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The nonsense thoughts sound very familiar. It takes me forever to fall asleep, so I have plenty of time to observe it happening. I go from actively worrying about/solving stuff, to slight relaxation with my inner voice being a bit less active, to an even more "nonverbal thinking", then finally I'll have some thoughts that seem to make sense at first, but a few seconds later I realize were actually nonsense, which makes me happy as I know sleep almost surely follows from there within 5 minutes.

One thing I didn't see mentioned here is that sometimes it seems like some of the thoughts didn't originate from me, like someone else is present or said it. I assume when I'm deeper into sleep, the same process is responsible for creating all the other characters besides myself in my dreams.

I've had this a few times. It's like listening to a good album on your headphones, except you are in control of the music. Being able to do that was a wonderful experience, especially since I've never actually played an instrument.

In 2030 I'll type in "movie about XYZ", GPT-7 comes up with the script, it crunches in the Disney+ cloud for a few hours, and later I sign on to watch the full generated movie?

When travel opens up again and you find yourself taking a trip to Japan, come visit Wakayama's Toretore Village: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6797444,135.3761989,3a,75y,8...

You can stay in one of the dome rooms in what feels a bit like a Smurf village.

I'm curious where the traffic is now going that isn't going to Roblox? Steam player count doesn't seem to be jumping much. Maybe just mobile games?

If you can speak several languages, then you can also notice that in the moment before choosing which language to express something in, you already “just know“ what you mean.

At that point even if you don’t turn it into words, you know the thought anyway.

What should we search for to see some example results?

> They’re actually automating the process of replying saying you completed this activity so they can bump up your point balance and get your gift card.

What they're doing is terrible, but I felt a bit of respect for how clever this is.

If you wanted to trade on the growing likelihood that they'll be forced to cut fees, which companies will benefit the most? For example Match Inc. gets most of their revenue from Tinder, so any savings would go directly to their bottom line.

They don't combine like that, because the 75% already takes into account the double dip.

User spends $100 USD to buy 10000 robux. User buys item for 10000 robux in a game. Developer of game gets 7000 robux (dip #1). Developer of game withdraws to USD. 100000 robux = $350 (dip #2) so developer gets $24.5 USD.

Overall 24.5/100 = 24.5%.

In reality the numbers don't always come exactly to this, because robux can cost different amounts to buy depending on the amount, and there are PayPal/wire transfer fees when withdrawing.

I still can’t quite believe there are people who can see clear images in their minds. Maybe it’s more a matter of how you report your experience?

I’m very conscious of how poor my mental images are, but maybe with a little less introspection I would also say I have great mental imagery.

Did exactly the same. Instantiated a few servers for a one-off task, week and $1-2k or so later remembered. Didn’t occur to me to ask for a refund.

Waitbutwhy put it well: “ 18,000 years ago, global temperatures were about 5ºC lower than the 20th century average. That was enough to put Canada, Scandinavia, and half of England and the US under a half a mile of ice”

This type of niche game might actually be the exception where long-term sales are more than the initial sales. I would rather own this game than yet another clone of some overdone theme with similar sales up to this point.

Some reasons:

* If anyone were to search for such a game, this will be the top result by default, so there might be a trickle of sales over time that just doesn't stop.

* This game may trend on some relevant subreddit/twitter clique/forum and get later sales boosts from that.

* If you have a Yerba Mate blog or podcast, this is basically the only game you can even feature if you wanted to talk about something new.

My next step would be to make a spreadsheet of anything Yerba Mate -related that could possibly feature the game and contact them all.

Thanks for the link, it's this one: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=14318&d=45&h=0

Our favorite on the C64 in Finland was a game where you flew a helicopter on a world map and had to find different countries by name. Not sure what the name of that game is.

I thought it was useful. Put some places on my map that I hadn’t thought about visiting before.

There's a good chance this will take off, because it's controversial enough to gain free press.

Roblox is more than just a game, it’s like a web browser that instead of showing pages anyone can make allows you to join 3D multiplayer hangouts/games anyone can make.

75% of kids aged 9-12 in the US join these hangouts, and I imagine not being able to participate would be a Linux adoption dealbreaker for many.

I’m not in the US, but can’t you be a sole proprietor and add the income to your tax return?

I bought a subscription box business once because I was In the same business and figured I could cross-promote it and already had the experience to run another one.

In the end I shut it, because I realized that with a newborn in the house I didn’t actually have the time/energy to run another one. Also prev. owner had priced it such that it was impossible to source legit good quality products.

I did run it for a bit and just about got the investment back (it only cost $3k) before shutting it down.

You mean they got people somehow to compose messages to friends, or the invite dialog?

I don't know what happened to the person who created the inappropriate model, but at least the person who added the model to the unpublished project got banned.

We would have just removed it from the project, but the ban happened so fast (I recall it was about 1 minute or less) that they got logged out of their account first.

Their moderation really is impressively fast.

On Roblox you can build things either from assets such as meshes, sounds, images, scripts or “models” that can consist of all of those, say a model of a dog that could contain the 3D mesh, but also the sound of it barking and the script to make it move around.

Using such models creators can easily add impressive interactive elements to their games, but it’s hard to know exactly what is in a complex model. Sometimes they contain little trojans that instead of displaying a dog just take over the screen and say “you’ve been hacked” or display endless dialog boxes.

But the more annoying thing they can do is hide inappropriate assets inside. I was team building a level with someone, and they added a model that had an ocean with a battleship on top of it. What they didn’t know, until exploring the included ocean some more, was that under the sea in that model there was also a penis.

This immediately triggered the moderation magic, and they lost their entire account, even though the level hadn’t even been published yet. It was enough to just momentarily have an inappropriate asset in the editor to trigger the ban.

Got to admit that Lost is a great example of not resolving things properly. I wonder though if that's because it was impossible, or just the JJ. Abrams's style. He's said in an interview that he keeps an unopened box on his shelf that he never intends to open, just because he likes the feeling of a forever unresolved mystery.

> the first level was being created and I had no clue about the following events, and even less about how the game would end

I wonder if there is actual danger in this. Could you paint yourself into a corner and wind up in a situation in the story that just cannot be continued from?

Seems you could always come out of any situation, especially with sci-fi.

I recall there was a little window cleaner guy that would go around your screen with a ladder. Maybe it was on the Amiga?

But it's not bland. You instantly remember it, makes you more likely to talk about the company if only to remark on the name, and I'd imagine it leads to more press coverage as well.

Thanks for the channel tips. I was able to find them all except for HAI. Link?

Whoa, initially missed that this one is also from Kairosoft. They now have a huge library of sim titles like these, available not just on iOS but PlayStation and I’m sure many other platforms as well.