yep okay I don’t like Dark Souls 3, unfortunately. they heavily nerfed my two favorite things in Dark Souls 1, which are blocking and parrying. they made dodge-rolling drastically better to compensate (you can spam it and basically just be invincible unless your timing is unlucky) but I refuse to learn to dodge-roll out of pure spite at this point

@emberquill I’m glad that you’re having fun! and the tool that you want for putting multiple files into one big file is called esbuild, if that helps (there are alternatives but it sounds like they’re probably overkill)

unfortunately I’ve had a pretty hard time wrestling with the various config files in order to get my workflow up and running, but I’ve heard that just using regular JS (I’m using typescript) is much much easier so that might be a better place to start!

even then, though, it’s kinda confusing because of all of the different commands there are - like npm (which does about a million different things), npx, and node. plus package.json isn’t super easy to configure either

but, I hope you’ll be able to figure everything out without too much trouble! and tbh it was very worth the effort for me, to get my code into a form that I could edit in neovim and split into multiple files

@theking hehe that’s very fair

@theking ooh what game concept is that? it sounds interesting

I was playing the demo for Pragma Twice when I realized that the in-game code editor was just not going to cut it for the level of overengineering that I like to do with my code

so I created a Node project and ported over all of my Bitburner config, and after around 2 hours of trial-and-error I managed to split my code into multiple files that can import each other, and now all I have to do is npm run make and it will automatically transpile into a single javascript file that is also automatically copied to my clipboard so I can paste it into the game

I’m pretty happy with that. my code went from being a mess of hacks to a well-organized codebase

@fargate ooh, thank you! I really appreciate it. I love seeing art of people’s OCs and I’m really curious to see what kind of OCs you have

@rowan I’m ngl I would love either of those

@fargate twunk definitely counts! also omg I didn’t know you commissioned art! I would love to see some of it sometime

I think the Borg were so much cooler before #StarTrek retconned that they have a queen and are therefore a hierarchy controlled by one mind, rather than a fully decentralized hive mind (I think that retcon comes from First Contact? which, possibly hot take, I very much disliked)

but like, the Borg used to be a dark echo of the Federation: a decentralized collective whose (seemingly) sole purpose is to force all other civilizations to lose all distinctiveness by joining them. almost like glimpsing a dark alternate timeline of what the Federation could have become, or could still become

and of course a decentralized Borg raises really interesting questions like “why does the collective always want to assimilate more, even though it’s presumably made up of minds that didn’t want to be assimilated?”. like do the Borg install a brain implant that hard-wires this desire? are the majority of the Borg actually people that like assimilation and genuinely want to force it on others?

maybe the Borg was initially created by a culture with nothing but good intentions, until some emergent property of {the networking system that connects minds in the hive} led to value drift that eventually created the remorseless expansionist Borg that we know today (which would add even more layers to the “dark echo of the Federation” angle)

I also just find the concept of a completely decentralized imperialist power horrifying and fascinating, and it’s something that I’ve never seen before or since in fiction (maybe for good reason, but still. most of my favorite scifi is all about exploring bizarre ideas - like “what would life on the surface of a neutron star be like?”)

Hey, I don't know if anyone needs this, but it's here if you do
https://no.whiteboard.codes/

I love how the word “femboy” is just, implicitly hot. like you don’t even have to specify that this is a hot femboy that you’re talking about, because they all are

some other words that work this way:

• tomboy
• twink, otter, bear, etc.
• goth, emo, punk, etc.
• catboy, catgirl, foxboy, foxgirl, etc.

now for the fun part: take one of these words and add the name of a popular sit-down restaurant chain to the end and you’ve just created a new variation on “femboy hooters”