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moody7277 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:49 pm

The Snide Sniper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:11 pm I have some ideas for mechanics where just knowing that they might be included in a future game would be a huge spoiler. Is there someone I could discuss them with over PM?

Sabrar is the ichiban mechanics master, used by all who wish balance.

Ichiban mechanics?

Lol, 2.5 billion points doesn't even put me in the top 3

Roll of wrapping paper

I have some ideas for mechanics where just knowing that they might be included in a future game would be a huge spoiler. Is there someone I could discuss them with over PM?

What fortune! There's oil in the bell on the shell of the snail on the tail of the frog on the bump on this log that I found in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

Okay, I promised a write-up of this like 3 years ago, I should probably actually make one. The first step, which was really more so that it was easier to download, was to decompress the file using GZIP, as indicated by the .gz extension. IIRC the "txt.txt.txt.txt.txt" also indicated that t...

Huh, didn't realize it was that old.

In the top right you can also find the ones that are in the playground.

Seven!

Title text: The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost every area of land except a small ring around the North and South Poles.

Ceci n'est pas le monde.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moon_landing_mission_profiles.png Title text: If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder. I think "build a stepladder to the moon" is an actual (albeit very taxing on your framerate) c...

So, another hint before I just give the final step: the "unpredictable coffee" (Java random) gives you a sequence of numbers. Those numbers have something to do with all the dead pixels.

That means I have to raise the attachment quota. phpBB is really old so it defaults to 50 MB for the entire board.

Seems to be fixed now.

Do be on the lookout for things that might have broke in the update.

Test test

Googling the error, it sounds like NearlyFreeSpeech just updated to a new version of PHP and now I need to update the board to support it.

Phillip, you were a good opponent in chess.

We must first insert a warmup slice to bring the toaster coils up to tenperature to ensure that the difference in initial temperatures does not affect the results.

Does Pacific Rim count? I suppose that's not really about the hole.

Rat, you're our most active FG user, both here and in the old forum. It's always fun when you play in a thread.

I've been dealing with depression lately, so to get some more positivity in my life, I've made this thread.

Say something nice about the poster above you.

There is nobody above me, but that doesn't mean they're a nobody! They have friends, just like anyone else!

Randall shouldn't have leaked the secret core. Now he's going to be arrested by the Planetary Intelligence Squad.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/urban_planning_opinion_progression.png Title text: If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars. Adam Something would...

Alright. Original plan then. Seven and Ratammer will be added as Gatekeepers.

Just to clarify, the "good middle ground" is to keep the review queue but add two extra "gatekeepers", correct? Also, I should probably include some info from the logs, since y'all can't see it: - The last disapproved post in the moderator log was in January. - The next disapprov...