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Sorry if it's too off-topic 😅
"Threads had 3 app downloads yesterday, easily beating X's 1" — you're right, doesn't sound as sexy 🤔
*chuckles in Google*
~~Don't be evil.~~
And support Facebook while you're at it! 😣
I know Apple isn't much better, but Oculus selling out to Zuck instantly guaranteed I would never buy their products.
From Wikipedia:
"Meta" had been registered as a trademark in the United States in 2018 (after an initial filing in 2015) for marketing, advertising, and computer services, by a Canadian company that provided big data analysis of scientific literature. This company was acquired in 2017 by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a foundation established by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and became one of their projects. Following the rebranding announcement, CZI announced that it had already decided to deprioritize the earlier Meta project, that it would be transferring its rights to the name to Meta Platforms, and that the project would end in 2022.
So, they bought it through their (non-profit?) foundation and killed it to harvest the name?
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Hi all,
I'm looking for some suggestions and hoping you might be able to help me out.
Quick backstory: My 7-year-old has ben getting really into Uno the past few weeks, so there's always a deck lying around. Always looking to test new ideas out, I've been experimenting with how a game of patience/solitaire might work if played with a deck of Uno cards, and I've actually come up with a few simple rules that work, while retaining the nature of the Uno cards (so far had some interesting test runs with Klondike and Pyramids).
While playing around with these "Unotaire" variants, I've been getting that feeling of something creeping up on me; a game idea, just over the horizon, but not quite close enough to make out yet. It's like being able to taste a new card game, without having it in your mouth yet (if that makes any sense).
As this unknown game is still mostly unclear to me, let me try to describe how it "tastes":
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It's something you can play on your own, not unlike Solitaire.
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It has its own deck; it's not played with a regular deck of cards (and it might have more or less than 52 cards).
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It probably has no other components than cards. You pick up the pack, remove the cards, place them just like so, and you're off.
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It might be able to somehow tell a story. I've been thinking a lot about Reigns (the mobile/video game) here — simple decisions lead to big consequences further down the line.
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Like Reigns, the game is somewhat linear; you might start with the cards laid out, in something akin to some Solitaire pattern, and you try to make it through to the end and "win". You might pull it off, you might not. Much like Solitaire.
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I can't stop thinking about Tarot. 56 "standard" cards in 4 suits (minor arcana), and then the 22 suitless major arcana cards. Tarot also has various patterns/spreads (3-card, 9-card, celtic cross, wheel, etc.) in which you lay out the cards, and some set rules as to how to "read" them (and then, of course, massive amounts of subjective interpretation from the "reader"). Not suggesting a fortune telling component, just that the "flavor" of Tarot cards makes sense to me in this context.
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If it's possible to piece this thing together in a way where it can also be played by 2 (or more) people, that would be grand.
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The game doesn't need to be quick, but it wouldn't hurt if it was fast paced; Hmm, I'm stuck! Deal out 3 cards from the draw pile, flip them over real quick, look at the top one, Oh this means I can do this... and so forth.
The main thing here is the variability of the deck; shuffle the cards, and you will have a fairly unique adventure. Same framework as your last game, but the path will be completely changed. Maybe the story will be capable of varying wildly from game to game as well. Or maybe the story needs to go away.
And the Solitaire aspect of the thing, meaning having to lay the cards out in some specific way, which creates the "path" you need to navigate in order to win (not a literal path).
My problem is that I don't really know any games that come close to this genre. The only thing that comes to mind is The Lost Expedition, but that has a lot more components and mechanics than what I want.
The might also be some deck-based dungeon crawlers out there that are worth a look, but I haven't found them yet.
I'm hoping some of you might suggest games to look at for inspiration, mechanisms that might deal with driving a story without any components beyond a deck of cards, and just general thoughts.
Thank you for any and all feedback and/or suggestions! I'm looking forward to (hopefully) hearing from you 😃🤘
Brave has proved time and again that they're only trustworthy as long as whatever scheme they're working on isn't found out, and I can't imagine that there is any chance their search engine is any better.
If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.
Danish restaurants have won World's Best Restaurant 6 times in the past 13 years (with an additional 5 placements in 2nd and 3rd place, combined, since 2009), but granted, that doesn't say much about Danish cuisine in general 😓
Still, it has to count for something, dammit!
My wife and I actually met on OkCupid, happily married for 8 years now, and dated a few years before that, so safe to say I haven't been there in 10+ years.
Sad to hear it's gone down the drain, it seemed the least vile of the available options 😓
It probably wouldn't work, but I've been wondering whether it would be possible to use the shareholders of publicly traded companies against them in these situations.
I've seen people mention that companies are obligated to maximize profits for their shareholders (might not be true everywhere, and my knowledge on the subject is extremely limited).
If there was data available for a given company that showed that profits were increased during a period where a substantial part (or all) of the employees worked from home, and then the company starts forcing the employees back to the office, could the board not be called upon to force the company to keep people in work-from-home-mode? Would the company not be obliged to do that, to maximize the profits? It seems to me that this would be in the best interest of the shareholders.
Any chance on some context on this for someone who doesn't follow tech closely enough? I know who Linus is, and what LTT is, and I've seen a lot of stuff these past few days about the community being angry at them for all sorts of stuff, but who is Madison? And what did they allege?
Edit: Never mind, only had to scroll two posts in my feed to find the answer. For others out of the loop: ex LTT employee Madison Reeve alleges toxic work environment and sexual harassment.
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J is for Journey
(beehaw.org)
I make collages and word posters from vintage and retro illustrations and images in the public domain. Here's my latest piece, 'J is for Journey'.
Had a lot of fun making this one, a lot of good words that begin with J 😊
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renard_roux
joined 1 year ago
Much better, very good detail 😅