Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 77

"At Odds" is the other game that was in OSS 4X. It is also under RTS:

peoplepancakes.itch.io/at-odds

> Procedurally generated constellation and star systems

Elite vibes! I went down this road because we were talking ... I was talking ... about Elite, and continued to StarCraft from there.

> Planets that actually orbit around their star

That's cool.

> Bigger focus on strategy than micro

Hmmm.

> Design your own ships
> Space lasers
> Trains, in space
> Massive freaking space battles

Ok, this resonates with me.

April 2023:

"Taiwan says 71 Chinese planes crossed Taiwan Strait median line"

reuters.com/world/china-announ…

“The Democratic Progressive Party has purposely hyped up the so-called ‘military threats by the mainland military’ to exaggerate tensions,” Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a PLA spokesman, told a press briefing in Beijing.

scmp.com/news/china/politics/a…

Meanwhile, Xi "non-threatening" Taiwan:

"All sons and daughters of China, including compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, must work together and move forward in solidarity, resolutely smashing any 'Taiwan independence' plots."

reuters.com/world/china/chinas…

#china #taiwan

The big renovation outside the office lobby is done.

The ground is still the stupid design that will flood people's shoes when it's raining. The new glass is less slippery to walk on with your flooded shoes I guess?

Got interested in seeing if there are any Open Source 4X games, and the search engine took me to Itch.

itch.io/games/downloadable/fre…

It's only showing two games, but that's because the Open Source tag isn't applied very consistently. Unciv Magic is tagged, but not Unciv, which is on Itch, is obviously the upstream of Unciv Magic, and is under the MPLv2.

Is there a fun Open Source realtime 4X game? Less Civ, more StarCraft?

"Goodbye “Long COVID”! See Our Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Post-COVID Rehabilitation & Health Promotion"

aaaaaaaaaaaa

Having a look again at what the #covid booster situation is like in #hongkong .

"From 14 December 2023 onwards, eligible citizens below may choose to receive the new generation XBB COVID-19 vaccine."

chp.gov.hk/en/features/106934.…

So they're finally out now, that's cool. The government program is just for risk groups now though, so we'll see if that means private clinics stock it too, or if they're slower, or not offering at all as was the case in early Dec. Also I wonder if they offer it together with a seasonal flu vaccine.

I took a walk around Shenzhen downtown last weekend and all buses, cars and motorbikes are fully electric. It was super quiet, felt like walking in a city of the future, but also a bit unnerving as you don't hear them coming, or unless you're used to it I guess.

I also met a pair of really chaotic bicyclists plowing through the pedestrian sidewalk even though there was a proper dedicated bicycle lane Right There. Also the Metro had like 80% of ticket terminals out of order and somehow there was still smog when looking at the city from 541 m up in Ping An Finance Center. And city planning is not very town-like, it's point towers on big plots.

So, pros and cons I guess. =)

And here it is, the last video on the #TomScott channel, in this format, on this weekly cadence.

And what a very Tom Scott video it is. 🥰

Thank you, sir. I will keep watching your many other things you're already doing, and I'm sure to check out whatever new experiments you'll embark on when that time comes.

It's been a lovely ten years and I haven't even seen the entire back catalog yet.

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt…

I didn't hop on again. Life happened.

But I passed the assessment, woo!

This is my first professional certification ever in my 27 years of work. 😊

I found the same interview on youtube:

"Natalie Portman's Awkward R-Rated Movie Moment"
(she and a friend were watching "Threesome" and were embarrassed when the friend's mom found out, but 95% of the interview is unrelated to that)

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2qf4WeuH…

@Jasper

When replanting their forest, one company decided to have some fun. When planting a variety of trees, they decided to pattern the larch to form a smileyface among the Douglas fir. During summer it's all green, but in autumn the larch trees turn orange.

You don't need a helicopter to see it, it's on a slope and supposedly visible from the Oregon 18. I don't think the picture is taken from a there, the camera must be up in the sky.

oregonlive.com/pacific-northwe…