FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I think the main thing people get wrong in game design is randomness. Randomness plays a big part in game design, obviously, but like anything has its time and place. I'll often see something like this:

Something players can do against an enemy is too effective and makes the game too easy. The designer comes up with a counter the enemy can do to make it harder, and when the player tries to do the OP thing has the counter trigger randomly

This is bad design because it will confuse and frustrate players. Players assume when something leads to a bad outcome there was something they could have done to prevent it. When the counter happens randomly, ie sometimes their action succeeds and sometimes it fails they'll assume there was something they did to cause the failure

They'll try and find out what they're doing wrong, but won't find any pattern (since there is none) and as a result get frustrated with trying to figure it out

#GameDev

she's so real for this

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

#tech #ai #health #healthcare

Apparently I’m a ‘menace’ to walk around with in other towns because I keep assuming I have the right of way. I’m used to streets where cars are allowed, but they must yield to pedestrians and cyclists. So I unthinkingly wander in the middle of the road in other cities too, gathering cars behind me like a pied piper until a sighing friend pulls me aside. As I stand with all the other people forced aside to let 1 driver in 1 car pass, I wonder: who’s the real menace here?

#Aarhus #LiveableCities

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do you have a fire extinguisher in your house?

if not, I highly recommend grabbing one if you can afford it. powder is a good place to start, since it works for almost all household fire types and is safe around electricals. a brand new 1kg one is about £15 and a 2kg one is about £20.

a few years back I had an incident where having a fire extinguisher in our kitchen saved me from severe burns and limited the fire damage to stuff I could cheaply repair. coincidentally, I had bought it that day.

It is absolutely baffling to me how frequently hard it is to find answers to a javascript question that doesn't require pulling in at least one dependency (like jQuery), when usually the answer in plain javascript is *at least as simple* as with whatever fucking dependency you "MUST" use

Paris has revealed plans for pedestrianizing the city that include creating 100 hectares of new pedestrian space by 2030 and transforming car lanes to human-friendly pathways and rain gardens.

Love this part: "walking is free, it's emission-free, it's noise-free, it's good for your health and, as we see every time we pedestrianise, it's also good for local businesses."

People-friendly cities for the win! 🚶‍♀️ 🌳 🚴‍♂️

https://www.thelocal.fr/20231117/paris-reveals-plans-to-pedestrianise-the-city

#paris #environment #urbanism #walking #ClimateChange

Without looking it up, how long ago do you think the OceanGate debacle was? I'm curious how bad everyone's sense of time these days is. I know it was pretty bad for a few years there...

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"I don't wear 🌈 items to tell you who's in my bed."

#lgbtqiaplus #rainbows #queer

Drew a silly idea I had for a bit now.

been playing around with rendering strange attractors recently :P

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Question for the wider fediverse; where did academic Twitter end up? My wife has pulled the plug on the network formerly known as Twitter and would like to reconnect with the academics she was engaging with on that platform but it appears they’ve been scattered to the four winds.

The future is going just great

The world’s most powerful military force mistook a woman and a child for a man in rural Somalia, killed them, and decided their deaths were no one’s fault. https://continent.substack.com/p/a-us-drone-killed-a-somali-mother