@DestructibleWatermelon !oy

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ @Doorknob What kind of effects should I give someone who's dehydrated?

I was thinking confusion at minimum

@quartata hallu for very dehydrated

Ooh, good one.

@quartata You can also add vomiting and diarrhea. Real-world symptoms.

Vomiting already exists :P

Yeah, I could do vomiting like from oversatiated

Ooh, reminds me I need to mess with the worldgen for water

I get the feeling I'm going to be completely rewriting the worldgen by the time I'm done

Unrelatedly, I've been thinking recently on how best to explain to a non-programmer what it's like to work on a complex program. Specifically, I'm trying to think of a metaphor or common experience that everyone would understand. Something that comes close is a heavy flywheel, since it takes a significant amount of time and effort to get going, but once it's going, it's easy to keep going. Doesn't really fit with how an interruption can totally wreck your flow state.

There are basically four main qualities I can think of: 1) hard to start, 2) easy to keep going, 3) easy to stop, and 4) reluctance to get started if you don't know if you'll be interrupted.

Getting started is like sorting a pile of a bunch of different types of rice grain-by-grain. expanding on it is then bisecting a smaller pile into it

@quartata Elaborate on your latter sentence?

Adding to the piles essentially

Hmm. I would think that once you get the first pile done, then the next piles would be fairly easy. Plus, there's no real thinking involved, so it's something that you can put down and pick up easily.

guess who

Legionmammal?

no

I probably should have got a better resolution image

Multiple users?

nope

quartata?

no

I give up

No sorry. ThreeFX

neither of them

Rohan?

when the higher res one is done, it might be better

@Adnan nope

please note I used identicons as the guide, but I'm referring to the image the guide was applied to

Releasing Helium Nuclei?

nope

the high res one is 2% done

I got a level 7 image

Took me more than an hour haha

Can you guess who this is?:

is it you?

No

quartata?

Nope

elendia?

@Adnan Seems quite like Alex A.

Yeah haha

It's Alex

Woo! The shape was fairly distinctive.

I thought that was too obvious...

It just grew a second head

the higher res version is a LOT more obvious than the smaller one

it will take like 1 second to guess

Oohh hahahaha

yes, that's right

it's martin ender

definitely

plot twist

Day 4: The strange avatar cont... why do I even bother :D

Why Java programmers can't see well? Because of the eclipse.

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei no, it's why do java programmers wear glasses? Because they can't see sharp.

New jokes m8

@DJMcMayhem Are you going to play Nethack?

Yes.

I've been trying to play some DCSS today

@quartata Right now?

Sure

What's your terminal size?

it's resizable

I mean, what is it right now

I have no clue

why does it matter?

OK, I'm logged in. 3.6.0 or 3.4.3?

@DJMcMayhem 3.6

@DJMcMayhem Because in order to watch you I need to set my terminal size to yours

o_O

Oh. Do you know how to figure that out?

Otherwise the lines wrap and it looks wrong

on git bash that is

It'll show me in the spectate menu

But I was just wondering

Do you wanna take it to the other room?

Sure