New instance, new #introduction

I messed around with a lot of old Maxis games as a kid and kind of expected more would come out that would teach me how the world "really worked" in a way I could use to decide how to live my life. I still don't know what that would be like, exactly, but I figure *somebody* does, so I'm making a tool to help them, whoever they are: the Life Simulator Engine, #Lisien.

The core feature is time travel. The development kit for Inform 7 had this, and it seemed so obviously useful that I needed to have it. This replaces save files; now, everything that ever happened in any playthrough of your game lives in a database.

There's also a rules engine, similar to the one in Ren'Py's Dating Sim Engine. By compartmentalizing the complexity of your game's rules, it should make them easier to reason about, and there's a way to time travel to just before or after any particular rule, to see if it did the right thing.

Take a look:

https://vimeo.com/815795673

"The bees have access to good nutrition, though their fragrance and the computer can actually deform the world" - TED Talk

#wordhack

:babycastles:

Come to think of it I could just release it in the current semi-usable state and call attention to the problem so that the *testers* will try to help

Is that what alpha is about?

I need some help getting PyInstaller to make an actually usable Windows package for the new LiSE alpha.

"Ignore it and it will go away" is a childish response born of the idea that abusers are trolls, who are fishing for a response and nothing more. Abusers are not trolls. Abusers are hatemongers. In many ways they don't CARE about the response from the victim; it's getting to spew their hate without punishment that's what they want.

And the only way to get them punished is to speak out about it. So that's what I have to do in order to get to the world I want to live in.

I'm in the process of moving instances, please follow me at https://cybre.space/@LogicalDash

If you're not a bot I'll auth you

I'm in the process of moving instances, please follow me at https://cybre.space/@LogicalDash

If you're not a bot I'll auth you

I have moved to https://cybre.space/@LogicalDash

@yogthos can we get TRLE stuff on here

@darius @tinysubversions I saw this tweet

@oceangrunge@witches.town the instance auth section isn't showing up in my preferences

@oceangrunge@witches.town waiting for private post federation I guess

@theoutrider @tinysubversions we'll also get private post federation soon...maybe it's safe to assume that an instance that a user already trusts to keep their posts private is also trustworthy for this purpose?

LB: fuck cars

Is it illegal to put up your own ROAD CLOSED signs all over town. to stop cars from drivin around at all. fuck cars

@acw you know, with the fiddly bit

@acw what does the squiggly symbol do

@tinysubversions That might help some people, sure

@tinysubversions Idea being your old account *becomes* a bot, basically an autoresponder?