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I hear you, it's not that I don't like combat games, it's just that they're overdone and the medium has so much potential. The story and atmosphere are usually what draw me into a game, and the gameplay mechanics are usually just a means to an end of progressing through the story.

I'm going to focus entirely on first person non-combat games because I prefer first person and it's more rare for them to be non-combat. First up are FP games with interesting game premises or mechanics:

The Occupation, absolutely zero other games like this. You are a journalist during a politically charged period in history, and you wander about beautifully crafted old institutional buildings in order to find documents and clues that you can use during your interviews with various people. The story you are putting together centres around a murder, but it's really a story about political manipulation, immigration and corruption in policymaking. Sounds a bit dry, but it is both relaxing and thrilling.

Hardspace: you're a ship-breaker in an orbital space ship breaking yard, and you float around using tools to slowly pull apart ships for scrapping. It's got a comical dystopian sense of humour and a decent story line.

INFRA: Absolute hidden gem. You are a structural engineer, sent out on an inspection job. As you follow the path of infrastructure degredation, a series of mishaps pull you deeper and deeper into the cities hidden infrastructure, through dams, power stations, water processing plants, steel mills or underground water infrastructure. The game has a good, dry sense of humor, and the story is good. Each location has some system or facility you can take the time to fix, or you can just keep moving through the story.

Jazzpunk: A spy game, but as if it were written by a 17 year old on mushrooms.

Outer Wilds, others have mentioned it, but you can't miss this one!

Portal 1, 2, though I suspect you would know of these already.

The Witness, a fantastic atmospheric exploration and world-puzzle game, I think watching a bit of it on YouTube probably shows it off well but it's just a great world to spend time in.

Event[0], your only friend is a well scripted space station AI, it uses a natural language typing interface and you have to talk to him while you wander around the station trying to figure out what happened and how to get back home.

The Stanley Parable, a very funny exploration of choice in videogames. I'm really underselling it.

Teardown, voxel based demolition game where you have puzzles and objectives to achieve with the tools and vehicles of construction and destruction at your fingertips.

Superliminal, a game where each object you grab changes in size to match the perspective of where you are looking. Great sense of humor as well.
The authoritarian far left and far right are very close together, with a tiny bit different politics, but the same end results. It's not a coincidence that the commies and the nazis started the WW2 together... somehow the modern left forgets the soviets/communist involvement.
The worst case scenario is that the country changes its mind about morality (happens a lot and not just as a result of invasions and coups), and suddenly a particular group which can be identified by shopping preferences is now at risk.

Imagine if this was happening in America before and then during the Prohibition era and how grape juice and yeast sales would look.

Or abortifacients and birth control pills today, given the relevant news story in the US (consider what could plausibility happen not just what actually has happened) and certain politicians describing the latter as the former.
He admits himself there may have never been documents.

I don't think it reads as made up, but it really does seem like there's not really anything there.

A meeting that did not happen with someone that may or may not have had something....
Broken into a second comment so my other wasn't impenetrable: more notable walking sim, puzzle and first person story games:

The Amnesia games and SOMA games don't technically have combat, but they are very spooky. Perhaps for playing on your own, SOMA especially is a once in a lifetime gaming experience story and world wise.

The Solus Project

The Talos Principle

ADR1FT

Aporia

The Assembly

Alien: isolation (minor combat, very spooky)

Close to the Sun

Dear Esther

What Remains of Edith Finch

Deliver Us The Moon

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald (short and funny, would be great half hour journey with the kids)

Eastshade (admittedly never finished it, but it's about wandering a unique world and painting commissions for people)

Escape Simulator is a decent escape room game

Ether One Redux, pretty sad actually

Firewatch, a must play in the genre

Call of the Sea, unique story adventure

The Myst games, some recent remakes are really well done and modern adaptions.

Quern - Undying Thoughts, probably the best myst-like I've played.

Haven Moon, Myst-like story puzzle game

Obduction

Pollen

Stories Untold

Tacoma

Tartarus
What are the upsides/downsides of water currents vs air currents here?

Is one more consistent than the other?

I imagine that water has more chunks to filter.

Water requires a smaller turbine.

..?
That's the programming language upon which HN (and moderation tools?) is built, afaik
Moved to Doppler a couple of weeks ago and never looked back. I put up for way too long with Apple Music and streaming.
Yeah avoiding LC interviews typically means missing out on most of the high paying companies, for some it’s worth it
...That just degenerates to propping up the duopoly! That won't change anything.

I'm straight up against any methodology that blunts the sting of no confidence in the two big parties. They should absolutely have to react to shifting priorities. That means, no safety net. Otherwise, you're handing them the same election advantage they've always enjoyed and just handwaving the entire issue.

It sounds more to me like we need to start tracking negative votes (not this person) as well. It's bollocks that no confidence is treated as "I have no opinion".
Not for recent hardware - Ice Lake eliminated the throttling on 256b ops (they already didn't exist for certain 256b ops and all smaller ops), and reduced the throttling to almost nothing for 512b ops. Rocket Lake eliminated the throttling for 512b ops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#Dow...

They do use a lot of power (and as a result, generate a lot of heat), so they can still cause thermal throttling, or throttling due to power limits - but there's no more "AVX offset"
There’s a critically acclaimed book on the analogy. Even if you think it’s not technically accurate doesn’t mean it’s not a valuable perspective. And given how malleable languages is technically-accurate isn’t even very solid :).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_The_Origins_of_Our_Di...
It mostly comes from the Sun. It spews so much energy at Earth that all humanity consumption doesn't make a dent in it.
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It's not. Blue is my least favourite colour.

So there!

>One study of 330 children between 4-11 years old found they used their favourite colours when drawing a "nice" character and tended to use black when drawing a "nasty" character...

Oh noes. Someone will be along to be offended about 'Ray-cism' in a minute!
I am still setting up the website, the links will start working around sunday evening of June 5th 2022. Until then you can email me at ( morphle at ziggo dot nl ).

I am making it a community site, with a HN type discussion forum and video blog hosting.

Fiber internet outside of a town is very much a problem in Spain! Electricity hookup (its called 'Solar' in Spanish) is almost impossible because you first need building and living permits and you simply will never ever get one.
In Portugal its usually even harder. Laws are different in Arizona but still a big problem. You might need permission from the local tribe, or bridge a few hundred miles with microwave dishes as a backup to your Starlink. Having reliable electricity at night requires inverters and batteries that are not for sale yet, they must be custom built. And then you still need road access to your cheap rural land...

These are the reasons my company needs to help you find suitable land, get the permits and build your tiny house, because you can not do all that on your own, especially the electricity, water and internet you need for remote work.

First you need a community of rural land owners to fund the (minimal $25K) infrastructure build out .
My company Fiberhood sets up a 300 Mbps Starlink Premium for Business ($9000 for the first year) on your land with 4G backup antennes and then builds a local fiber network to all the farms in the neighbourhood. After 12 months we hook up the fiber to the fiber backbone 100 km away, then you get 10 Gbps for around $99 per month on your rural land, fit for running a remote business.

As a Spaniard you point out the BS the municipalities (Ajuntamente) throw at you about permits. Don't forget the regional governments, the tax department, the electricity companies, etc. All over Europe this is a problem, but rural Spain and Portugal are especially difficult. This is why we only offer off-grid living in a few dozen locations this year. Only these locations where we have already managed to convince the local governments to give us permission, or place where we have found legal loopholes in the law. One example I can give is land in a nature reserve where you will never get a building permit for any house. But you are allowed to park a truck in that forest and live in it.
In other places we get permits on our land because we build infrastructure to the local town as well. But you alone would never get that building or living permit, ever.
You need to befriend the local technical architect and the mayor, buy them a couple of beers and have you children play soccer with them for a year before they will even listen to your building proposals that took you $5000 to draw up by another technical architect you hire. And it would still take a few years to get the 11 or so permits you need.
We figure all this out for you, build the infrastucture and make a liveable house. You can off course do some of that work yourself (on top of your remote work you also do) but you still need our help in the first 2 years with permits and infrastructure.
> ASL?

Huh?

> It is a loaded question. You want to say something about age. Why?

Because, in our experience, most people who argue this kind of position are in their teens or early 20s. (I also note that you didn't answer the question, and seem somewhat defensive about it.)

Your position is fairly naive. Read the news right now. Russia is invading Ukraine. If you set up your perfect non-government-run country... how long are you going to be able to keep it? And even if you can keep it against external invaders, how about internal takeover.

Those who know history remember seeing this idea tried. The French Revolution wound up with the Terror, and then Napoleon. The Russian Revolution wound up, not with communes, but with the Communist Party.

And we've seen chaos. We've seen towns in the Wild West voluntarily start paying money to hire law officers because they were tired of people getting shot down in the streets. We've seen warlords arise in Somalia when there wasn't a central government.

> Government is a form of slavery. Everyone goes along with this. Why?

Because your absolute, ideal freedom breaks down when you have a neighbor, who also wants that absolute, ideal freedom. Your freedom constrains other peoples' freedom; their freedom constrains yours. You can never be perfectly free.

And then, they may not like you constraining their freedom. So they may attempt to enforce their desires on you, with force. So you either need to fight them, or you need something like a police department to keep them from doing so.

In the end, it turns out that a reasonably-well-governed country is the optimum of freedom, even though nobody is perfectly free.

And, we kind of do (collectively) consent to this. "Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". Especially in the US, the people have enough guns that they can, if they choose, withdraw their consent from the government - but it's going to get very bloody if that happens. It won't be an improvement over the current state.
Check out La Mulana.. the original version of the game conforms to the limitations of the MSX, but remakes do not. There’s plenty of room to do things either way!

A post from the author about the remade art:
https://la-mulana.com/en/blog/graphic_full_remake.html

Compared to the art from the screenshots on Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La-Mulana
Ignoring all the cold war stuff (which continues of course, and comes down to is a major economy/military and doesn't fall in line with the western ideals of rule of law, fair elections, free markets/trade, free speech) the specific beef is lack of respect for established teritorial boundaries, especially those of neighbors. Russia picked the fight, US/NATO/EU are just leaning into it.

If you want to invade a soverign state (especially one that you've signed treaties about and with), you've got to either do it with some sort of aquiescence of the UN security council, a coalation of several countries with sufficient military, or at the very least, do it quickly and efficiently. If you move in a large convoy with no international support and no fuel supplies, you're going to find the locals well supplied by your global rivals. If your first week or two of operations makes occupation look inevitable in the near term, that illicits a different response; but neither the USSR nor the USA/coalition were able to reform Afghanistan into what they wanted. Asymetric insurgency with outside support is almost certainly guaranteed.
You, uh, sorta can't. There is no unowned land left. You can squat but that is living as an outlaw.

Also
>You don't get to use any of society's infrastructure if you don't opt in, though.
You don't represent the rest of us, so why are you pretending to the authority to make stipulations like this? I'd imagine if there were any outlands left to retreat to, you would at least have some bartering going on there at the fringes.
Right, what is considered “real reform” here?
someone who very clearly hates Spotify for ideological reasons

Why would you say that? It's a pretty harsh dig, and it's not justified. I tried Spotify and didn't like it. I never said I hated it. I don't like it because I weight its trade-offs differently than you. I mean, have YOU tried the alternative I've suggested? If not, is it because of your ideology?
This is honestly a minimum to avoid getting sued. Otherwise an enterprising lawyer might be ready with some arguments about promissory estoppel.
This can create its own chaos. Having been through layoffs where the news got out early and others where management mostly kept a lid on it, the outcome wasn’t better when some people knew early.

Those who were connected to the right bosses knew more than others. There were a couple leaders who already had new jobs lined up when the news became public while others were stuck scrambling. There was a lot of anger and resentment compared to other layoffs I’d been through.

On the other hand, there were layoffs more of the form of directors making “objective” decisions without the bottom two layers of management knowing much of anything beyond that layoffs were probably going to happen. There was more shock. People had a bad time still but there wasn’t the same toxicity to it.
Okay, that makes sense. But I mean semantically speaking if it was the second richest or even the tenth richest person, doesn't really matter. The question is whether the SEC can go up against an insanely rich entity.
I get it though, the title was click bait.
CodebaseShow – The exact same application built using different frameworks
Predictability, with tidal power you know exactly (more or less) how much you will generate every moment of every day.
I'm still surprised that the major credit card companies and banks in the US have not started transitioning to digital receipts. Several retailers and smart POS systems link your credit card number to your email and send you receipts automatically.

It could be a dual edged sword for the banks, as a more informed consumer might budget more carefully and spend less, but the data collected would be quite valuable. It would not be a hard sell to consumers - "Shop with blank and you never need to worry about paper receipts again!".

On a separate note, thermal receipt paper is a terrible source of BPA/BPS plastics. There are alternatives that use vitamin C, but they are rare.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
Remote work has been functional for years before COVID hit and forced a migration.

It was always a middle layer management that was against and they still don't love it.

That aside, UBI when centralized through a bureaucracy is doomed to failure, ala the human condition, find a way to decentralize it and encourage human agency through an open system of shared, public, and private equity holdings..then maybe..(yeah I'm talking blockchain).
A flawed ideal maybe, but you can't say it's a scam.
Fizz Buzz performance across different languages
Bit of both. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2919/earths-atmosphere-a-multi...

99.99997 percent is below 100km, but the exosphere is considered to go as far as 10k, and maybe further:

> A February 2019 study using data from the NASA/European Space Agency Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft suggests, however, that the farthest reaches of Earth’s atmosphere — a cloud of hydrogen atoms called the geocorona — may actually extend nearly 391,000 miles (629,300 kilometers) into space, far beyond the orbit of the Moon.
Ah, interesting—it might have gone over my head as well. I did at least pick up that it was coping with loss, but I don't remember picking up any specifics beyond that. What did I miss? And does it involve picking up all of the collectables? I've tried repeatedly, but whenever I start playing, my kids want to play too, and inevitably restart the game.
Little Inferno - a short game about burning your toys in a fireplace; I found the narrative interesting and it actually has some relevant life messages; non-violent, but young kids might find it a bit disturbing

Grow Home - a 3D platformer about growing plants into space; story-light, but very chill and fun to play
> why not step up to the stage and organize, or volunteer to organize, this competition yourself?

Because he is Russian. They all coursed by post soviet illness "initiative is punishable".

Ukrainian are also suffered by these things, but Ukraine from 2004 slowly building self-government system and real civil society, with people rights, like USA.

To be honest, not all Russians are same, but from 2000 works artificial selection - all active, initiative persons flee from Russia, and stay only passive, cautious, who accepted to live under totalitarian junta government.
Two years ago when they moved to cashless payments, question was what can go wrong.
Well now we know...
If of all countries Norway turns into a digital totalitarian state it would break my heart. With much power comes much … risk.
- 1A was written to make sure citizens beliefs, ideas and thoughts cannot be suppressed and controlled by the state.

- 2A was written to allow citizens possess the same tools as any other powerful imperial force of the day.

How is any of these concepts outdated?

You really think people who drafted those wrote them specifically about the tech of the day, and were smart enough to form a great nation, but too dumb to anticipate advances in technology, and were illiterate w.r.t history of civilizations and how technology advanced through the ages?

>fully semi-automatic

OK. You likely never held a gun in your hands. Makes sense.

Reminder: The nation with oldest gun culture in the world, Czech Republic, issued guns like candy to everyone that asked after Soviets pulled out in 1991. There were only two periods in Czechia that had prohibitions on gun ownership: 1. Occupation by Soviets. 2. Occupation by Germans. For the other 500 years Czechs owned and carried weapons, and still remain the only shall issue country in Europe, with rights secured by the constitution to carry and to use of deadly force in self defence.

(FYI: Gun homicides rates in Czechia are on par with much vaunted entirely gunless Asia.)

Afghans fought off the US with nothing but goats and AKs, while hiding in caves.

Seems these things are still quite relevant in 1991 and 2021.
The pandemic had "paycheck protection program" or PPP and a second round of this called PPP2 also. This program payed out billions to employers to keep employees, rather than let them go on unemployment, which would have been less productive to the country and maybe even cost the government more in those $600 per week in unemployment, per person. I seriously doubt any startup could otherwise have kept their employees thanks to their 'war chest.' Normally startups don't have a war chest at all.
> I believe it’s a fundamentally American viewpoint to prefer freedom over security

Hmmm, I'm not convinced. I would have had no problem agreeing with that sentiment over two decades ago, but some extremely bad actors have made it clear that "allowing a few bad things to happen" can be orders of magnitude more brutal than I once thought possible.
First of all, congratulations! Without even opening the link, I upvoted the story itself.

You seem to be having an agrument with someone (real or virtual) saying that a game can only be a game when the code is clean, maintainable and performant. As a player, I do not care.

My 2 cents, again, as a player.

The levels are probably randomly generated, and their complexity is way too random. Most level are too hard to begin playing.

I cannot reload the page to get another random puzzle (have to erase part of URL).

To my eye, the contrast between on and off states is not enough. And the colors do not help really.

Otherwise, great job!
Just a side note:
Iirc Spotify does not use Electron - it uses the Chromium embedded Framework. It is kinda the same as electron (it gives you an Browser) but instead of JavaScript you have to use C++ (or a wrapper around the library in you favourite language) to implement the Backend side of the app
Are consumers social planners?

Did consumers plan the massive road infrastructure in America? Did consumers make public transportation a fifth-rate form of transportation? Did consumers plan American Suburbia post-WWII? Did consumers decide that housing in central locations should be so expensive that they have to live a driving-distance from work (see: bad public transportation)? Did consumers decide that the goods that they consume have to take multiple trips around the world?

Why blame the output sink for so much?
Wouldn't it be wild if there were some sort of middle ground between "say and do nothing" and "die in a failed militant uprising"?
I was surprised early on in the story—I expected it to be about helping these characters find peace before they move on, but so often they don't.