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Meh as a Service  

Dome Keeper is a ridiculously well designed game.

On the surface it seems to be about mining and shooting at monsters but really it's all about non-stop decision making, risk taking, planning and disaster management. And shooting at monsters, yes.

I really enjoy being bad at it.

store.steampowered.com/app/163

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Jons Mostovojs  

If you're scared that revealing the rules to the players will ruin immersion, work on your level design.

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Jons Mostovojs  

Q: How do you collectively call china, russia and iran?

A: The z-axis.

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Jons Mostovojs  

The more I engage with game design, the more I notice some disastrous ideas that keep turning games with great potential into "great idea, poor gameplay" for decades.

Today's highlights include:

1. Potions and buffs, which are ways to reset and/or replace game state by consuming other resources, sometimes repeatedly. The and suffer significantly from this issue. The primary reason I stopped participating in otherwise amazing story-focused modern community is this mechanic. Also having a life and a job. But mostly potions and buffs.

2. Dramatic progression, where end-game characters have quantifiably greater capabilities than early game ones. Scaling up both enemies and characters creates artificial barriers for creative gameplay. I appreciate 's progression, which features only a 15% difference in crucial stats between the end-game and the first day of your first mission.

Unfortunately, both issues have deeply infiltrated game design, including the most popular TTRPG, which shall remain unnamed.

Another abstract game design mistake is forcing players to make decisions without clearly explaining the rules.

This problem worsens in games with dramatic progression. Players must create "a build" to avoid irrelevance due to dramatic progression, relying on vague descriptions of decision outcomes. suffers immensely from this issue.

This problem can also apply to narrative games. The reason I didn't enjoy as much as anticipated and am close to dropping is that these games' premises break during play.

Broken Sword starts as noir detective with bombs, evolving into a wishy-washy modern fantasy with spells and rituals. "Steel Sky" starts as dystopian drama but devolves into cringe comedy. Sherlock Holmes games feature mysticism, and don't get me started on the TTRPG offenders: the likes of and other -adjacent games. Imagine having omnipotent entities as villains, while mortals are trying to solve crimes... Spoiler: the killer is a Cthulhu.

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Jons Mostovojs  

First time I'm playing JA (as you can guess by the fact that I have a lot of unspent cash and just one merc with me to compensate for Medic 0... I think I'll restart the campaign as soon as I learn the hotkeys during this run).

Absolutely randomly I ended up with an all-female team of mercenaries fighting for the freedom of the oppressed people. Ironically given that Miguel says "Enrique has sent *men*" .

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internetarchive  

We will appeal. #DigitalRightsForLibraries
blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/th

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Ernie Smith  

This is so infuriating. We have let the law break things in the digital world that just worked in the physical world. @internetarchive matters so much in this world: theverge.com/2023/3/24/2365580

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vruz  

Stanford has created an AI model called Stanford Alpaca.
youtube.com/watch?v=xslW5sQOkC

It's capable of doing what ChatGPT does and more, except at a fraction of the cost: $600. They were allowed to do this because Alpaca didn't have to be trained same as GPT was, it only had to learn all of GPT's tricks watching GPT play.

Microsoft placed a $2 billion bet on OpenAI, so that makes them look $2 billion less smart than last week.
the-decoder.com/stanfords-alpa

#OpenAI #AGI #gpt #chatgpt #StanfordAlpaca

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Kelly  

Too many uses for this word, but I'm glad it exists.

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💦 Saliva Glance ✨  

I'm so fucking tired of the logic of

"It's the responsibility of neurodivergent people to act neurotypically and to annoy no one"

and I want it to stop

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European Commission  

Reduce, reuse, recycle... repair!

This week, we proposed the ‘right to repair’ initiative, which will make it easier and cheaper for consumers to #repair defective goods.

By repairing more goods and using them longer, #EU consumers can not only enjoy sustainable consumption but will also achieve considerable savings!

Learn more about the proposal → europa.eu/!KKwHFh

#EUGreenDeal #RightToRepair

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Trond Hjorteland  

I sometimes get asked for good resources on Open Systems Theory and Sociotechnical Systems Design and though it useful to collect them. View this as a personal curated list of materials to check out.
#SocioTechnical #OpenSystems
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l

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Jons Mostovojs  

@goo hello

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Tobias Radesäter  

The AC of the dungeon

#Dungeon23

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caleb ×  

guysss cmon,, whose idea was it to not tell me about clangs __builtin_dump_struct ?

to think of all the hours I've wasted writing format strings to dump struct fields at runtime 😭

it leverages the fact that the struct definition is known at compile time to generate pretty format strings and dump struct fields at runtime

and here i was praising rust for its "{:?}" format string (which is still considerably better i will admit)

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CarveHerName  

Early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She is never captured.

Wireless was the riskiest SOE job as the operator had to stay put whilst sending/receiving messages which Germans were triangulating. The radio kit fit in a suitcase.

A German guard once asked Paddy what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.

#WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #histodons

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k3ym𖺀 :donor:  

(inhales sharply)

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(ghasps for air)

AAAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

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Nicholas Nethercote  

New blog post: How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2023
nnethercote.github.io/2023/03/

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Nikola  

@jonn I'm not sure it fits the same niche, but I'm really enjoying Physics World (physicsworld.com/p/our-portfol). They have decent apps delivering their digital editions, and the quality of writing is very, very good.

Similarly, I've been a long-time subscribed to Linux Weekly News (lwn.net/). It's well worth the price, although the format isn't very magazine-like I guess. The quality is next level, though.

I also grew up reading magazines and think it's an underestimated medium!

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Jons Mostovojs  

Woke up in the night, finished a issue I got earlier today.
Gonna buy the issue for sure to read tomorrow!
What a cool format 😺

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