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by vunderba 5mo ago
Nice job. I'm assuming this was inspired by Crypt of the Necrodancer? It even has a similar looking "bounce" motion when the main player moves. https://store.steampowered.com/app/247080/Crypt_of_the_
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by vunderba 5mo ago
I've been the DM of a weekly campaign with the same group of friends for nearly a decade now. Over the past few years, I’ve seen a lot of attempts at AI meets D&D, and most of them suffer from fairly pedestrian puzzles and stories,
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by vunderba 5mo ago
Not to me it doesn't, to me it says, "Hey I couldn't be bothered to put in the bare minimum of effort to look over an image that is going to be the LITERAL face of my upcoming book" . Took me 10 minutes to do this with
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by vunderba 5mo ago
I'll only use those for deep-tissue massage.
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by vunderba 5mo ago
I worked at an e‑waste center in the early 2000s that eventually shut down, and as a result still have roughly 50 pounds of old pagers in various states of disrepair. One of my personal chindogu ideas (someday) is to wire them all up so I c
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by vunderba 5mo ago
Would go well with the condiment pen. https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Condiment_Pen
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by vunderba 5mo ago
There have been a few attempts at this. I think the most well-known one is probably this one [1]. While we’re at it, I’d love to see a physical version of the seseame street pinbal table [2], though that one might be a bit more ambitious. :
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by vunderba 5mo ago
hahaha. IIRC Microsoft MARL is good friends with Microsoft BLOB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
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by vunderba 5mo ago
An even bigger issue to me is that people who most frequently tend to avail themselves of AI art also tend to be the least observant. So even when the AI-generated image could have been good or at least serviceable , they somehow still man
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by vunderba 5mo ago
I remember being introduced to QBASIC as a kid, and at the time the use of extended ASCII characters for the graphics in Nibbles.bas was legit next-level to me.
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by vunderba 5mo ago
Yeah I could see that. I think Apple being naturally more vertically integrated (controlling the hardware and the software), was able to establish a stronger narrative around its identity early on in order to court certain types of people.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
> Is it possible to get people to throw their phone off a bridge for a high score? In fact there was actually a fairly well-known app that Apple removed from the App Store about a decade ago that used the accelerometer to measure how h
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by vunderba 6mo ago
To me it looks more like the early versions of Borland C++ for MS-DOS but yes similar TUIs. https://imgur.com/a/qspuIBj
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by vunderba 6mo ago
From the article: > Contrapuntal to the list of things we must buy on each visit, there is perhaps a more controversial list. That's... a very strange application of the word. I’ve only ever seen it used in the context of baroque
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by vunderba 6mo ago
> It’s a foreign concept for many of us who seek out the best product or deals for each purchase and will change brands in an instant if another company releases a better product. For those of us who grew up in the era of the "Are
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. I don’t really have much to add about the product itself, but that’s largely because all of my jobs over the last decade have come through referrals from my personal network. So personally I don’t have as much need for something l
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Very cool. It’s been a while, but years ago I remember using a nice little tool that somebody had made that let you export BMP pictures to an array you could drop into an Arduino C program for displaying on an RGB LED matrix.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice~ I used to do something similar back when I made little games in BASIC using blocks of sequential DATA keywords to visually represent on/off pixels for the various sprites.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on pixel art, I immediately noticed that something was off on the logo [1]. When I brought the PNG down, it looks like when you were trying to clean the asset (probably a backgrou
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by vunderba 6mo ago
While this is neat, if you grew up with MS-DOS, this isn’t really what most people associate with the classic bright-blue TUI editor of EDIT.COM. As it stands, it feels closer to EDLIN (though still far more advanced than EDLIN ever was).
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Why on earth would you use an AI-generated image [1] (let me be clear: POOR AI IMAGE) for the banner of this project? If you're going to use genai, you need to make sure it actually looks acceptable. Do at least one careful pass over i
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yeah, I agree, I think specificity is key. If you leave an LLM, or any AI model, to its own devices, it gravitates to the figurative "mean of its training data" which tends to be pretty sterile. I actually have some examples of
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Pianoteq has mostly replaced my old Kontakt libraries in my DAW outside of course, miking my actual piano. Also Audio Modeling has been in the business of creating physically modeled virtual instruments, including the violin (under the SWAM
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by vunderba 6mo ago
So just to be clear, the technical postmortem is very interesting. I’d never heard of hyperframes [1] either, so I’ll have to check that out. But (and again, I know this isn’t the point of the article) the big problem is that its practicall
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice job. This might be kind of a pain, but I'd love to see a real-world application of Prospero. Consider doing a screen recording while you use it on an article you're working on, then turning that into a time-lapse demo.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I’ve seen stuff like this before. The problem is that it doesn’t really look much better than using something like an HQx4 filter [1] which uses an anti-aliasing lookup table to produce a sharper results than Super Eagle but in the process
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by vunderba 6mo ago
It wasn't intended as such, but I take your point. To provide a bit more context: Weizenbaum (a computer scientist in the 60s) developed ELIZA, a LISP-based chatbot that was loosely modeled on Rogerian psychotherapy. It was designed to
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by vunderba 6mo ago
That’s a different thing altogether. Read up on the history of Eliza, one of the earliest attempts at a chatbot and its unsettling implications. https://www.history.com/articles/ai-first-chatbot-eliza-arti...
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by vunderba 6mo ago
This is completely unrelated to your game - but your HN profile description reads: "A short, study creature fond of drink and industry" . I'm assuming that's a typo and you intended "sturdy". Just thought this
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by vunderba 6mo ago
As Graham would say, "Woah wait a minute!" . Unfortunately Sierra hasn't been around for 18 years at this point and is now currently owned by Microsoft Activision. I'd also love to see another point-and-click KQ game in

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