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@bluewinds@tech.lgbt
Author, game dev, kinky lesbian out of Seattle.
Expect memes, kink, urbanism, erotica, and fangirling over public transit and urbanism. #nobridge
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@hasani@my-spaces.social
@hasani@my-spaces.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io They do own slaves, today, already. Private, for-profit prisons with forced labor are common in many states.
It's hardly even less racialized, given how prison populations skew. :/
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@bluewinds@tech.lgbt
@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Also the storage tier upgrade quests - at least the last two - seem out of line with everything else (the first one is pretty rough too, but at least possible).
Since STORAGE_COST_GROWTH = 1.5, upgrading storage the 200 time would cost around 2.4*10^37 gold.
Sorry to hit you with a bunch of stuff at once; my wife and I just both got excited and played the game all the way through to the end. Very fun little game!
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@bluewinds@tech.lgbt
@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Looking at the code, it seems like
function prestigeSlotCostMult() { return Math.max(0.1, 1 - getPrestigeBonus("slot_cost_pct") / 100); }
means that the slot discount is effectively capped at 90%, which I hit long ago, and I've been vainly pursuing larger -% for a while now.
Also means that the -% rewards are increasingly valuable (-0 -> -10% = slots cost 90% as much as before, vs -80%->-90% = slots cost half as much as before)... until you hit the cap and suddenly they're worth nothing at all.
Wonder how it would feel if they stacked multiplicative, rather than additive? So -10% and -10% = 81% rather than 80. It's already all running through a reducer in getPrestigeBonus(), so trying it out would be a one-line change. 🤔 :fox_cowboy:
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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space
@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Good fun so far. I don't understand, though, how the % bonuses work.
"Slot Costs -335%" - I would expect this to mean they cost -2.35x what they normally cost, meaning I get paid?
Of course that's not how it works, but I have no idea how it *does* work.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop
@xgranade@wandering.shop They've been able to get as far as they can ("making visually impressive demos") because of decades of human labor building the abstractions.
Making a chair is hard work. Burning a chair for firewood is easy.
I have so much oregano. Planted some in my greenhouse two years ago, and it's been loving life. Unfortunately it's been loving life right where I'm putting a raised bed, so (most of it) it had come out.
I weighed 224g of fresh leaves, after the stems were removed; that is a *lot* of an herb! Dried it in the oven, lightly crushed, and now I have oh so much. :D
Anyone in Seattle want to trade some for other homemade or homegrown food? Last year I had a great time exchanging apple cider for hot sauce; now I have oregano and am super excited to share again.
Edit: Fixed typos, that's why I try never post from my phone. >.>
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@emma@orbital.horse
@emma@orbital.horse @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social That power was within you all along!
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@coolandnormal@aus.social
@coolandnormal @TheBreadmonkey Slapstick is only funny with consent! And this was pretty good. :D
"Boys will be boys" is about having fun and being silly, not about being mean.
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@mwk@donotsta.re
@mwk No one has every asked to buy my secrets. 😿 What am I doing wrong? My prices would be very reasonable.
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@xoagray@tiggi.es
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@VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online
@VogueLaGalere @nixCraft It's in line with Ed Zitron's numbers, well within the margin of error of different people estimating differently. And he always comes with citations.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/#monthly-ai-subscriptions-are-all-part-of-ai%E2%80%99s-subsidy-scam-a-deliberate-attempt-to-separate-generative-ai-from-its-actual-costs
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@soatok@furry.engineer
@soatok Couldn't be me, asking my GF to help me feel out the mechanics/positioning for the smut I'm writing.
Do I bend like that? I'd better be able to, if I'm asking my characters to do it.
Professionals have standards, goddamn it!
@urbanistorg@mstdn.social - Your federation to Mastodon seems to be broken; I've been getting articles via your RSS feed, but they haven't been showing up on the account here since early May.
Fresh dirt delivery this morning - compost, manure and sand in roughly equal parts, for my raised beds. Has a little odor, but not terrible, will finish mellowing out of the next few weeks I expect.
Getting it from the dump site to the greenhouse is a bit of a chore - I shovel it through a hole in my fence, down a 4' drop into my wheelbarrow in the yard. Then roll the barrow across the yard, over the lip into the greenhouse, and lever it up on the edge of the raised bed to dump in.
2 1/2 cubic yards of dirt is about 2 1/2 tons; I'm rather out of shape, so only got maybe half a ton done today. I'll keep at it though, hopefully get this done before it rains (moving wet dirt is sheer pain).
15 minutes ago, that cropped path down the center was all tall grass like on the right. Scythes are fun. :D
Could a powered mower have done it faster? Yes. Cheaper? No. My scythe will last the rest of my life (and beyond), no batteries, fuel or replacement parts required. Just a whetstone every 10 minutes and a brief hammer session once a year.
Also wow I have gotten out of shape over the winter, that should not have left me as winded as it did.
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@somebody@tech.lgbt
@somebody My maine coon also refused to let me brush him, or trim his claws; but he only got knots / dreads in his later years; prime of his life, he kept himself quite well groomed across his entire body.
<3 wonderful cats.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net Tell me about it. I live in the area (well, the north-west corner of your map here), and though I have a bike, barely use it. The area's so unpleasant.
Walking is not great, but at least I don't feel like the cars actively want to kill me on foot.
(can't help with your actual question I'm afraid)
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@urien2@floss.social
@urien2 @faden @quephird It is just on their "personal computing devices" - which is the term for iphones and ipads, approvde for spaceflight but completely isolated from the spacecraft / actual operations.
Not mission-critical, it's just for their personal emails. And they use the same devices to take pictures, play music, watch videos, etc.
(I'm by no means defending microslop, just that it's not carelessness on nasa's part)
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@jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place
@jzillw Gemcraft is great, I've been playing it all morning; 
I do definitely like being able to pause mid-battle (and still interact with things while paused), kind of a requirement for me to enjoy the genre.
I do definitely like being able to pause mid-battle (and still interact with things while paused), kind of a requirement for me to enjoy the genre.
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@jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place
@jzillw I tried thronefall, but the interface drove me nuts; I wanted a lot more feedback about what things meant and how things worked. It seemed like a decent game... for someone else rather than me. :D
I shall give gemcraft a try, looks like it might scratch the itch, thanks!
Requesting recommendations - I'm in the mood for a nice tower defense game. Desktop, not mobile.
I know nothing of the genre, haven't played much of it beyond the flash game roots 20 years ago.
Anyone have a fun one to try? I lean more on the slow-paced / strategy side of things, rather than quick-twitchy/flashy, generally speaking.
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@dpk@chaos.social
@dpk I have been looking to move away from github with my projects for a while now, but self-hosting is more effort than I want to put in.
If you don't mind a question - how does codeberg feel about adult content?
I'm a (hobby) game developer. All my games are GPL / CC, but many are also, well, pornographic. While I don't see anything against that in the Terms, I definitely care about social norms. Is that something that would be acceptable on codeberg?
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@lordbowlich@masto.hackers.town
@lordbowlich@masto.hackers.town Really interesting talk, I hadn't heard of Zig before this.
I do think, watching it seven years later, that Rust kind of ate his lunch though; it would be my choice for a system language to use (rather than to learn / play with).
(But as you said, I have little call for system languages. I'll probably never personally move away from JS variants, because I really, really like the browser-as-UI-library; html / css / svg are just incredibly _usable_, and there are escape hatches to canvas / webgl if I want something graphically lower level)
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@leonardof@bertha.social
@leonardof @mttaggart Most IT departments will never notice if you dual-boot and log into windows once every few months.
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@libreoffice@fosstodon.org
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org Sweet! I was looking for something like this last year, and will definitely give it a try when I get a chance!
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@zzeligg@ruby.social
@zzeligg @reading_recluse @mollymay5000 I don't need to know to block you two assholes / clowns, you've already given me enough information!
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@Johns_priv@mastodon.social
@Johns_priv @fasterandworse @pluralistic Yeah, for real. Respect plummeting. What a straw-man bad-faith missing-the-point argument.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop
@xgranade@wandering.shop The more I actually learn about QM the more all the "woo-woo, paradoxes, many-worlds, the photon follows all paths and interferes with itself!" falls away.
Just... it's so much misinterpretation and misrepresentation of phenomena that do not need to be this hard to understand. Gatekeeping obfuscation is absolutely the right description.
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@somebody@tech.lgbt
@somebody My wife was very excited to show me she'd finally gotten arch working, a couple years back. :D
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@morrigan@social.xenofem.me
I would quote-boost this so I can add a CW, but my client is telling me I can't. So instead a reply-boost.
passed to me from a minnesotan on the ground in minneapolis, boiled down into bullet points: ...
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@rubyrubedo@wetdry.world
@rubyrubedo@wetdry.world I don't love manuals, but I do love technical documentation.
People are consistently wow at tech interviews because I read the docs on their company's product before showing up, which, just... I thought that was the minimum, but apparently it's impressive?
???