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software tinkerer and aspiring rationalist. transhumanist and alterhuman

I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible

I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post

I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time

I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
kas's build-a-partner poll, interests and skills edition! kinky and D/s options
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okay I really want to take this series in a lewd direction, but I’m going to be good and get all of the {SFW but possibly kinky} options out of the way first so that everyone can participate. but after I’ve gotten the SFW options done then I’m definitely going to start doing lewd options too - like exactly what kind of abilities this lust demon has~

anyway, so far we have a succubus/incubus/concubus who is confident and assertive, possessive, but also soft and comforting. I could see a few different directions that those personality traits could be taken, and they’re all very good 💕

next we’re going to be deciding their 3 main interests. these are things that they’re passionate and knowledgeable about, and very skilled at too. just like before, the 3 top-voted options win. I’m not going to be adding kinky options this time, but that might be a later poll

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@transoptimal omgg I noticed the Distortion of Closure before but didn’t think much of it. but your explanation has me really interested to try it sometime. I feel like it could actually be really useful as a way to have constant values that I can easily reference anywhere in my code

also it’s smart having a wand that provides the pointed block! my eval wand still gives the function itself as its first argument, even though I now handle that inside of my scrolls. but giving the pointed block would actually be so nice for really simple spells like “break this block” or “heat this block”

#MinecraftTrickster

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US Politics
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As much as Trump sucks, this is not about one man, and any analysis that rests on that premise is flawed. Our system was designed to prevent any one man from being able to do what Trump is. The problem is that Republicans have consolidated power in many States and courts over several decades, and now they are moving on to doing the same thing at the national level.

There are many issues and things in play, but it is important to realize this is the culmination of decades of work by multiple allied organizations and people with power, not the actions of a rogue President.

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@Undead_Zeratul I’m ngl setting grenade tripwires is one of my favorite HDest mechanics. it can lead to so many cool emergent situations - plus I just like feeling clever when anticipating an ambush and setting an ambush of my own. so I feel like your mines, claymores, and pipe bombs are incredible additions too. can they spawn in armed, like how HERPs can spawn? also I love the laser particle effects for the claymores, and how they can be dragged around (I don’t think dragging them would even occur to me as an option? but that could lead to all kinds of cool emergent situations too)

did you make all of this pixel art yourself? and where’d you get the sounds?

oh and what’s the Demontech Rifle? I’ve actually never heard of Complex Doom

overall these look like amazing additions to HDest that would each add a lot on their own

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@CIMB4 awww! 🥰 you’re cute too, and also Second Wind is one of my favorite youtube channels so I hope you enjoy it 💙

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Is Pokémon Intentionally Designed to Waste Your Time? | Design Delve

I have so much respect for JM8 for pointing out all of the deliberately slow, time-waste-y aspects of Pokemon. and a moderate amount of respect for this new Pokemon game for trying to address them and apparently doing a decent enough job

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re: kas's build-a-partner poll, interests and skills edition! kinky and D/s options
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@shijikori I’m ngl I was lowkey hoping that cook would be one of the choices. I think it’s so nice in a partner - especially if they cook for you as a romantic gesture, or teach you how to cook, or learn how to make your favorite food. idk it makes me melt

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piracy, streaming, "you"
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reminder that streaming services are gradually enshittifying and do not deserve your money. if you don’t learn how to pirate now, sooner or later you will be forced to as the enshittification continues

https://fmhy.net/

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re: kas's build-a-partner poll, interests and skills edition! kinky and D/s options
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oops I kept the “kinky and D/s options” text from last time even though I explicitly decided that there’s nothing kinky about this part of the poll :/

I guess it works though because I still mentioned some kink-adjacent personality traits from last time

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kas's build-a-partner poll, interests and skills edition! kinky and D/s options
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okay I really want to take this series in a lewd direction, but I’m going to be good and get all of the {SFW but possibly kinky} options out of the way first so that everyone can participate. but after I’ve gotten the SFW options done then I’m definitely going to start doing lewd options too - like exactly what kind of abilities this lust demon has~

anyway, so far we have a succubus/incubus/concubus who is confident and assertive, possessive, but also soft and comforting. I could see a few different directions that those personality traits could be taken, and they’re all very good 💕

next we’re going to be deciding their 3 main interests. these are things that they’re passionate and knowledgeable about, and very skilled at too. just like before, the 3 top-voted options win. I’m not going to be adding kinky options this time, but that might be a later poll

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Now that we have prepared for The New War, we take a break from Warframe to give a new-to-me-at-the-time mod, Hideous Destructor. Who knew that this would become one of my favorite ways to play Doom, possibly any FPS game of recent memory?

Not only have I been swallowed up by its depth of complexity, enthralled by its ability to immerse me in its world, and enrapture me in the way it overhauls the vanilla game's systems, it opened me to a community of players and other modders who I would soon find myself among, clowning on the tyrant and it's masses.

https://youtu.be/xm0ykH9pS0E

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@transoptimal omgg yeah I’ve been thinking about doing this. I’ve been having a really hard time using the fold glyph for iteration because I often have to smuggle multiple values into the accumulator value, since Trickster has no concept of “get this variable from the parent namespace”

and I’ve been thinking about making my very first callable scroll be some kind of abstraction that does this for me automatically

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lewd shitpost
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don’t forget to cum 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times this month for Nonillion Nut November

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re: video game violence
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@OctaviaConAmore you’re definitely right about the synergy thing! to be honest it’s hard to sell me on a roguelite for just the core gameplay alone - I want to be able to get up to some shenanigans with my build lol. like Binding of Isaac would be a 3/10 game if it weren’t for the insane synergies IMO

and hmm to be honest I have mixed feelings on lots of small upgrades. I think if it’s possible to do something clever with them (like spec all into attack speed and then get a bunch of passives with a random chance to trigger per attack) then it could be okay as a small reward. but I really prefer to rarely get substantial upgrades instead of frequently getting small upgrades. because I want to feel the difference in gameplay or it doesn’t feel like an improvement to me, if that makes sense

although I can’t actually think of a game that I’ve played that does the “lots of small upgrades” thing except for Path of Exile - and in that game I was overwhelmed by everything lol and ended up following a guide that I didn’t understand. so not the best experience to draw from. when people talk about synergies in a game like PoE I actually have no idea what they’re talking about, to be honest - but I think it might be a different thing than the Binding of Isaac type of synergy that I’m thinking of

also hm - I guess that’s fair about Hades 1! and I also think that the combat, story, and characters were meant to hook me early on - to sort of tide me over until the complexity in its progression systems could build up

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@shijikori I hate Suckless so much omg. even setting aside the “Suckless devs are nazis” part it still sucks because of like, the entire philosophy lol. unless someone just really likes C and wants a tinkering project which is totally valid - but if so I’m sure there are better options than nazi code

but yeah it baffles me. I think some people just value the aesthetics of minimalism or “de-bloating” so highly that practicality takes a backseat

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@eclairwolf omg yes. a while ago I boosted a post saying that the year of the Linux desktop will be 20 years after you can install and run Linux without ever opening a terminal. I think Linux’s reliance on its CLI is shooting itself in the foot massively when it comes to wider adoption - and when you tell a lot of Linux People™ that they act like you just blasphemed their sacred bash scripts lol

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this might be a hot take but the Unix philosophy leads to software that is unusable for non-technical people because instead of running one program which comes with a sane default configuration you have to install and configure an entire fragmented ecosystem of programs and then maintain that ecosystem over time

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Draculo is now streaming!! Come and join the fun!!!

Doom: Hideous Destructor Co-op !!

#retro #gaming #foss #linux #games #streaming #videogames #owncast

https://secret.draculo.net

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@kasdeya If I remember right, in Planescape: Torment, there was an enormously affecting storyline about one of the protagonist's companions, at the end of which she's rewarded with a 5% resistance to fire.

I was like, what? That's not even enough to choose that character to deal with fire problems, instead of someone with a few more hitpoints, not that there were any fire problems anyway.

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list of RPGs that kas thinks are good:

  • World of Warcraft (by playing it Objectively Wrong™)
  • OSRS (despite Jagex’s best efforts)
  • Skyrim / New Vegas / Fallout 3 (after heavily modding them)
  • Dark Souls 1 (I have an intense love-hate relationship)
  • Disco Elysium (I admire it from a distance)
  • VtM: Bloodlines (without any caveats for some reason??)
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