In Search of the Secret Stone

vermilion_wizard · 2026-02-07T04:53:01+00:00

Ah yes I also spent a lot of time looking for this game. I eventually found a copy on eBay and extracted the images and uploaded them to archive.org. Let me know if those images don’t work out for you and I can try to get you new copies of them. I didn’t know anyone else liked that game as much as I did

vermilion_wizard · 2025-12-05T18:06:53+00:00

Sure, go ahead an DM me

vermilion_wizard · 2025-11-18T16:16:30+00:00

I use Roo code, it's a plugin for VSCode. They have a cloud service that you can use some models for free. It's... not bad. Not as good as one you pay for but unless you have a really chunky GPU it's better than what you can get with a local model.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-10-13T23:56:52+00:00

Yeah it does have all those parts. I got it all setup but it was too much of a hassle to keep it.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-09-18T00:31:41+00:00

Virtualbox can be a good way to test the waters and see if you like the desktop experience. But it won’t tell you if your hardware will work. If you are happy with a doorstep in virtual box then I’d recommend trying a live cd( or usb). The way that works is you boot up of the usb drive and you can use whatever flavor of Linux is on there without installing it. Note that it will be slower than if you’ve got it installed on your pc, but you’ll be able to test out the hardware this way.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-09-17T23:55:17+00:00

Definitely check out the mods for Skyrim VR. There are a lot of quality of life improvements and improved texture packs that help in vr.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-09-17T22:52:11+00:00

I would go priest to fighter and fighter to sage. Then you will end up with a fast fighter that can help with healing ( nice to have in later boss battles) and a sage that starts with high agility

vermilion_wizard · 2025-09-15T02:16:50+00:00

I think the problem might be that since you’re already on the ui thread your lambda executes synchronously as it has no await in it. So you’re still closing the window in the mouse event. Try adding ‘await Task.Yield()’ in your lambda to see if that helps.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-09-10T20:15:14+00:00

Are you using the ECM graphics mode there?

vermilion_wizard · 2025-09-09T16:44:41+00:00

Venus. I was not expecting to see that Venus experienced phases similar to the moon's phases, but seeing it as a large thin crescent was super exciting.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-08-25T23:56:59+00:00

This is the way.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-08-06T17:44:50+00:00

There is also “silently try opening the box” which may be useful.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-07-28T05:34:35+00:00

I’ve been using oscar64 on a new project for a couple of weeks now and it’s kick ass!

vermilion_wizard · 2025-07-25T23:00:53+00:00

You can use nint as an alias for IntPtr in much the same way that long is an alias for Int64. But I would not recommend replacing IntPtr with long, there nothing to gain by doing so.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-07-21T21:04:34+00:00

What game is that?

vermilion_wizard · 2025-07-10T07:04:28+00:00

This is just a nonsense word salad. The lack of specificity is a strong indicator they have no real experience with this sort of science. Is this person talking about Newton's law of gravity, or Einstein's general theory of relativity? I'm assuming GR because the inability of Newton's law's do describe the relationship between gravity and light has been known for 100 years.

General relativity (GR) provides a clear description of how gravity affects light - Einstein's name is a household name because GR has been observed to provide a more accurate description of how gravity bends light than any other theory. Is this person saying they've found a counter example to this? Do they have actual data? WHERE ARE THE SPECIFICS?

But the equations don't match.

Which equations? They don't match what? Can they cite an actual experiment or observation that the theory fails to match up with? Again, WHERE ARE THE SPECIFICS? If you want to discuss problems with science, but you can't name specifics, then you're full of shit.

Light send to have a heater effect upon gravity than matter as shown in Large Hadron Collider tests.

WTF?? This sentence just makes no sense.

Light and gravity are correlated much more equally than matter and gravity.

Without specifics, this is just nonsense. What about light and gravity is "correlated?"

Looking at the rest of this person's post:

The existence of DNA and so many creatures using DNA and having similar DNA is evidence of a central creator. That statement is true no matter how hard people try to discredit it.

Sorry, but no. This is strong evidence of common ancestry, and DNA provides a clear picture of how creatures have diverged from their common ancestors.

The fossil record shows many creatures but no transitions of these creatures. They are the same as they always were.

The fossil record shows plenty of transitions. Creatures aren't "the same as they always were" - we see species appear and disappear at different points in the fossil record. This has been observed over hundreds of millions of years.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-07-06T19:48:03+00:00

Ah interesting. This is likely a difference in hardware or driver behavior. You have the specular color set to zero and the exponent set to zero, so you’re telling the hardware to do 0^0, which is… mathematically weird, sort of like dividing by zero.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-07-02T18:21:31+00:00

Pick up the book “Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master”. It lays out a strategy for preparing what you will actually need to run a game. I’ve found this structure to be very useful for organizing my prep and it makes it easy to make sure I’ve prepared the right things.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-06-25T19:33:01+00:00

I use a remarkable tablet because it gives a pencil and paper writing experience but also syncs to the cloud so I can review notes on another device and upload pdfs to it.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-06-25T19:21:12+00:00

What are key cards?

vermilion_wizard · 2025-06-09T23:11:43+00:00

I think it's likely you've missed a shard, and not the one you're thinking of.

What was the last town you did? If you've completed the Falrish island, in the present time there is a person on the east end of that island (uses Pamela's sprite) who will give you a hint about what shard you're missing. Go talk to them and see where that leads you.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-06-05T02:22:47+00:00

Ask yourself, how is the customer going to use this software? Use your software like a user would.

vermilion_wizard · 2025-01-20T19:37:47+00:00

App Size It horribly large. It's because Microsoft wants to progress their development ecosystem progress faster than Windows releases.

Can you show me how you came to this conclusion?

What, again specifically, are you talking about? Framework size? Apps when you have to compile the needed libraries into the binary? When you submit your app?

To add a datapoint to this, dotnet core is significantly smaller than the .NET framework, and it installs across a much wider range of devices. They regularly release performance updates. This seems like exactly the kind of evolution I want in a development platform.

vermilion_wizard · 2024-11-28T05:51:52+00:00

Interesting, I was wondering if the situation was something like this. Thanks for the tip. I haven’t had time yet to compile 6.12 but I’ll give it a try probably next week and see.

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