Waxing lunacy
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
@error said in Waxing lunacy:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
the device for those keystrokes is over there in that room, and I'm over here in this room (specifically the kitchen),
You mean my cell phone that's sitting in the kitchen while I'm in the office?
Or in my case, the one that's sitting in the living room while I'm in the kitchen cooking stuff. I can look at the calendar if the mood strikes me without getting ... stuff ... on my phone.
Why would you need to look at the calendar while cooking? In any case that's what alexa is for.
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@dangeRuss said in Waxing lunacy:
Why would you need to look at the calendar while cooking? In any case that's what alexa is for.
The calendar also has Alexa. Just different kind
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@dkf said in Waxing lunacy:
@kazitor said in Waxing lunacy:
it’s clearly far more important to the Unicode Consortium to create a parallel encoding where every face is a cat, than it is to address the most prominent and pervasive problem in all of modern society
It's more important to the Unicode Consortium to make the moon vomit than it is to make to make the moon point the right way in the southern hemisphere.
It's all the cheese.
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@dkf said in Waxing lunacy:
It's more important to the Unicode Consortium to make the moon vomit
VOMITINGshould be a modifier that can be combined with any Unicode character.
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@dangeRuss said in Waxing lunacy:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
@error said in Waxing lunacy:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
the device for those keystrokes is over there in that room, and I'm over here in this room (specifically the kitchen),
You mean my cell phone that's sitting in the kitchen while I'm in the office?
Or in my case, the one that's sitting in the living room while I'm in the kitchen cooking stuff. I can look at the calendar if the mood strikes me without getting ... stuff ... on my phone.
Why would you need to look at the calendar while cooking? In any case that's what alexa is for.
Pictures. Of. Mostly-naked. Or. Totally-naked. Women.
Duh.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
@dangeRuss said in Waxing lunacy:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
@error said in Waxing lunacy:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
the device for those keystrokes is over there in that room, and I'm over here in this room (specifically the kitchen),
You mean my cell phone that's sitting in the kitchen while I'm in the office?
Or in my case, the one that's sitting in the living room while I'm in the kitchen cooking stuff. I can look at the calendar if the mood strikes me without getting ... stuff ... on my phone.
Why would you need to look at the calendar while cooking? In any case that's what alexa is for.
Pictures. Of. Mostly-naked. Or. Totally-naked. Women.
Duh.
Just make sure you're not cooking with jalapeños when you do that. Also that's what echo show is for.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Waxing lunacy:
Pictures. Of. Mostly-naked. Or. Totally-naked. Women.
But why do you need a calendar attached to those pictures?
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@cvi If you just have naked pictures up all over the place, people might think you're some kind of dirt bag, whereas if you have a calendar that's a classy, practical item.
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@hungrier said in Waxing lunacy:
if you have a calendar that's a classy, practical item.
Maybe if you work at an auto-shop. I doubt any girls visiting are going to appreciate those pictures.
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@dangeRuss said in Waxing lunacy:
@hungrier said in Waxing lunacy:
if you have a calendar that's a classy, practical item.
Maybe if you work at an auto-shop. I doubt any girls visiting are going to appreciate those pictures.
I usually try to not have the calendar visible in the background on video calls. But then, since you-know-what we’re doing nothing but video calls, so I’ve gone mostly “not my problem”.
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@topspin said in Waxing lunacy:
@dangeRuss said in Waxing lunacy:
@hungrier said in Waxing lunacy:
if you have a calendar that's a classy, practical item.
Maybe if you work at an auto-shop. I doubt any girls visiting are going to appreciate those pictures.
I usually try to
not have the calendar visible in the backgroundwear pants on video calls. But then, since you-know-what we’re doing nothing but video calls, so I’ve gone mostly “not my problem”.
I always wear pants during video calls. My computers are in a non-private room, and my son would be very uncomfortable if I were not wearing pants, video call or not. Also, we don't do video calls for work; we did one or two when the lock-down first started, but I've not seen anyone with their camera on since probably April. There is a regular video call of a church small group that I sometimes attend, but I always wear pants for a variety of reasons.
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@HardwareGeek I always wear pants at work. They're just usually not the kind of pants (ie the kind with a belt, etc) that I'd wear to work in person.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Waxing lunacy:
@HardwareGeek I always wear pants at work. They're just usually not the kind of pants (ie the kind with a belt, etc) that I'd wear to work in person.
Sweat pants! Stretchy comfort.
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@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Waxing lunacy:
@HardwareGeek I always wear pants at work. They're just usually not the kind of pants (ie the kind with a belt, etc) that I'd wear to work in person.
Sweat pants! Stretchy comfort.
Yup. Although some of mine are either more fancy ("trainer pants," basically a male and not so skin-tight version of yoga pants, with thinner fabric and more tailoring than sweat pants) or less (basically just pajama pants).
Oddly, I dress up much more on weekends than I do during the week. Even on Saturday. Since that's when I go out and do my shopping.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Waxing lunacy:
Since that's when I go out and do my shopping.
Sweat pants! (I do put on my jeans for my dog agility class)
That said, they're kinda nice sweats. All black, straight legs (no elastic at the bottom)
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@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Waxing lunacy:
Since that's when I go out and do my shopping.
Sweat pants! (I do put on my jeans for my dog agility class)
That said, they're kinda nice sweats. All black, straight legs (no elastic at the bottom)
My body shape (ie my flab) means that if I don't have a belt, pants don't stay up under load. Putting things in sweat pants pockets is a bad idea.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Waxing lunacy:
Putting things in sweat pants pockets is a bad idea.
Good thing it's winter. That's what jackets are for!
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@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Waxing lunacy:
@HardwareGeek I always wear pants at work. They're just usually not the kind of pants (ie the kind with a belt, etc) that I'd wear to work in person.
Sweat pants! Stretchy comfort.
I generally put on sweats when I get up in the morning and change into jeans after I shower. These days, I may or may not get around to showering; if I do, it may not be until after the workday. (If I were working in the office, I'd usually wear slacks, and I'd definitely shower before going to work.)
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@HardwareGeek said in Waxing lunacy:
@dkf said in Waxing lunacy:
It's more important to the Unicode Consortium to make the moon vomit
VOMITINGshould be a modifier that can be combined with any Unicode character.
'd three posts up in this chain...@remi said in Waxing lunacy:
Whether that will accepted before or after Klingon, and before or after vomiting moon, I don't know.
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@kazitor said in Waxing lunacy:
I looked further into this, and it turns out moongate goes even deeper.
I think they don't go far enough. They acknowledge themselves that northern/southern hemisphere variations are not enough to cover the equatorial view and the slant that the actual Moon shows at various latitudes/time, so by just adding two variations they're really not addressing this issue.
I think what Unicode needs is some sort of continuous modifier plane (variation selector? whatever cricket lingo they use...) where you can encode any rotation angle. Ideally font systems would have an additional mechanism for triggers (such as time or location change) that would cause a re-draw with the correct picture.
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@remi I didn't look at the xkcd, but the post about vomiting moon was what made me thing of a
VOMITINGmodifier. But I had in mind a modifier for any character, not just emoji.LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER N+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER I+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER C+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER O+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER D+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER E+VOMITING
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@remi said in Waxing lunacy:
@kazitor said in Waxing lunacy:
I looked further into this, and it turns out moongate goes even deeper.
I think they don't go far enough. They acknowledge themselves that northern/southern hemisphere variations are not enough to cover the equatorial view and the slant that the actual Moon shows at various latitudes/time, so by just adding two variations they're really not addressing this issue.
I think what Unicode needs is some sort of continuous modifier plane (variation selector? whatever cricket lingo they use...) where you can encode any rotation angle. Ideally font systems would have an additional mechanism for triggers (such as time or location change) that would cause a re-draw with the correct picture.
Is Unicode turing complete yet?
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@remi, @HardwareGeek please stop!
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@HardwareGeek said in Waxing lunacy:
@remi I didn't look at the xkcd, but the post about vomiting moon was what made me thing of a
VOMITINGmodifier. But I had in mind a modifier for any character, not just emoji.LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER N+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER I+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER C+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER O+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER D+VOMITINGLATIN SMALL LETTER E+VOMITINGI think it would be more efficient if you could group characters together first.
(LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ULATIN SMALL LETTER NLATIN SMALL LETTER ILATIN SMALL LETTER CLATIN SMALL LETTER OLATIN SMALL LETTER DLATIN SMALL LETTER E)+VOMITING(though it depends whether you are vomiting once per letter, or continuously vomiting all the while...)
Of course that might require some changes in how Unicode works, but then it would probably give a definitive answer to @sloosecannon's question:
Is Unicode turing complete yet?
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@remi said in Waxing lunacy:
though it depends whether you are vomiting once per letter, or continuously vomiting all the while
I was thinking once per letter, but either way works.
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@topspin
now I want a
combo
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So actually we need a moon phase symbols array in the DateTimeFormat class of the Globalization namespace...
Like the AM/PM modifier or MM/dd/yyyy or WeekdayNames etc.
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@Luhmann said in Waxing lunacy:
@topspin
now I want a comboEmoji Kitchen cooks up a new batch of mashups
Since we introduced Emoji Kitchen earlier this year with a few hundred emoji combinations, people have shared more than 3 billion stickers to express the range of emotions they’ve felt in 2020. With today’s update, we're expanding to more than 14,000 combinations and improving the mixing experience...
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@loopback0
not sure what to think of it
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@hungrier said in Waxing lunacy:
whereas if you have a calendar that's a classy, practical item.
*pressing 'X'*
If you actually want to go for classy/artsy, just print the pictures in washed out grey-scale. Instant art.
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@Deadfast said in Waxing lunacy:
@dcon said in Waxing lunacy:
Good thing it's winter.
Not according to my hemisphere!
As we've proven with the unicode moon, you don't matter!
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@loopback0 linked in Waxing lunacy:
people have shared more than 3 billion stickers to express the range of emotions they’ve felt in 2020
3 billion stickers just for anger, boredom and hopelessness?
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@Gąska said in Waxing lunacy:
@loopback0 linked in Waxing lunacy:
people have shared more than 3 billion stickers to express the range of emotions they’ve felt in 2020
3 billion stickers just for anger, boredom and hopelessness?
2.9 billion
variants and 0.1 billion instances of the wrong one being pressed
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@loopback0 said in Waxing lunacy:
@Gąska said in Waxing lunacy:
@loopback0 linked in Waxing lunacy:
people have shared more than 3 billion stickers to express the range of emotions they’ve felt in 2020
3 billion stickers just for anger, boredom and hopelessness?
2.9 billion
variants and 0.1 billion instances of the wrong one being pressedTwo code points, when there are now thousands allocated to various shades of poo!
:poo_in_steamy_room_medium_pink_skin_tone:
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@topspin also this:
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@topspin I don't know what game that is, but I don't think I want to play it.
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@Gąska
you're collecting it, not fucking it.Oh wait, you're talking about your weapons breaking if you hold them wrong. Yeah...
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@topspin there being OVER 900!!! seeds to collect, with about 10 unique tasks on repeat, is still fucking bullshit. Yes, I know you don't need all of them, but even the 300 that you need to max out inventory space is way too much.
Recently I've seen a video that goes in depth explaining the design philosophy behind recent Nintendo games, and helped me understand why I hate playing this game so much despite loving the game itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrZX1lEKnc
TL;DR: Nintendo seems to believe intrinsic motivations - wanting to play the game and explore its world because it's fun - are much better than extrinsic motivations, ie. specific goals and rewards. Which is a good philosophy, except they took it to an extreme degree and deliberately avoided almost any form of tangible rewards in their games. One of the consequences is that character progression is basically non-existent, and Breath of the Wild is the game where it's most visible. Other than hearts, stamina, inventory space, and armor, Link doesn't get any stronger. He learns no new abilities, he doesn't raise his stats, and even if he finds a good weapon, it soon breaks up. And Korok seeds (sp?) - there's way more of them than you need to max out, and even maxing out provides only marginal benefit over collecting just 50 or so (which is like 6% of the total available). And it's all on purpose so you don't go collecting Korok seeds except if you really like collecting Korok seeds. And frankly, with just 10 challenges repeated over and over again, collecting Korok seeds is pretty boring.
I'm not saying it's necessarily bad design. But it's definitely not for me.
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@Gąska yeah, it’s impossible to do without a map. I haven’t even killed all Hinoxes. In fact, I didn’t realize how many I’ve never even seen before checking Kilton and then a map. I thought the only Stal Hinox was the one guarding the Hylian Shield in the castle. Not going to collect all Koroks for a poop joke either, but you got to admit it’s a pretty meta admission that the reward for it is crap.
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@topspin For some stupid reason I'm considering picking up a copy of the game on Switch and replaying it (I've played through the main campaign + a lot of screwing around, on the WiiU version). The main thing holding me back is that I can't find any copies less than $60 CAD, even used. But then again, in a way that's just reinforcing how not doing it is by far the better idea.
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@Gąska I feel I've posted the exact same thing on a previous video before, but anyways:
Is that guy German? I absolutely cannot stand listening to his accent for longer than a few minutes, and I'd be afraid to sound like that myself.
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@topspin Austrian. I don't know if that's a yes or no.
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@Gąska close enough.
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@HardwareGeek they literally call themselves Eastern Reich.
