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by jere 6y ago
No. Most gamers now have a different definition of roguelike vs roguelite. They consider action games to fall into both categories and the distinguishing factor is only that "roguelikes" have no metaprogression. This is totally di
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by jere 6y ago
Right. The only thing that can potentially carry over across DCSS runs is a "player ghost", which actually makes the game much harder rather than easier. In any case that's a very small part of the game.
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by jere 6y ago
> I honestly didn’t even knew Quibi existed until this year or maybe late 2019 Uhh..so? It didn't even launch until April 2020.
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by jere 6y ago
Pretty thorough but with one disappointing gap (disappointing for me at least). While it does cover my game Dumuzid (probably the first roguelike focused around multitile monsters) it skips over another I made a couple years later which is
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by jere 6y ago
Considering they're removing food completely yea. I do think most of the changes are thoughtful and make sense but sanding all the edges off makes the game seem a little bland these days.
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by jere 6y ago
I can always count on HN to take an uplifting story, ignore its contents, and complain about a perfectly reasonable headline. Anyway, when was a kid I used to think retirement would be the perfect opportunity to do a massive amount of gamin
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by jere 6y ago
Who still uses analog clocks though? If you don't care for modern tech, just wake up with the sun and you're on time anyway. The idea of keeping track of this system in software sounds terrifying though. Getting rid of DST would s
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by jere 6y ago
The abstract is indeed fascinating and I'm reading through the full text, which is so far mostly easy to understand for a layman. The high number of typos throws me a bit though. Amusingly they even misspell their central idea "Ov
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by jere 6y ago
I'm fairly certain compressing random data is nonsensical. In fact there's a cash prize challenge for doing it that has been unmet for 20 years. https://marknelson.us/posts/2012/10/09/the-random
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by jere 6y ago
I found all of that remarkably prescient except for this: >To reach that age you'll need to know enough to make more complicated medical choices: Do I want to jettison a limb and wait five years to regrow another? Shall I allow a ph
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by jere 6y ago
I admit to not having read his book and I think his argument is technically "airtight". I will grant that. But the real problem, besides me strongly believing 1 and 2 are true, is that Bostrom (or more charitably, his fans) are co
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by jere 6y ago
I'm fine with saying it's unknowable. Likewise with the existence of God, it's hard to falsify but very easy to point out that the certain interpretations sounds extraordinarily silly and the proponents who claim to be certai
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by jere 6y ago
In order to make the simulation hypothesis remotely believable, you have to assume a dozen premises which are nonstarters. In particular: >Simulating the entire universe down to the quantum level is obviously infeasible, unless radically
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by jere 6y ago
The solution to ban onion futures trading seems shortsighted. Couldn't this happen again with another type of future contract? Was there really nothing else that Kosuga did that was illegal or could be made illegal?
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by jere 6y ago
Incredibly dumb question, but doesn't datadog monitor errors out of the box?
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by jere 7y ago
Yea, just from reading about Dreams it seems basically like a game engine more than a game, albeit a very accessible one that also highlights user generated content prominently a la Mario Maker. Game creation tools have never been very acce
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by jere 7y ago
No doubt. I have a one year old and playing Slay the Spire on Switch is the greatest thing ever because I can just fit it into whatever I'm doing. Maybe I should pursue this console harder... I know that review ratio isn't perfect
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by jere 7y ago
25k? Interesting. I would guess about 2,500 copies based on your Steam review count. Did you sell a lot more on Switch or something? I really would be surprised if an ASCII game could sell 20k on Switch.
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by jere 7y ago
Both Cogmind and Caves of Qud have optional tiles that look like little more than ASCII. Door in the Woods is ASCII only and has sold ~5,000 copies in about a month. In fact this game has inspired me to try to work on a pure ASCII roguelike
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by jere 7y ago
I was on a podcast with Keith Burgun from Dinofarm recently. We talked about Auro among many other things. I only mention it because nobody ever talks about that game but it's one of my favorites: https://keithburgun.net&#x2
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by jere 7y ago
I worked at a university a while back. Found a student's wallet in a park one day while running, but I couldn't find any contact info. I looked them up in the university database to find their phone number and was able to meet up
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by jere 7y ago
I did not think to make the demo mobile friendly. Perhaps it won't be that hard. Thanks!
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Show HN: JavaScript broughlike tutorial(nluqo.github.io)
19 points by jere 7y ago|4 comments
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by jere 7y ago
The diagram explaining recessive genes uses blue for unaffected and red for affected. In an article about recessive genes for blue skin...
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by jere 7y ago
>Password hash dumps are worthless if the password hashing scheme used is i)crypto-hashing based and ii) uses salt. >6-8 char passwords are not an issue under this scenario. I don't think so. Unless you meant something other than
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by jere 7y ago
Call me extremely naive but I thought the point of a trial was to expose all the facts and give both sides ample time to do so, not to try to win over a "crucial advantage" by playing games. Seems like bad ethics in addition to ba
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by jere 7y ago
The laziness of these articles is astonishing. Myth #5 is "Hitting the Snooze Button". That's not a myth. It's not a claim or belief of any kind.
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18,000mAh battery has a phone in it(theverge.com)
14 points by jere 8y ago|13 comments
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by jere 8y ago
This year's 7DRL starts in just over a month, on March 2! :) https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2019 I can highly recommend the challenge. It's a great community, it's got an organized judging phase, and
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by jere 8y ago
It would be cool to see the cells checked as well. To someone unfamiliar with BFS, the demo makes it seem like the process of finding the solution doesn't involve exploring any other tiles than the solution itself.

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