qwertyuiop924

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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yeah. You know, I wonder if we could use dfhack and LD_PRELOAD to force df to do some multithreading.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Wow. Now I get what 1d4chan meant when they said the game was gutting itself with each progressive update.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
>Trolling, to me, just aggravates the actual problem: deep socioeconomic/racial/sexual inequities. Trolling needn't have anything to do with any of those subjects. It has, however, become associated with them, as trolling
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I would argue that not just anyone can be a troll. Or at least, an effective one. As disgusting as the words sound, there is an art to hurting people, and most trolls are downright comic.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's true. People complain about being banned, and then it turns out that they called someone's mother a hamster. Not that there isn't some awful part of me thinks it's a little bit funny to tweet gay porn at the alt-r
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
For the most part, they're more annoying than anything else. But wow, are they annoying.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive answer! As a fan of Zachtronics games, This definitely sounds like something I might like. >so much of modern modded minecraft consists of building a single pipe and attaching appropriate outlets to it (AE2 b
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Like I said, I was aiming for a game that had similar depth/complexity tradeoffs to DF, but which wasn't situated in the simulation/sandbox genre, where all comers have to be compared to DF, and most don't measure up. Gi
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's true. I actually agree, the wording could have been better.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I know. MotN is the game that got me into the stealth genre. Then I started playing Thief: The Dark Project. I still haven't beaten the first level of that... :-(
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Wait, that was Klei? ...I need to start keeping tabs on those guys, like I do with Yacht Club, Supergiant, and Zachtronics.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Fair enough... I would argue that Quake has a lot more emergent complexity in its mechanics than a lot of other FPSes. Deathmatch has elements of territory control - moreso than in the Halo/COD lineage, as I understand it. And because
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Sounds an awful lot like modded MC to me... Go check out the Feed The Beast modpack or something of that sort for a taste of it.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Okay. Your comment made me think otherwise. Sorry...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's totally fair, and I would expect it. So there's a major benefit for server owners...
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Have you played modded Minecraft? The automation systems there are extremely elaborate, leaving redstone in the dust, and it's been like that for a very long time now. We've got lua-scriptable actors, we've got elaborate Re
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
World Anchors have long been a feature of many mods, which let you keep map segments loaded while you're away. Mind, you still can't simulate the entire map, and it's generally rough around the edges, but it mostly works.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Klei? Heh. I didn't see them making those sorts of games. Loved MotN, though, so I might give it a go.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
That's total and absolute nonsense. Speaking as a linux user with a good bit of experience with sed, awk, and regex, DF is way worse.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Really? Like what?
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
From what I can tell, Factorio is just top-down modded Minecraft, with less of a community. So I'd go for MC over FIO. But I haven't played FIO, so maybe I'm nuts. Anyways, if you like either game, try literally every game Za
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Dwarf Fortress fills its niche very well, to the point that anything that tries to make the same tradeoffs (extreme depth at the cost of accessability) in the same arena will inevitably be compared to DF unfavorably. But I will argue that D
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Any suggestions for those of us who like the Now Launcher? In fact, any suggestions generally? I could go for a lighter launcher.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
It looks like it might be a nice language to write stuff for the GBA with. Or the GB/CGB, for that matter, but space is much more limited there.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
This might revive my interest in Generals, as I found it a mixture of boring and excitingly stressful when I played by hand. However, because Generals is an RTS, bots might have a pretty steep advantage (although movements take a good bit o
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
many of us wouldn't. In fact, this was my initial reaction. However, many (especially people within the industry, so most of HN) disagree, as does the US legal code.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Good point. OTOH, that wasn't actual theft , IP or otherwise, just abuse of office materials and computers. Infocom did similar things at MIT in their early days, IIRC. So this accusation is much more serious than anything that Carmac
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
And as we all know, Altair BASIC is the software about which "An Open Letter To Hobbyists" was written.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
>The crop of tablet/cell-addicted kids is a sad state of affairs. Speaking as one of them, yes. They're hard to program, no fun, and even the BASIC offering won't let you do much.
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by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Wait, did I say AGS-101? Sorry, mistake on my part. I meant my AGB-001

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