We're hurt pretty bad after that fight. We've got to get healed before we risk going into combat again, and it's pretty hard to get anything done without the risk of going into combat. In the box on the left for each character the blue column is endurance. If your endurance is reduced to zero in a fight then you're knocked unconscious. The green column is strength. If strength is reduced to zero you're killed. Endurance recovers quickly. Recovering strength takes much longer and it helps a lot to have some medical attention.

If we were rich we might consider going to the physician, but we can't afford him. We could stay at the local inn and have Yuna use her healing skills to treat us, but that costs money too. So we're going to embrace the 1400s NEET lifestyle and go to the Premonestraten and beg for help. This is a monastery inside the city. Monastic life is a big deal in this era and it comes in different forms. In this case, these people don't want to isolate themselves and live in contemplation as much as they want to do good works.

Aww sweet, we got some nuns to help us.

He's only asking for 1 pfennig to stay here. That's 1 penny, the least he could possibly ask for, so of course we'll pay. In Darklands prices depend on a number of things. Your reputation in the city helps. Bigger cities have higher prices. And the more money you have, the more that you're expected to spend on this kind of charitable contribution. We must be really poor if he's asking for so little.

After a week we're almost completely healed.

Let's see if our loot from that battle is enough to afford any better weapons or armor. We've got a little over 11 groschen. What's a groschen? This game is all about atmosphere so you can't just whip out your credit card and use convenient decimal currency when you want to buy a sword. From the manual:

Money is counted in three denominations: gold florins, silver groschen, and silver pfenniges. Because distribution of wealth and wages were so different, comparisons to modern currency are impossible. In general, florins are very valuable, but are used only in large transactions; groschen are fairly valuable and are in daily use; pfenniges are "small change," important only to the very poor.

(BTW this game's manual is a work of art. If you weren't around in the early 1990s, you have no idea. You would get a game and it came with an entire book that explained how the game works, what the history was behind its setting, and what the developers were thinking when they made it.)

There's 12 pfennigs in a groschen and 20 groschen in a florin. The game is at least nice enough to show us everything's value in the total number of pfennigs while we're shopping at a store.

We don't really have enough to buy anything useful yet. At this point I'm gonna have to do a little grinding. Remember this is a game from 1992 so there was an attitude that games should take a very long time to beat or else you weren't getting your money's worth. I won't make you look over my shoulder while I do this. I'm going to repeatedly go out at night and kill thugs (there's an unlimited supply), sell their stuff, heal, and go through the cycle again. Eventually I'll have enough money to buy a few nice things. Just as important, our characters learn by doing, so the more they fight the more their weapon skills will increase. That makes them more likely to hit the enemy and to parry his attacks.

The music for the secluded grove of trees where you can waste time and move the clock forward. This is important as the world is very different between day and night.

Yeah, it's grinding time.

Next time: I'll come back with a party that's skilled and equipped enough to easily deal with these street hoodlums. We'll have the chance to start getting educated.

https://www.themirror.com/tech/gaming/nintendo-sues-palworld-developers-over-704264

@ticktocktrainbuteepy @Kang-PrimeTimeline

Anyways, playing Class of '09: Re-Up during a zoom call.

Edit: The more I play this, the more Jecka becomes my spirit animal

I would have been an amazing teenage white girl

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I'm playing the new fishing expedition and I don't want to warp anymore because I think my next warp is gonna be a freighter battle and I don't frick with the haulers so I'm making a shit ton of ionized cobalt with refiners so I can get a fighter or exotic or something before I can even really get going on the expedition. Am I turning into a gek? Should I keep myself safe?

Half-assed Summary -

• Judge addresses the texts a groomercord simp claims to have seen yesterday, Billy claims they weren't discussing the case and everyone moves on

• Billy gets grilled on whether the statements actually mattered, says weird things about old statements no longer mattering, some other stuff

• Funny quotes from the Twin Galaxies Billy depo about supposed emotional distress get read out

• Author claims Billy decided to wash his hands only after he realized there was someone else in the bathroom with him

!g*mers

A complaint i had with Gta 5 was that the mountainous areas had literally no life on them. They should've had smaller settlements like towns and etc. I have a poop fetish. I hope that the everglades and the forests in Gta 6 have smaller towns or settlements that'd be so cool pic.twitter.com/OvTS6rOnI8

— Jason from GTA VI (@JasonfromGTAVI) May 2, 2024

Date @Goomble !

Nintendo w/ The Pokemon Company have filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair Inc.

This lawsuit seeks an injunction against infringement and compensation for damages on the grounds that Palworld, a game developed and released by the… pic.twitter.com/5BAt6Q7a35

— Wario64 (@Wario64) September 18, 2024

!g*mers projected outcome?

Nintendo wins - 55 votes

Palworld wins - 44 votes

Lawsuit gets dropped - 15 votes

Settle out of court - 230 votes

Here is a picture of Thrall, a giant green orc, for reference

as you can see the usual pithy dismissal by the overmind trying to dissuade further discussion as long since outdated

https://old.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/1fj1lre/diversity_takes_over_feudal_japan/

The losers from /r/greentext are the soyest version of losers enjoying the radical nature of 4chan, but only do so in the approved SAFE EDGY way

https://old.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/1fj1lre/diversity_takes_over_feudal_japan/lnlpv6o/?context=8

And additionally, the Yasuske samurai bullshit has been far from clear as shitlibs have been showcasing - Dramatards, tell me has anyone had any new updates on this nonsense??

seems like the usual soys get overturned by normies every now and then

• Billy less "tired and angry" than day 1

• Billy on his phone while in court

• Jobst has at least 5 groomercord groupies in the courtroom

• Judge is allowing the deposition videos in but there might be some limits on what he can get asked about

• Billy's on the stand and there's a long blow-by-blow in the article

• Groomercord groupies talked to some of the journos outside

• The author is a Seahawks fan

GTA online requires some kind of anticheat software that effectively makes it only work on Windoze machines. Linuxchads and steamdeckpillmaxxers are officially btfo'd and it's definitely fricking over. I'd post links to drama but I'm on YouTube learning to tie a noose.

Apparently this might have happened because :

A company that commercially makes arcade cabinets (Arcade 1up) took Duckstation, made tons of improvements to it for a Simpsons game, then refused to release the source code as is required by GPL until they were pressured to on social media, and ultimately only released snippets of the code that don't actually build.

Think that left a sour taste in their mouth and they're going a bit overboard with the response.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/comments/10osxo0/john_d_states_arcade1up_is_not_in_violation_of/j6hbyba/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/Arcade1Up/comments/109m5g2/simpsons_bowling_runs_under_duckstation/

https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/10eay2g/arcade_1up_simpsons_unit_in_violation_of_the_gpl/

https://github.com/Arcade1Up/duckstation-sb

more details

Could it be that someone is trying to use the source for building a commercial product?

They already did. This particular Stenzek meltdown stems from Arcade1Up using a modified version of DuckStation in their Simpsons Bowling arcade machine. They modified it themselves to get the game running properly, didn't contribute any of that work back to the main project, and initially also didn't make their modified source code available either (though eventually did after some pressure). Stenzek went on a rant on Groomercord about how he's tired of people making money from his work and decided to do this. It's hard to actually say he's wrong in this case, as Arcade1Up has a long history of using people's work without permission and refusing to release their source code, despite being in violation of the license they agreed to.

The thing about open source licensing is that it's pretty much enforced on the honor system at this level, since very few people actually have the resources to go to court over it - especially when you're talking individuals versus a company. That said, Stenzek doing this is also almost certainly in violation of the previous license. He is and always has been a hothead prone to dramatic moves and burning bridges, despite being a hugely talented developer.

I guess the dev also had drama with over a fork for retroarch at some point too: https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/siaegs/libretro_regarding_duckstationswanstation/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221018151339/https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sruqo3

and also some drama over his own mobile fork of PCSX2

https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/103836y/aethersx2_stops_development_due_to_harassment_dev/

https://old.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/11q6ddl/aethersx2_new_developer/

further discussions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1ffmjux/duckstation_developer_changes_project_license/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ffmlrk/playstation_1_emulator_duckstation_developer/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ffml57/playstation_1_emulator_duckstation_developer/

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1ffscdp/playstation_1_emulator_duckstation_developer/

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/102366341

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