Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@Felthry So a bit on the "why" here, because quite a few experts on this have been analyzing and speculating on this since long before the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych. The two main drivers of Putin's personal ambitions with Ukraine appear to be his colonialistic desire to rebuild the Soviet state and to continue Russia's rule as a petrol state, both of which make Ukraine a particularly important target for him. A buffer to NATO is also a factor.

@qdot I know this is a shitpost, but since I've been calling Elden Ring a Disney theme park where everything wants to kill
you, and I now want an oddly specific Sim City/Themepark logistics manager to this concept.

@qdot ngl, my impression of Tunic is more positive in 3-5 hours than my impression of Elden Ring in 100+. >..>

@hystericempress Also good luck with the run!

@hystericempress (There is also a chain whip later in the game that may be of interest to this run. Not giving details so you can discover or wiki it as needed, but it's there, and it is amazing.)

@gardevoir Just watched the sub-one-hour (!) current record. Yeah, all of the checks are skippable, and only one major glitch is used to wrong-warp to an area early.

@gardevoir I've completed, and there's like... maybe one of those? But it's for a much later boss, and there's a bunch of places with teleporters and alternate routes that you can use to skip major content.

Kind of tempted to roll a new character and see what low% looks like. And if folks figure out how to skip certain triggers or barriers with like, the horse or something, it's going to be even more wild.

@kat Not my message, but unashamedly made exactly this joke somewhere later >..>

@Aradia Indeed. :p

@Aradia I guess it makes sense that it's specifically constructed challenges without much appeal to the plot, and the mechanics of combat and jolly coop are very polished. It's just weird to me to go through the motions of constructing an entire world, but to have it serve primarily as a funnel between encounters. Hence the Disney World analogy.

But I can't really argue against that being the intended experience or delivering well on it.

I mean, the game is good, I think? But this specific thing feels so completely alien to me somehow.

The weird thing about scaling up the Dark Souls model of "everything wants you dead" to a larger continent is it produces this weird uncanny valley in which absolutely nothing else is happening in the setting until you arrive.

No one is knitting, or writing, or just generally thinking about what to do with their long existence; they're just shambling along until you somehow happen to arrive, and their only response beyond brief snatches of dialog is to choose carefully practiced violence.

And I mean, that made sense when we're talking about a cursed undead kingdom in which everyone, including the castle guard, is slowly losing their sapience to carnal instincts subservient to a primal power. But in this setting, it... really does not make much sense, and it feels off in a significant way.

It's like going to Disney World, except all of the attractions specifically want to kill you, and your only agency in the experience is Y to talk or any other face button to violence. And even with playing most of the other games in the series to date, I find myself having trouble relating to this experience.

@Kyresti Yep, that about sums it up.

Also the part where they've been building up incrementally to this for decades, only for it to unravel... like this. It would be laughably pathetic were it not such a humanitarian crisis.

4. Everything in this is user-replaceable and buildable from first principles (including, technically, the sensors and IC, but sourcing those is waaaay easier), meaning if a component fails or a manufacturer closes shop, the thing will continue to be serviceable with small repairs.

Wish I could say the same about most of my other hardware, tbh.

When the sensor is activated (and its resistance is lowered), electricity follows down that path. Otherwise, it terminates to ground.

It works pretty well on a breadboard, but a PCB that parallelizes these better would make for a tidier build.

3. The code provided by teejusb/fsr supports an arbitrary number of sensors. You can scale this up as far as your controller has analog pins and build some absolutely complex sensing kit with this.

The pad now works, and it's been super comfy to use (even compared to rev 1).

Some build observations:

1. The keeyees pro micro we used only has 9 analog pins, and 8 of them were purposed for the build. My wiring shorted two together somehow, but the build continues to work happily despite it.

2. The build guide doesn't tell you this, but each circuit is very simple. Each analog pin is connected to two circuits. (more)

@kat "Hey, those 10 seconds were like 9000 years because of time loop shenanigans, stuff happened!"