My son gave me a Mother's Day gift of playing Raft with me. We have been playing once or twice a week so he can experience the story; he's never played it through and wants to see how it ends.

Tonight we did Tangeroa. He is such a good partner! We got through pretty quickly. Now we have our new blueprints and the additional seeds so we can grow more stuff.

I think the next POI is the one that is mainly under water. Maybe we can stop at a few islands first. We need to find more titanium so we can build some new devices. Plus we can buy stuff from the trader. I don't think he's done that yet.

I'm still touched that he thought this up as a gift. Spending time together, working as a team is so much fun. Raft is not a game he would go for on his own. He does have fun when we play, it's just not something he would normally gravitate toward. So it's really nice that he thought of this.

#Raft

Army Taps Anduril for Next Gen C2 Data Layer Lead

The Army has taken a significant leap forward with its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort, tapping Anduril to lead the development of a cutting-edge common data layer that will enable faster, more effective decision-making. This milestone marks a major step towards delivering critical capabilities at the speed of relevance.

https://osintsights.com/army-taps-anduril-for-next-gen-c2-data-layer-lead?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#NextGenC2 #CommandAndControl #Anduril #Palantir #Raft

Where do people get their rope for pioneering/raft building mostly? I've got an idea that we will need to get a bunch more for the #ely #aquafest for the #scouts raft build/race this year... Ive not needed to actually source this stuff before..

#scouts #scoutsuk #pioneering #raft #ely #aquafest

Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes

https://padhye.org/raft-minority/

#HackerNews #Raft #Consensus #DistributedSystems #ConsensusAlgorithms #NodeMinority

The smell of chlorine, sweaty smilodon, and hot plastic. Ah, summer. If only there was another cold drink…

That raft was a promotional item for two and a half children, it’s a bit snug for a two-meter cyborg who hasn’t lost his winter weight…

#smilodon #sabertooth #fatfur #inflatable #raft #wolflink #furryart #wip

I'm having complicated feelings about #Raft .

Playing through the quest has been a very mixed time. For a game that is ostensibly open world survival, all of the story islands are truly puzzle platformers. I'm a fan of puzzle platformers! But I feel like the designs have been very uneven, with some areas a joy to play, while others are an unintuitive slog.

That said, I'm two scenes away from beating the last level, and it's... ridiculous? In the next-to-last scene, you have to build a stairwell out of crates in a small arena while three hyenas attack you and a madman wings cherry bombs at your head.

And, in normal mode (which I'm playing), you lose 2/3rds of your stuff whenever you die, and the save history is completely non-functional - you can't go back to a previous save and try again.

Naturally, I died very quickly, and lost some very important equipment.

So, I sat on it for a few days to determine whether I should give up or power through - where powering through meant another 10-20 hours working on upgrades and better equipment.

Which is what I decided to do.

But a key piece of equipment is healing salve, which requires eggs, which requires chickens (cluckers, in game)

Which is why I now have a poultry pen on my raft, populated by the first chicken of my set

Named: Motherclucker 🐔