I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.
idk how to respond to this other than yeah it’s probably gonna suck. Tbh I wouldn’t WANT them to go big budget and especially not cinematic; a big draw of Stargate was that people who have worked or lived in similar institutional settings are like,“yup that’s the vibe!” and Amazon will probably drag things out they shouldn’t just for the extra draaama.
They’re mostly trick taking games similar to spades or hearts and there’s very few apps to get into them that aren’t in Italian or French let alone any local groups to learn that aren’t in France or Italy.
I’ve been trying to develop a solitaire game that uses the star chart of a chosen date-time/location as the board but I’m having difficulty working out the core mechanic of the 12 point solitaire game let alone the sign/house/planet modifiers.
And before you mention clock solitaire there’s basically no actual choice in that game all of the moves are purely determined by the state dealt at the beginning.
Actually now I’m wondering if that’s the best uncomplicated base mechanic and the other items will just modify it such that the game is consistently winnable.
If anyone has any good thoughts on game design my other thoughts were:
clock solitaire assigns piles by number, kings in the middle. A tarot deck also has a full set of trumps. So I’m thinking split the clock into signs and assign piles by the element of their sign. So for instance the cardinal sign’s pile will build pips down from the five, the fixed’s pile will build pips down from the ten and the mutable’s pile will build courts down from the king. Trumps can go in the middle (and as a bonus your deck is sorted when you’re done).
(Actually I haven’t decided whether sign or house is the part that determines pile I’m leaning towards sign right now but I’ve flip flopped like three times in this comment so)
Other misc thoughts:
as mentioned, pure clock solitaire is not consistently winnable due to the deterministic nature of it’s play. All moves from beginning to end are purely a result of the original deal. It’s the arrangement of the houses and planets in your chosen date -time/location that will add extra powers top make it winnable. This is similar to a Minecraft seed. The board arrangement will always be the same if you pick your birthday, the card locations will just change.
what sign and planet show up in each house should affect gameplay. Haven’t decided on what yet.
I would also really like choosing a court or face trump as a signifier card for the player or players to mean something.
Tell you what. These are my hyperfixations by decade of life:
AMA, LOL
And even within that, T4T is a common preference categorization as well, whether it’s for inherent attraction or just practical reasons. There are terms that prefer solely to the target gender so for instance I’m androphilic (vs gynophilic) mostly in my romantic aspect. I don’t mind both sexually, I’ve just found women’s personalities to be difficult to deal with / have difficulty dealing with me romantically (practical preference). Now, gender wise I’m roughly here:
♀️<----------|×--------->♂️
And my visual preference for a partner is about
♀️<------|—|------|---->♂️
And my personality preference is about
♀️<---------||—|------>♂️
so really CAN I be gay? Especially if I was right on the line there. I will say hubs seems to prefer roughly (in both aspects):
♀️<–|-------|-----|---->♂️
which is pretty neatly bisexual.
Cleaning you is waaay easier than disimpaction. If it’s bad enough I have to call someone who doesn’t work holidays, weekends, or any other hour a bank isn’t open. If it’s NOT bad enough to call that person, that’s actually way worse because it’s gonna be you, me, and these phalanges, and neither of us is gonna be having a good time. Now that I work in a tiny community hospital I don’t even have residents I can sucker into it anymore!
In nursing school they taught us anything from 2x daily to 1x weekly is normal due mostly to variations in diet but with some influence from activity level, hydration, and genetics. Now I’m in practice that seems too long; I start getting nervous when my patients say it’s been 3-4 days. Personally I poop between 4x daily and once every 3 days depending on how angry my IBS is. I do HAVE to know what part of the world you’re in now though.
Oh this happens to me a lot actually I specialize almost specifically handling this kind of patient as a nurse (I started out on a unit for criminally insane men and now work lower acuity using that experience to mostly help and educate other nurses when they occasionally run into it).
Basically you do everything you can to look like you’re ignoring it while actually keeping yourself safe, then let the natural consequences slap them in the face like a cartoon character stepping on a rake.
So for me that looks like doing my assessment / negotiation (what looks like) alone a few steps into the door but I actually have two people outside on either side of the doorframe. I then also have multiple witnesses to all of the bullshit they spew and write it down for someone to read to the judge at their hearing.
For you it’s more likely something like recording your interactions then giving those to someone who can make their life suck.
Temporal bedroom divorce. I’m only in it during the day he’s only in it at night. Sometimes I try to snuggle up to him while he’s sleeping for a midnight nap and he gets up to move to the couch and I cry a little inside. Nice to have no sleeping disruptions but a lot less cuddles.
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You’ve got it reversed; less insecticide = more ladybugs = less aphids. Ladybugs are their natural predator and can actually be bought from breeders along with stuff like tomato worm wasps as a natural non-chemical pest control.
I was also taught as a kid to only kill the tomato worms without eggs laid on them:
You let those ones live because the eggs are gonna hatch and eat it then make more wasps that will eat more tomato worms.
Source: grew up rural.
Yeah convenience culture will have to die. To keep food not in plastic and not shipped halfway across the world you’re going to gave to give up getting your favorite flavor of dorito from the gas station at 2am. They won’t be able to package specialty flavors at a plant 600mi away then seal them in airtight nitrogen and ship them all over the country to that stores that are open 24/7 where they’ll be shelf stable for the next few months. You’ll have to order them by mail yourself or make do with local / regional variants made with different ingredients. The kids who stop eating when their dino nuggies have a different breading are just gonna starve (had an ex like that at 25y/o he was exhausting.)
similarly with working in mental health. my first job was also with criminally insane men so in addition to the low pay it was also stupidly dangerous. but now that I’m an RN on a lower acuity unit and one of the few nurses with that kind of high acuity experience so it did give me something valuable? 😭
I found out because of the us media?
I feel like the answer to “how old are you” is going to add a lot of context to this question.
people have been pointing that out just as long
exactly
Eh that’s relevant to the discussion since OPs argument is that they’re worse.
My arguing point is that at least the US has a free enough press to keep track of most of their bullshit.
The therapy was integral; it helped me contextualize the experience properly. Not everyone can afford it and that’s important to mention.
I did a horrible and dangerous job for 2 years while undergoing the most intensive psychotherapy that exists. It improved my social skills, developed a skillset that’s rare and highly valued in my chosen field, and completely recalibrated my sense of hardship.
Must doctors and nurses too.
I feel like they probably knew. Almost gives a christological / martyr narrative, which I hope at least MLK would appreciate given his background. Certainly took balls on all of their parts.