I loved the Necrodancer Zelda game so I picked up Crypt but haven’t played it yet. This is a good kick in the butt to actually try it out.

Got any recommendations for interesting procedurally generated games? I’ve hated them since the days of Hack// and Diablo 4.

Ok, I’m intrigued. Any recommendations? I’d love to play ones where progression comes from learning about the game.

I very much dislike roguelikes. It always feels patronizing: aww too bad, if you were good enough you actually could have beaten the game, but let’s make it just a little easier. Then it takes so many runs to make an appreciable difference in my abilities or skills that it feels worse than grinding in an RPG (especially because at least with grinding I know I’m going to make progress…I actually might not make any difference with several failed runs).

I also think it’s lazy programming. The game is actually only an hour long or less but you get more time out of it because you need to repeat. Add the fact that roguelikes are almost exclusively procedurally generated and it just feels like a cash grab.

The ONLY roguelike I’ve played any appreciable amount is Hades, and I keep putting it down after a few hours of playtime to pick it up months later. They at least have a lot of interesting dialogue and some element of story but it’s not enough to keep me hooked.

I’ve gotta say, I’ve been on atomoxetine for a year now and I love it! Just be aware the “standard adult” dose might be way too much for you (it was for me). When they started me on 40mg I felt like an emotionless robot. I could get stuff done but at the cost of my joy. I told this to my doc and he was like…maybe you just need less. I got the 10mg children’s dose and now I am in so much control of myself I have no clue how I got anything done before hand (well I do know, it was self medication with caffeine and stress).

OMG I love this and am stealing this.

Those that are just hand waiving that this is just “drama” either don’t understand what is going on or actively support harassment and bullying. According to what I’ve been able to understand, Sparkfun has been allowing its employees to make harassing and derogatory internal presentations targeting Adafruit employees for years. When this was brought to their attention Sparkfun did nothing. When Adafruit started probing Teensy customers for what they liked about the product Sparkfun decided to enforce a code of conduct violation and terminate supplying Teensy boards to Adafruit.

I didn’t read through all the public messaging but I have read enough to know it would have been easy for Sparkfun to do the right thing and discourage their employees from their harassing behavior, even if it remained internal. I don’t want to support that kind of business. It makes it clear to me that Sparkfun is a boys club that is threatened by competition and would rather throw insults than make a better product.

Adafruit has been inventive, inclusive, and added joy and whimsy in a field that is so often filled with toxicity.

You know how a wool sweater can felt? It shrinks and loses it’s ability to stretch? That’s the same principle. By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales. The needle you use is actually not just any needle but it is designed to create as much disorder and compression as possible (so typically it’s actually 3 or more needles).

…of bird like material which can be represented by a mass average of bone and flesh. This can be used in bird strike simulations for studying aircraft windshield performance as compared to thawed penguins shot out of a pneumatic canon. (I actually went to a talk that discussed exactly this except you replace “penguin” with “bird” in general).

This is actually a problem in scientific note taking and the very simple rule is you write all notes in pen and if you are needing to remove text you only use a single line to cross it out. That way if someone scribbles out the words/data you know it was tampered with as opposed to modified by the original writer. It also helps to put your initials on every edit and sign the end of the page, as well as have a witness sign the end of the page (but that may be excessive in your case). Also use only bound notebooks with numbered pages that are obvious if a page has been removed.