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I was camping/bike packing in Kyushu when this happened! I think I was in Miyazaki on the 14th when we felt the first shock. It was the first earthquake I’d experienced. The multi-story hotel we stayed at felt like it was gyrating in a circular fashion.

Then my pal and I were camping by the Utagenka Bridge, east of Kumamoto for the main shock!

Quintuplets! 36 here and had a similar story of listening to John on TWiT way back when! I stopped listening to No Agenda about 10 years ago, though. Sad to hear of his passing.

I might have seen the explosion light up some clouds in Orlando. I was driving East when I saw a patch of clouds glow orange for a few seconds and then go dark. I wondered what that was... then found out this happened at the same time I was driving!

Secret Hangout: Private themed lounges for karaoke, board games, and video games, with drinks and snacks. Just launched it a couple weeks ago. https://mysecrethangout.com/

Building up the marketing now. Starting to get some coverage on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWxWo_oDfkm/

Nuts, definitely. Bonkers to jump to that conclusion? No, especially with this US administration. Mexico itself is concerned enough about the possibility that it's made statements to make it clear it wouldn't be acceptable. Mexico thinks it's nuts, too, but not bonkers to think the US might do it.

US troops in Mexico 'not on the table', Sheinbaum tells Trump https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260112-us-troops-mexi...

Re: "It's much more comfortable to be the person that 'could be X' than to be the person that tries to actually do it."

I build entertainment experiences (escape rooms, live game shows, etc.), and I find that this also applies to individual projects/products. In the early planning stages we outline the ideal contours of a project, but as we build and run into constraints we start to see the gap between our vision and execution. And, usually, it's fine. We're the only ones who can see that gap because we're the only ones who knew the original plan. Guests only see what exists. We see what almost existed, what was left on the cutting room floor.

The planning stage is the most comfortable because we don't yet have to reckon with how we have fallen short of our plan. Now, during every planning phase, there's a visceral acknowledgment that there will be a gap between vision and execution, but we make choices that attempt to make those gaps smaller or, at least, acceptable.

I suspect they also hope developer choice gets reframed from "Unity or Unreal" to "Godot or Unreal." In other words: Unity gets bumped out of the picture since Godot can do what it does and is open source, while Unreal stays comfortably in the hyperrealism/high-end perch.

Which life would you choose for yourself? Would you be okay if someone else chose for you, especially if the choice was different?

Link above has example photos, and this is an update on a PCB and enclosure they're working on: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remote-gameboy-camera-project...

East Lansing, where MSU is!

Millennials, I'd argue. During the 90s, culture at large painted a picture of stability and progress, all made possible by democracy. See Francis Fukuyama's The End of History for the kind of tone that permeated the time.

As we Millenials have gotten older, we too have seen through the veil and realized the system isn't perfect. More importantly, perhaps, we've seen the wide range of ways people react to this imperfect system. Some have chosen to undermine its very foundations to get their way, leaving many to wonder what we're left with if -- to loosely quote Whose Line Is It Anyway -- the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

This speaks to me!

In 2015, a friend and I resolved to ride our bicycles across Japan. I had felt the yearn to go on an adventure that engaged my whole body and encouraged exploration in an environment completely new to me. I deeply desired some version of crossing Middle Earth, and a bike ride with a start and end point but no plan in between felt like just the thing.

In April of 2016 we set off from Kagoshima, and a few weeks later we ended our trip in Osaka. We made it roughly a third as far as we had wanted, but it’s a trip we’ll never forget, and one that we desperately want to continue someday. It scratched an itch I didn’t know how else I could scratch.

My uncle underwent CAR-T therapy and the turn around was amazing. He's got a brand new lease on life. We would have lost him without it.

We use this at my company and I'm a fan!

Part of me wonders if this parallels the venture capital approach. Many won't don't anything economically productive with the opportunity UBI affords them, but the ones that do may make the cost worthwhile.

Not sure if that's how it would actually pan out, of course, but I think it's plausible.

This, a thousand percent. Whether you are in college or not. Go to where people work on things you're interested in and/or build things in public and spread the word -- eventually, you'll meet people who are like minded in interest and work ethic.

Off topic, but related: The art you see on Fly posts? It's made by the inimitable Annie Rugyt: https://annieruygtillustration.com/ She's wonderful, and has a knack for making brands come alive with illustration.

Remember the RethinkDB mascot? That was her too!

A friend of mine made a Godot Engine assistant, and I can't help but feel like "talking to/with the docs" is going to be a super helpful new paradigm.

I'm management and the primary developer. (We've got a super small tech team.) I look forward to no-code tools so I can get designers and others tackling less complex problems/projects that would otherwise take up my development time. The hope is that I'd be able to focus on more challenging things, much like how open source relieves developers from building yet another [insert here].

Grim for whom?

Yes! Remote SSH on this would be a game changer for me. Especially if I can run it on an iPad...

Any idea if this currently has support for the Vive trackers? (Would love to track objects as well as hands.)

Just quarantine it in a goddamn zoo!

Thanks! Hope we can bring the team back together!

Also, after going through this process, we've come up with a few ways to adapt our existing games for remote play without an in-room game master.

If we can re-use an existing environment from one of our in-person rooms, the costs to get something like this up and running is marginal. We'd wind up getting a second playable experience, with a potentially wider audience, for not much more spend.

That said, this experience was purpose built to experiment with the remote game concept. (At the time, we weren't sure how to adapt our existing in-person games.) It's a small physical space (approx. 11ft x 9ft), and we used a ton of props we already had.

Just shot you an email!

Thanks, Matt! We've got a few quick shots of the experience tagged to the end of this teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYt0L-6K-U

This is very much a v1 of our take on remotely playable games. Some quick examples: Players can control light, sound, some electronics that physically move (nothing crazy for now -- a tape deck, a centrifuge), and influence a "ghostly orb" to move around the room.

Here's a peek at what's coming down the pike: - One remote experience that's an adaptation of an existing in-person experience we have, but made in such a way that it can handle many concurrent sessions. The idea is that this'll help us with larger team building events. - Another experience with camera control, more influence on the environment, and more elaborate sets. This is definitely going to be a first of its kind.

Would love to see something like that warehouse style operation happening!

Shoot me an email if you want to arrange some team building.

Thank you! They're designed to reset automatically!

We've got some very short clips at the end of this video to give a taste of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYt0L-6K-U We're probably burying it by presenting it this way.

I'll take a moment to figure out how to highlight that on the page better. Thanks for the feedback!

From my tinkering, I've found that MJPEG streams are the lowest latency live video I can get. Old school, but no buffering like HLS or MPEG-DASH, etc. I haven't tried modifying the buffering in HLS and the like to zilch (or at least as low as I can go), but that's one thing worth exploring. I keep it low res (640 x 360) and low fps, but use the new high quality Raspberry Pi cameras to get an image that looks decent regardless.

One way to get around the latency issue with RC cars is to pre-plot the path and build a puzzle around that. (Not that there has to be a puzzle in there.)

Also, if you like scale models, have we got somethin' cookin' for you!