If only I knew how to have full non-interrupted restorative sleep. It seems that my body started losing that skill about 20 years ago, and lost it altogether about 6 years ago. The falling asleep time is a lottery and I'm always waking up after the first stage, often a few more times after that.
Tried all kinds of sleep medication, but by now I've forgotten what it's like to not be half-asleep and unable to concentrate throughout the day (with loud tinnitus and a soupy feel in the brain to boot). Really sucks out any and all enjoyment from life, I can't even find the energy to watch TV shows anymore, let alone read books. I haven't learned anything fundamentally new at work for years too (inertia helps with daily routine).
I've been struggling with early waking for a few months, and recently experienced improvements by meditating before bed. Have you ruled out sleep apnea?
I'm still sad that the Drop THX Panda never took off (planar-magnetic cans that had 3.5mm passive mode, USB audio mode, and wireless mode, all of which sounded nearly identical thanks to great tuning). It had a physical design flaw with hinges that kept breaking after a few months of use (happened to both of mine), but surely that could have been easily fixed. These could have been the ultimate power user cans, but the production was very quickly stopped.
Loved those headphones. I forget what defect mine suffered from, I think they were ultimately bricked and I was offered a sincere apology and a full refund well over a year after purchase -- some of the best support experience I've ever had.
This looks really cool, although I personally seem to lack the absolute basic knowledge that is required to make sense of the tutorial messages, so I couldn't even figure out the first level.
Thanks for telling me this, I actually made an act 0 that went through the basics + physics of the pmos and nmos transistors, but i scrapped it b/c i couldn't get it to look like I wanted it to, will add it back
Glad I'm not the only one! I love these kinds of games; played the heck out of Turing Complete and Zachtronics' Engineer of the People... But I'd never heard of 3 state logic until today.
Really threw me for a loop! I'm still trying to wrap my head around making level 3's NOT gate.
This is such a cool idea, definitely the first 3-state circuit puzzler I've seen! Throw a cute story over it and I bet this would get some takers on Steam.
Worth noting that the VNDB code is also used to host other databases such as https://nepchan.org/ (a catalogue of indie Japanese or other similar-in-style RPGs)
By now the term "visual novel" got re-imported back into Japan so even Japanese creators have started using it for what they otherwise call "novel games" and VN-like "adventure games".
Brings back memories of how I did much the same for the PSP spin-off VN of the GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class manga/anime (that, of course, also originated from Manga Time Kirara and also had a big focus on art), although those were pre-LLM times. It even used Squirrel scripts too!
I second the condolences, tremendous loss for the people who knew Yorhel, as well as for the VN and open source communities.
Yorhel is also the creator of ncdu (a visual disk usage analyzer terminal tool which saved me countless times), as well as https://manned.org/ (a huge man pages index). And in the VN world he has also done a lot of non-public but equally vital work too. Tremendous loss.
I've been getting the endless captcha on my Finnish residential IPs, but I've also been getting that (or outright timeouts) when using VPNs, so I cannot use the site altogether. I wish there were alternatives.
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