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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

True Stellaris fans know that the real way to play is to get about 100 years in, lose interest for a bit, and then have a patch update invalidate your save file by the time you decide to go back. Or maybe that's just me.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Check out the Red King YouTube channel if you haven't, he narrates a lot of the Stellaris stories. I tend to get halfway through a game and then lose interest, so I've missed a lot that he's covered.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He might have started a war, but he didn't girlboss his way into it, so it's fine.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a straight, I must evaluate all comestibles to ensure that they are properly yonic, lest others get the wrong idea.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fair enough! I fully made the switch over to desktop Linux some years ago, so sadly I don't have a good insight to your question, but it's been largely fun and only sometimes frustrating.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I say this as someone who hasn't messed around too much with it, but is there something you're looking for that WSL wouldn't give you?

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As my hearing gets worse, let me tell you how much decent-level automatic closed captioning has been a game changer for me while working or playing online.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I feel like there were times where the Protoss on Shakuras were not in communication with the ones elsewhere, largely for plot convenience reasons.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I appreciated that UEDAIP did change up all the UED units to be different (even if they shared the same sprites).

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Game to join if you're still sending out invitations.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

SPEC OPS PART III: THE 5D HYPERTENSOR

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

PasswordSafe, but I manually do some legwork keep the file in my Dropbox and it is a bit more work to grab the password.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That was when I just stopped watching his channel.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Boss moved from US to CH, massively upending my work. I ended up dropping out. Corporate work gives me far more control over where I live.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The only song I can think of that's about it is this electroswing one: youtu.be/7W_MTdHlVwQ?...

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Duke Ellington at Newport is a favorite of mine.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

God, is it back to crazy EMF time?

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sheet cake, tortilla, coffee art, splicing together multiple pies...

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My team is starting to look at Jujitsu, which is built on top of hit ( github.com/jj-vcs/jj ). But yes, git is very bad from a UX perspective. There's a James Mickens talk where he calls it Donnie Darko as a Service and that's about right.

github.com

GitHub - jj-vcs/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Have you even *looked* at adra futures? With tariffs on the Deadfire archipelago being what they are I can't even afford to keep my ship afloat.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I mean, bashing him with the folding chair afterwards was a little excessive.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There's a Jack Diederich quote I remember to the effect of "I hate code, and I want as little of it as possible in my product."

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

God, I remember the era of "24".

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One of my favorite W.E. Deming (champion of quality engineering) facts is he came up with an alternative scoring for the anthem. (Admittedly, I can't say it's much better.) deming.org/wp-content/u...

deming.org

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I lived in Budapest 2008-2009, and my God were the fascists butthurt about this, waving pre-Trianon border flags at rallies. And then I'd go to Slovakia, Croatia, etc and definitely hear about how little the folks there cares for Hungarian rule.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've also seen a lot of LGBT folks in the Arcane Library and Land of the Blind discords (by the makers of Shadowdark and Vagabond, respectively).

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Another thought: if they're looking for queer representation TTRPGs, the Youtubers @ginnydi.com and Pointy Hat are both good, and @paizo.com (makers of Pathfinder) put in a fair amount of queer representation into their adventures.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A joke I've heard is that the G in TTRPG stands for "gay". I've got a game going where I think I might be the only straight, cis person in the group. Definitely a lot of like-minded folks there. Good luck to your kid!

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Those FMVs aren't just going to play themselves.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My understanding is that we didn't expect the Spurs to even make it to the playoffs this year, so everything since has just been gravy.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Company had a major round of layoffs, and this time I drew a short straw. Once more unto the breach, I guess. If anyone has leads on Data-related roles remote or in San Antonio, please send them my way.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Who else will build our giant mechas?

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I guess from a different frame of reference, it matters less because the consequences can be less dire (a crashed game versus state-actor hacking, for example).

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Also a data person, so take my statement with many grains of salt, but my understanding is that if your game is trying to push the envelope of a system you end up doing a lot of extremely fancy memory tricks. E.g. youtu.be/cIbCxbrBCys?...

youtu.be

How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory

YouTube video by Game Maker's Toolkit

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As a former Wyomingite, God I wish.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Me not being born a minor scion of nobility is neoliberalism.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There will be plenty of other people who can comment on her behavior. FWIW I think she just managed to squeak through in a primary where there were a lot of candidates and no clear choice. When she's actually run against other people (as she did for city council) she hasn't campaigned well.

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Paul @left-semi-join.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm on the neighborhood board now (though she's left the neighborhood) so I don't really want to get into details in a public forum, sorry.

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