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berdandy

@berdandy@mstdn.games

I’m a AAA Video Game Developer by day (Digital Extremes/Warframe) and Indie Tabletop RPG Game Developer by night (Berdandy Studios).

Running the community site Accessibility Wars for Guild Wars 2 is also a prominent hobby project (one of many).

Also other non-game stuff. I promise, Mom.

He/they; #PwMS

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kitoconnell, to random
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TIL a lot of people cut their pizza with kitchen shears. It makes sense, they're great tools, but my slices would be so crooked (I'm a chef's knife pizza slicer, myself)

berdandy,
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@kitoconnell agreed. Chef’s knife for all things. But I make Detroit-style pizza. Kitchen shears ain’t gonna work there.

berdandy,
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@kitoconnell this also reminds me of the time I ordered a French onion soup that was served with a pair of scissors for the melty cheese ribbons.

berdandy,
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@kitoconnell the soup just had so much Gruyère on top that the stretchy cheese felt never ending when you lifted a spoonful.

I follow this recipe for Detroit pizza: https://www.seriouseats.com/detroit-style-pizza-recipe

But it’s worth the expense to get a proper Lloyd’s pan: https://lloydpans.com/catalog/product/view/id/2184/s/detroit-style-pizza-pans/category/288/ - I have the 10x14

berdandy,
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@kitoconnell I make do with a decent white cheddar and mozzarella combo instead of brick cheese, and definitely play around with toppings. We usually stick to just one or two. The cheese and dough is really the star.

berdandy,
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@kitoconnell oh and be prepared to set off your smoke detector every damn time because the edges of the cheese caramelize and smoke. I cook it at the highest setting my oven will do (525F). Recipe calls for 550F. 😂

glassbottommeg, to random
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I've been a developer for over two decades and I have a dark secret I can no longer keep. I,

have no idea what "decorators" are, look I'm sorry, every time somehow mentions them my brain fuzzes out and then it's five minutes later and I just say "let's put it in JIRA"

berdandy,
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@glassbottommeg if you still care at this point, it’s simply a “wrap-and-extend” Design Pattern.

The idea is instead of adding new crap with inheritance, you add new crap with composition AND inheritance. Now that’s efficiency! /s

berdandy,
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@glassbottommeg Gang of Four, probably. BUT, it’s even worse.

A Decorator is a wrapper class that encapsulates the thing-it’s-decorating and typically forwards existing functionality and adds more.

Then the Decorators themselves end up with their own inheritance hierarchy. And now you have two parallel inheritance hierarchies that are coupled. And probably a few layers deep because OOP do OOP things.

berdandy,
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@glassbottommeg the first draft haha. Design Patterns was 1994 after all

PlaneSailingGames, to random
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Has anyone who sees this moved from one mastodon server to another?

I think I need to (various reasons) and I'd love to hear anybody's experiences (positive and negative)

Cheers

berdandy,
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@PlaneSailingGames I moved from dot social to mstdn.games. It was pretty smooth. Everything comes along for the ride EXCEPT messages. Old profile changes into a redirect. But you do have to re-post stuff or start fresh.

You also have to wait for followers’ software to see that you’ve moved before they follow the new account.

In case something goes wrong (it didn’t for me), it’s a decent idea to back up everything.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move

kierkegaank, to random
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It’s not important to teach your children not to swear. It’s important to teach your children to swear appropriately.

berdandy,
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@kierkegaank we took the approach of “adult language” instead of “bad language” and talked about how language has different valid uses in various contexts, and HOW one communicates often says as much as WHAT one communicates.

And now she’s a computational and anthropological linguist in training. So, uh, mission accomplished?

genesisoflegend, to random
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    berdandy,
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    @genesisoflegend hm. I wonder if randomizing it might shake loose some biases. That is, make two big lists of values, randomly pair them off and then evaluate their conflict.

    glassbottommeg, (edited ) to baking
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    Any folks in the house?

    I have Wilton's "Candy Decorating Pens". The kind you have to warm in hot water, ie. actual candy.

    Site doesn't list specific best-buy dates, but implies "candy" products are best-buy 18 months from date.

    That seem/sound reasonable? The pens haven't bulged or anything, they're still sealed (they're the kind you gotta clip the tip off).

    Guessing they're fine? 18 months would have been end of this June, so like, well within a reasonable window if I'm speculating right.

    Wanna draw art on girlfriend's birthday cookie cake, but it would be a party foul to give the girlfriend food poisoning on birthday, heh.

    EDIT: They contain vegetable oil, milk solids, whey powder. So yeah, not just sugar. Sugar's the first ingredient tho, heh.

    berdandy,
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    @glassbottommeg I’m not familiar with these pens, but from a food safety PoV, hard candy is shelf stable because of the dryness. If moisture lingers or accumulates, it should be dehydrated or refrigerated. Sounds like if you have to warm them to get them mobile, they’re probably very inhospitable low water environments.

    Fats (nut butters, etc) CAN have a protective effect on some pathogens like salmonella, but generally pathogens don’t survive dry candy conditions.

    vagina_museum, to random
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    It took us weeks to find a first aid training supplier who had a CPR training mannequin with breasts. We wanted our first aiders to learn correct CPR techniques performed when breasts are present, because our visitors are more likely to have breasts! The default training mannequin doesn't have breasts.

    Anyway, a big thank you to Siren Training for procuring a mannequin with breasts for training!

    berdandy, (edited )
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    @vagina_museum Huh. I’m pretty sure the mannequins in my CPR class in (Canada, 90’s) high school had breasts built in. Not sure if it was all or just some though… or maybe it was even a manufactured dream-memory like the berenstain/berenstein bears thing.

    I still remember feeling horrified at how much force was needed for the spring loaded rib cage compressions. And then I learned that cracked ribs from CPR is not uncommon. Better than dead I suppose.

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    @necropola @bob_lemon @guildwars2 Yep. The bug that needed fixing was that the hero point would be permanently unclaimable if you had used it to charge a skyscale egg first.

    kitoconnell, to Skyrim
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    Me, when I play again:

    The little green guys from Toy Story declare, "The claaaaaaaaaaaaw!"

    berdandy,
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    @kitoconnell this ttrpg always evoked the draugr experience for me: https://bullypulpitgames.itch.io/the-skeletons

    berdandy,
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    @kitoconnell can confirm. Players simulate the passage of time as skeletons by sitting silently in the dark IRL, until the adventurers show up and the magic reawakens everyone.

    linguistgoneforeign, to Korean
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    I'm getting more and more irritated by the usage of "you guys" to address people - which is unfortunate, because I hear it a thousand times per day,

    Whatever happened to:

    "Y'all"
    "You folks"
    "You people"
    "You peeps"
    "You fellows"

    ?

    I sense an illustrated article coming up.



    berdandy,
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    @linguistgoneforeign I tend to use y’all in speech but autocarrot isn’t happy with it (usually correcting to tall). It’s funny how communication technology affects language. I’m reminded of the palm pilot gesture system affecting handwriting, or even T9 affecting the brevity of text messages.

    berdandy,
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    @linguistgoneforeign “tall” or “talk” usually haha

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    berdandy,
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    @LeviKornelsen what about The Soothsayer’s Deck? Doesn’t appear in obvious google searches.

    Except as a crossword puzzle clue. Haha

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    berdandy,
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    @linguistgoneforeign I was thinking flameless LED candles, but a quick search doesn’t reveal any that are birthday cake sized, mostly tapers and votives and tea lights.

    That said, I once lit a cake with 100 candles. It got so hot that the sugar icing lit on fire. Tilting sets of candles to light them in a vertical stack did help do it quickly. Barbecue lighters too. We did have a second cake for actual edible purposes, as it was irredeemably covered in wax and burnt sugar.

    berdandy,
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    @linguistgoneforeign haha yeah. I did see some Halloween ones that I admit were pretty cool — they had the led candles “floating” from fishing line invisibly. Hard to do with flames that way.

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    @linguistgoneforeign I found the photo. As you can see, some of the earlier candles already melted completely into wax. Also… I’m not sure, but it may have also been an ice cream cake. Bad ideas all around.

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    berdandy,
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    @LeviKornelsen I feel like I remember an animated alternate world version, where superman snapped after Lois Lane died and had lobotomized every supervillain with his laser vision. That was memorable.

    berdandy, to random
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    I just heard about and Falkor would like to say hi.

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    berdandy,
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    @genesisoflegend it’s needs like this that make the amnesia or fish-out-of-water trope so appealing. The player gets to learn as the character does. Shame it’s so hackneyed.

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