extrememacaroni

I have the two books currently sitting next to me. They're very very in-depth and math focused (well that's sort of expected for the mathematics book at least) - you might want to also look at some more lightweight and "fun" tutorials for rendering and going in-depth with the rendering book in parallel.

Imagine not being able to single out fasting and doing it without getting yourself into a religion. What other things can you not single out and need to delegate the thinking to religion for I wonder?

From what I see in the news India will soon be 60 degrees and death all year round because of global warming so it should probably not make many lists :(

Anyone remember Lego’s Spybotics? It was a hacking themed flash game. So many hours spent on it, it was one of the first flash games I played and was fascinated by how cool it looked.

I’m not sure if I went to pogo.com to play it or not.

are you… also using the battle.net logo on the skill store? why

you’re like actively looking for trouble lol

Could one use something like this to make a stealth suit thing that does noise cancellation like headphones do to completely mask the noises of the wearer? That would be cool.

I think the vast majority of buyers would ask for a free charger because:

1) one more can't hurt, what if you lose one of the others?

2) it's free, so why not?

3) it's free and then I can SELL it!

4) ... maybe more?

Funnily, I find the idea that a susbstance can influence your behavior so much rather depressing :( is there anything there that is fundamentally unchangeable no matter the chemistry that could be called a "self".

Watching a playthrough is the easiest optionalest option, also one that is doable from start to finish by the largest number of gamers. Such an extra-inclusive option, all games should feature it. "Watch the bots play".

With your philosophy, you get games with pointless difficulty systems like Skyrim & co. Sliders that range from "enemies die in one hit" to "you'll spend half an hour hitting this boss before it dies because now it has hitpoints defined by your_level * 9999999999". None of the bosses in Souls games take half an hour to fight unless you do something exotic like SL1 runs, if you're not done with a boss in a couple of minutes chances are something's wrong with your build, because otherwise your skills are good, else you wouldn't survive for 2 minutes with a Souls boss.

One of the things that cause immersion to spike for me is exactly the difficulty, or rather "this enemy just kicked my ass, WHAT do I need to do to beat it? what do I need to change, are there other areas I did not check, any clues I may have passed by" etc.

If the game is too easy chances are I'll zone out and "play" it, in a very inert way just watching what happens.

Not a Souls-like, but the game where I saw this at play the most is TeS Oblivion (not sure if it also works in Skyrim), as soon as I started playing it as a battlemage with the Tower sign (it takes away auto regen of magicka). Lots of content in Oblivion I felt was filler that I just went through out of inertia, but playing a battlemage with no magicka regen? Survival depends on the potions you craft and any other helpful items found along the way. Suddenly even the most boring dungeon became interesting and potentially helpful in the long run because it could contain helpful loot. Those ayleid ruins with the crystals that help a ton with magicka? Godsent rather than long and samey.

Of course I eventually leveled up enough to become OP and the game ended up being a chain of filler stuff once more, but that was several tens of hours into the playthru. But those first tens of hours were an amazing experience, where I needed to carefully plan out and scour the world for items in order to hope to survive.

I dunno if it's doomed or not, but I picked up the language again recently for a project of mine and whenever I look at cppreference.com for any of the newer features I feel like an idiot. Feels like studying for college exams all over again. Smart pointers is as far as I'm gonna go with the post C++03 features, miss me with all the template stuff and compiler tetrises.

You make a fire with algebra and calculus because your brain overheats, right?

There's people who pay tens of thousands of dollars on Genshin Impact and the game will be removed from the store at some point too and the things they spent money on will be gone. You don't own things from the store :\

He makes money whenever he convinces someone he's right, of course he's convinced many to join his sect.

I thought I'd get a few recipes to try but the result is a $200 academic book :(

BIG if true :O

You want me to build what what in the butt??

I'm sure some do, but using your enjoyment of life as justification to have a child who has no choice in the matter and could or could not enjoy life themselves is again, selfish.

yes, let's create even more people to suffer through life. what a selfish thought.

But if Steve wanted to say "you're full of #%^#" and instead said "I admire your conviction", he'd be the liar.

ah there you go, in case you wanted to be happy but were struggling to find a reason to be so

are you writing that from your laptop that loses warranty if placed in a bag?

hackernews: I can't believe 10+ year old hardware and software is forcefully made obsolete

also hackernews: man do I hate working on and maintaining legacy stuff

It's a thing created by humans, used by humans, who assign value to tickers, where everyone tries to win and some have to lose for others to win.

It can only be a game of cat psychology.

Man that's a bleak view of games if you're ok with them being relevant for a couple of years so you can get brief entertainment. Might as well train an AI to constantly spew images and sounds that you like at you and call it a day.

Dunno if you realized this, but once online-only games become unprofitable, the servers are down for good and the games become useless. If all games up to this point were like this, we wouldn't be able to play childhood games anymore.

Gog.com wouldn't exist without all developers going back to patch their online only games etc.

The sister's name?

Albert Einstein.

I never thought I'd say this but... there's a good course for Godot on Udemy. I have no idea how it ended up there.

It looks so much like a theme/skin from a linux distro to me. Can't put my finger on which.

You can try doing things, but in the end your stressor will still be there and until you reduce your dependency and the importance of your stressor, you won't solve anything.