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Re: Paper Apps

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Post by IgorPartola »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #66
CuriousCosmic wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Subnautica has a somewhat related concept which is that at the end of the game you have the ability to send a single time capsule to the maps of new players. They contain text, a picture (taken with the in game camera), and a handful of items. It's a cute little feature that allows you to send something helpful (or just amusing) to the next generation of players.

Sounds like a NetHack "bones level" that gets created when you die, and may appear in someone else's game. Full of cursed items, of course. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Bones#Description

Nothing like finding your own bones and being attacked by your ghost.

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Post by jldugger »

The games are conceptually neat but I find the randomness added by die rolls a detraction these days. Just give me puzzles I can perfectly solve!

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Post by adamtaylor_13 »

jldugger wrote: post #72

The games are conceptually neat but I find the randomness added by die rolls a detraction these days. Just give me puzzles I can perfectly solve!

I found that Into The Breach really scratches that “give me a puzzle I can perfectly solve” itch.

Definitely worth checking out if you’re into puzzle games. If you have a Netflix subscription you can play for free on iOS and iPadOS (unsure about other platforms).

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Post by wwilim »

pmkary wrote: post #8

This is both very funny and very sad :) Paper is its own thing. if you think about it, the todo list in the computer was first a skeuomorph of the paper one. Now people have become so alienated from the paper that someone has brought their computer todo to the paper :)))) Not only this does not promote the paper, but is a huge promotion for the computer! By being a constant reminder to the notebook's owner: "this is…

Don't think about the elephant

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Post by jldugger »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #73
jldugger wrote: post #72

The games are conceptually neat but I find the randomness added by die rolls a detraction these days. Just give me puzzles I can perfectly solve!

I found that Into The Breach really scratches that “give me a puzzle I can perfectly solve” itch. Definitely worth checking out if you’re into puzzle games. If you have a Netflix subscription you can play for free on iOS and iPadOS (unsure about other platforms).

Yea, I uh, already have that one =)

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Post by ajot »

flpm wrote: post #58

We (me and my 8 year old) loved the Dungeon one and really enjoyed, as a carry-with-you-for-when-you-are-bored item. Also cool is their d6 pencil, so you can roll a dice without having a dice, very smart idea. I am really inspired by ideas like this: you can generate engagement with simple things like a piece of paper and a pencil. And despite some of the comments, I love that they call it an "App" because it makes y…

I used to do something similar in high school, with Bic pens and pencils that have a hexagonal section.

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Post by nyclounge »

pmkary wrote: post #8

This is both very funny and very sad :) Paper is its own thing. if you think about it, the todo list in the computer was first a skeuomorph of the paper one. Now people have become so alienated from the paper that someone has brought their computer todo to the paper :)))) Not only this does not promote the paper, but is a huge promotion for the computer! By being a constant reminder to the notebook's owner: "this is…

Don't think it is sad at all. Glade to the reverting from digital to analog. To be honest we don't need digital stuff, a lot of just makes people lazier.

Hope in the future people will always have a physical counter part (Certificate of Deposit) for their IMPORTANT digital assets such as money.

Projects like this help people to move some of the important items to physical medium. If needed they can take a pic of the notepad as a history. Seems like the ultimate killer app to me.

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Post by tunesmith »

The best "Paper Apps" concept I've ever experienced was the "Ace of Aces" series of books, published by Nova. Two books, one for you and one for a friend, in a airplane dogfight, where through a complicated page-flipping mechanism, you each see your own first person view of the other person's plane.

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Post by patcon »

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #67
cafeinux wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me when in school I had to do a presentation about ways to defend against malware. I showed a few software examples (among other things) and ended with "the most powerful anti-malware ever, compatible with every other anti-malware, adds a strong security layer to them, protects your passwords, prevents you from opening spam, from clicking unknown links, from replying to phishing, almost impossible to uninstal…

You should have asked them how they managed to uninstall it.

As the sort of absent-minded human who (no matter how much I learn) will always have a deep-seated irrational fear of being "that student", I must say: sick burn
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