I'm not saying that if I was on a jury for the attacker I would vote not guilty.

But mostly because saying so would exclude me from ever being on a jury like that.

Hello!

This is a yearly game jam where the goal is to make blind accessible games. It is a to of fun and also I feel very educational as some wonderful blindgamers mostly from https://audiogames.net/ give feedback both during development in our discord, and then rate the games!

So consider joining, or spreading the word! Accessibility in gaming is something I care about a lot about personally, so I hope you consider joining!

If you're curious about the history of the jam, or what methods are used to make games blind accessible, check out the wiki for the community!

https://gamesforblindgamers.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Accessibility in gaming is something I care about a lot, so I hope you consider joining!

Thanks for reading!

(And no, I totally didn't make that wiki in the last like week because work has been slow leading up to Thanksgiving... )

"Boulder police are investigating the traffic signs as criminal tampering."

“I appreciate the fact that it’s drawing attention to the fact that we’d like people to slow down and not be on their phones, but there’s probably, again, a few more appropriate ways about getting that message out.”

I'd love if they implemented whatever appropriate ways they have.... then again they said appropriate, not effective.

The fourth iteration of a game jam all about accessibility is now open for registration, a month long jam about creating blind accessible games that starts in February!

Sign up here!

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-4

Over the last 3 iterations we as a community have created over 70 blind accessible video games, and we would love if you all signed up and helped make this the most successful jam yet!

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers/entries

Also I will say programming accessibility for a game is an interesting challenge for anyone thinking about it. I had to learn a lot about API and screen readers to make my games usable for my entries!

When I was in school, I was always told "If you get a college degree you'll on average make 500k more over the life time of your career regardless of what you get your degree in!"

Then as I finishing school, it was all about "If you get into tech you'll make big bucks and always have jobs!"

Both of those have turned out not great for a lot of people.

Then whenever women say they're struggling with money online, they get pointed to OF... which pays nothing to 99% of creators. Also very presumptive to suggest that, but we don't even need to get into that.

So is there a field/career strategy that you feel like is currently being over pushed?

(My examples are USA, Nevada/Utah is where I grew up, if maybe it's different in other parts of USA even.)

I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

So my entire life has been extreme boredom, followed by finding a book/videogame/hobby I find interesting, doing nothing but that for awhile, then never touching it again.

I'm debating maybe trying to make a rule of not doing something two days in a row. Like I just found a video game I liked and played it all day yesterday and today, and while I still wanna play I already feel its shininess wearing off.

Curious if anyone else has tried to space out their dopamine buttons and if it helped. So maybe like instead of just playing the same game tomorrow, I'll need to try other games, or maybe try to find a new book series to hyper focus on...

So I'm a database engineer taking some computer science courses and got an assignment to write about symbol resolution. The only reference to it I could find was this https://binarydodo.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/symbol-resolution-during-link-editing/ then a stack over flow of someone asking a similar question to this. I took that to mean "Linking names of any variable, object, etc. in a program to the object in memory" and rolled with that. Hoping someone can clarify if my understanding is correct! Would ask teacher, but weekend and wanting to get this done today.

Here is what I wrote so far.

Symbol resolution is the task of taking something that was referenced by name in a program, and connecting it to the specific item in memory. In a program you can call functions in the program, functions in other programs, objects already created, variables, or even variables created by other objects. All those items are going to exist in memory, on the hard drive, or might be moved to the registrar of the CPU. Symbol resolution is the converting of the names of the items in the program to pointers the computer can use to modify it whenever that name is referenced. When you update a variable, it will need to know where in RAM it is stored, and converting the name of the variable to that address everywhere it is referenced is the process of finding it. Effectively binding an address in memory to that reference.

By doing this, software can work with the exact same variables multiple times, as it it looking in the same place. If a variable is updated, it will know as it’s looking in the proper place in RAM. When working with Object Oriented Programming, it is what defines the differently named objects of the same class as separate parts of memory. Object A of Class Object1 will be bound to a different bit of memory than Object B of Class Object2.

When it goes through resolving symbols, it has to do it in the same order every time, otherwise the programs would run inconsistently. In python for example, it follows the LEGB rule (Scope Resolution in Python | LEGB Rule, 2018). So when trying to find if a variable is the same as another variable, it goes in order of Local, Enclosed, Global, Built In. So it tries to match the reference to anything local, anything in the function, anything global, then tries to match any reference to built in keywords or functions.

As an example:

# Global variable
greeting = "Hello"

# Function that uses global variable
def say_hello(name):
    return greeting + ' ' + name

# Another function that has its own local variable with the same name
def say_hello2(name):
    # Local variable 'greeting' shadows the global variable
    greeting = "Good day"
    # Here, 'greeting' resolves to the local variable instead of the global one
    return greeting + ' ' + name

# Main block
if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(say_hello("Alice"))       # Resolves 'greeting' as global
    print(say_hello2("Bob"))         # Resolves 'greeting' as local within greet_formally

We can see we have two variables both called “greeting”, but they hold different values. In this case using symbol resolution it is able to resolve the “greeting” inside of say_hello2 as having the value “Good Day”. Then it resolves “Greeting” inside of “say_hello” as “Hello”, because when looking for where to link it followed the LEGB rule. In say_hello2, we had a local “greeting”, so it connected to that one and stopped looking for a connection, never making it to the Global “greeting”. If we had an external file we connected with “import” it would then check inside the imported file to try to resolve the names of any variables, functions, or objects. By doing it in this order it will always get the same result and have consistent outcomes, which is essential for programs.

Scope Resolution in Python | LEGB Rule. (2018, November 27). GeeksforGeeks. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/scope-resolution-in-python-legb-rule/

I know it's a longer post, but thank you for your time!

My favorite is Bog king from Strange Magic - Has a song talking about how evil he is. But all he does is prevent the spread of dangerous mind control magic, and quarantine people under the effects of said magic. Yes he greatly annoys people doing so, but honestly? If I get hit by a love potion, please quarantine me.

Definition: A gaming dark pattern is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer.

Learned about it from another lemmy user! it's a newer website, so not every game has a rating, but it's already super helpful and I intend to add ratings as I can!

While as an adult I think it'll probably be helpful to find games that are just games and not trying to bait whales, I feel like it's even more helpful for parents.

Making sure the game your kids want to play is free of traps like accidental purchases and starting chain emails with invites I think makes it worth its weight in gold.

EDIT: Some folks seem to be concerned with some specific items that it looks for, but I've been thinking of it like this:

1 mechanic is a thread, multiple together form a pattern. It's why they'll still have a high score even if they have a handful of the items listed.

Like random loot from a boss can be real fun! But when it's combined with time gates, pay to skip, grinding, and loot boxes.... we all know exactly what it is trying to accomplish. They don't want you to actually redo the dungeon 100 times. They want you to buy 100 loot boxes.

Guilds where you screw over your friends if you don't play for a couple days because your guild can't compete and earn the rewards they want if even a single player isn't playing every single day? Yeah, we know what it's about. But guilds where it's all very chill and optional? Completely fine.

Games that throw in secret bots without telling you to make you think you're good at the game combined with a leader board and infinite treadmill, so you sit there playing the game not wanting to give up your "top spot"? I see you stupid IO games.

But also, information is power to the consumer.