brenticus

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brenticus,

My prediction is that people will overhype it with lots of hopes for super complex systems, call it shit when it has fewer mechanics and civs than 3/4/5/6 with all their DLC, and then eventually decide it’s good after a couple years of DLC and patches.

You know, the usual Civ cycle. I’ll probably buy it day 1 assuming it isn’t actually broken, per usual, and dump a couple hundred hours in it, per usual.

brenticus,

Notwithstanding the four Cabinet documents, federal departments and agencies withheld or refused the disclosure of over a thousand documents, in whole or in part, on the basis that they were Cabinet confidences.

Wait, is this even a Liberal thing then? It sounds like they requested information from federal departments and those departments said “We have these documents but cannot share them due to Cabinet confidence.” That doesn’t sound like it involves a single elected entity, nevermind a Liberal one.

brenticus,

On principal I don’t use cloud-based password management solutions like this, but Proton Pass does make it somewhat tempting, especially since I have a Proton Unlimited subscription anyways. KeepassXC + syncthing do well enough, but PAM integration would be kind of nice some days when I’m opening and closing my vault a ton.

What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing?

I used up play a ton of Doom mods years ago and a lot of the TCs were fun but lacked substance beyond the surface. Some of the new ones are cool but overly complex. (The Sonic cart game has an hour long tutorial before you start). I was a big fan of Simon’s Destiny, the Castlevania mod for Doom....

brenticus,

Mount and Blade: Warband has multiple incredible total conversions. I’ve dumped a lot of time into Prophecy of Pendor and The Last Days, probably more than the base game.

For actually free games there are so many options that it really comes down to taste. Unciv is a fantastic reimplementation of Civ 5. Super Auto Pets is a fun casual auto battler. HoloCure is a really good Vampire Survivors-style game themed after Hololive vtubers. There are tons of MMOs and shooters that are F2P and good, but I know most of those from hearsay rather than experience.

brenticus,

I don’t know what I watched but what I listened to was a banger.

brenticus,

I found it painful because I wanted to help them so badly, but it was definitely a fun pair of streams. I would 100% watch a sequel.

brenticus,

If the bad guy hears rumours about someone asking the question, does anything change?

When a clock fills in these contexts that should indicate that something needs to happen, and that something likely requires PC response. So if it isn’t going to significantly impact the PCs until the third clock, it may as well be one big clock with stuff happening in the background as it fills. But if each clock has an impact and the PCs can do something to impact future clocks, stacking makes sense.

Regarding handling the consequence: it definitely depends. I’ll sometimes use a clock if they’re trying to overcome some major obstacle, so filling it means that they have less to deal with and that’s probably going to be an RP exercise. But most of the time it’s going to result in a change in position, or a need to resist something, or even a material change in their crew’s territory that requires some response. In the example above, especially for such a large clock, I’d probably have the consequence be something like the bad guys invading their territory targeting the PC asking questions, which requires more than a mere change in position to resolve. That could involve a full-on heist to thwart.

brenticus,

This is basically it, yes, but sometimes I’m drunk-ordering 40 nuggets and a milkshake and adding the mint myself is enough effort to make me reconsider my reckless disregard for my wellbeing.

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brenticus,

Unciv works perfectly fine on a phone if you feel like risking significant amounts of your time (:

brenticus,

This is how I do it. I may never stop actually having that gmail account in use due to the number of accounts tied to it, but I at least can use other services going forward without losing tons of stuff.

brenticus,

Is that the damage formula based on, uh, circumference?

Haven’t actually read the book, thankfully, but I recall hearing that was a thing.

brenticus,

It’s a bit different but provides more support for the core ideas, for sure. More about our physical, neurological reactions to digital media than about the philosophical and historical aspects. I read it a few years back and enjoyed it quite a bit.

brenticus,

I feel the same way regarding whether this legislation would be enforceable or good, but there are a lot of ways developers could make this work that they currently don’t. That includes bot players, local multiplayer functionality, dedicated server tools, IP-based connections, etc. Many DRM and anti-cheat implementations also cause problems and would need to be either removed or only used in certain contexts.

Right now in a lot of games if you aren’t playing multiplayer on official servers through official matchmaking functions with invasive kernel-level anti-cheat there’s no other way to play, but that hasn’t always been the case nor does it need to be the case.

brenticus,

Just to be clear, a majority of wildfire response efforts are provincial and CAF basically gets called in when resources are tapped out across the country. And Quebec actually did privatize their wildfire emergency response a while back, although I don’t know the details on how that compares against their public agency. And lots of bits and pieces of response are either privatized or partially privatized in many provinces, such as aircraft and helicopter resourcing.

All that said: yeah, CAF just needs to be trained better for emergency response functions. It’s most of what we use our armed forces for anyways. I’ve heard plenty of stories of CAF being deployed and then sitting around for a week because their radios aren’t compatible and they don’t know how to integrate into a unified command structure. These are the things that need to be sorted out, not throwing more money at more entities who can complicate things.

brenticus,

Man I can’t believe we’re giving newcomers easier access to the truly wonderful and remarkable parts of our nation, thus giving them something to actually love about Canada. How horrible.

brenticus,

Yep.

If there is one part of Canadian culture that can be said to be consistent across geographic and ideological lines, it’s a connection to the land and the natural world. Our country is practically built on trekking through forests and canoeing down rivers. A national park pass is one of the simplest ways to encourage people to engage with that, and if there’s one thing I’d like newcomers to do here it’s to engage with our culture.

brenticus,

There are still a couple of donuts that are good despite the severe drop in quality (apparently not even they can fuck up the honey cruller) but yeah, it used to be a thought process on which of a bunch of donuts I wanted when people brought in a box, and now it’s a crapshoot whether I even care.

brenticus,

I haven’t read a lot of western litrpg, but there’s pretty heavy overlap with Japanese light novels. Arguably a good chunk of the tropes and popularity spilled over from Japanese light novels and Chinese progression fantasy/xianxia. In that genre I can recommend these pretty easily:

  • Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra, which has a guy transported to a fantasy world with powers like a Civilization leader.
  • Log Horizon, where a bunch of MMO players kind themselves in a world basically like the game they know but slowly uncover differences.
  • Sword Art Online: Progressive, which is basically the original story filled in with the details and character development needed to make it actually pretty good.
  • Konosuba, which has a lot of similarities to gamelit progression and such but is very much a comedy.

If you’re into web novels, Shadow Slave and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint are both incredible while scratching that itch. I’ve only read the manwha but Greatest Estate Developer also lurks around the genre while being quite good.

brenticus,

Honestly, most books in the genre are not great from a critical perspective. Even popular and “good” ones. But they do a great job of being long-lasting entertainment products that get that dopamine flowing, and they engage you in a way that is hard to find elsewhere.

brenticus,

I’ve tried to use daily notes in various capacities but at this point I mostly use them for random notes and lists throughout the day. The shortcuts to pop open today’s note are just easier on mobile.

I use weeklies for planning meals and groceries, and will probably do the same for exercise as I get back into outdoor training, but if it wasn’t for that I’d probably turn the plugin off.

brenticus,

I hopped on the beta and while the default layout after I did the questionnaire was terrible, I eventually got it to the point that I like it better than before.

It makes it easier to pay attention to some stats that matter to me more, and the small graphs in the In-focus section give me some quick insights on how I’m doing in various capacities. It’s definitely not perfect and maybe could have spent a little longer cooking in beta, but overall I like it.

brenticus,

Nord Light was also pretty good when I tried it. I waffle back and forth between light and dark themes now and then and there’s always a few good options that brighten the space without flashbanging you.

brenticus,

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma⭐Ilya. I swear I’m not a pedo. I just want Ilya to be happy.

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