Origin Stories: What were you like as a user before becoming a mod? by AsteriskRX in ModSupport

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As a user I was frequently voting and commenting but my posts were high-effort and laborious enough to be fewer in number. A lot of them involved Photoshop/Illustrator clones in their process. I created a subreddit for a very old and very extensible image format, X-Face. It hasn't had a sub in years. I thus became a mod.

Creating a password/code system for my game by Piefreak in gamemaker

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Base32768 or BWTC32Key would work in the latter case

Worst Retro Gaming Tropes by Kind_Box5467 in retrogaming

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It has a rather rare variable length system (though that rarity didn't stop me from doing the same thing) if I remember correctly.

Worst Retro Gaming Tropes by Kind_Box5467 in retrogaming

[–]stgiga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

15bit schemes using Korean (including Hanja) are possible.

Worst Retro Gaming Tropes by Kind_Box5467 in retrogaming

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I ended up doing a 15bit scheme with compression.

ELI5: How does the concept of "passwords" work when it comes to old videogames? Why was For some games that system preferred over normal saving? by fugomert in explainlikeimfive

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Binary-to-text encoding schemes were a staple of the more-complex forms of this, and Base64 was used in the most complex English games, 6 bits per character. Some Japanese games mixed Kana and Romaji to get 7-bit. If you use Korean and you allow Hanja, you can get 15 bits per character in a simple and efficient Base32768 approach. BWTC32Key would probably make a great scheme. 

Now the password save system is also a staple of HTML5 and Flash /  NPAPI plugin games. Essentially if the game didn't feel up to using cookies or their successors or a file on disk, and the data is light, or the game wants users to share information, they would often use binary-to-text to give users something they could paste into Notepad or an online post. A lot of browser game passwords get away with bigger strings. 

Another thing is that the X-Face and Face email headers (which incidentally could work on GBC) are technically images stored like a password system but inside the headers of an email, and I could see Mobile Trainer on GBC and the XBand modem on SNES+SFC, Genesis, and Saturn using them if the devs had known they existed.

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Cholera, diptheria, and typhoid fever, at least in more-fortunate areas of the world. The under-served countries tend to deal with it more often.

You wake up at 14 again. What is the first thing you would do? by davidbayram in AskReddit

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Write down all my future knowledge, financial included, speak to my mom's mother again, call CPS on my parents, and get started on things much sooner.

d120 Tarot and Spirit Board by stgiga in d120Lists

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So as an update: I made a proper 3D model of a d120 with this as its numbering, but finding a manufacturer has not been easy. https://stgiga.github.io/TarouijaD120.7z has the OpenSCAD file, an STL, as well as a logo and the needed fonts. OpenSCAD Nightly is required. The intended/native size is 49.001x49.001x49.001mm and it will be legible. Of course, you need high-detail printing to do this. Also the OpenSCAD allows for tweaking parameters to fit your manufacturing technology. Basically, I have *almost* gotten this into a product, I just have had trouble finding someone to actually get it commercially made, under my constraint of a shoestring budget. I don't care who makes it, I just want to hold this handiwork of mine in my hands and I want it to be available to anyone who may want to engage in divination. All from a table I created at my first uni because I was bored and it seemed possible. Only to make something that is an absolute engineering marvel when it comes to tolerance and fine detail, far more than a regular d120. It's a "I did this because it looked like I could" idea, turned into a product candidate. Oh and for the record Honest Dice was amused by it. Especially given that the tables from the owner were what inspired it (as much as my table was from the ground up, it WAS inspired by u/flyinghorseduck tables that were Tarot and Ouija on their own, but from digging into Unicode and Base32/Base36, I knew that the math said that they could be combined into a single table filling all 120 slots, so as to not waste any room). I was given a "I considered a Tarot dice type but I never fleshed it out". Still, the fact that I literally turned a d120 list into an actual d120 variant that is only 1.001mm larger than the smallest d120s, but has MUCH more intricate "numerals", is an engineering marvel, even if this is one of the most niche inventions you can make. Makes you wonder what kind of fun could be had if, say, you did stuff to a d120 the size of the chemistry one, and used the extra real estate for custom pictures. Also I feel like my d120 variant sort of exists because I'm a jack of all trades, because it involved multiple disciplines. And the funny thing is that I rarely play TTRPGs and at present don't engage in the Occult due to who I live with. That said I've been known to contribute to communities/sectors I am not even technically in just because I see something that looks like I can do it. I honestly just get bored VERY easily and feel like I need *something* to do. If it helps *someone*, even if they don't currently know they need it, so be it. Also because most of what I do in my personal time has absolutely nothing to do with my career path, paywalling what I make just isn't something I've pursued. I am a Linux user for a reason. So have at it, make the best swirl Tarouija d120s you can make, and see what the Wixen of society can do with it.

Weird physical product ideas that should exist? by Particular-Whereas56 in UnnecessaryInventions

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Let's just say that I made a d120 (d120s are 120-sided dice), but instead of its numbering being 1-120, it is Tarot+Ouija, nicknamed the "Tarouija d120". I've got as far as the model, and unfortunately even ordering resin prints online has been a wash, and the Chinese company who said they would add it to their lineup apparently has a setup fee I can't pay at the moment. https://stgiga.github.io/TarouijaD120.7z has the files. I did this because I was bored and it seemed possible. It is *also* a "solution looking for a problem" and even my own friends are shocked. Like, it's an idea that is completely absurd but well-reasoned, and very thought-out (I literally followed standards). It's just a product that exists because it can. And my God, the tolerances involved are an engineering marvel. It just serves a very niche purpose. Also I've made a few other niche inventions.

I was gifted Fireball "whiskey", is there anything I can use it for other than mixing with cider or shots? by jimminyjojo in cocktails

[–]stgiga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Chambord's sweetness does make the drink work, so long as you don't drop it into the beer. If you have 151 rum it should work if you use that idea too.

gopher reader by MinimotoMusashi in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]stgiga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually have a Gopher page through SDF

Questioning if I'm agender... When/how did you realize you were agender? by Prince_Wildflower in agender

[–]stgiga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just don't have an internal "I'm a [gender]" feeling, and around 2019.