https://store.steampowered.com/app/2442020/Dangeresque_The_Roomisode_Triungulate/
Join Dangeresque, the world's greatest private eye/crooked cop, as he puzzles his way through 3 bite-sized roomisodes in this classic-style point n' click adventure.
https://www.mass.gov/info-details/sales-tax-holiday-frequently-asked-questions
The sales tax holiday for 2023 will be held on Saturday, August 12 and Sunday, August 13. Most retail items of up to $2,500, purchased in Massachusetts for personal use on these two days, will be exempt from sales tax.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-bento-bundle
Facecamping has pervaded DBD since its release, and this anniversary, Behaviour announced a planned change to the game's core mechanics to disincentivize camping.
The changes are not live, or in any PTB, and there has been no date announced for it; nor has there been any demonstration of its particulars yet. As of yet, we've just had the concept described to us.
The summary, from their website:
With this update, whenever a Survivor is being face-camped by a Killer, a meter will build over time. This meter is only visible to that Survivor. Once it’s completely full, they will be able to escape from a Hook without need of another Survivor, gaining Endurance and the Haste Status Effect. Note that this system can activate in both the first and second Hook stages.
The meter fills when the Killer is nearby, with the rate of fill increasing based on the Killer’s proximity to the Hooked Survivor. Please note that this will not impact instances of proxy-camping, nor the times when a Killer is actively defending a Hook from a group of swarming Survivors. In fact, the presence of other Survivors in the vicinity will reduce the meter fill-rate, though the rate itself will never be negative.
A Killer being fewer than 5 meters away from a Hooked Survivor will significantly increase the system’s fill meter. Between 5 and 10 meters, the rate of fill will still raise, albeit not quite as quickly. If the Killer is more than 16 meters from the Hooked Survivor, the system will not activate. Please note that the presence of additional Survivors will have an impact on the rate-of-fill, slowing it down.
If a Survivor can self-unhook as a direct result of being face-camped, they will be able to use any Perk that triggers following an unhook – for example, Dead Hard and Off The Record. Survivors who escape via this system will also be granted the Endurance status as usual.
As it stands, this system will remain active and function as intended on Maps with multiple floors like The Game or Midwich Elementary School. We’d like to clarify that this may possibly lead to edge cases where a Killer is falsely punished for face-camping, so we will be monitoring this closely following release and adjusting as needed.
What are your thoughts on this system? Do you think we'll see it hit live? Do you think it can be abused? Crucially, will it fix face-camping? Or do you think tunneling will become the next point of blame for people's fun?
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/kb/articles/397
Summer is upon us, and The Entity’s Realm is heating up. Between an extra special guest making his long-awaited debut and the return of a classic summertime event, our next update is already packed with content. But we’re just getting started: We have loads of exciting features and balance changes in store for you, and…
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3682303734604033315
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I have traditionally used GFYCat for a few things, but their uptime has been questionable lately; on last use, clips that I uploaded stayed in the "Encoding" phase indefinitely, and were discarded when I came back. Searching for "video hosting site" tends to produce ads for many business-focused cases, not necessarily made for embedding into a site like Lemmy.
I’ve been working for several years on a novel, and in a lot of ways it’s been fun. I have some very interconnected themes, some plot twists that tread the line between being surprising, and meaningful, and a fair few characters that develop through a lengthy confrontation.
I’ve started to consult an editor about tuning it into something publishable. Due to the way I was writing it, I only recently got the tools to calculate a total word count, and we realized that in the end, it’s far longer than I wanted it to be; on the order of 370,000 words.
Apparently people like George R. R. Martin can sometimes get away with this length, but I understand this is way out of line for a first time author. I’ve been looking at ways of trimming this down, and admittedly, there’s a few chapters with low hanging fruit I can get rid of; but I think I’m in need of a lot more than that. My editor was suggesting getting rid of entire main characters that don’t have as much development as others.
But at a lot of turns, it feels like trimming out X causes 5 other problems (plot points lost, throwbacks disconnected) that might threaten to either make the book soulless, not make sense, or even fail to reduce word count when I tie things together.
The option of simply splitting it into 2+ books has been there, but…it doesn’t seem practical. There’s a very clear villain, with a steady buildup to their dethroning, that would feel unsatisfying pushed off to another story.
If I assume publishers, or even just readers, would show only mild interest in a 300k word book, it makes me feel a bit stuck. I’ve already committed a lot of time to the story, and it feels grueling to go back and redo large parts of it; while also aiming to make it shorter.
Curious if anyone has thoughts on what they’d do in this situation.
https://www.somervillema.gov/news/glx-community-path-open-june-10#:~:text=As%20a%20final%20connection%20from%20Bedford%2C%20MA%2C%20to,Square%2C%20Gilman%20Square%2C%20East%20Somerville%2C%20and%20Lechmere%20Stations.
“I am grateful to the many incredible, determined Somerville residents, activists, elected officials, and staff who labored to make this dream a reality (...) The Community Path is the product of so many hands, so today we celebrate both the path itself and the pathway that got us here." ―Mayor Katjana Ballantyne The City of Somerville and the MBTA are pleased to announce that the Green Line Extension (GLX) Community Path will open to the public on Saturday, June 10, 2023.
https://www.somervillema.gov/news/glx-community-path-open-june-10#:~:text=As%20a%20final%20connection%20from%20Bedford%2C%20MA%2C%20to,Square%2C%20Gilman%20Square%2C%20East%20Somerville%2C%20and%20Lechmere%20Stations.
“I am grateful to the many incredible, determined Somerville residents, activists, elected officials, and staff who labored to make this dream a reality (...) The Community Path is the product of so many hands, so today we celebrate both the path itself and the pathway that got us here." ―Mayor Katjana Ballantyne The City of Somerville and the MBTA are pleased to announce that the Green Line Extension (GLX) Community Path will open to the public on Saturday, June 10, 2023.
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