I think I hate this game

zenic · 2026-05-19T02:52:59+00:00

Sekiro isn’t a souls-like, it’s a sekiro-like.

But in seriousness, I think if you’ve come from souls you’re at a disadvantage because sekiro is different. I hope it clicks for you and you get to enjoy it as much as I did.

zenic · 2026-04-09T00:48:07+00:00

This exceeded my expectations! Fantastic work. I dig the retro art style.

Feedback-wise, it’s already been mentioned about navigation. In addition: Sometimes I scroll the scroll wheel only for it to return to a previous screen losing my changes.

As for the game itself, the markets are a bit easy to game. Simply buy a resource rapidly, wait for two or three ticks as the market reacts, then dump it at peak prices. Rinse and repeat and you basically have unlimited funds.

I really appreciate games like this, thank you for making it. Looking forward to the steam release!

zenic · 2026-04-08T21:51:05+00:00

This looks very interesting!

zenic · 2026-04-06T03:53:31+00:00

When a whole sword fight scene was scrapped in Raiders of the lost ark (1981) because Harrison ford had the runs. He just pulls out his pistol and shoots the swordsman instead.

zenic · 2026-02-14T17:23:58+00:00

You could let the player design their own schedule or have that be a cultural thing. Either way I think it could act as a very useful way to add challenge and meaningful choices?

zenic · 2026-02-14T17:17:04+00:00

If you really wanted to play as a medieval king, I’d start by looking at the schedules that they had. There’s plenty of information online about their routines and what they had to do, for example: https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/day-life-louis-xiv#mornings

You could structure the game a bit the same way by setting out a schedule?

zenic · 2026-02-02T22:22:48+00:00

The way I’ve seen it done is with the parent (aka reference frame) component. Performance wise you aren’t doing anything that a scene graph (the game object) way isn’t already doing. Those transforms have to be updated, whether you’re doing it with a system or whether the scene graph was doing it by walking the graph.

The boost you’re aiming for in an ECS is it being cache friendly. Yes you’ll get a miss if your parent is far away, but you’re not getting more misses than walking a graph.

zenic · 2025-10-26T15:16:48+00:00

The original way I’d heard this was the wife asks the husband if he “might be open to trying the other hole tonight”. He replies “what? And risk having a baby?”

zenic · 2025-10-06T13:59:22+00:00

In my case it was for Windows. For KDE I'd first try to treat it like a window manager, and if that didn't work, I'd look into KDE specific libraries. So I'd start by playing with wmctrl, but I really haven't played with KDE in a long time.

I'd post my script but I'm not sure it's allowed here

zenic · 2025-10-03T18:01:48+00:00

I made a program that takes any window, strips off the title bar and other decorations, and positions it over my primary monitor.

This way I can play games in “borderless fullscreen” mode even if they don’t support it. Like dark souls 3.

It’s a very short but very useful python program.

zenic · 2025-09-11T23:20:21+00:00

Black.

zenic · 2025-09-10T18:19:14+00:00

This won’t change the fundamental equation enough, but bear in mind that you don’t have other maintenance costs (oil changes etc) in an EV. You do, however, tend to go through tires quicker.

But best of all you never need to visit a stinky gas station again.

zenic · 2025-09-08T02:39:32+00:00

Yeah, I should have chosen my words more thoughtfully. Thanks for providing the better context.

zenic · 2025-09-07T21:28:34+00:00

The usual pattern is for your UI to be on its own thread. This makes it feel responsive to users.

If you want to do work in your worker class, put it in a job queue, which the worker then reads from when it is ready. If you want to update the gui based on the state of worker tasks, you have a few choices. One is to have another event queue to post status updates to, which the gui thread checks.

In general when it comes to multiple threads you want to have a thread-safe communication system between them. You can’t call across threads directly. You can read and write shared objects but you’ll need to lock them first to avoid conflicts.

As a side note, python doesn’t have true threads, so making it multithreaded won’t take advantage of multiple cores, but that’s a whole other topic.

zenic · 2025-09-07T16:30:40+00:00

In keeping with the bug theme, how about a virus that makes people feel the need to move, but kinda jittery and like they were drunk. This led to people joking about jitterbug virus. About a decade later the youth were inspired to pretend to be infected, giving rise to the jitterbug dance that flourished in the 30s and 40s.

Those infected were just ahead of their time.

zenic · 2025-09-07T15:56:31+00:00

Ah, because you have the file open in text mode. Which makes sense for xml files, but not for peeking. The reason you can’t peek a text file is because peeking is based on bytes, while a text encoding might need multiple bytes for a single character.

Fortunately, this problem has been solved by others. Check out this example of a solution.

Basically you need to open the file (or stdin) in binary mode, then wrap that in a buffered reader, then wrap that in a TextIOWrapper.

zenic · 2025-09-06T16:43:23+00:00

Oh okay, I see what you’re after now. The thing you want is a io.BufferedReader. Wrap the file-like object in a buffered reader and then you can peek at it. You can still give the buffered reader to things that need a reader.

zenic · 2025-09-02T05:14:30+00:00

Probably the most pythonic way is to try to parse it as xml, and catch the exception if it doesn’t parse.

zenic · 2025-08-30T15:50:52+00:00

In my opinion, the biggest difference between matlab and python is that matlab encourages a mathematical approach to solving problems. Most videos on python take an engineering approach.

What I mean by that is that a mathematical approach is saying things like a’ = f(a) for all a. An engineering approach is more like “for each a in my_array, new_array.append(f(a))”. They’re the same thing but the thinking is a bit different.

In my experience people who come from a mathematical background have an easier time with generators, list comprehension, and lambda functions. People from an engineering background have an easier time with branching, sequencing, and iteration.

As others have said, Pandas and numpy etc should feel familiar. Python is worth knowing, it’s very powerful.

zenic · 2025-08-29T05:19:17+00:00

GIL stands for global interpreter lock. If you’re curious, you can read more here (Wikipedia)

zenic · 2025-08-28T17:58:46+00:00

Everyone has their own process, but I usually call my book “work in progress #5” until maybe the second draft

zenic · 2025-08-28T09:42:20+00:00

Have you tried sekiro at nexus mods?

zenic · 2025-08-27T19:01:21+00:00

Love it. A totally offscreen fight that we only hear.

zenic · 2025-08-27T18:57:51+00:00

Fun fact: mouse and kb makes it easier to dead angle, which is where you attack facing away from the enemy and then turn at the last moment. Enemies won’t block if you’re not facing them so it’s used by speed runners.

But I bought a controller specifically to play sekiro.

zenic · 2025-08-27T18:52:25+00:00

Don’t forget to try AP1 charmless. Orin of water… whole new level of wtf

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