Man, I'm so bad at playing evil characters. I keep wanting to apologise. "Sorry I came into your home, pretended I was a friend, listened to your story about thieves, and then mugged you for your last remaining possession." It's only going to get worse when I eat the souls of children and turn them into wights. Where do I even go from there? Burning down puppy orphanages?
Usually, when i play evil characters, I either play them straight (and get bored quickly), or I play them really clever, which eventually corrodes my soul.
I'm mostly doing it because I haven't done it for ages. Also wanted to try out the Soul Eater PrC, which for obvious reasons, is Evil only.
On that note, people who don't "get" Chaotic Evil bug me. Killing someone in broad daylight in the middle of the street in front of guards for no reason isn't evil, it's stupid. Well, it's also evil, but you get my point
I don't think most people could play Planescape: Torment as a Nameless One as evil as you can possibly get. Unless they weren't really paying attention and reading the words. That game is emotional, yo.
So, apparently the way that the Knight moves in chess is serious business.
So, a knight's tour is where you take a knight on a chessboard, and go on every square on the board once; moving only in the L-shaped knight's move. To record these, the starting square is marked with a one, the next is a two, then a three, all the way to 64. If you can make it so there's one Knight's move from 64 to one (so, from the end, you can go back to the beginning); then the tour is closed; it's a loop.
If you can make a magic square with the numbers (all the columns and rows add up to the same number); you've done a semimagic knight's tour. If you can get it so the colums, rows, and diagonals add up to the same number, you've done a magic knight's tour.
However, nobody has ever made a closed magic knight's tour on an 8 by 8 chessboard.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I don't know very much about OS/2
Just that my mother apparently had to learn it when she worked at CompuServe in the '90s, and that what's now Windows NT was originally designed as a replacement for OS/2
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Just that my mother apparently had to learn it when she worked at CompuServe in the '90s, and that what's now Windows NT was originally designed as a replacement for OS/2
Yeah, NT was originally going to be OS/2 3.0, but IBM and Microsoft had a fight over Windows 3.0 and decided to go their separate ways. OS/2 Warp 3.0 and 4.x were based on OS/2 2.0, while OS/2 3.0 had Win32 bolted to it and became Windows NT. There's still quite a few OS/2-isms in NT if you bother to look for them; in particular, a large chunk of the error messages were taken verbatim from OS/2 1.x.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Just that my mother apparently had to learn it when she worked at CompuServe in the '90s, and that what's now Windows NT was originally designed as a replacement for OS/2
Yeah, NT was originally going to be OS/2 3.0, but IBM and Microsoft had a fight over Windows 3.0 and decided to go their separate ways. OS/2 Warp 3.0 and 4.x were based on OS/2 2.0, while OS/2 3.0 had Win32 bolted to it and became Windows NT. There's still quite a few OS/2-isms in NT if you bother to look for them; in particular, a large chunk of the error messages were taken verbatim from OS/2 1.x.
Computer is borked. Something is up with the software, which is good because I thought it was a hardware problem by the smell of it. Got two virus scanners running on Safe Mode, updates as follows.
After a fair bit of wrangling, it appears that I've subdued whatever came over my computer. Security Essentials didn't pick up anything, but Malwarebytes picked up a bunch of red items, and deleting them seemed to get everything back into shape. Sort of.
Nothing's gone wrong, so to speak, but startup was still kind of slow and I got signed out of all of my internet accounts. It might just be my computer being it's wacky self, but it's a bit worrying. Still, I can browse my files and get internet now. That's a plus.
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Also, I found this on the internet. Apparently you can make a fractal of anything; so I'm imagining a fractal crocodile.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
On that note, people who don't "get" Chaotic Evil bug me. Killing someone in broad daylight in the middle of the street in front of guards for no reason isn't evil, it's stupid. Well, it's also evil, but you get my point
l8r y'all.
So, a knight's tour is where you take a knight on a chessboard, and go on every square on the board once; moving only in the L-shaped knight's move. To record these, the starting square is marked with a one, the next is a two, then a three, all the way to 64. If you can make it so there's one Knight's move from 64 to one (so, from the end, you can go back to the beginning); then the tour is closed; it's a loop.
If you can make a magic square with the numbers (all the columns and rows add up to the same number); you've done a semimagic knight's tour. If you can get it so the colums, rows, and diagonals add up to the same number, you've done a magic knight's tour.
However, nobody has ever made a closed magic knight's tour on an 8 by 8 chessboard.
Apparently, it's been done on a 16 by 16 board.
I love this square.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead