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[DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] Agatha All Along - S01E01 - Discussion
  • Maybe someone can help me out here: I was going to watch this with my wife. She has seen Wandavision, but she skipped some of the newer shows. Is there any sign yet that you should've watched any of them before?

  • In future when we land on other planets we will need a different calendar, Do you think we need a secular calendar or the current Gregorian one?
  • I don't get why exactly the calendar needs to change? Because the seasons don't line up any more? I suppose over thousands of years the expectation when winter is happening will have moved as well. Or is it because days and years won't match with other planets? That's not something a calendar can fix.

  • Black & White (2001) open source game engine sees a first release
  • What I meant was that it will not be that hard to replicate. It might feel complicated and deep but most likely isn't that complex. Sure - without analyzing the original source code (which isn't legally available as far as I know) - it might be impossible to recreate the exact behavior, but it should be possible to mimic the behavior - it might just take a few attempts to fine tune the input parameters.

  • What are your opionions on fortnite?
  • I started playing it last year because my nephew wanted someone to play (apart from his friends at school). I kept playing it on a regular basis (I had bought the base game years ago, but have not paid anything since). I enjoy the colorful graphics which run fine even on my 10+ old gaming PC. Some rounds are short and you're dead within minutes but often I reach top ten, but even then the rounds aren't taking that long (20 to 30 minutes), which is something I like about the game, because I barely take the time to have hour-long gaming sessions any more. Despite its looks skill makes a difference when it comes to aiming and movement (most special weapons are movement skills). I mostly play the no building mode because I can't manage shooting and building at the same time.

  • Balatro: Friends of Jimbo – Reveal Trailer
  • I have to disagree. I don't think the joker does look like either Neuschwanstein or Hitler's painting of Neuschwanstein.

    Nonetheless I agree that the artworks shown in the trailer are great.

  • What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?
  • Transport Tycoon Deluxe

    Of course there is always OpenTTD, which has by far exceeded the original, but I would just like to see a modern game (not necessarily in terms of graphics) with the same vibe. Transport Fever and all the other variants never quite achieved the same depth and complexity.

  • Firaxis' big swing with Civilization VII? Convincing players to actually finish their games
  • I'm pretty sure you could train an AI to play a game like Civ, but the problem stays the same. As everything progresses to get more complicated and you have to decide even more every turn it gets harder and harder to train. The results are kind of unpredictable and you might have to train your AI again with every patch. It will limit the systems your game can run on (even excluding some platforms) and heavily impact performance on the systems it can run on.

  • Firaxis' big swing with Civilization VII? Convincing players to actually finish their games
  • The gameplay stretching out in later rounds is also what makes the AI so hard to improve. There is just too much to do and the effects are too complex to understand for a classic game AI. If they simplify the gameplay with the player progression into later ages it will also make the development of a competent AI more likely.

    But to be honest: I doubt anything like that is going to happen. Even when controlling a planet wide empire I will have to decide what every city is going to do next and what every unit is going to do in the next turn...

  • This post keeps crashing my Boost

    slrpnk.net FreshRSS how to force articles not load in full length - (It's FOSS) - SLRPNK

    Hello! Recently started selfhosting FreshRSS - and while it is really good, i have a few hicks with some of the feeds im fetching from, for instance Its Foss. As seen in the extremely long screenshot below(Picture2), to illustrate what I mean, the feed is extremely cluttered with addtional small ico...

    Does this happen to anyone else? As soon as I open the post (it's in the [email protected] community) I briefly see the contents and then Boost crashes. So it could be a comment causing this or the post itself when fully loaded. I'm using a Pixel 6 with Android 14.

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    Grocery shopping apps

    I am currently using Bring! with my wife to organize our grocery shopping. I am looking for a self hosted alternative. I looked at the awesome self-hosted list and tried Specifically Clementines and of course Grocy. I like that Grocy also includes meal planning although the whole inventory management is too much for us. What I don't like is the interface for both of them. I don't see us using this while in the store with a kid on the arm. It is way too fiddly and complicated. Also adding new items to the list is rather complicated in both apps.

    Do you have any suggestions for other projects with a more user friendly interface (even if it means less features)?

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    White Wonderland

    On the slopes between Käserstatt and Mägisalp in the Swiss alps. Hasliberg overlooks the Haslital and Lake Brienz with Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau (Top of Europe) on the other side.

    The image was taken by me in January of 2012.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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