NostraDavid

Alan Turing, I bet

If it wasn’t several PB (yes, petabytes) of data I’d want a backup.

If you’re a programmer: NixOS.

Define your OS config, which programs to install, and dotfiles in one repo. Install a fresh OS, pull in the repo (nix-shell -p git, because NixOS doesn’t come with git >_> ) and run the command to install the whole thing (sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#wodan for me. wodan is just the name of a config - I have multiple all combines into one repo, so I can share configuration between machines).

Took me 17 minutes to set up my laptop exactly the same as my Desktop. Same configuration, applications, and OS settings. It’s so fucking nice.

With Windows, that used to take 2 days to download and install everything manually.

Only downside: You’ll need to learn Nix-the-language, nix-the-os, and nix-the-terminal-program, which took about a month of deeply digging into the Vimjoyer and LibrePhoenix channels.

Have you heard of Disembodied Tyrant? This song, Winter, is a mix of Vivaldi and Deathcore. Symphonic Deathcore, if you will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr1TiKaL = woo lets go baby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmongold = rat alarm clock

There are pictures. Not of the rat.

Nee hoor, dat doen wij helemaal niet!

they can’t fathom going to a woman for honest advice.

Honest advice may not be good advice. I could tell a person “go kill yourself”, and be VERY honest about it. Yet it’s not good advice, now is it?

You’ve been checked kid.

OK, Boomer.

Start with pen and paper - no computer, because that’ll just distract you.

Write down what kind of game you want to make. Sketch out what you want your player to see when they play the game (top down, third person, first person; which UI elements should they see? Health? Mana or power bars? Selected items?). Does it have a story of sorts? What kind of setting (future, past, fantasy, sci-fi). 2D or 3D? What kind of visual style are you going for (realistic, cartoony, abstract?).

This will be your Game Design Document. You don’t have to get it perfectly at the first go - iterate over it, scratch things that you feel won’t work.

Once you have something that looks like a minimally viable product (MVP), THEN you can start making something in Godot, Game Maker, or Love2D. Because now you have something to follow along. Try to get something out ASAP, because feedback from people who are not you is important. Maybe you made something that feels fun to you, but no one else likes it - you would want to know that as soon as possible, not after toiling away for 5 years.

Do not start caring about “what is the fastest programming language”. Even the slowest of languages are fine, because you’re learning how to build a game, not how to program like a pro.

Pretty sure .compact also still works.

Slap .compact after a URL and you’ll see a mobile version of reddit from like 2006.

edit: THEY REMOVED IT! D: RIP .compact - I’ve visited you about 5 times, ever.

Are they asking for selfies, or selfies of the user? Important difference.

I can’t imagine why a country that suffered under the USSR would want to put into law, to criminalize, the ideology that once fucked up East-Europe…

The Communist Party of Bohemia

How the fuck do they still even have a literal Communist party!?

she has had European clients shocked to learn they can face serious consequences for briefly overstaying a visa.

Are people stupid? Visa says “GTFO before this date”. If you then don’t then there are consequences. It’s not that hard to understand, no?

I agree that it’s ridiculous how people treated in those jails, and that he should not have been held for 3 months, but come on…

And he was locked up before Trump took office.

So you’re saying this happened under Biden? Not sure whether this is the dunk-on-Trump that people think it is >_>

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

Summary: 3k hours into World of Warcraft, Retail + WotLK private server.

I’ve been playing vidya since… 1992? Classic Monochrome-green machine to play CalGames on.

Ever since then, my limit for a game tended to be about 100 hours. I got 500 hours into Clicker Heroes, sure, but that game was made to be run in the background, so that doesn’t really count.

It was not until I found World of Warcraft where I slowly pumped hour after hour into its massive world. I found it somewhere in 2021 - near the end of BFA. The Shadowlands beta was out, is when I started. OK sure, I played a few hours at a classmate’s house back in 2005, but I don’t feel that counts. Anyway, I found that there was a F2P version where I could freely try out most classes, quite a few races, and a ton of quests.

I’ve walked everywhere (I even tracked where I’ve been in a massive image of the worldmap for about 500 hours-ish?), I walked because the mounts weren’t available for F2P yet, did all the quests I could, tried every race (which includes the starter zones), every class available (had an excel where I planned it all out).

I ended up with 1000 hours. 500 for my main (Human Paladin - been wanting to play that since Warcraft 2), and another 500 spread out over my 40 or so alts. Ever since I’ve been coming back, because with each expansion release, a little bit more content becomes available, so I racked up another 500 hours there.

In the meantime, WotLK Classic was going to release, but my income was still shit, so I found Warmane, a non-Blizzard server. You could level 7x as fast, which I did a few times, simply to learn the difference between “Classic” and “Retail”.

Then it hit me. I want the Loremaster title. That meant doing a little over 3000 quests (about 99.99% of all quests in the game). But 7x made me level too fast. Luckily for me, there was a 0.5x XP option. So that’s how I grinded. I did every starter zone, every regular zone, every dungeon (I was typically the “overgeared” guy of the group, since the rest was rushing through). I had fun!

That grind took me 1000 hours total. Plus another 500 for all the alts before that.

I’m pretty sure I played over 3000 hours total.

Oh, and I ended up getting my Loremaster title, as well as the World Explorer Tabbard (because I’ve been everywhere).

My favourite places to run around was 100% the old world. Black Rock Depths just has an atmosphere that’s completely missing from TBC onwards :(

I’ve been thinking of playing TurtleWoW, but not sure if I can survive the Vanilla client - the WotLK one was already pretty rough 😂

Boomers are real pieces of shit

I have some weird news for you: Generations don’t exist. Boomers? Not real. Silent Generation? Nope. Gen X? No! Millennial? Non-existent! ALL OF THEM.