Johnicholas
@johnicholas.bsky.social
Long-haired programmer; loves cats and dogs but doesn't have any. http://pronoun.is/he Black Lives Matter My mandate also includes weird bugs.
The two I was thinking of are "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" (I don't know if you know magic kingdom fans, there's a skeleton song that has breached containment, but I think Doctorow writes from experience) and Eastern Standard Tribe.
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The two I was thinking of are "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" (I don't know if you know magic kingdom fans, there's a skeleton song that has breached containment, but I think Doctorow writes from experience) and Eastern Standard Tribe.
Different algorithms lead to different posting patterns and community structures. Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow have written SF stories where different algorithm's "tribes" feud or war with one another. Seems pretty plausible to me?
December 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Different algorithms lead to different posting patterns and community structures. Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow have written SF stories where different algorithm's "tribes" feud or war with one another. Seems pretty plausible to me?
I am all for alchemical rites of transubstantiation, but after enough cycles of calcination, dissolution, mortification, recoagulation, around and around and so on and so forth, I start to get tired, if not sore. What would you recommend to improve my endurance?
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I am all for alchemical rites of transubstantiation, but after enough cycles of calcination, dissolution, mortification, recoagulation, around and around and so on and so forth, I start to get tired, if not sore. What would you recommend to improve my endurance?
It's because Calvin was allergic to calcium carbonate.
December 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's because Calvin was allergic to calcium carbonate.
I love Carrie Jenkins's books - evidence attached.
December 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I love Carrie Jenkins's books - evidence attached.
Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans have a book about game mechanics that includes a pattern language. I loved the Machinations tool and notation when it was free - I think it's paywalled now.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans have a book about game mechanics that includes a pattern language. I loved the Machinations tool and notation when it was free - I think it's paywalled now.
At one point there was a wiki based on the paper "Resource Systems in Games: An Analytical Approach" by
Tróndur Justinussen, Peter Hald Rasmussen, Alessandro Canossa and Julian Togelius, but I think it's dead now.
Tróndur Justinussen, Peter Hald Rasmussen, Alessandro Canossa and Julian Togelius, but I think it's dead now.
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
At one point there was a wiki based on the paper "Resource Systems in Games: An Analytical Approach" by
Tróndur Justinussen, Peter Hald Rasmussen, Alessandro Canossa and Julian Togelius, but I think it's dead now.
Tróndur Justinussen, Peter Hald Rasmussen, Alessandro Canossa and Julian Togelius, but I think it's dead now.
I think it was Alexandra David-Néel (and she was white). I think she fundamentally misunderstood whoever was trying to teach her Buddhism. The X-Files episode just put kerosene on an old smoldering fire.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I think it was Alexandra David-Néel (and she was white). I think she fundamentally misunderstood whoever was trying to teach her Buddhism. The X-Files episode just put kerosene on an old smoldering fire.
Knights and Bikes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgwe... Untitled Goose Game? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LL2...
Knights and Bikes | Launch Trailer | PS4
YouTube video by PlayStation Europe
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Knights and Bikes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgwe... Untitled Goose Game? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LL2...
Yes. Congratulations!
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Yes. Congratulations!
A moth! A frog! Barbed wire! A frog eating a moth, surrounded by barbed wire! (Not serious guesses, just being silly - seriously I think you're more likely to get a lyric or a band reference, but I am not cool enough to guess which.)
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A moth! A frog! Barbed wire! A frog eating a moth, surrounded by barbed wire! (Not serious guesses, just being silly - seriously I think you're more likely to get a lyric or a band reference, but I am not cool enough to guess which.)
Cat Valente did exactly that but her readers loved the title and description so much ("The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making", IIRC) that she ended up writing it anyway. So, author beware, I guess.
October 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cat Valente did exactly that but her readers loved the title and description so much ("The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making", IIRC) that she ended up writing it anyway. So, author beware, I guess.
I am in the US, and there's one major axis in the US, the red/blue axis. Lots of qs/issues get absorbed into that (and polarization stretches it). As a first guess, not knowing ANY particulars, I would guess they're on the opposite side of that axis from me.
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I am in the US, and there's one major axis in the US, the red/blue axis. Lots of qs/issues get absorbed into that (and polarization stretches it). As a first guess, not knowing ANY particulars, I would guess they're on the opposite side of that axis from me.
If I think hard about a subject, then I am pretty likely to change my mind at least somewhat. Should I change my mind ahead of time, without thinking hard about it?
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If I think hard about a subject, then I am pretty likely to change my mind at least somewhat. Should I change my mind ahead of time, without thinking hard about it?
I searched and couldn't find it, would you link me or say some more keywords?
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I searched and couldn't find it, would you link me or say some more keywords?
Would you say that it is not classically proportioned? Or were you remarking on the location of the washrooms?
October 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Would you say that it is not classically proportioned? Or were you remarking on the location of the washrooms?
On the one hand, yes, things could be better (and "Joyful Militancy" has some ideas how). On the other hand, Surowiecki's "Starfish and the Spider" metaphor suggests that decentralized stuff will consistently look (and to some extent behave) different than centralized stuff.
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
On the one hand, yes, things could be better (and "Joyful Militancy" has some ideas how). On the other hand, Surowiecki's "Starfish and the Spider" metaphor suggests that decentralized stuff will consistently look (and to some extent behave) different than centralized stuff.
3 if you're gentle probably a meteor because it's a classic and pretty quick. (Gamma ray burst and black hole spaghettification would be quick but not classic, quicksand and tsunami would be classic but not quick.)
October 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
3 if you're gentle probably a meteor because it's a classic and pretty quick. (Gamma ray burst and black hole spaghettification would be quick but not classic, quicksand and tsunami would be classic but not quick.)
Neither. I plan to give myself a four-to-six-hour "do nothing" recovery window after applying to something, or asking someone for something, that I really want.
October 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Neither. I plan to give myself a four-to-six-hour "do nothing" recovery window after applying to something, or asking someone for something, that I really want.