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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by jonwinstanley »

D13Fd wrote: post #113
jjice wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are your favorite RPGs at the moment? New or old? I feel like RPGs have been holding strong since the Super Nintendo and there so many hours of incredible gameplay to be had.

If you haven't played the various Bethesda games (Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout), now is a great time. There is a modding tool called Wabbajack that auto-installs curated lists of hundreds of mods, all patched to work together, and you can get an incredible setup with very little work.

Are these mainly new features for the games or graphics updates?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by smm11 »

beachy wrote: post #147

Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0]. Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors. Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag. The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming c…

Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing.

Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by smm11 »

Aaronstotle wrote: post #138

Most of my passion is around cycling, if I didn't have to work for a living, I think I'd spend most of my time doing long bike rides.

This.

I'm riding an early-70s Schwinn road bike in an hour or so, and a modern modern mountain bike Saturday. Bring it on!

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Orlan »

scraggo wrote: post #73

Memorization techniques, basically what's in _Moonwalking with Einstein_ by Josh Foer. Here's a podcast on the topic https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_how_to_re...

How’s your progress going? I read The Memory Book (Harry Lorayne) 20 years ago, and have always been interested, but assumed it would take years to be proficient. Wasn’t until I read Moonwalking With Einstein that I realized that with consistent practice it doesn’t need to take that long.

Life has gotten in the way, so I haven’t been consistent with practice. Have also been procrastinated by jumping between books (Dominic O’Brien, Harry Lorayne, Nelson Dellis, others) trying to compare methods.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by O1111OOO »

solardev wrote: post #7

There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…

> Beautiful art too.

I just looked over a couple of trailers. I think this makes my watchlist.

About the artwork... reminded me of Another World [0, 1] but with the better rez of today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)?use...

[1] Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMf_bEfqIc

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by polivier »

Crossword puzzles! They make very interesting combinatorial problems (both for solving and creating grids). I recently had a ton of fun writing a constraint programming model that generates grids, including the automatic placement of black squares (this was the main modeling challenge). This model is useful for creating grids using short word lists (which is the case for e.g. thematic grids).

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by kzhen »

scruple wrote: post #96

Board game design, but specifically solo and 2-player co-op games that have a small footprint, small board states, and are easy to play. I've been looking for offline hobbies and recently got into solo board gaming, on top of playing games with my wife a couple of times a month. I work in gamesdev and I want to retain a creative outlet in the direction of gaming, because I just really enjoy it, but I also want to sto…

any suggestions for solo board games? not a genre that I'm familiar with

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by havefunbesafe »

smm11 wrote: post #152
beachy wrote: post #147

Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0]. Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors. Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag. The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming c…

Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing. Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

Colorado resident, here. I'd say 95% of people I know do one or the other. Probably 50% of people I know do both.
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