AC is one of my favorite games of all time (neck and neck with Ultima II (I'm old)). I still play on the emulators from time to time - endlessly searching for more Hoary Mattekars.
I played on Thistledown and ran a little portal bot named Stip Dickens an Ayan Baqur that helped ferry people into the Shard of the Herald event. That was a lot of fun.
The loot system was also one-of-a-kind. I don't see that level of randomness in many other games.
The game felt like the writers and staff were highly literate and well read. I now know so many real life herbs and plants due to their use in spellcasting. And AC taught me words like "Mnemosyne".
And each month we would get several pages of amazing lore. (Side note, there's an ongoing web serial called "The Wandering Inn" that reminds me quite a bit of AC. People dropped into a video game like world, insect people, references to a "Zeikhal"(similar to a town name)....
So, I just want to thank you for your work on AC. It's had a profoundly positive impact on my life.
You're welcome! Haha, mattekar farming will always hold a special place for me. And, of course, TD's herald defense is probably top 3 gaming memories for me. So much lifting done across the community for what's now basically oral history.
But also thank YOU for participating in some of my very formative experiences of my life as well. The players really made it a joy to work on.
I really appreciate you writing this guide. As a long time Linux user, I've always wanted to learn AWK, but it seemed too daunting. Three minutes into your guide and I immediately saw how I could use it in my day-to-day usage.
I blame GNU's man page. I was in the same situation for the longest time, but stumbled over a man page for a simpler implementation of awk (plan9's, in my case) and learned it in 10-15 minutes (not claiming I understood it more than partially in that time of course, but enough to write my own small programs).
Since then I've made a point of finding man-pages from other systems whenever the manual for a GNU tool is a bit daunting. It tends to lower the learning threshold quite a lot, honestly.
$ man gawk | wc
1568 13030 94207
$ man -l /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1plan9.gz | wc
214 1579 10956
Not trying to detract from this great guide. Just a general tip :)
What the hell is going on in this thread? Yea, the odd repeated trades are just someone who likes that specific number.... and the reason they don’t move the market might just be that no one else likes that number.... and maybe all of the suspecius activity is just a supernova reflected off of swamp gas.
We get it, your one of the people who’ve been loosing tons on crypto the last couple of months. But maybe you can reverse the course by arguing away all clear signs of market manipulation with silly stories. Or maybe it would be good to get the spotlight on the bad actors of the market so they can be exposed and the space can move forwards. Mtgox didn’t end crypto, neither will the fall of tether.
It is much safer for me to buy things on the Internet with cryptocurrencies than credit cards. It seems like every few months there's a huge leak of customers and credit card information.
I'm a fan of bitcoin, but in this case I disagree. It is safer to sell things on the internet if you accept bitcoin, but it's more risky if you're the buyer. You can chargeback a credit card if you don't get what you paid for. You can't get your bitcoin back.
I think Keybase is making a mistake in choosing Zcash over Monero - especially so soon after Zcash's launch. But that's okay - they'll come around soon enough. Zcash has been fantastic advertising for Monero.
