It's def worth checking out Disco Elysium though anyway. It's a tour de force. It shows you what's possible in the form.

Yeah that's kind of where I'm at I think. I haven't played an RPG other than Caves of Qud in ages.

I love all of my transporter clones equally

if you can tolerate RPGs you probably should lol. i have bounced off it but i still found the mechanical design really cool. (writing is great as well.)

At the first Earth Day at San Jose State in 1970, students raised money, bought a brand new Ford Maverick, and pushed it to campus to be entombed.

You'd want some really simple but punchy rules around enforcement I feel.

Like one side of a card tells you how to service a loan; if you can't, flip out over to default and follow the instructions about repossession or whatever.

yeah interesting set of design problems

Similar conjectures for insurance and markets for capital control

I mean there are games with both kinds of mechanic but what keeps them interesting I think is that they're spiky and imperfect. I've never played a game with markets for capital control but there's Acquire and various railroad games.

You know how allegedly chess is not interesting in any dimensions above 2, because there's always a way around any trap?

I feel like if you add credit to most economy games you'll probably just eliminate the crunchy corner cases that are interesting to plan around.

Chinese colleague was like, "What is this dark brown bagel?" And European colleague was like, "Pumpernickel." Which of course if you don't already know what pumpernickel is is not going to be very informative. So I all innocent was like....

Polyglot European colleagues all refusing to take the bait of me innocently asking "What does \'pumpernickel\' mean in German?"

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I'm different from "different to"

It's fun how much terror we used to find in nature.

The word narwhal is apparently derived from the Icelandic náhvalur. Nár is dead human body, hvalur is whale. It’s said it’s because medieval sources describe náhvalur using their enormous tooth to eat men who had died at sea. Or, that the gray, pasty skin of náhvalur recalls that of a dead body.

Three-ish panel comic: a pirate uses a telescope to look out onto the water and seems shocked. He yells out, “Captain! You’re not going to believe this!” Out on the water is what appears ostensibly to be a Pizza Hut, but underneath the surface we see the hut is actually attached to the head of a gigantic kraken squid monster.

Four years ago today, I posted my first beetle moses comic

They think you're stupid.

a medieval drawing of two knights embracing

close friends, france, 15th century

i mean co-work seems to be the same technology as code except it's in a container and has a gui?

if they allow co-work but not code i'd assume it's because co-work users are less intensive users.

caprice!

two blobby creatures bare their square teeth and clasp tendrils

begenderous whalebeans
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ig it's just useful enough that a lot of like small businesses and orgs use it as their main internet channel. very irritating cuz it means i can't just avoid it altogether.

it really is an example of nihilist design. like it started out trying to do something for you (share pictures with your friends), but now it's transparently organized around just maximizing how much time you spend on it, with no other value or aim.

doesn't it? it's so evil lol

i guess it's more of a closed system so it doesn't invite talking about it in outside contexts. like it doesn't really have affordances for sharing.

the idea about the invention of the individual definitely lol

For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.

‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds Growing use of AI tech comes at expense of workers’ rights, protections and pay, report warns

State governments need to crack down on this blatant effort to expand misclassification.

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(311 operator) sorry sir but i just checked and they are operating with a license, there's nothing i can do

Yeah, some of your fellow Democrats have called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. Do you agree with that? That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party again. It’s trying to throw out a word and, “Are you going to raise your hand or are you not going to?” I understand that Israel was hit with a terrorist attack the likes of which it had never seen and it has been through a lot and that it deserves the right to defend itself and to eradicate that terrorist organization. I believe that it could have been done without a lot of the suffering, but I put a lot of that blame also on Donald Trump. If he’d said we are coming in and we are bringing food and aid and you are going to make sure that we’re safe, it would’ve happened.

Terrible answer from Beshear
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