Friday afternoon, got some surprisingly spicy but labeled plain hummus, and I chanced to watch an hour of my favorite ONI twitcher, but I'm days behind the current run-through, so now I am *studying* an old ONI twitch stream.

I do not intend to apologize for this.
It's been nearly a year since I played ONI for more than a few minutes. But I think I'm about ready again. Gonna play my first Spaced Out run. Got it started, realized I was gonna need some new inspiration, cuz my old designs aren't good for these tiny planetoids.
Lifegrow's a great watch for me, cuz on the one hand, he has my order/symmetry/cleanliness thing, but on the other hand, he's really good at the game, and on the third hand, he's *so* calm and patient, and on the fourth hand, he's profane and opinionated.
First tiny insight, for early game. As an outhouse starts to get full, disable it if you're not ready for polluted dirt yet, and slap down another one. *Hardcore* micromanagement, but it *is* a pain to have the po2 in the base. Never occurred to me.

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26 Sep
The first plank of my take on fixing the trade is MMMSS: If you want more value faster, take Many More Much Smaller Steps. Today I want to start laying this out for folks. This isn't gonna happen in one thread, but let's get started.
Before we dig in a little, let me remind you that I'm aiming here for geek comfort good, respite. I am far more concerned with changing the world right now than I am with changing code. I hope you are, too.

Please keep working for change outside the monitor.

Black Lives Matter.
The first thing to get about MMMSS is that it represents a radical change. It seems like a minor tweak, but it's not, it is a complete reversal of a whole body of existing trade practice, the model I call "Rework Avoidance Theory". To drive it home, maybe a picture will help. A left-to-right picture of ...
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25 Sep
Okay, gonna play some ONI Spaced Out. This is the variant where the starting world is still fairly large. Seed V-SNDST-C-68286727-0

Dunno how long I'll go, but what the hell, it's been quite a while. :) The starting biome of a gam...
Plenty of water, and the temperate biome seems reasonably wide. I'm thinking of a central 16-column with two wider wings on either side, ultimate census 24. And away we go!
First stop, the starter bathroom, cuz some things never change. Once that's complete, I'll bounce to the west of it and toss in my generator and get some research going. Image
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23 Sep
Okay, let's talk about a nice illustration of resisting primitive obsession. Gotta break this writing drought. I'mo freestyle this muse, and I'm rusty, so bear with me.
Before we start. I want you to know how important it is to me that we keep working on change outside the monitor. Please know how proud I am of *every* *little* *thing* you do to help address this world's equity problems. Every little thing helps. Keep it up.

Black Lives Matter.
So, a few months back, my Friday night geek group -- we meet on Tuesday's -- spent a lot of time and had a lot of fun generating random dungeon maps based on the idea of a grid of tiles, each representing a floor, or a wall, or a door, or what-have-you.
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22 Sep
The remote conference scene has been a mixed blessing, but I have to say, it's been truly *mixed*, and there have been some great things about it.
I did a conference this year, and for the first time in 20 years of conferencing, I watched every single session. Because I could fidget, smoke, shake my head when I disagreed, stretch, make noises, go pee, and most of all not be exhausted from too much social interaction.
And, in general, I've been to more events in the past 18 months than I was ever able to manage in the past.
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21 Sep
My favorite take/spin on the blind men and the elephant is this stunning take from Peter Vaill. It's nearly a page of text, so I'll gist it here, but spell it out below.

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"The relationality of all experience contains challenges to our understanding of organizations that we have barely begun to come to terms with. I can illustrate this by extending the metaphor of the blind men and the elephant."
"In its conventional telling, each blind man had a grip on a different part of the beast, and they were unable to agree on what it was really, really like, that is, as one of Kuhn's 'fixed and neutral
experiences.'"
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20 Sep
Left my phone at the restaurant last night, will pick it up soon. This is always a great social discomfort, because my phone is in horrifying condition.

They will tease me mercilessly.
It is cracked in several places, and the case's seam has split quite a bit, so it looks like the stuffing is coming out of it.
It's a Galaxy S8 Active, and it's been the best phone I've ever had, and I don't want to get a new model, and it wasn't that popular so there aren't millions of old ones laying around for cheap.
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