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I've also been wrapping up my beta test today (after stopping halfway through and letting it fall by the wayside for far too long -- sorry Vox!). Regarding the error with SDF (50, 30): the second coordinate for SDFs has to be between 0 and 29. This might only be a problem on Windows, I dunno. Anyone else who wants to beta test will have to replace it with another set of coordinates (I picked (51, 0) and it seems to work) in `t10Upper roof.txt` and `t2Upper.txt`.

Not quite finished yet (I'm in the crypts) but that and debug mode seem to be the only game-breaking bugs so far. Though I did notice:

I haven't tried it myself, but apparently you can get it to work on Windows tablets that have an x86 processor. https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/afa69f/mtg_arena_on_a_windows_tablet/

Otherwise it works for both Windows and Mac on desktop.

On 8/16/2020 at 1:51 PM, Celtic Minstrel said:

What do you mean by  "newer, unofficial versions"? Is it what I just said, or an actual modified ResEdit?

What I meant was "I did some lazy Googling and assumed a Windows utility named ResEdit was an updated version of Mac's ResEdit".

Windows version works for me (after commenting out debug mode); going through it now.

Used to be on Niemand's site, but alas, that's been down for a while now. I went on a BoA backup binge a few years back, but I didn't think of backing up any Mac utilities.

My Mac knowledge is limited, but I think you can still do resource fork stuff with ResEdit. It'll just be more complicated and less BoA-specific than Graphic Adjuster. Getting it to run will be a challenge, since ResEdit hasn't been officially maintained since (*checks*) 1994. But there seem to be newer, unofficial versions. Again, the Mac people would know more (and might have a copy of Graphic Adjuster lying around).

oh hey 2020 has been a real barrel of fun now hasn't it sounds like a great time for an evaluation of mental health

But seriously, stay safe, stay sane, and *hugs* for anyone who needs them.

(As always, read the rest of the thread for commentary on the validity of this test. Click here for my results this year, and here for the Perl/Gnuplot script used to generate my test history. Which could probably be made more accessible if others are interested in making their own history graphs.)

I suppose the follow-up question is which fantasy author is JV most similar to?

This game never ceases to amaze me.

On the other hand, the last time we discovered a bug like this, it lead to Blades of Rogue being possible. So who knows how we could exploit this one.

I'm a week too late for this topic, but I've finally gotten my site working again, so the BoA Design Tutorial is available again. It doesn't cover everything, but it walks you through creating a (very) simple scenario from start to finish.

37 minutes ago, Randomizer said:

I wishTerror's Martyr would come back to post his wisdom in these troubling times.  

Granted.

I wish I didn't have to cancel a games meet-up that I set up months ago.

On 2/16/2020 at 9:44 AM, Owenmoz said:

My wish is to be able to create life all kinds of life.

Granted, you are now a Hasbro employee creating uninspired novelty versions of The Game of Life.

I wish I could have a sandwich right now.

You're probably already familiar with the story, but it's simple enough if you're not. A cursed magical item that grants whatever wish you make with it, but never in the way you want, and always in a way you regret. The classic example is wishing for money, only to receive it as a settlement after the death of a loved one. If you had such an item, would you tempt fate? What wish would you make?

As far as posting games go, this one's pretty straightforward. Look at the wish made by the person above you, and decide the twisted, ironic way their wish is fulfilled. Then make a wish of your own, and see how the next person in the thread grants it. Two quick rules that will make things more entertaining:

• No lawyering. If you really wanted, your wish could be pages and pages long, trying to ensure that it's granted exactly how you want it. But that's no fun. Wish makers, try to keep your wish to a sentence, at most two.
• No giant meteors. So many wishes, from "I wish I was happy for the rest of my life" to "I wish to end child poverty" to "I wish I never had to see my ex again" can be granted with the same rote response: "a giant meteor hits the earth and kills everyone lol". This works but is a bit uninspired. Wish granters, try to come up with something more tailored to the wish, rather than a giant meteor (or something similar).

I'll start us off with something well intentioned but probably easy to twist. Have fun!

Mmm, I could go for some cabbage right now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSnNJPZaDE4

A while back I read Identity: the Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama (I was trying to read The End of History and the Last Man, but my library didn't have a copy). I went in expecting to not agree with Fukuyama, and that's pretty much what I got. More recently, I finished Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, which I also was not a big fan of.

On the fiction side of things, I picked up two more trades of Astro City, which continues to be Very Good. Only missing two trades from the Vertigo run now.

2 hours ago, la justice en if subjectif said:

What exactly are the decisions and choices?

"How exactly do I take down this pylon?"

Accessing the assets isn't that hard, even for AAA games. If you wanted to prevent that (or at least make it more difficult), you'd have to use DRM, which Jeff is against. The best way to deal with another company copying your digital assets is a lawyer.

Oh, it pays fine, especially for temp work. It's a decent gig, not complaining.

And good luck with things over there. It's nutty all over these days.

Alas, it isn't a holiday. And even if it was, I wouldn't have the day off -- I'm an election officer again.

14 hours ago, On the Spires said:

On the plus side, if all goes well, no more big tests for him for at least a decade!

You'll also avoid doing tests for a decade by doing exceptionally poorly!

(But seriously, best of luck on whatever it is you need luck for!)

Jiji (Kiki's cat)

Jiji (Nikki's cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%_rule_(Internet_culture)

It's not just a Spiderweb thing (and has its parallels in meatspace too), but communities need a critical mass in order to keep turning the 90% into the 9% and the 9% into the 1%, and once they drop below that critical mass, there's no incentive to become part of the 90%, let alone the 9% or 1%.

EDIT: Back when I was planning on releasing an actual BoA scenario, I was going to have a dialog box pop up at the end and ask players to just send me a quick e-mail saying they played it, just to get a sense of what BoA's 90% actually was (because it really felt like the only people who still played BoA scenarios were BoA scenario creators).

Parliament has dissolved, writs have been drawn, and Canada is now gearing up for its 43rd general election.To celebrate this new election season, which I'm sure will be delightful and not acrimonious in the slightest, I've decided to revisit a time-honed Spiderweb tradition: taking the Political Compass test! If you've taken it before, see how much you've changed since 2015, or 2012, or 2011, or 2010, or 2007, or--- you get the picture. And once you've posted your results, discuss them! Discuss the test! Complain about the test! Complain about the placement of Canada's political parties! Complain about the vastly inferior and deeply flawed Vote Compass made by Vox Pop Labs! Complain about Canadian politics in general!

(on the off chance that you're not canadian and are, in fact, from some different country, i suppose you can talk and/or complain about politics there and maybe even link some country-specific tests that we can all take? that would be super cool of you)

Alternatively, you could take the 5 Dimensional Politial Compass that Slarty posted in 2017.

It's never too early to think about Christmas ideas for the niblings, so I've been skimming over a library copy of Ryan North's To Be or Not To Be. It's... pretty much what you'd expect a choose-your-own-adventure adaptation of Hamlet written by Ryan North to be? The style of humour would be great for my older niblings, but on the other hand, I've already seen a couple scenes where Hamlet and Ophelia TOTALLY MAKE OUT (and then MAYBE EVEN MORE THAN THAT), and also birds get referred to as "avian dinosaurs" on one page, so the parents would probably veto it. Ah well, this is why I start looking early.