really insightful (IMO) video about what makes indie games stand out on Steam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiBDyZ-Pf2M

You are a very busy, very important professor publishing very important work. Do you
a) just publish the code and data along with the paper because you know your work will survive close scrutiny and you have better things to do
b) spend your time handling individual data requests, negotiating over the scope of data shared, and re-describing individual analysis steps that are unclear in the methods

since posting one's ffxiv character seems to be going around our circles, here are the glamours we have for some of us who play (digitally simulated eye contact in pics)

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maybe my experiment for the day will be “can kas make soggy grape nuts”

source:

How do we pack all that goodness into those crunchy little nuggets? Originally, C. W. Post prepared a batter that came out of the oven as a rigid sheet. He then broke the sheet into pieces and ran them through a coffee grinder to produce the “nut”-sized nuggets.

https://www.grapenuts.com/our-story/

grape nuts are what happens when you put hard tack in a coffee grinder. that’s not an exaggeration or a joke that is actually how they were originally made

grape nuts are actually an interesting solution to the problem of soggy cereal. they are basically inedibly hard unless you soak them in milk, at which point they soften enough to be chewable. I’m not even sure if it is possible to make grape nuts soggy lol. if so I feel like it would take quite some time

it still thinks that fedi servers should just allow inline css in posts and most html tags. fedi devs are just boring

@dragon the [MEOW] key is bound to alt by default :3

if I ever learn how to make games, I want to make my take on the RTS genre as someone who doesn’t like RTS games but who likes a lot of things about them

it would be a chill exploration game like Pikmin 2 without the time limits, where you gather resources and then use those resources to go on expeditions into dungeons, with resource-management being a very important mechanic for those dungeons

also you would be an alien hive mind so if your units die it’s kinda like stubbing a toe for you and not like a sentient creature being robbed of life. also that explains why you have to directly control every unit manually instead of being able to delegate tasks which is what an actual battlefield commander would do

@ghostlyash omg wait seriously? I kind of assumed that you would be sick of people calling you hot/sexy/beautiful/etc. by this point

I'm not even talking open source. I get it, folks think that's nerd shit and glaze over. I'm talking "can you run software in devices you own, even when the manufacturer of said device doesn't want you to?"

If element has become half-decent software by 2030 I will personally shake John Matrix's hand

hi fedi i need a wiki software

a) not mediawiki (too overkill)
b) doesn't require JS to render a page (not wiki.JS)
c) supports public editors (preferably with OAuth2)
d) multilingual wiki support
e) if it requires a database, must be postgres

for some reason YouTube’s algorithm is utterly convinced that I am going to love Taylor Swift if I just give her a chance