Huh. Might be hardware and I got lucky. I do agree that hibernate on Linux is mostly terrible, though I have had plenty of issues with it in Windows too. I think hibernate mostly just sucks

Yes, this is my go to nowadays for all my family and friends. Atomic makes it harder for them to break it and everything just works out of the box.

I run Bazzite, which is Fedora Atomic, that hibernates just fine. In fact, so far it’s the only one that does. Arch and Mint both would never come back from sleep.

I’d work on my car and my computer/gamedev stuff, and teach others to do the same. Also more gardening.

It’s just the worst. I hate doing UI. A UX expert would be very high on my wish list of people to work with, lol.

As for reading list, right now it’s really just a big pile of things, not much order. There’s a lot of recommended reading in this book too that’ll get added I’m sure. You can look at my big mess of a github repo:

https://github.com/GrapeSodaGames/learn/

There’s a million issues in there with book suggestions, as well as my notes in the closed issues. I am planning to put up a little website to contain my knowledge for future reference. I’m really trying to create a habit to Learn In Public so I’m gonna put everything I do up there in that github org. Feedback and contributions of course welcome.

Yeah for sure. I’m about a third of the way through “The Art of Game Design: A Book Of Lenses” and it has proven to be a very useful book full of actionable tools to help get the creative juices flowing. The titular “Lenses” each consist of a few questions to ask yourself as you make decisions about your game. Some neat examples:

Lens 007: The Lens of Endogenous Value A game’s success hinges on the players’ willingness to pretend it is important. To use this lens, think about your players’ feelings about items, objects, and scoring in your game. Ask these questions:

1. What is valuable to the players in my game?
2. How can I make it more valuable to them?
3. What is the relationship between value in the game and the players’ motivations?

Remember, the value of the items and score in the game is a direct reflection of how much the players care about succeeding in your game. By thinking about what the players really care about and why, you can often get insights about how your game can improve.

LENS 009: The Lens of the Elemental Tetrad To use this lens, take stock of what your game is truly made of. Consider each element separately and then all of them together as a whole. Ask yourself these questions:

1. Is my game design using elements of all four types?
2. Could my design be improved by enhancing elements in one or more of the categories?
3. Are the four elements in harmony, reinforcing each other and working together toward a common theme?

LENS 015: The Lens of the Eight Filters To use this lens, you must consider the many constraints your design must satisfy. You can only call your design finished when it can pass through all eight filters without requiring a change. Ask yourself these key questions:

1. Artistic Impulse (“Does this feel right to me?”)
2. Demographics (“Will the intended audience like it?”)
3. Experience Design (“Is this well designed?”)
4. Innovation (“Is this novel?”)
5. Business and Marketing (“Will it be profitable?”)
6. Engineering(“Is it technically possible?”)
7. Social/Community (“Does it meet our social and community goals?”)
8. Playtesting (“Do the playtesters like it?”)

In some situations, there may be still more filters; for example, an educational game will also have to answer questions like “Does this game teach what it is supposed to?” If your design requires more filters, don’t neglect them.

The author has worked on a number of experiences for Disney that he relays as well, creating bespoke hardware and incredibly immersive short experiences. His emphasis on cross-domain knowledge and attention to detail in all aspects really appeals to me.

I’ve had to take a little break, got some life stuff going on, but I’m hoping to finish this book by the end of the month.

What games are you playing? I have not encountered anything so far that has needed more than proton-ge, and even then it’s only a couple of games that don’t just work out of the box. I guess I primarily play indie games though, nothing that would have like anti-cheat which I understand is a hurdle.

I bought a box of spoons at the Business Costco and now this is my whole life

Bong rip

Check out Bazzite, it’s basically that. I’ve been using it on my desktop for gaming and development for a month or so now and it’s been great.

A Disco Elysium style Trek game would be killer. Make me make ethical decisions about other species, decide if I want to be a Starfleet or a Maquis, and make awkward conversation with my superior officer that gets me reassigned to Delta Shift cleaning the Holodecks, and seriously reconsider my life.

Getting my Pinephone Pro up and running, and getting away from Google forever, finally. Also I’m gonna make the jump from Arch to either Gentoo and/or Guix, I think.

Yeah, I prefer a direct and honest approach. If it ends up that you lose friends over it, those friends may not be worth keeping.

Look at this guy and his bootstraps, everyone!

Unfortunately, everything is political, and this has always been true, and will never not be, as long as humans exist. If you were able to ignore politics, it just means you were unaware of them, likely because they weren’t hurting you or anyone you cared about. The uptick in “toxic” posts in the last decade is because more people are in danger now, and are highly aware of it, and more people are actively dangerous, and are stirring the pot. It didn’t get more political, it got more dangerous.

Khruangbin, MONO, Babe Rainbow, Kikagaku Moyo.

Because that’s the speech they like the most.

• Spout Lore - the best real play RPG podcast
• Last Podcast on the Left - True Crime, aliens, and cryptids.
• Marvel By The Month - every Marvel comic, one month at a time
• Blank Check - The best movie podcast
• The Flop House - the best bad movie podcast
• Depresh Mode - Mental health, also the best named podcast in history
• No Dogs In Space - alternative music history
• Sawbones - Medical history, also relationship goals
• Till Death Do Us Blart - the eternal podcast
• Improvised Star Trek - Sadly ended but still hilarious

Just went to the Beach Blanket Bingo show. Hail Satan!