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- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
I read the rules to the critically acclaimed The Quiet Year and ... it seems extremely vague.
You're not supposed to use words on the map, but no particular alternative is provided. I know the game is supposed to be an exercise in working together when communication is limited, but what if player's aren't on the same page about what something on the map literally means?
Early in the book it says "we don't embody specific characters", but later you can discard a Contempt token "to act selfishly". What does that mean if you don't have a self?
There may be an amazing game / experience hiding in here, but I don't feel that the rulebook communicates it.
Up and at 'em, people! These whiteys aren't going to tighten themselves!
@chiasm I'll probably share materials here as it progresses.
Guest speakers are a distinct possibility.
Next fall, one of the undergraduate classes I'm teaching is Perspectives in Computer Science, a "CS 0" course for non-majors.
I plan to do it in Python and emphasize game development.
What's your favorite BEGINNER-FRIENDLY tool/library for developing games in Python?
Textbook suggestions also welcome.
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A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.
Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”
@lalitpatnaik Car enthusiast: *nods while writing down "remove tires, drive on rims" and "tailgate more aggressively"*
@ryan2one3 @lowqualityfacts "The first time Morgan Freeman saw himself crying in a mirror, he became old, and he remained that way his whole life."
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02.05. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
Before we realized just how epic January's ice storm and power outage would become, we managed a very chilly play in the fading afternoon light. Even though I scored a personal best, @peterdrake still squeaked out the victory (73 vs 70).
Spoilers, both photo and alt text, can be found behind the Sensitive Content warning.
@LouisIngenthron I have not. The struggle is always between buying more books and reading the ones I have.
A castle, following Blando, "Fantasy Mapmaker". #art #MastoArt #ColoredPencil #mapstodon #ttrpg
What happened to this plant and can it be saved? #houseplants #plantstodon
(Due to a recent ice storm, it was subjected to a few days of near-freezing temperatures.)
@SmudgeTheInsultCat "You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!"
@bradk I don't know much (and less about shaders). The funny thing is there isn't even a GameObject at that location, so I don't know what is failing to be shaded. Also, this doesn't happen when running the same WebGL build on a different OS.
Error messages in the browser console support your hypothesis, but I don't know what to do about them.
Note: Creation of internal variant of shader 'Hidden/PostProcessing/FinalPass' failed.
q3.framework.js.gz:10:34907
ERROR: 0:2: 'GL_AMD_vertex_shader_layer' : extension is not supported
ERROR: 0:20: 'gl_Layer' : undeclared identifier
ERROR: 0:20: 'assign' : l-value required (can't modify a const)
ERROR: 0:20: 'assign' : cannot convert from 'highp int' to 'const highp float'
q3.framework.js.gz:10:34907
0(285) : error C7532: global function uintBitsToFloat requires "#version 330" or later
0(285) : error C0000: ... or #extension GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding : enable
0(285) : error C0000: ... or #extension GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 : enable
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The Oregon Supreme Court Rules GOP Senators Who Walked Out Can’t Run This Year https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/02/01/the-oregon-supreme-court-rules-gop-senators-who-walked-out-cant-run-this-year/
@bradk Definitely.
I beat a 2 dan! I (black) had five handicap stones and was very, very careful to hang onto my ever-shrinking lead until the game was over.
https://ai-sensei.com/game/6HhIL50SU1YUwtfnxeT5kTMrG0z1/wYabZhGn0gtpIeS3GTya
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
