I've played Cultist Simulator too! I remember winning (ascending) just once after quite a few hours. The aesthetics and sound design in that game fit together real nicely, and I always suggest to my friends to play that game blind
I can provide 2 examples of text in games that I've never been tired of reading:
- OSRS quests: Even though the "press spacebar in quests" meme still applies, the quest dialogue box is small enough - with a decent sized font [1]- that I don't feel tired reading through the tidbits one box at a time
- Control: I'm a big fan of SCP so I have an _incentive_ to go through all of the collectible files, then read through them. In this instance, having optional incentivized reads massively boost my enjoyment of the game.
Here's a video that brings more perspective from My Deep Guide who reviews quite a whole lot of e-ink devices (timestamped for relevant part): https://youtu.be/K79MPnPq4_M?t=508
The thing that stood out for me is the way they push for a subscription as you purchase your device. The Marker Plus used to be $99, but they inflated the price to be $129 so that if you choose the Connect plan, it "slashes" the price back to $99 - how it originally cost before, according to the video.
For context. Runelite HD is an graphical overhaul plug-in to go with Runelite, the de-facto 3rd party client for OSRS players. The project has been announced a while ago and regularly updated (teased).
This morning we learn that the plug-in would have been released today, but Jagex has asked the developer to shut it down.
I have never seen an app developer berate a customer for saying that ads are disgusting, but that changed today. From one of the review's replies"
"You, instead of Puffin, are disgusting. You are OK to pay for the phone. You are OK to pay for the mobile data. You are NOT willing to pay for the app that you use extensively. You need to fix yourself for not being disgusting."
Glad to hear it's working out for you on the work front Geoffrey. Do you have any concerns about long-term plans living in the van?
Also, any cool stories to tell about power maintenance? I see you have giant solar panels but wonder if they're enough for your daily workload - do you have enough power at night?
Sorry if you've answered these questions before, I'm new to your blog!
For that 4th bullet, did you mean "hóa vàng"? I think the paper stuff that's burned symbolizes things that will be carried to the afterlife - where their ancestors/dead loved ones currently are. This is why you may find many modern objects like phones, cars or even houses in small paper forms ready to be hóa vàng-ed.
Welp, after messing around with a few voices I was completely impressed with Glados's. This is really cool because I have no idea how the character's voice was synthesized, but apparently ML can do it for me so props to that.
> We want every developer to be able to collaborate on GitHub, and we are working with the US government to secure similar licenses for developers in Crimea and Syria as well.
I'm very interested in hearing about the experience of HN people from these regions in terms of open source collabs. Since Github has such a large presence, what are you all using instead?
This is a really tough question to answer because it depends on who's asking the question. On a forum like HN you'll find that these questions are often asked anywhere from the context of a small-scale startup ("I built a platform to predict stock signals "before the crowds know". What's next?") to mid-scale ("I want to build a deep-learning powered engine to clone people's voice") to real high level stuff (Autonomous vehicles).
What's the common trend in those 3 cases? They identified a need for a service using Deep Learning/Trend Analysis, but that's just one subset of a field. Fortunately for you, if you frequent HN enough you'll have no trouble figuring out the cross-section of (what you're good at) X (what's hot right now).
Off-topic but that small scale example got instantly flagged on HN while I was still figuring out what OP's company was about
I think 32c3 (and the amount of hacks after) really opened the gateway to 3DS modding [1]. I had my eyes glued on the screen with what they'd revealed at the time.
I hope Smea, Derrek, Pluto et. al were approached by Nintendo in a different way because those guys had been stellar throughout the scene's life.
