@Natanox @fortyseven rippin' subspace past the Pakled home world like jerks rollin' coal
Now that I think I'm getting the hang of it, the Netrunner BBS DOOR game is pretty neato
From the overworld grid, you can move into a system that's like a dungeon of connected nodes. Some nodes have money & ICE enemies. You attack the ICE with programs.
Damage from the ICE can corrupt your programs, so it's useful to have a lot of backup copies as damage sponges.
Corruption makes programs intermittently fail, repeated corruption makes them fail permanently and then you need to buy a new master copy (if it was your last good backup).
So, in between fights, you run Diagnostics and delete the damaged programs and make new backups.
An unfortunate thing is that Netrunner is not a multi-player game. So it locks out other players while someone is currently running it.
But, if that player gets disconnected or the game crashes, there's a CONTROL.DAT file that sticks around and the game never lets anyone else in unless the sysop cleans it up.
Seems like almost every copy of Netrunner I've run into on telnet BBSes is stuck in this condition. That's part of why I got my own copy running.
(I've been tempted to make a web-based clone of this game for awhile with procedurally generated dungeons and suchlike)
Got a new Resmed AirSense 11 CPAP machine yesterday. It has bluetooth and 5G.
I'm sure this makes someone somewhere very upset for the wrong reasons. I'm annoyed at my sleep being spied upon by my insurance company, but at least the heated hose works now.
@thomasfuchs Yeah, I supposedly had a heated hose before, but it never quite worked. So I had this like fleece jacket and windbreaker combo covering the hose as an awkward kludge. I was kind of surprised at how fast the thing actually got warm
@danhon I still someday want to implement that thing from @pluralistic 's Makers where a character had bins with a searchable inventory that blinked when you wanted to find something
Ugh I hate growth hacks. Trying to read a substack post in my browser (as opposed to my inbox) and substack has asked me 4 times now to subscribe to a mailing list to which I'm already subscribed. Sweet crimony
Like, stop trying to acquire me when I'm already acquired, you're reminding me of all my second thoughts on having been acquired in the first place ya dodos
Also I wish that making a shooing motion at Zoom would disconnect my call
@thomasfuchs Yeah, that's what I've been using. I had a fleece "snugglehose" that mostly worked, but added this second like windbreaker material wrap on top.
@robdaemon I mean, apparently it can intermittently recognize other hand gestures now. So why not this?
@allenstenhaus This particular compliance telemetry is apparently to prove to insurance that they should pay for the machine because I'm actually using it and not displaying it as an objet d'art on my mantle
@kattni 🤔 Now I want to build an assistant that heeds all kinds of annoyed flailings
@kattni Like, I can already imagine an inventory of gestures including such hits as: Shoo; middle finger; facepalm, head-desk; eyeroll (maybe a challenge to detect)