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Headphones are great - I wear them almost every day, but there's something special when I get to turn on my speakers. Music filling the air and filling your body is special. Even if the bass isn't blasting I have the feeling that there are near imperceivable sensations in my body that changes the experience in a meaningful way. Here's to filling the air with music .
I remember when I first started w/ SC2 and didn't have the queen timing down - it was something like every 30-40 seconds you had to return to the queen to inject larva. After a week or two, there was a process in my brain that just intuitively knew/felt when to look back. The same kind of thing is happening w/ cursor. Building software is feeling more and more like starcraft. Bouncing between…
Think of 'computer' in the broad sense: a system that stores information, follows rules, and transforms inputs into outputs. By that definition, the universe certainly computes . Physical laws update the state of matter from one moment to the next. Life on Earth is built on this process: cells store data in DNA, neurons signal in spikes, ecosystems pass information through food webs and feedback…
It's funny rereading that last post - needless to say I did not make the 'live' deadline. A lot of changes in my life, mostly on the job front, almost all good changes. A problem I've been kicking down the road is corpse management - a society need is already waste management, but was running into the problem of generating a new settlement and having the corpses of all the past generations (via…
Random paste from the console: 🧠 Added memory: I remember hiding from the red dwarves in the Eldorian Mountains when I was a child. They were so loud and angry. 🧠 Added memory: I once found a shiny gold coin, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. 🧠 Added memory: I am proud of my reputation with The Eldorians. They trust me. 🧠 Added memory: I saw someone stealing from Mr. Olyvyr…
Lately I've been working on 'services' which can encompass 'work that is done for money' (mostly) like healing, transport, item upgraders, etc. Most of the work is classic programatic stuff, but the services themselves having flavor depending on the NPC and their operation being dictated, narrated, emoted by the NPCs give a neat kind of 'life' to the game experience. For example in Blightwood…
Solo Seven RPG — Rules v1.0 A zero‑prep, beginner‑friendly engine for any genre Quick Nav 0 Overview 1 Character Creation 2 Dice & Core Mechanic 3 Strikes (System Health) 4 Seven‑Act Story Frame 5 Procedural Tables 5.1 Hook (d20) 5.2 Location (d12) ＋ Feature (d12) 5.3 NPC Generator (2d12) 5.4 Conflict Builder (3d6) 5.5 Conflict Objective (d12) 5.6 Faction Seeds (2d12) 5.7 Yes/No Oracle (d6) 6…
Solo Troika! (Everything below is self‑contained; just add the core Troika! rules. Please buy the book and supplements - they're truly amazing) Quick Nav Framing a Scene Yes/No Oracle Action & Theme Oracle NPC Disposition Twist Oracle Conflict Oracle Who Appears — People Who Appears — Groups Example of Play Framing a Scene Ask three default questions and consult oracles as noted: Question Default…
Today feels like an important day for the orion project (the engine which powers Blightwood ). I just looked up the repo's history and saw the first commit was on feb 2nd of 2024. I've taken long breaks and have had really intense times of focus. The last few weeks have been some of that focus time, spent ripping about and rebuilding systems, working primarily on generation, which I continue to…