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No, I'm wrong, that is a definition I'd never heard of. I just figured for Fallen London that version of graft made sense, as many artists have grafted their work on over the years.
February 5, 2026 at 5:04 AM
No, I'm wrong, that is a definition I'd never heard of. I just figured for Fallen London that version of graft made sense, as many artists have grafted their work on over the years.
You're thinking of "grift", graft over here usually means the act of attaching something onto a living being. Such as grafting a branch of one species of tree onto a different species of tree. Or a skin graft to avoid excess scarring or a dangerous healing process.
February 5, 2026 at 5:00 AM
You're thinking of "grift", graft over here usually means the act of attaching something onto a living being. Such as grafting a branch of one species of tree onto a different species of tree. Or a skin graft to avoid excess scarring or a dangerous healing process.
Which cultivar of brassica oleracea do you think of as the default crop of that species?
February 2, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Which cultivar of brassica oleracea do you think of as the default crop of that species?
I wonder how many more knives she has and where they're stored. Maybe she has an enchanted knife that can leave knives embedded in its victims.
January 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wonder how many more knives she has and where they're stored. Maybe she has an enchanted knife that can leave knives embedded in its victims.
Why would it need to be anywhere near the orbit of Earth?
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Why would it need to be anywhere near the orbit of Earth?
Also if you take apart Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus, but still find yourself lacking materials, none of the other planets' masses are going to make a noticeable difference.
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Also if you take apart Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus, but still find yourself lacking materials, none of the other planets' masses are going to make a noticeable difference.
Why do the orbits need to be near a planet? The asteroid belt seems to already be a reasonable distance from any planets such that random bits can hang out there indefinitely. If this society is advanced enough to build a Dyson sphere, they don't have to build it anywhere near Earth's orbit.
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Why do the orbits need to be near a planet? The asteroid belt seems to already be a reasonable distance from any planets such that random bits can hang out there indefinitely. If this society is advanced enough to build a Dyson sphere, they don't have to build it anywhere near Earth's orbit.
Planets can be part of Dyson spheres. A Dyson sphere just means all the light is being blocked for use before it leaves the solar system (creating an invisible star), it doesn't require a literal hollow sphere.
January 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Planets can be part of Dyson spheres. A Dyson sphere just means all the light is being blocked for use before it leaves the solar system (creating an invisible star), it doesn't require a literal hollow sphere.
So is creating an account on a website a game? It has a clearly defined goal. It requires interaction. It's a designed interactive experience that comes with its own set of rules.
December 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So is creating an account on a website a game? It has a clearly defined goal. It requires interaction. It's a designed interactive experience that comes with its own set of rules.
As someone who lives next door to the US Midwest (Canadian right on the border) but who also lives in an area of very high humidity, we're doing fine on that front. Lakes, eh? Temperature never gets too low and it's muggy year-round.
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As someone who lives next door to the US Midwest (Canadian right on the border) but who also lives in an area of very high humidity, we're doing fine on that front. Lakes, eh? Temperature never gets too low and it's muggy year-round.
Congrats on the 100% achievements, I'm very impressed with your skills.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Congrats on the 100% achievements, I'm very impressed with your skills.
Whoops, "Steam Curators".
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Whoops, "Steam Curators".
I've stumbled across it too. If you look at the Steam Reviewers on games this group will show up pretty regularly. Not to be confused with the regular user reviews. It's good for a laugh sometimes, but there's a lot of meme spam Reviewers too.
December 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I've stumbled across it too. If you look at the Steam Reviewers on games this group will show up pretty regularly. Not to be confused with the regular user reviews. It's good for a laugh sometimes, but there's a lot of meme spam Reviewers too.
Boomers were also making games, like Miyamoto or Kojima. They were the young adults in the 70s and 80s after all. By the 90s they had kids and proceeded to do the time-honoured tradition of worrying about new things ruining their children. Same as the Boomer's parents had done with rock music.
December 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Boomers were also making games, like Miyamoto or Kojima. They were the young adults in the 70s and 80s after all. By the 90s they had kids and proceeded to do the time-honoured tradition of worrying about new things ruining their children. Same as the Boomer's parents had done with rock music.
One of Skyrim's updates for the 64-bit/DX11 version (Special Edition) introduced fishing, but it was never made available on the 32-bit/DX9 original.
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
One of Skyrim's updates for the 64-bit/DX11 version (Special Edition) introduced fishing, but it was never made available on the 32-bit/DX9 original.
I've had it at the top of my wishlist for years. If I don't buy it I'm going to hell!
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I've had it at the top of my wishlist for years. If I don't buy it I'm going to hell!
Is "Clock and Dagger" an in-joke I've missed out on? The marketing posts have been using that name for months. Time is ticking on those deals, eh?
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Is "Clock and Dagger" an in-joke I've missed out on? The marketing posts have been using that name for months. Time is ticking on those deals, eh?
The one that publishes Clock and Dagger's games and has been using that name for them for months in the scheduled posts.
October 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The one that publishes Clock and Dagger's games and has been using that name for them for months in the scheduled posts.
The combat sure was an utter slog of arenas spawning ever-increasing waves of indistinguishable cannon fodder enemies. If it had a quarter the combat I'd rate it way higher, but they let down the presentation and pacing with gameplay mediocrity.
September 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The combat sure was an utter slog of arenas spawning ever-increasing waves of indistinguishable cannon fodder enemies. If it had a quarter the combat I'd rate it way higher, but they let down the presentation and pacing with gameplay mediocrity.
Yay, Windows 95 SP1/98. There was still 98 Lite to strip out the annoying online integration. After the EU antitrust they at least included an option to disable IE if you searched hard enough (in XP+, maybe 2k/Me too, I don't know)
August 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yay, Windows 95 SP1/98. There was still 98 Lite to strip out the annoying online integration. After the EU antitrust they at least included an option to disable IE if you searched hard enough (in XP+, maybe 2k/Me too, I don't know)
Chromium a fork of WebKit, the browser engine behind Safari. Firefox is the only actually distinct mainstream browser.
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Chromium a fork of WebKit, the browser engine behind Safari. Firefox is the only actually distinct mainstream browser.
When I was a little kid and I was terrible at playing games, games that had a bunch of "filler" content meant I could experience more of the game than I would've been able to if every bit of progression came from a meaningful challenge.
Every jiggy from Mayahem was one less needed from Witchyworld.
Every jiggy from Mayahem was one less needed from Witchyworld.
July 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
When I was a little kid and I was terrible at playing games, games that had a bunch of "filler" content meant I could experience more of the game than I would've been able to if every bit of progression came from a meaningful challenge.
Every jiggy from Mayahem was one less needed from Witchyworld.
Every jiggy from Mayahem was one less needed from Witchyworld.
Okami, its drawing-pn-the-screen mechanic can be copied wholesale for puzzle solving in a point and click adventure. The art style was based on Japanese watercolour paintings, so visuals are taken care of too. Just take the action out of action/adventure.
July 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Okami, its drawing-pn-the-screen mechanic can be copied wholesale for puzzle solving in a point and click adventure. The art style was based on Japanese watercolour paintings, so visuals are taken care of too. Just take the action out of action/adventure.
Imagine if copper didn't have XP costs at the anvil so you could repair it and slowly upgrade the enchantments via book/tool combining without ever getting Too Expensive? Perfect earlygame tool without needing XP farms or a big enchanting setup. Bridging the gap between disposable tools and Mending.
July 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Imagine if copper didn't have XP costs at the anvil so you could repair it and slowly upgrade the enchantments via book/tool combining without ever getting Too Expensive? Perfect earlygame tool without needing XP farms or a big enchanting setup. Bridging the gap between disposable tools and Mending.
That's the speed film runs at, not the framerate of animation. Often animations run even slower because framerate isn't as important for animation as for capturing quick actions and fast pans.
But soap operas and sports broadcasts have been 60FPS long before videogames were a commercial thing.
But soap operas and sports broadcasts have been 60FPS long before videogames were a commercial thing.
June 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
That's the speed film runs at, not the framerate of animation. Often animations run even slower because framerate isn't as important for animation as for capturing quick actions and fast pans.
But soap operas and sports broadcasts have been 60FPS long before videogames were a commercial thing.
But soap operas and sports broadcasts have been 60FPS long before videogames were a commercial thing.