I’ve installed so many 80+ GB games just to play them for like 30 minutes and uninstall them again

you know what I’ll never uninstall? Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection (7 MB)

a game’s filesize is inversely proportional to how fun it probably is

I’m pretty sure that the existence of a time limit in a game gives me the same amount of anxiety no matter how generous that time limit is

it could be a 9 minute time limit for a 10 minute task or a 3 hour time limit for a 10 minute task. it doesn’t matter - I’ll be equally stressed either way

@silvermoon82 okay that sounds incredible lol. I’m reminded of Louie’s notes on the various monsters in Pikmin 2. it sounds like a game I’d want to play just for the lore alone

I’m hoping that that species waits for other sophonts to die of natural causes before eating them?

to make this even worse, what I’m trying to do is:

def set_variable(name, value):
    variables[thread_number][name] = value

which as far as I can tell wouldn’t have any concurrency problems if it were a data structure that I can mutate, but because I have to replace the entire data structure every time I change one value then I have to come up with some kind of thread safety system

currently running into this problem with Trickster and it’s :/

immutable data structures are so frustrating to work with because instead of doing something like this:

data["foo"]["bar"]["baz"] += 1

you have to do this:

new_value = data["foo"]["bar"]["baz"] + 1

data = data.set("foo",
    data["foo"].set("bar",
        data["bar"].set("baz", new_value)
    )
)

@kasdeya YES! Sorry for yelling, but I've been pondering that exact same idea from time to time ^^ I'd really love having a tag based file system for organizing my personal files. Sometimes a strict hierarchy just feels too limiting and I'd like to have multiple hierarchies to manage my files.

Here someone had some more extensive thoughts on the idea: https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies

you know how in comics, the text is all capital letters? I’ve never understood that. so I asked some comic artists, and I’m thoroughly unsatisfied with every answer I got. it smells to me like comics are like this, simply because they’re like this. it’s one of them traditions that nobody questions

so I dug around a little, and I’m already starting to suspect I’m right about that

(boost this post if you think it’s interesting and tell me your thoughts, please and thank you)

the “it’s for visual clarity” argument doesn’t make sense to me at all in the modern day, when printing is such high quality, the text is all way bigger than any novel, and a lot of comics are read digitally anyway, on modern, extremely clear screens, where people can zoom in if they want to

heck, expanding on the novel comparison, even large print novels sometimes still have smaller text than comics do, but even when the size is the same, novels are still much less “visually clear” since the font is thinner and all the text is crammed so close together… but pretty much everybody who doesn’t have dyslexia reads novels just fine, and not only do comic fonts not help dyslexic readers at all, text in all-caps is more likely to harm them than help them

you know when all caps did make sense for visual clarity? pulp comics. when they were printed on thin, crappy paper with crappy ink on crappy printers in the name of high volume, where there was a very high risk of ink bleeding, which would harm readability. in other words, it wasn’t done because large, all-caps text is inherently clearer, but because it’s less susceptible to that particular technical limitation. bigger letters don’t bleed less than smaller letters, they’re just bigger, which means they’re less unreadable when they do bleed

you know what actually matters for “visual clarity” in general? font choice, bubble placement, use of color if applicable, and adequate outlines when outside of bubbles. the text itself is irrelevant to its clarity

I have yet to find anything that substantially supports any real, practical, provable argument that all-caps text in comics in the current day is actually beneficial for anything, other than staying visually consistent with all the other comics that do the same thing, which itself is a pretty bad argument if you ask me. if anyone reading this has any real, actual evidence, be it supporting my position here or against it, please share that with me, I’d appreciate that

but I’m real close to reaching the conclusion that comics should write their text in sentence case and probably should have been doing that for the last 50 years. if I ever strike it rich enough to commission an artist to create a comic for me, I’m probably going to either force them to write the text in sentence case, or do the typesetting myself

@fargate omgg that is heretical! but I’m ngl my young self did play a decent amount of RS3 as well, and I think she had a fair bit of fun too (though the squeal of fortune and the non-removable “subscribe” button were pretty annoying lol)

who would win:

• a 4k raytraced AAA interactive blockbuster movie with hundreds of hours of gameplay, Hollywood-level cutscenes and voicework, and a budget of over $1 billion USD
• some MMO from 2004 that looks like this

so, random thought but

the way that files are organized is as a tree structure. there’s a root directory and then nodes can either be folders or files, which implies that a file can only be categorized under one folder at a time. and obviously this works pretty well for the most part but I feel like it might be a bit reductive at times too. for example what if I’m organizing pics by theme and I have a pic that fits two themes? I can’t put it in both folders at once unless I want to mess around with hardlinks or symlinks or something

but what if there were tags instead of folders? a file can have an arbitrary number of tags, and tags can have subtags (for example “pics” -> “by theme” -> “spooky”) that way files can show up under multiple “folders” (tags) at the same time, by design

there is probably some unknown unknown that makes this a terrible idea btw - it’s just something I’ve been thinking about

Gothy song of the day: Yan Wagner - On Her Knees

sometimes there comes along about which I like to say that it "serves cunt". this is one of those

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIh1rTv67E

#goth #darkwave #minimalwave #ebm #postpunk #gothic #krismusicposting #music #song

@tempest oohh that is good to know! thank you 💙 I didn’t even know that “polynomic” was a word

@PersonalMischief I need there to be a math paper written in this style, like

“okay so I made this cool function and look at it go! that’s what happens when you start at 1. wanna see what happens when you start at 10? yeah it does the same thing it’s like boioioioing! it goes all over the place and then it settles over there!! it really likes that spot of the graph. I think it’s strange how it’s attracted there so I call it a strange attractor! wanna see another one?”

I recently learned the word superlinear (for describing a math function that increases faster than a linear function could increase) and I’m so glad that I know it now because before I would be like:

“it increases exponentially. well okay like, I know ‘exponentially’ has a really specific definition in math and I’m not sure if this is specifically exponential but, the rate at which it’s increasing is itself increasing. does that make sense?”

every single time lol

@emmy oohh omg I am definitely watching this later. I would love to hear someone else’s take on this. thank you!