In case you want something closer to Stardew Valley, a couple of good choices in that genre would be Coral Island and Fields of Mistria. Both farming sims with their own unique spins on things, can check both of them out and see if either one fits your vibe better.
Coral Island has been full release for a while now, but Fields of Mistria has its 1.0 official release on Aug 5.
This was the case for me last summer. Waited until the start of break so if anything went wrong it wouldn't be too much of a nightmare. Wouldn't be too shocked if others took similar opportunity. Depends a bit how many people have any sort of proper summer holiday these days though.
When Riker takes a seat he typically does so by swinging one leg over the back of the chair -- if you search Riker Manoeuvre, there's a bunch of images or clips. I think it had to do with some sort of back injury the actor had previously.
Yep. Not sure about the organs part specifically, but the shell is basically part of their skeleton. It even has nerve endings so they can feel through it.
Japanese to English is pretty tricky, in part because it's more standard in Japanese to fully omit words instead of using a pronoun when something is known from context. A response to "What are you doing with that book?" in English might be "I'm going to return it," but in Japanese you'd just say "Return" (返す。). So a machine translator would probably have to be very good at context to guess right a lot of the time.
So, from what I understand, living things maintain (or at least prior to the industrial revolution did maintain) a predictable ratio of C-14 to C-12. I'm not super familiar with the mechanics of this, I imagine it's a case of the amount of C-14 lost matching the rate it was replaced via respiration.
Once the organism dies, it stops controlling that ratio and we can measure the decay using a sample of the material.
It's not that it breaks down differently (in fact, we rely on it being consistent), it's how much it has broken down. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5700 +/- 30 years (per Wikipedia), so if you see 1/2 the expected amount of carbon-14 then something would be around 5700 years old, with 1/4 the expected amount you'd predict 11400 years old, etc.
This relies on the amount of carbon-14 originally being predictable. This worked well in the past for living things (which from what I understand tended to maintain a consistent ratio of C-14 to C-12) or objects made from their organic material, but stopped being true around the industrial revolution when we started pumping the atmosphere full of carbon.
We use other isotopes, or other techniques in general, for very recent objects, or for things more than 50-60 thousand years old.
I've also seen a variant where the king isn't (necessarily) the real king. Each player before the game secretly marks the bottom of whichever piece they want to be their actual "king" that game, and the game is won when a player captures their opponent's marked piece. Pieces otherwise move normally though I think this mode is typically played without the rule that you just not end your turn with your king (the secret or public one) in check.
Originally it was because it was so male dominated that having women's only tournaments gave an opportunity to grow the game among women in an environment that was less likely to drive women away. The categories aren't men and women, but rather open and women. Anyone can participate in open events.
They do things like ensure certain amounts of prize money can go to women so the game develops its player base, or avoid situations where bigotry or similar issues drive players away (safer spaces for players). Provides an opportunity for youth to see people like them being successful. These kinds of things. So there's merit to the idea, even in a game where physical differences aren't really relevant.
All of which, of course, suggests that it's a terrible decision to ban trans women from women's chess tournaments, unless of course your goal is exactly the kind of bigotry that this was originally meant to reduce.
In fact, the entire foundation of math -- its system of axioms -- has had to be fixed due to contradictions existing in previous iterations. The most well known perhaps being Russell's paradox in naive set theory: "Let X be the set of all sets that do not contain themselves. Does X contain itself?"
In fact, there have been many paradoxes that had to be resolved by the set theory we use today.
The Fibonacci sequence tends to grow at the Golden ratio (approx 1.618) while the actual conversion is ~1.609 so it does usually work well.
In fact any Fibonacci-like sequence with different starting numbers eventually will work, after it gets past the initial crop of bad conversations, as such sequences have growth rates than tend toward the golden ratio as they grow long enough.
This series is basically the reason I started reading books. Really great stories, favourite is definitely Mossflower.
Jacques also made an effort to write for the blind and visually impaired -- not just in the sense of having accessible versions of the books available but also in their content. His writing involves a lot of emphasis on sounds and scents and taste, so someone blind from birth could still imagine themselves at a Redwall feast.
I think that overall just made the writing better for everyone.
To give you an example this often happens in schools. The victim doesn't even need to be on social media at all. They find out anyway when a significant portion of the school is in on some rumour or organized harassment against them.
Mostly seems to be group chats / discord servers these days rather than on public social media.
In case you want something closer to Stardew Valley, a couple of good choices in that genre would be Coral Island and Fields of Mistria. Both farming sims with their own unique spins on things, can check both of them out and see if either one fits your vibe better.
Coral Island has been full release for a while now, but Fields of Mistria has its 1.0 official release on Aug 5.
This was the case for me last summer. Waited until the start of break so if anything went wrong it wouldn't be too much of a nightmare. Wouldn't be too shocked if others took similar opportunity. Depends a bit how many people have any sort of proper summer holiday these days though.
When Riker takes a seat he typically does so by swinging one leg over the back of the chair -- if you search Riker Manoeuvre, there's a bunch of images or clips. I think it had to do with some sort of back injury the actor had previously.
Can be! Pride-flag themed variant Sudoku series put up on Logic Masters Germany last year:
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=000NXD
Ah good catch, thanks. Need to work on my reading comprehension lol.
Interesting timing. This is also in Humble Bundle's monthly "Choice" bundle for June. Wonder if that'll drive down some of Humble's sales this month.
Been meaning to check out a couple of this kind of game this summer.
Yep. Not sure about the organs part specifically, but the shell is basically part of their skeleton. It even has nerve endings so they can feel through it.
They've said they plan on a playable beta for Fall 2027. How far removed that will be from full release is anyone's guess of course.
Registration for it is already up on the GW3 website though.
Japanese to English is pretty tricky, in part because it's more standard in Japanese to fully omit words instead of using a pronoun when something is known from context. A response to "What are you doing with that book?" in English might be "I'm going to return it," but in Japanese you'd just say "Return" (返す。). So a machine translator would probably have to be very good at context to guess right a lot of the time.
So, from what I understand, living things maintain (or at least prior to the industrial revolution did maintain) a predictable ratio of C-14 to C-12. I'm not super familiar with the mechanics of this, I imagine it's a case of the amount of C-14 lost matching the rate it was replaced via respiration.
Once the organism dies, it stops controlling that ratio and we can measure the decay using a sample of the material.
It's not that it breaks down differently (in fact, we rely on it being consistent), it's how much it has broken down. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5700 +/- 30 years (per Wikipedia), so if you see 1/2 the expected amount of carbon-14 then something would be around 5700 years old, with 1/4 the expected amount you'd predict 11400 years old, etc.
This relies on the amount of carbon-14 originally being predictable. This worked well in the past for living things (which from what I understand tended to maintain a consistent ratio of C-14 to C-12) or objects made from their organic material, but stopped being true around the industrial revolution when we started pumping the atmosphere full of carbon.
We use other isotopes, or other techniques in general, for very recent objects, or for things more than 50-60 thousand years old.
We can fix it.
x >= ∞ + ∞
I've also seen a variant where the king isn't (necessarily) the real king. Each player before the game secretly marks the bottom of whichever piece they want to be their actual "king" that game, and the game is won when a player captures their opponent's marked piece. Pieces otherwise move normally though I think this mode is typically played without the rule that you just not end your turn with your king (the secret or public one) in check.
More casual way of saying asexual. Sounds a bit less clinical than the full term.
Originally it was because it was so male dominated that having women's only tournaments gave an opportunity to grow the game among women in an environment that was less likely to drive women away. The categories aren't men and women, but rather open and women. Anyone can participate in open events.
They do things like ensure certain amounts of prize money can go to women so the game develops its player base, or avoid situations where bigotry or similar issues drive players away (safer spaces for players). Provides an opportunity for youth to see people like them being successful. These kinds of things. So there's merit to the idea, even in a game where physical differences aren't really relevant.
All of which, of course, suggests that it's a terrible decision to ban trans women from women's chess tournaments, unless of course your goal is exactly the kind of bigotry that this was originally meant to reduce.
In fact, the entire foundation of math -- its system of axioms -- has had to be fixed due to contradictions existing in previous iterations. The most well known perhaps being Russell's paradox in naive set theory: "Let X be the set of all sets that do not contain themselves. Does X contain itself?"
In fact, there have been many paradoxes that had to be resolved by the set theory we use today.
The Fibonacci sequence tends to grow at the Golden ratio (approx 1.618) while the actual conversion is ~1.609 so it does usually work well.
In fact any Fibonacci-like sequence with different starting numbers eventually will work, after it gets past the initial crop of bad conversations, as such sequences have growth rates than tend toward the golden ratio as they grow long enough.
For example starting from 2, 9 instead of 1, 1:
2, 9, 11, 20, 31, 51, 82
20 mi ~= 32 km
31 mi ~= 50 km
51 mi ~= 82 km
This series is basically the reason I started reading books. Really great stories, favourite is definitely Mossflower.
Jacques also made an effort to write for the blind and visually impaired -- not just in the sense of having accessible versions of the books available but also in their content. His writing involves a lot of emphasis on sounds and scents and taste, so someone blind from birth could still imagine themselves at a Redwall feast.
I think that overall just made the writing better for everyone.
To give you an example this often happens in schools. The victim doesn't even need to be on social media at all. They find out anyway when a significant portion of the school is in on some rumour or organized harassment against them.
Mostly seems to be group chats / discord servers these days rather than on public social media.
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Star Trek original series characters, familiarly :::