sornaensis

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by sornaensis 4y ago
Because Combat Mission is an actual video game analogue of Squad Leader/Advanced Squad Leader instead of a video game version of pushing chits around and rolling dice. Also, there are several clones of ASL that are published by various
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by sornaensis 4y ago
As a kid (7-8) I was forced to play acoustic guitar for several years. I didnt like any of the music (or much music at all) that I played, and ended up quitting. Later on when I discovered rock and metal music I asked my parents for an elec
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by sornaensis 4y ago
It's a proper UI and it includes in game tutorials and help pages to explain the basics of the game as well as making the game much prettier than any existing tilesets IMO. DF is also not as 'hard' as most people think, if yo
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by sornaensis 4y ago
China has raised a billion people into a comfortable standard of living by doing exactly this. Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam all have developed at substantial rates via this method as well. Maybe you're thinking of countries which a
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by sornaensis 4y ago
This is a great example that mirrors my experience with these language models so far-- Totally intelligible, syntactically correct, on topic, and utterly devoid of any real content. An extremely fancy lorem ipsum that can trick your mind in
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by sornaensis 5y ago
Peel them and boil them. : /
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by sornaensis 5y ago
Jazz theory came decades after jazz.
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by sornaensis 5y ago
I would suggest looking into proper wargames if you are interested in applying realworld military strategy or tactics: Gary Grigsby series, Combat Mission series, The Operational Art of War, Graviteam Tactics, and Campaign Series are all pr
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by sornaensis 5y ago
What 'free speech advocates' are you talking to??? Both are and should be alarming.
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by sornaensis 5y ago
The US spends more per capita because we don't control prices the same way other sane countries do; the military budget rhetoric is just a smokescreen to keep people voting in folks who are lining their own pockets. As if shrinking one
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by sornaensis 5y ago
I specifically said I don't think it applies to people with actual actual disabilities like Aspergers. Perfectly capable nerds just hide behind their intellectualism to avoid self improvement. You don't need to be a social butterf
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by sornaensis 5y ago
This is a pretty awful comparison to draw. Outside of select few conditions, pretty much everyone has the ability to hone their social skills if they want to. It's like anything else, it requires practice and some people require more &
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by sornaensis 5y ago
If my parents had noticed that I had severe social anxiety they might have considered getting me help and I potentially wouldn't have ended up as disconnected and friendless as I have via being enabled for much of my life. I didn'
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by sornaensis 5y ago
In my few years working as a dev, I am absolutely convinced that scrum and agile are the worst possible development practices you can have from the perspective of a developer, even though they are sold as 'developer centric' or th
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by sornaensis 6y ago
It is blatantly true unless you have never used it. If I look left or right I can.. look left and right. That includes looking behind myself if I turn far enough, and no your view doesn’t leave the screen that’s the point, what. You don’t t
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by sornaensis 6y ago
False, you have three axis panning as well as pitch, yaw and roll.
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by sornaensis 6y ago
TrackIR accomplishes the task that many people seem to think only a vr headset can give them: Headtracking freelook immersion; they are extremely comparable. And binocular depth perception is only one method of depth perception.. edit: >
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by sornaensis 6y ago
Comments like these make me feel like VR proponents are just people who don't know TrackIR exists. I'm not sure VR can really compete with a device that for ~200$ allows you proper view directed freelook in loads of games without
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Exponential means your input is the exponent, eg y=2^x or y=e^x.
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Agreed, those parts of the post seemed highly filled with contempt and even though I can empathize with that, it's not a good look. The description of the author's responses in the company chatroom remind me of highly toxic irc ch
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Despair, as people are now able to move freely to areas with cheaper land values and buy houses for themselves instead of remaining rent slaves.
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by sornaensis 7y ago
The flu has a mortality rate of something like 0.1%, 200 our of 7000 is already 3%, 30x as deadly. Of course these aren't final numbers but the flu infects and afflicts vastly many more people than it kills.
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Surely having fewer points of information control makes auditing for suspicious/malicious edits easier than relying on auditing individual articles?
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by sornaensis 7y ago
How is this different from voting by mail, then? e.g. basically everyone in Oregon votes by mail only.
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Wholeheartedly disagree-- if casting a ballot was as easy as sending a text instead of receiving and then mailing a letter or going to a polling location, I would predict much higher participation. People don't see it worth their time
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by sornaensis 7y ago
A typical bullet weighs about 8 grams. And usually range from about 4-16 grams.
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Nobody wants a stylus to operate their phone or ipod or what have you. Styluses were a product of limited technology in those specific devices. And even modern stylus implementations are lackluster IMO. I had a surface book for a while I us
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Eh this essay is a bit off to me. The issue with modern US politics, or our politics in general I guess, is the tendency for two groups to emerge, one of which everyone generally has to belong to somehow. Most people are pretty rational abo
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by sornaensis 7y ago
Easy by what possible metric. Even if you did do this in someplace all you'd get is a bunch of pissed off locals who get rid of those ordinances. Any anti-wasteful packaging strategy would have to go after the businesses producing thes
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by sornaensis 7y ago
"Serious Games" -- usually niche simulation type games -- can easily retail for $80+ for the base game, and then you pay for DLC expansions at around $20-40 a pop. Examples: Gary Grigsby, Command: Modern Operations, Steel Beasts,

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