Slay the Spire Fanart - The Defect WIP I
I wonder how many hundreds of hours I have in that game now... I'll /playtime next time I log in. I'm still in the patches after Shadowbringers, but I've also been known to focus more on roulettes and such than actually making progress in the main story
I don’t have hundreds of hours
Don't start with XIV then!
So what is the most recent game in the series that I can start with that is worth it to play and wouldn’t confuse a newcomer?
All of the FF games – baring the ones that are explicitly sequels, like X2 – are totally separate from each other, you can jump in anywhere. At most you might miss some references or easter eggs.
If you want the most recent then, that'd be XVI, although I'd personally recommend looking up what the gameplay is like in the different games and starting wherever you feel you'll have the most fun! There are some weirder ones out there, like crystal chronicles (my own first final fantasy game) and tactics, so you have a lot of options!
I ran an intro game of Lancer for some local friends of mine! It was fun, although I should know by now that a one shot is never a one-shot, especially for players who are new to a system.
Also continued my game of Shadowrun I've set in Denver. Had some really interesting character moments that arose from one of the players forgetting that they should have told their in-game family they were going to be away overnight (and me forgetting to have their in-game SO call them to check in...). Advanced the plot right up to just before where I'm planning on introducing the main storyline to the players, very excited for the next time we get to play!
Flash games will work again? Moving away from NFTs? Well dang, I might just make a new neopets account! Lots of nostalgia there, it'd be cool to mess around with again after all these years.
I'd sum it up as: 😴☕📝
Can't wait for my thesis overview to be in the past (hopefully I pass! 🤞)
You can send downvotes using 3rd party clients, but beehaw doesn't register or track them. Hitting the button does nothing (and it's not even present in the web ui)
There's also a lot that you can do within the bounds of more traditional architecture to control heat movement, and which are easy to retrofit onto existing homes. For example, there's the extremely rad sounding thermal labyrinth, and also lots of things without rad names like planting trees where they'll shade your building or painting your roof white. It's frankly kinda astonishing how much you can reduce your heating and cooling requirements with simple and (relatively) low cost changes like those.
Yeah that certainly took a little getting used to! I think can pretty much read the heights of everything now, but there was definitely a little while when I was accidentally jumping into the sides of ledges that were actually higher up than me!
I've been working my way through Cross Code in the evenings after I get back home, and it's as excellent as everyone says it is! I keep trying to decide what other games it reminds me of the most, and surprisingly I think I'm starting to settle on Legend of Zelda (the older ones, not BotW/TotK).
The way it gates progress, the level & dungeon design, etc just really seems to be a part of that tradition. The moment to moment gameplay is pretty different though, and pretty unique at that!
Really though it's just been a nice escape in the evenings. It's challenging enough that sometimes I decide to leave a tough fight or puzzle to pick up the next night, but it's not punishingly hard and I feel like it respects my time.
Definitely a great writer, and sounds like a really interesting project! Did it work?
Audiobook is probably what I'll do in the end. I like a physical copy but it's a bit unrealistic for me to do much sit-down reading these days.
currently waiting for it to be indexed on scihub or to get access via researchgate
Yeah I was kinda surprised to find out that I don't have institutional access through either of the universities I have a login for. If you're going to be keeping an eye out for it anyway would you mind DMing me?
The least surprising sentence here was:
The results suggest that online dating is an ineffective coping mechanism for those facing mental health challenges
I've personally had extremely mixed results with dating apps, but in my own personal experience nothing about them says to me, "This is good for your mental health." As always though, it's good to formally study these things.
The most interesting sentence, imo, was:
The variable that most strongly predicted higher satisfaction with Tinder-generated offline dates was age
Awh man I need to get myself a new copy of that book! I accidentally left mine on a ferry a few years ago and haven't finished reading it.
Chaos (same author) is also a fantastic read, really got me interested in the field. I ended up taking a dynamical systems class after reading that book, and though we didn't talk much about chaotic systems in particular I could definitely see the similarities!
I don't think that there's a single answer here for you, not least because "communists or socialists" is a huge heterogeneous group of people and ideas. I can give some recommendations, but only from my own perspective, not as a representative of socialism or anything.
First of all, if the responsibilities of the position you're voting for could reasonably be fulfilled by anyone in the group, you can probably just draw lots. The fancy technical term for this is sortition, and combined with short terms (where the definition of "short" depends on what your organization is doing) it's a good way to prevent abuses of power.
If you're either electing for a position that needs particular skills or you don't think you can sell sortition to your group, I like approval voting. You can vote for multiple people, and you just vote "yes" on anyone you think would be a good fit. Whoever gets the most approval wins. It's a good, simple way to ensure that most people are okay with the outcome, even if the winner wouldn't have necessarily been everyone's (or anyone's) first choice.
Finally, the things you're asking for make it sound like you need some advice on how to actually run the election. I will always recommend anonymous paper ballots: most electronic schemes are harder to secure and easier to de-anonymize. You can make them work, especially for small groups, but it takes some thought. Also, paper is easy to set up, you just need a printer and a locked box to keep them in.
You can count the results in a group to ensure that's done fairly, and throw out any ballots marked with anything other than votes if you're concerned that someone in the org is trying to influence people illegitimately. Run the election for long enough that everybody could reasonably have a chance to show up and drop in a ballot. You can lock the ballot box with two (or more, depending on level of paranoia) keys held by different people if you're concerned that just one single keyholder might be corrupt or corruptable. Proxy voting can help if there's someone in the organization who you know won't be able to make it in person, and that should be easy to coordinate with a small group if you need to.
I've been watching a lot of her videos lately! I found the one on Gell-Mann amnesia to be really interesting and linked it here the other day; maybe a good one for a next watch if you haven't picked yet.
But that the lemmy.world admin (at the time of the post) had not responded
This has changed now! Everybody's talking to everybody else at this point. None of the admins are upset at any of the other admins or anything, everyone's chill except for (some of) the users
I've also heard great things about Crosscode. I haven't started it yet (mainly because I'm worried about what it will do to my already flagging productivity), but from what I've heard about it, it sounds like it'd fit the bill quite well!
I really enjoyed Death's Door, which is frequently compared with Tunic. That might be one to check out!
You might also be interested in Supergiant's older games: Bastion and Transistor. They're the team behind Hades, but those older games don't have the same rogue-like elements that Hades does. (They also both have absolutely phenomenal soundtracks by Daren Korb!)
You might also like Divine Divinity (the 21 year old predecessor to the popular Divinity: Original Sin).
At least for me at least, I personally err on the side of having more freedom to look into places even if that means dealing with a couple of assholes.
This decision was about users from other instances coming here and causing trouble, not beehaw users going elsewhere. The intent isn't to keep users siloed in here. Unfortunately, lemmy currently only supports two modes of interaction between instances: either you federate, or you don't. More technologically mature fediverse platforms like mastodon have more nuanced options, and hopefully we'll get similar options in lemmy soon that will allow, e.g., beehaw users out onto these instances without letting everyone on those instances in here.
Very nice! The different orbs have a lot of character!