Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@Pat @freemo All of which is absurd.

@jeffjarvis I don't understand why people are even studying this topic. It's like someone doing a study on which type of shoe works best as a hammer.

@jeffjarvis Wait, what? It's an overgrown pattern-matching algorithm. Why are people surprised that its output matches patterns? (Because that's all "confirmation bias" really is in this case: pattern matching).

@peterdrake @trinsec @BaldSavant Look into Fallout Shelter, if you haven't already. They managed to make a base-building game (traditionally the realm of PCs) built largely around time mechanics. They primarily did so by simplifying the management/building mechanics and putting certain aspects on hours-long (or even days-long) timers to incentivize the user to come back then and play more.
The key with mobile seems to be incentivizing short but frequent sessions at every turn, which is a big reason why exploration doesn't work as well (it requires building on spatial knowledge you've forgotten).

For a survival game on mobile, I'd start with the core game session loop: You probably want to start a session by letting a player react to 'what happened while they were away'. Then, once they've resolved any immediate crises, they have some downtime to use any new resources that were collected to advance their progress. Then, before logging off, they kick off some new jobs (explore the cave, construct the building, etc) that will start timers that will run idly in the background and inform the player when they should log back in next.

@freemo I know it's a thin barrier, but I still very much prefer the state require permits for carrying deadly weapons in public.

Yeah, this is insane.

In #Florida, you now need to visit a doctor and get a license to smoke weed.

But you can carry a gun with no state requirements whatsoever.

I feel much less safe living here now.

Lunacy.

It's really incredible how quickly I've gone from loving HBO Max to hating Max.

@WiszCharlie @w7voa It pisses me off a little bit. I honestly believe that a good part of the reason that so many disturbed kids commit mass shootings is because they want to get their name and picture in the news... and the news is more than happy to oblige.
The NRA has some blame when it comes to "opportunity", but the media definitely has some blame when it comes to "motive". And calling everything under the sun a "mass shooting" certainly isn't helping matters.

@WillRobinson That's one of the biggest reasons that the Trevor Project exists, yes.

@w7voa Sounds more like a shootout than a "mass shooting".

"It started with an altercation between two groups, which escalated to shots being fired, according to Hollywood officials."

@web3isgreat Funny how they never suspend deposits.

This is a neat little shader effect.

One interesting thing it made me think about, though: Even though I know exactly how it's made and could, in theory, replicate it... in practice, I never could, because I would become obsessed with making it work for all shapes, not just spheres, and the over-scoping would prevent me from ever finishing it!

@bwbeach On an even more basic level, it depends on whether their constituents benefit more from upholding the system or tearing it down.