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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s interesting how some things have changed over the years when it comes to chat rooms. And how other things haven’t. When I first started in The Palace the internet was new, and chat rooms were for shut-ins, agoraphobes, and nerds. We basically lived on the internet. So it made sense to some to treat the room as a place you entered and left.

    Now you can sit on a discord server on mobile and have a life, pop in the middle of a conversation somewhere and then leave it. And some servers still suggest you greet a room like you live there.

    It’s like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.






  • For me it wasn’t the fire that kept drawing comparisons to Divinity. It was the writing. The opening is beat for beat Divinity tropes and it was off-putting. It took hours more gameplay and character development for that edge to wear down, though it has probably permanently shaded my first playthrough. Perhaps that opening was one of the first things written, and thus the most akin to its predecessor.

    Once the game settles in, things feel less Divinity and more Faerun. The fire metaphor is apt though. Things do creep in from time to time to remind you who built this adventure. It’s like a signature. I don’t always like it, seeing the hand in this case is more jarring because of how sensitive I am towards the setting and gameplay. But the craft is so thoughtful otherwise, it’s broken through those barriers for me.








  • Is a pipe a hole? No. We call the cylinder a pipe. A straw is a cylindrical tube. Tubes, pipes, hoses, and straws are cylindrical and hollow.

    It’s unconventional to call the hollow space a hole, but as others have pointed out, a donut has one hole and if extruded, would continue to have one hole and resemble a cylinder.

    As donut is not a hole. It has a hole, but it is not one. Squash a straw vertically and you have a plastic donut with one hole. The straw is the plastic part, not the hole.








  • These guys think the service they provide is so invaluable, so critical to the lives of their users, that they’re betting on those users’ willingness to shell out for the experience they’re accustomed to.

    It doesn’t seem like a winning strategy but he’s desperate to turn a profit off this thing and I don’t think the long term is much of a consideration right now.