wendelscardua's comments

On: The Intelligent Timing Lock

[wendelscardua]

*themself

*they have

[TaylorAlexander → wendelscardua]

Thank you from another they/them!

[miguelmurca → wendelscardua]

my bad, sorry about that. I think it's too late to edit? The button's no longer there.

On: The Intelligent Timing Lock

[wendelscardua]

*they

[shawnz → wendelscardua]

My mistake

On: The Intelligent Timing Lock

[wendelscardua]

s/he/they/

On: Quickdraw with Google AI

[wendelscardua]

By telling you what to draw, Googles gets a training set of drawings and their (sanitized) descriptions.

On: On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics

[wendelscardua]

See also:

Square Root of Minus Garfield - https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1

On: Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

[wendelscardua]

I've began learning NES development in 6502 assembly, thanks to an online book called Famicom Party [1] and later the Nesdev wiki [2]. Since then I'm trying to make one NES game per month [3]. I don't think it counts as a "product", at least for now.

[1] https://book.famicom.party/

[2] http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki

[3] https://wendelscardua.itch.io/

On: Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your ...

[wendelscardua]

One of these days I should try plotting a map like these for Ryan North's books, "To Be Or Not To Be" and "Romeo And/Or Juliet", two choosable-path adventures based on Shakespeare.

(I've already filled a spreadsheet with the data for "Romeo And/Or Juliet" while I read it, in order to see all the paths)

On: Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role gam...

[wendelscardua]

I doubt bots will ever be able to play Dixit (for low values of "ever")

On: L-systems

[wendelscardua]

I played with Fractint around 1997 on my 286, and it already had L-systems. Is your memory of it older than that?

On: The Programmers' Stone

[wendelscardua]

Probably they are referring to things like this snippet:

Recognising the importance of mapping suggests another way of looking at what has happened here. Mapping can certainly be reawakened by trauma. One possible way to traumatise a person might be to:

1. Nuke them. Twice.

2. Rip apart their rigid, predictable feudal society.

3. Tell them the invader will be coming around tomorrow.

4. Leave them nothing for supper.

To eat tonight, this person is going to have to reawaken his ability to be imaginative.

[equalunique → wendelscardua]

I see how this could upset some, but whether or not it is either empathetic or disrespectful is arguable.