KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
2d ago
I thought "plushie" specifically referred to stuffed toys with a particular outer fabric.
KingOfTheBailey
2d ago
Please provide a pitch deck in next week's Tinker Tuesday.
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
By the way, it's "copyright", not "copywrite" because it's about who has the right to make copies of a work.
KingOfTheBailey
5d ago
Nice hat...
KingOfTheBailey
14d ago
I know you asked specifically for a book, but https://learn.cantrill.io/p/tech-fundamentals is a pretty good free course about the various layers of the networking stack. If you want to go deep on the protocol-level stuff then maybe Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated could be what you're after? It might be too TCP-focused, since you also have questions about VLANs and UDP.
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
Pretty much. His hope was that completing The Hock would make him attractive to women, who he thought were picking up on the fact that he hadn't done anything tough in his life.
https://manifold.markets/BenjaminIkuta/will-skookumtree-pinetree-successfu
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Alpha Centauri (Civ in Space) is also pretty good.
Its story holds up better than its mechanics, the exploitability of which limits the replay value. But I'd still give it more than a "pretty good".
Civ IV wasn't just about the mods. It was also that the developers were bold enough to include things like slavery and religions in a way that had some real mechanical meat. Made you think, as the player, without preaching at you.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Gave us the Ebola vaccine
I have been able to find things saying that we now have a couple of Ebola vaccines but nothing for a lay audience about their method of development. Do you have a link for this?
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I think my mind runs in similar grooves, and the answer is: integrity. Integrity matters: would you want to date or marry someone who is lying about something so fundamental? Would you want to carry a lie like that for years, knowing what would happen if the secret got out?
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
That's the one. How did you find it? I couldn't get DDG nor Google to cough it up.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
It is a summary of Old Man Murray's article, who absolutely deserves the credit here.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
@ZorbaTHut had a post on I think /r/TheMotte about how, as a game designer, you basically had to trick the players into having fun because otherwise they'd fall into whatever pattern looked "optimal". I can't find it though.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
You take that back about Monkey Island 2! The correct example is Gabriel Knight 3. In a world where masking tape is some kind of powerful neodymium supermagnet for cat hair, you use it to make a fake mustache to disguise yourself as a man who doesn't have a mustache.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Haven't yet but probably should.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Grim, but about where I'm at too. Thanks for the cross-check.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
We've been offered the false choice of "rehabilitation vs. punishment" for so long that it needed Bukele to break the spell and bring "containment" back into the Overton Window.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Has anyone been tracking H5N1 bird flu? I see occasional doomposting updates from accounts like https://x.com/outbreakupdates/ and I'm trying to figure out if we're all sleeping on something about to go very bad, or if it's "under control" and/or likely to burn out. Haven't seen any recent posts about it on LessWrong, and I'd expect to if it were something (since they were right and early on SARS-CoV-2).
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Glad someone mentioned Factorio and Kingdom Come. I think Factorio shows the most likely path out of the mess: non-woke, not anti-woke. Contrast explicitly anti-woke games like Hatred where you just trigger a new wave of thinkpieces that probably hurt your cause more than they help.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
So the Doge of Venice wasn't part of the pun?
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Total immunity is a problem, but if the government had agreed to take on the risk for the pharma companies in this emergency situation instead of just waving it away (including paying out for vaccine injuries) that seems much more balanced. Operation Warp Speed was pretty much about "how fast can we get this done?" and that includes speeding up the safety trials. I don't know what the US actually did here.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
My current strategy for Gleba is to think about it later. I'm not yet sure if it's going to be fun or "fun", but I'm hoping for the former.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
It's Factorio but more, where each flavor of "more" is different in its own way. If the base game came out in the early 2000's, the DLC would be one of those really good expansions whose purchase would be thoroughly justified, like TA: Core Contingency or SC: Brood War.
I cobbled together a space platform and set forth. Thoroughly underestimated my fuel and ammo needs and got smashed to bits by asteroids while traveling. Now I'm stuck on a volcanic hellscape where none of the production chains make sense, I didn't bring enough stuff, my base back home isn't really set up for remote construction, and I'm having a great time.
Would it be fair to call them the "rap interludes" of their time?
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