It’s one more click, why fix what ain’t broke?

Idek what that is I learned ctrl-alt-del 20 years ago and haven’t needed to learn anything else since.

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It was simpler using Linux to just kill things unceremoniously, but my coworkers are also consistently amazed when Epic throws a temper tantrum (rare, but it happens) and I walk over and ctrl-alt-delete and tell it to sit down and shut the fuck up until it’s ready to reboot and act right.

I feel like it was in the first 3rd or so? To me that counts more as setup than anything else. The rest of it has been more of the implications, how it works, and what to do about it, which I would consider more to be spoilers.

Oh thank you! I couldn’t find a sub for it but that makes sense now that I see it.

Nope! My partner just happened to read it lately and recommended it.

yeah idk if they’ll ever include that much detail in the game, and if I try to do all that I’ll be working on this for weeks and my partner is already pissed about having done both the laundry AND dishes this weekend… but I definitely appreciate the ideas! Maybe something to try after a few more generations of lifesim games!

I wonder if the fatigue mechanics would make that a less desirable strategy, but in either case idk if I want it to be that hard. In particular I’m trying to make part of figuring it out sort of realizing what those rules / constraints are, but in a way that just gets you to the solution faster rather than eliminating a total brute force solution which would require less thinking but would definitely take longer.

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OMG it’s wild that you would say that because I’m actually reading (listening to really) Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson as I’m making this! If you’ve never read it a pretty big plot point is a Brown Note image that looks like noise but that will scramble people’s brains if they have enough of an affinity for computer languages.

i’ll be full of energy, all these ideas and motivation. i’ll talk really fast and have no need for sleep.

hi, am inpatient psych nurse. that is almost definitely not just teenage hormones; you need that psychiatry doc ASAP. until then I recommend working on a safety plan until you can make it to the doc; I’ll see if I can find a template when I get home later this evening.

Update: Made a post of it so I could go into a little more detail