donio

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[–] donio 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This sounds similar to SLIME (and its fork SLY) for Common Lisp. These tools use their own protocols rather than LSP in part because they pre-date LSP but also because LSP is not a good match for everything they do. In addition to the usual LSP functionality like symbol lookup, xref and completion they also provide a very good Lisp REPL. It is easy to have the server side (called swank) running as part of an existing service which sounds a lot like what the post describes. For example I've used SLIME to connect to my live StumpWM sessions.

[–] donio 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some I don't see mentioned yet:

[–] donio 7 points 1 year ago

And why not phones too if the user prefers it that way. Can we have our user preferences back please?

[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago

Make sure to check out Schnapsen if you haven't already. Great choice when you only have 2 players. I have a little blurb and links in my other comment.

[–] donio 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Standard deck:

  • Schnapsen (pagat, WP) - a 2p trick-taking game playable with a standard or German suite deck. A unique aspect of it is that the trick-taking rules change mid-round. In the first half you can don't have to follow suit at all, you can play whatever you want. When the draw-deck runs out or when one of the players decides to "close" the deck the rules change and you must follow suit or play trumps. The timing decision of when to "close the deck" is a really cool one and it's what makes the game.
  • Regicide - is a co-op (or solo) that does a really good job at giving a varied game experience with a standard deck.
  • Haggis - a ladder-climbing game that's playalbe with a standard deck with 2 players. Needs custom deck for 3.

Other:

  • Mottainai - An amazing amount of game in a 54 card deck. Probably my overall favorite card game
  • Sea Salt & Paper - Very addictive, especially on BGA. It sort of a set collection game with rummy-style hand management that includes some cool abilities you get when you get the right pair of cards.
  • Love deckbuilders in general. Overall favorite is probably Ascension but also love Star Realms, Clank, Dominion etc. Happy to play pretty much any deckbuilder anytime.
  • For Northwood - a solo tricktaker. How does that even work? Very well as it turns out! Excellent art and production too.
  • SCOUT - another climbing game that works well at 2p
  • Honorary mention to Hats which is this week's favorite. Has some of that Arboretum meanness but plays very differently. It has a card flow that took a while to get used to but very neat once we figured it out.
[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, we will definitely give this a try!
Do you keep all the cards in the game? Do they all work well in this competitive context? How about their powers?

[–] donio 11 points 1 year ago

Everybody is completely safe while rolled into the Katamari, the King of All Cosmos makes certain of that. It's sort of like an amusement park ride. You can even buy funny photos of yourself screaming as you are getting rolled up.

[–] donio 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is such a simple ask and yet it seems almost impossible with modern search engines. They all seem to insist on second-guessing you. It's a lack of respect for the user: "We know you are dumb but don't worry, we will figure out what you really mean. Oh and don't forget to watch your ads."

My other pet-peeve is that they will almost never admit that maybe they just don't have any good hits for the query. They insist on pushing some irrelevant crap in your face instead. I guess it comes down to needing to show the user something so that they can mix in those ads.

[–] donio 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

x86 Macs are not the greatest example of longevity at this point.

[–] donio 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, yeah that's the sort of thing I had in mind. To clarify sensible edits that improve the flow are totally fine as long as they are not the popular-youtuber types with flashy transitions, cutting to memes, screaming or making a face etc.

[–] donio 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Side question: what are your favorite "non-obnoxious" ones?
No youtube-edits, no memes, no forced jokes, just good gameplay and game discussion.

[–] donio 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

archive.org link to the r/modnews thread. Needless to say it's not going down great.
edit: updated link with a newer snapshot

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