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A quotation from Chamfort

Education must be based on two things: ethics and prudence; ethics in order to develop your good qualities, prudence to protect you from other people’s bad ones. If you attach too great an importance to goodness, you produce credulous fools; if you’re too prudent, you produce self-serving, scheming rogues.
 
[L’Éducation doit porter sur deux bases, la morale et la prudence ; la morale, pour appuyer la vertu ; la prudence, pour vous défendre contre les vices d’autrui. En faisant pencher la balance du côté de la morale, vous ne faites que des dupes ou des martyrs; en la faisant pencher de l’autre côté, vous faites des calculateurs égoïstes.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/897…

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melsaywhat

#3GoodThings #ReasonsToBeCheerful

1. I got try out a new (to me) game today, 'Yield! Fall of Rome'. I received a free key from Daedelic through PressEngine, so I must disclose. I enjoyed it. It's like a mini Civ in some senses.

2. I treated myself to pizza delivery because it's so cold and I have pizza probably through Sunday. Ordered Little Caesars to be frugal. I got a BOGO deal on the Crazy Puffs. They're so cute and yummy. They're probably pretty easy to replicate at home. (Yep, tons of recipes online).

3. Rogue is finally laying in her bed again when I work or I'm in my fun office. When I say laying IN, I use the term loosely this evening.

#Sponsored #YieldFallOfRome #Daedelic #Pizza #LittleCaesars #CrazyPuffs #Rogue #PitbullsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon

@3goodthings@a.gup.pe @3goodthings@fedigroups.social @3goodthings_ko

Gray and white Pitbull wearing a pink collar sleeping partially outside a plush, round, gray dog bed with a herringbone-patterned blanket. The bed is on a wooden floor near a woven basket, a black case, a bookshelf, and a tripod with cables.
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ThunderPerfectWitchcraft
Arcane Cache: Review to Glittering Light 2

A ASCII art game that breaks with quite some conventions in a wonderful way. Instead of moving an @ through a maze of lines, it feels like moving through a strange, mysterious world ... a game with a limited, set scope, where the atmosphere and the fundamental idea of the game are much more important than the balance or the gameplay ... a parabola on life itself.

https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2025/02/06/glittering-light-2/

#game #videogame #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #undergroundgame #exploration #2D #surreal #art #digitalart #opensource #freesoftware #freegame #free #libre #gaming #browser #indie #review #underground #ASCII #text #roguelike #crawler #rpg #crawl #rogue #angband #retro #text #experimental
A @ sign within glyphs of different size and shape, forming something that depicts a structure (a temple?) within a forest.
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@cstross @offby1

> I can go back to space opera set so far in the deep future that not even Trump can fuck it up, right?

I'm thinking the reverberations of the absolutely bonkers decisions his team is making and will continue to make for the rest of his term could result in a rogue probability wave that comes out of nowhere and overturns reality even that far in the future.

#RogueWave#rogue#wave
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Mark Gritter

The original Rogue level algorithm picks a width for each room between 4 and 25, and a height between 4 and 7.

Ignoring "gone" rooms, that gives 22^9 * 4^9 possibilities with only a 32-bit seed. So some combinations of rooms must be impossible! How does the subspace of rooms produced by the limited seed space compare with the theoretical distribution if rnd() was really random?

Weekend project, maybe? I have been thinking ever since #RoguelikeCelebration about how small RNG seeds (or poor PRNG algorithms) limit the expressive range of PCG in ways that might be unexpected.

#ProceduralContentGeneration#PseudoRandom#Rogue
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Nonilex

~2 yrs ago, when Iannucci began adapting “#DrStrangelove” for the #WestEnd, he didn’t think the 1964 movie had many direct parallels to today.

The full title of #Kubrick’s film is “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the #Bomb,” & it tells the story of a #USAF general who goes #rogue & orders a #nuclear strike on the #SovietUnion. In the #Pentagon’s war room, an ineffectual president ([the brilliant] #PeterSellers) dithers, blusters & flails, as he tries to avert WWIII.

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