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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Pledge: Ready Bible Study
« Last post by wraith808 on December 20, 2017, 10:20 AM »At the bottom of the Zoomed View image, it says KJV.
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I've recently heard about keeb.io as a source for some of these custom keyboard builds. Anyone here have any experience with them and their supplies?-Deozaan (December 18, 2017, 12:22 AM)
I was going to write out a summary on the chapter that I took the excerpt from, then realized quoting that would probably be fair use.There is a chapter on B-wraith808 (December 15, 2017, 04:26 PM)
Did you intend to write more there? Maybe just "Balance"?-Deozaan (December 18, 2017, 01:19 AM)
I don't really care about the box (pips and cards, etc.), but I may be interested in the book. Any idea where I can get a (digital) copy of it? I'm not finding anything on the Kickstarter that leads me to a place I can get it.
The Atlas Games website says the digital version is sold by Gameplaywright, but I can't find The White Box Essays on Gameplaywright's site.-Deozaan (December 18, 2017, 01:19 AM)
curious about recommendations for a mechanical keyboard nooby.
I'm interested in getting a tenkeyless board (nothing as extreme as 40%!) but all these switches and options mean nothing to me, and spending $140+ a time to test a keyboard isn't in my budget-Target (December 17, 2017, 04:15 PM)
Misleading headline (and article).-Deozaan (December 17, 2017, 02:08 AM)
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I wonder what it could be...
-Deozaan (December 17, 2017, 02:31 AM)
(Not a) Balance Option: Collectible Components
One way some designers try to craft balance is with collectible components.
Mechanically these systems are usually the same as the point or slot systems
discussed above, with added monetary costs. Where they aren’t, they generally
allow players to substitute as much real-world money (or, perhaps, time) as they
want for skill at gameplay.
This highlights the key issue with collectability — it’s a marketing and sales
tactic, not a game design element. While it may well sell more product, from
a design perspective, the sides still need to be balanced apart from rarity,
because if you use rarity as a measure of power, someone can always go buy
or collect as much of a given game element as they can afford, and if this gives
them an unstoppable advantage in play, your game breaks. In collectible games,
having more components should give you more options, not a better chance to
win.
Regardless, adding collectible components makes producing your game a
nightmare. Best to skip it.
My question is, how do these CCG companies decide what the proper ratio of each tier of card is to the others when printing and selling booster packs? Or in other words, how do they balance the frequency of obtaining the common, low-utility cards with the ultra-rare, high-utility cards, (and everything in between) so that people get just enough good stuff often enough to keep wanting more booster packs?-Deozaan (December 14, 2017, 05:05 AM)
A higher grade monitor could solve the brightness issue, but most of my problems are based on simply the fact of using such high resolution, and are not monitor specific.
The bottom line is that even for someone like me, who loves high-resolution and small fonts, there is a limit beyond which it's not only diminishing returns but counter productive.
For me that looks like 2560x1440 resolution on a 27 inch monitor.
Anything higher than that makes my life worse.
The specific model I tried was a DELL U2718Q (my graphics card is an nvidia gtx 660).-mouser (December 11, 2017, 10:44 AM)
If I had to guess, I'd say the odds are good that he paid $100 to a company that used teamviewer to remote connect in and (at least tried) to fix his computer, and that everything is fine and nothing was taken, and that you should simply ensure that teamviewer password is changed or teamviewer uninstalled, etc. and backup everything in a safe place as always, and keep a careful eye on bank and credit cards for the next 6-12 months.
That's not to say that there isn't a risk that everything else was taken -- just a reminder that most of the time things aren't as bad as we fear.-mouser (December 11, 2017, 10:28 AM)
This is a good approximation of the sound I hear when I watch the gif:
https://soundcloud.c...martin-4/jumprope-10
... and now you do too-Edvard (December 08, 2017, 12:35 AM)
In more complex households the Echo Dot would be better as it can target only other station(s) specified, keeping communication private from other household members.-cranioscopical (December 06, 2017, 10:32 PM)
As expected, it wasn't anything revolutionary, the responses are mainly hardcoded to certain keywords. Alexa has no real AI to speak of, if she doesn't recognize a keyword she's at a total loss.-nosh (December 05, 2017, 12:49 PM)
Some things work great though - setting quick reminders, doing calculations or defining a word are all really convenient, but none of these make the Echo a must have device.-nosh (December 05, 2017, 12:49 PM)
The speaker is shit for listening to music but the new gen devices have a line out, so I hooked it up to my mac, which in turn is hooked up to my main sound system. I connected my Spotify account and O.M.G - the convenience of listening to any song (without compromising sound quality) in an instant is truly revolutionary. Understanding the concept really doesn't do it justice, you have to actually use it so realize how bloody wonderful it is. I can't recommend this enough to anyone whose setup allows them to hook the Echo up to a proper sound system.-nosh (December 05, 2017, 12:49 PM)
