Things he shouted out at various points of his sleep:
- lala stop it!!! (lala is what he calls his sister)
- bubbles empty 😤😩😤😩
- bus come back!!!
https://github.com/mtgred/netrunner/pull/7346
this shit is another hefty one. i rewrote the primary data structure for costs. will be much simpler to track costs, add modifiers later, keep normal and additional costs distinct, and intelligently handle stealth costs.
once this is done, i'm gonna implement system-wide additional cost checking, allowing you to reject paying for any and all additional costs.
Continue reading →It’s weird to use adderall/vyvanse/mixed methamphetamine salts and see immediate results. I’ve been without my drugs for a month due to the shortage but found my stash of old prescription that was too high, and decided to start taking it because I really like being productive.
Turns out, when I take medication, I’m really fucking productive! That’s annoying! Why can’t I just be productive like this normally?
Anyway, I stayed up until nearly 1 am last night working on jnet so at least it wasn’t purely for my job’s benefit.
<jinteki.net> has a lot of problems, some which are easy to solve and some which are not. There’s a difference between bugs and tech debt. Bugs are things like “misplaced parameters”, or “forgot to check an additional predicate”. Technical debt is “the core system is built on callbacks” or “there is no game loop”.
I had a wonderful conversation with someone who is attempting to implement the Netrunner rules as strictly as possible. (She’s gone so far as to implement Netrunner’s R&D location system instead of using a simple vector!) In our many back and forths, I am confident she learned nothing from me lol but I learned a lot from her, both about Netrunner and about how to structure a game engine for Netrunner.
jinteki.net is not a good game engine. It works, in part due to the incredible amount of work we’ve all put in over the years, but (to be slightly rude) it has no right to work as well as it should. It’s full of cludges, ad-hoc systems, layers of ideas half implemented on top of each other like dirt strata.
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Palisade 41 is really good
i'm not doing a good job and we can't see an occupational therapist until july.
my 4 year old probably has sensory processing disorder and adhd, she's self-confident and precocious but lacking in any real world experiences, and she triggers me nearly every day like i'm living at home with my dad. (that's another story for another day.)
i try to merge to main, the test run on merge fails. i look at the failed test. it's from early 2022, it's 450 lines long, and it starts with defining 20 atoms (mutable variables) in a top-level let block.
forget who wrote this, i'm mad about whoever approved this.
y'all ever heard of djot? It's another markdown alternative, "a lightweight markup language" that's designed to be easier to parse (by computers). It's pretty nifty and I like the look of it. Makes me want to write a clojure parser for it.
The inline attributes are specifically very cool. Feels like inline css but for markdown instead of hiding html within your markdown.
Given:
Continue reading →I think a lot about that conversation at the dinner party near the start of Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson where the stuffy academic is like “We have the information superhighway, but what about the information ghettos that lay beneath?” and Randy is like, “you’re so fucking dumb, that’s not how the internet works” and yet 25 years later it’s exactly how the internet works.
- Prevent format filter dropdown from closing when toggling formats by butzopower
- pass ice events should still trigger even when ice is swapped during the pass by butzopower
- Fix :tag-or-bad-pub cost always resolving to remove tag when tag available by butzopower
- Ensure Rebirth options are only Runner IDs by butzopower
- Ack toasts explicitly and prevent toast cycles by butzopower
- fix threat function causing an infinite loop by francescopellegrini
- RWR patch by NBKelly
- Allow /undo-click to go back multiple clicks by butzopower
- Allow rejoining password protected games by re-entering password by butzopower
and while it says "RWR patch by nbkelly", this was a joint effort between nbkelly, Francesco Pellegrini, and butzopower. nbkelly has kept the playtest server updated as NSG developed the set, and buztopower and francesco did a lot of QA and engine work and test writing to ensure things are as good as they can be today. they're all champions and i'm very proud of them/glad for them to pick up the torch since I no longer have time to work on jnet.
On our way to target
Me: i miss community spaces.
My wife May: you don’t think target is a community spa- hahaha
This book is fucking sick and it’s honestly disappointing to see how little of the machinations and politicking of included in the movies. We’ll see how much that changes in D2 but DUNC felt like the barest smatterings of dialogue and context so we could have some beautiful visuals.
Which is like fine? But it means that all of the characters are flat, cardboard cutouts of their book selves, that’s basically no compelling reason to care what happens to anyone. My wife, who’s never read the books or seen previous adaptions said, “I can’t pick a favorite character because I don’t know any I’d these characters. Even Paul has no personality, no texture. The movie was one long fight that felt like a prologue to the second film.” I couldn’t disagree with that assessment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjsAA_5Agk
i love when someone spends a year to do something insane.
okay, so i just skimmed the rules book again and there's no GM chapter. i glanced through the realms book and there's no GM chapter there either. There's a chapter with 3 example scenarios, but no thoughts or ideas about how to run a game, no "enemies and adversaries", no "how to build a campaign", no "gm principles", no agenda, no vibes, nothing.
i know it's from a different era (first edition published in 2008), but i'm really surprised that 2e doesn't include anything. even the ampersand game does this! they've got whole books dedicated to it (varying quality, depending on the edition).
i'll be honest, this has tempered my enthusiasm quite a bit.
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in case you didn't know, vanessa carlton (of "a thousand miles" fame) has continued to release music. her fifth album "Love Is An Art" contains "Companion Star", this beautiful brooding meditation on growth and staying grounded. in the bridge, she repeats "who i want to become, and to whom i always will belong" set to a deep organ. it's my favorite part of the song, a distillation of the whole. i find it satisfying and contemplative, like being wrapped in a warm blanket in the dead of winter.
i played it for my wife back when it came out, describing these feelings to her, and she said that the whole song and specifically the bridge left her feeling anxious and sad. wild how different people can experience music.
i tried to use the word "immiserate" earlier and firefox's spellchecker yelled at me. this is not a technical or archaic word. and yet it doesn't appear in the "top x words" dictionary that's included by default in firefox.
my iphone knows the word, notion doesn't know the word, google docs knows it, neovim doesn't know it.
why are we reliant on these things to tell us which words are "real"? shit's dumb. there will be people out there who read or hear a word and think "that's a word" and then go to use it in one of these apps, and it will chastise them, saying "that's not a real word". unless they have the temerity to check a real dictionary, they'll just go "i guess i was wrong" and now their chosen speech is worse and the world is less textured than it was before.
Continue reading →I hope I never forget laying in bed after a long day, seeing that jack de quidt had released the theme song for Palisade, putting it on, and feeling swept away overcome completely immersed in the poignancy and delicate tension. I knew then that the season was going to be something special, even after so many bangers, and every single episode has met that high mark.
