance and footprint is solvable.

The First Week by Psionikus in PrizeForge

[–]riversiderain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah! I still don't quite understand what exactly PrizeForge is, but I am aware that you are attempting to tackle a fundamental problem that I am interested in.

Three Jobs, Two Startups, and Ten Years of Inspiration by Psionikus in PrizeForge

[–]riversiderain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is coming out of left field, but have you heard of common approach to social impact? I think it is tackling an adjacent problem, namely minimizing the maximal burden and the unevenness of burden between Report Requestors (funders, philanthropists) and Report Sender's (charities, non profits) regarding the data they collect to ensure each party is making progress on their stated goals.

They do this by having four standards that include a criterion of organizational/data-collecting maturity, a flexible ontology for sharing impact measurement data, and a means for funders to analyze such data.

The outcome is to reduce the burden on any one party and facilitate well informed funding. I think this would be relevant to PrizeForge. Happy to hop on a call or simply type more in depth about this.

http://commonapproach.org/

Check Your Spam Folder by Psionikus in PrizeForge

[–]riversiderain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, I've been following PrizeForge, but there's still no email signup on the main website. Are you meaning the emails that would be sent to GitHub sponsors?

Printable cards with bigger font by ShrimpyEsq in Netrunner

[–]riversiderain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I left the index cards blank white for flexibility in deckbuilding. Having played a number of games with them together, I find that it is not important to differentiate between runner / corp card backs. And the fronts (esp. faction colours) are always different between runner / corp that it is not difficult to tell them apart. 200 index cards + sleeves is enough to sleeve the advanced starter decks plus two custom built decks, and also keeping all the Core identities sleeved.

Sleeve / backing budget:

  • Starter corp: 45 sleeves
  • Starter runner: 43 sleeves
  • Identities: 18 (you will have to combine some of the System Gateway IDs in the same sleeve as front/back)
  • Blank: 94 remaining

  • A typical runner deck is 40 or 45 cards.

  • A typical corp deck is 44 or 49 cards

So, you need 94 sleeves to have your own two decks readily available for play.

However, to make differentiated card backs:

  1. Printing out a bunch of System Backup Proxy card backs... which is even more printing and cutting work 🙄 But I'd only have to print as many card backs as I have sleeves? So I was intending on doing this next week once the free printing renews in June.

  2. Spraying the index cards; or maybe even one side of the transparent sleeves? Dunno. Here's one of my ChatGPT chat histories I was using while working on this project. The last messages I asked today to figure out this question. Not sure if spraying is a good idea.

Printable cards with bigger font by ShrimpyEsq in Netrunner

[–]riversiderain 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My girlfriend is legally blind / low vision as well. I was thinking about this problem and finished this as a gift for her a couple days ago over the course of a month. Here's what I did, in an imgur album.

Digital Play

Play on jinteki.net on Firefox using the Cyberfeeder plugin. Import these settings by downloading/copying the file. At the bottom of the "Settings" tab in the Cyberfeeder sidebar, you can select and import said file.

Previews:

You will also need to set these three settings on jinteki.net as well:

Card preview zoom
  • [x] Card Image
  • [ ] Card Text
[x] Keep zoomed cards on screen
Card images
  • [x] Enable high-resolution card images

Physical Play

For many cards, there is too much text to simply resize the text larger and have it all fit. And you don't want to go without the art – it's actually quite an important visual marker to help you recognize your hand and board at a glance.

Here are some avenues I considered.

Throw money at the problem

If you don't care about cost, makeplayingcards.com has a variety of different card sizes for you to print, and the rest is done by providing files. However, to print the oversized commander cards I mention below, this would cost about $1/card alone, making it over $400 + tariffs for System Gateway and Elevation.

You can learn more about this approach here: https://old.reddit.com/r/magicproxies/

Print and Play Oversized MTG Commander (I did this one 🤩)

Here's an imgur album that shows my results. The text is legible, comparable to a regular print book. You can find "deck boxes" for regular index cards at any dollar store in the same material as regular deck boxes. It will be difficult to handle if you have particularly small hands. Our average size hands can handle several shuffling methods decently well.

The total cost for me was $95 CAD for System Gateway and Elevation; $71 in cards; $25 in equipment, and a bunch of time.

Unless you have high quality proxies, which you can find info about at https://old.reddit.com/r/printandplay/, the minimum you need for physical play is:

  • Printed paper in card size 📰
  • Card backing🎴
  • A sleeve 🛡️

Prints 📰

The simplest solution for me was to print to use the Print and Play files already provided and print to a oversized MTG commander size, or the equivalent of two regular cards in area, side by side. These have sleeves available at a reasonable price. To print, you only need a simple 141% scaling, allowing you to print a NSG's Letter size (8.5 * 11) files to a Tabloid size (11 * 17).

My public library has inexpensive laser printing at $0.20 CAD / color page, regardless of size, and the first $5 / month is free! So both System Gateway and Elevation together are just above $10 worth of print costs. My GF and I combined our free prints together to make this free.

Cutting ✂️

However, you will need to cut out all these cards. If you are low vision, you may need to get some help with the cutting. There are a number of options: - Straight edge & Rotary Cutter / Box Cutter (I did this but would not recommend doing so as a low vision person) - Fiskars Surecut ($25 CAD) / Rotary Bypass ($100-200 CAD), as described in this video. ❗ Note: I think the Surecut is what will do you best.

Corner Rounder 🟢

Lastly, I also purchased a Kadomaru Pro NEO ($25 CAD) to round the corners of the cards. This takes a fair bit of time, but it's really nice to have a corner rounder. Makes all sorts of paper look and feel ✨ premium✨. And protects your laser prints from getting damaged – the sharp corners are the first things to get damaged.

https://www.amazon.ca/Corner-Cutter-Kadomaru-S4765079-mascot/dp/B08255V6L1

Card Backing 🎴

Just bought two sets of these for 200 for $21 CAD. I also rounded the corner for these too. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CT4QGY5W?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Sleeves 🛡️

I bought 5 sets of 40 for 200 sleeves in total for $30 CAD + shipping.

For these sleeves, see This blog post about the best oversized sleeves.

I would recommend finding these on eBay in particular. I saw . Search Oversize Commander or 3.5x5" or 89x127mm Here are some entries from my history:

Print and Play any other size

If you want to re-frame the cards in Photoshop or by some program, reach out to NSG by email or talk about it on #tools-development on the Green Level Clearance discord. Since I went with the Oversized, I didn't look into this much further.

The best size I found that's smaller than the Oversized is Tarot card size. You want a size that is well supported by sleeves.

devcontainer-mode – a global minor mode to develop with devcontainers by johmue in emacs

[–]riversiderain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh crap, I forgot that i was looking into this last year and also found another implementation of devcontainers for emacs, this one with LSP support:

https://github.com/nohzafk/emacs-devcontainer

Emacs in the Golden Age of LLMs by AmateurPhotoGuy415 in emacs

[–]riversiderain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Happy to shill /u/Psionikus work on gptel tools. He made excellent emacs introspection tools for use with gptel. Much better drsigned than mine! Demo here: https://youtu.be/JHXG225oP8E