lime!

any lawns need cutting nearby? that’s what i did

ace attorney is a great source for this. all “cross examination” themes are recommended, with a favourite being the rearranged original from "Ace Attorney vs professor Layton. Mael Stronghart’s theme is another highlight.

this is canon to me, together with wholesome Duke Nukem.

i didn’t talk much to the people at my last place but i’m going to make an effort now that i’ve moved. seems like a good safety net to have in case something happens.

yeah if you’re not sure whether you’d be into it it’s better to not waste money :)

if you’re interested, check out the contraptions people are building to run steam turbines from geysers, or process oil, or extract metal from volcanoes. it’s crazy complicated stuff but if you’re into that it may win you over.

i think you don’t get the timer in free play mode. try doing the story on normal difficulty and see if that hooks you :)

it is. i had to restart like fifteen times before i got anywhere. doesn’t help that the simulation is quite janky and you have to understand its anachronisms to really get anywhere.

things like:

• gases don’t mix with each other, meaning you can have one tile of carbon dioxide block a vent so that oxygen isn’t replenished in a room, or have one errant tile of methane periodically moving over a gas sensor causing a room to overpressurize way over what should be possible from the vent, eventually exploding the walls of the room and filling the base with sour gas (ask me how i know)
• the same applies to liquids, meaning you can stack a liter of salt water on top of a liter of water to get a solid wall of liquid. this also blocks gas, making it an airlock.
• doors push gases and liquids away when closing, but only if there’s free space. this means you can set up a series of doors to act as a compressor. if there’s no free space, the material is simply deleted.
• every process produces heat, but the result of a process is always at a set temperature. for example, there’s a machine that splits water inte oxygen, which you need to breathe, and hydrogen, which you need to get rid of. the gases are always produced at 70°C or so, which means you need to cool it down to make it useful for breathing. you can cool it with a heat exchanger, but heats the area around the heat exchanger instead. so what do? well, you can dump that heat into the water going to the splitting machine. the input being at boiling point doesn’t matter, the output is still the same temperature, meaning you just deleted 30C worth of heat energy from the game. this is crucial for not overheating your base with all the machines you need to run.
• there’s germs everywhere, but chlorine kills germs, but no mixing means you can’t chlorinate the water and only the tiles in contact with the gas get disinfected. but if you put the water in a tank inside a chlorine atmosphere, somehow all the water touches the chlorine and it gets disinfected very quickly.
• some solid tiles let gas through but not liquids. if the gas cools enough to become liquid when moving through the tile, the liquid will simply teleport out somewhere

the entire game is like this.

it gets more complex and fiddly, and your upgrades make you faster and more nimble, but the fundamentals are the same through to the end. did you get to the bigger reactors and cutting coolant lines? because if so you’ve seen more than half of the game and it’s fair to say it didn’t grab you.

also a thought; did you play with or without the time limit? because i feel like the timer helped me stay motivated.

didn’t stop the guy who wrote 80% of the Scots wikipedia

ONI is more like dwarf fortress.

you need to manage your worker’s moods to make sure their tasks and surroundings don’t overwhelm them, or they will become destructive. you also need to make sure they have enough food, water, and air.

where ONi is different is in the simulation; all gasses, liquids, solids and living things have simulated physical reactions to pressure, temperature, and contact with other materials. so:

• if your water pipes are too cold, they freeze and explode.
• some animals only breathe chlorine.
• sometimes you unearth a volcano that melts your walls.

blow-high

Edit: well, kinda. the sound doesn’t exist in English but the closest i can think of is the o-sound in “score”. and there’s no diphthong, which is why people tend to write “blo-”. it’s a flat sound, which English sort of doesn’t do.

Note that only the highest exponent is relevant. With some work we could prove that for example O(n^3 + n^2 + n) is equivalent to O(n^3).

just adding on for others that “some work” can be simply explained as figuring out the answer to “as n grows, which of n³, n² or n affects the result the most?”

gene?

well, ish. llms have a vector space of words, image generators of features. they use a second model to associate words with features. Steve’s explanation is a great intro but for a deep dive i recommend Self-Cannibalizing AI from 37C3.

I’ll start donating again when they start using the money to run the site.

This year they spent $4M on infrastructure, but took in $185M.

few hours ago, it was down for a while.

other way around, anticheats are unfriendly to linux. they violate the security model of the system, and they don’t even have to.

epic’s anticheat even has a working Linux version that you can enable with a toggle in the management interface. devs just don’t do it. this includes epic.

Elohim DESTROYED with Facts and Logic!

Tom Scott of all people did a bit of speculative fiction on the topic “what if the first AGI isn’t the one made by scientists” six years ago. it’s a more classic paperclip maximizer story, but interesting nonetheless.

most hybrids run the engine for a few minutes a month anyway, as a precaution. keeps it lubricated and sloshes the fuel around to prevent it from layering.

also i don’t know how common this is but my car pressurises its tank to prevent offgassing, which apparently keeps the fuel good longer.