Interesting. Academic, like the rest of the video, but definitely interesting!

I’ve been playing Disco Elysium for a few months, a few hours here and there on weekends.

It’s so interesting. I don’t usually play games that are so clearly based on tabletop RPGs.

There are obvious rolls, but also lots of passive rolls that happen behind the proverbial GM screen you might not notice if you’re not used to TTRPGs.

There are also clever ways to “no, but” after failed rolls. Situations where a game master would just want to railroad the players into success, for the benefit of the narrative. Having been in that position, I respect the way this is pulled off.

I also enjoy the options for doing completely unhinged things. Obviously counterproductive things that may bring up a “you can certainly try” or a “sure, why not?” at the table.

In terms of accessibility the interface text gets pretty big, the highlighting for points of interests isn’t bad at all and the voiceover for speech is very nice, even if a lot of text ends up not being read.

This is essentially a point and click game, so I ended up having to buy a vertical mouse for it.

Overall, it’s been a great experience. I’m into it.

Relevant announcement from Discord.

This is going to be a bad time, because both making a video of your face and photographing your ID are barriers.

Living in the land of fancy electronic IDs for everybody, I didn’t even consider the drivers license issue. Not fun.

I have shakes for when I don’t have the time or spoons for making food. Sometimes I throw some peanut butter or jam in there for flavor variety. That might work for you.

It’s also worth considering the Signal threat model: a contact you communicate with is not considered an adversary. You can choose not to accept an initial message request.

Totally understandable. The French press can be a pretty accessible brewer too. If I want a second coffee, I like to take another break to make it. I’m very process oriented though.

At the risk of buying two more brewers instead of just one, what’s this coffee after water method? Isn’t that more of as immersion brew?

My bank is continuously surprised that I understand this. It’s probably a bad sign.

The thing about low code is the successful products in that field have their blocks built by experienced teams. I’ve heard of setting up low code apps via LLMs and that almost makes sense. They can only do as much damage as a bad project manager cosplaying a solution engineer, scrapping the whole exercise isn’t too bad, and they can be a nice demo for the client.

I would have thought describing images you post to spaces for blind people would be common sense, but do find my self enforcing rules on that all the time. Rules that are front and center. A real code of conduct formalizes rules, allows for consistent enforcement, and informs minority populations of the protections they may expect. If you don’t need that, I’m happy for you, but you may want to explore the nature of that privilege. Whether or not that’s necessary in the context of FOSS projects depends on multiple factors. It’s certainly not necessarily if you want to be a benevolent dictator for life.

And you can do a lot of that with good IDEs.

That makes sense. Like I said, I value the convenience and space saving nature of a folding cane, but I’m only in this situation at all because the cord broke.

That would theoretically help, but do you suppose the people who make them use floppies would be magnanimously generous enough to offer two drives?

I’m not in the US, but I’d go for that if I could. That’s the rigid cane, right? I like the flexibility of folding canes, but the super light weight would also be great.

Right, here’s my rough process:

1. Content in question
2. Adjacent content
3. Profile
4. Recent history on subreddit
5. Mod logs, notes, discussions
6. Recent history elsewhere
7. Check other websites and tools that already provide summaries on Reddit users
8. Back to 3 with authors of adjacent content

Along the line, discuss with other mods in real time, off platform because Reddit is still not properly accessible.

Anywhere along the way I may feel confident to make a call and skip the rest.

And I only deal with a 30k sub…

That said, Reddit’s already filtering things for likely spam that just aren’t. I don’t have huge confidence in them and I don’t have any confidence in LLMs for this.

I basically played good guy, reloaded a save to try a couple of alternatives near the end (including turning bad) then played full bad guy on New Game + which, let me tell you, was a wild ride, still reloading towards the end for a few more options.

All in all, something like 6 or 7 different endings. I love that the bad guy route doesn’t eliminate some sections but gives you alternative challenges instead.

Nice! Make sure you get the wrist massage purr system.

It’s so good! The story cop-out also adds to replayability. I played it twice over with minor reloads for about 4 or 5 different endings.

In general, yes, but like the original list, the name of the game is the spoiler. I’ll add some more info though.

[takes notes] Do I need an extra black cat? What’s the right side situation like?