Finally! That's amazing - and thank you for sharing this link, by the way.

Now it would be a good time for itch.io to rework its search feature, so you can exclude results with a certain tag.

Agreed - it's more like diversification, or "not putting all egg-users in the same basket-platform".

I am not sure, but I believe that this political abuse is further reinforced by something not mentioned in the text:

• Twitter is mostly short texts, lacking situational info, subtlety, signs of doubt, etc. Those require a lot of contextual info to accurately understand, but as a piece of content is retweeted most of that context is gone.
• plenty people are not honest; they're assumptive as a brick. They make shit up = assume = bullshit as it goes, never acknowledging "hey, I don't actually know this, it's just a shower thought, it might be wrong".
• people holding minority views are more often dogpiled, and by bigger dogpiles, than people holding majority views. Kind of like the Petrie Modifier, but with worldviews instead of sex.

If I'm right this is breeding grounds for witch hunting: people don't get why someone said something, they're dishonest so they assume why, they bring on the pitchforks because they found a witch. And that's bound to affect anyone voicing anything slightly off the echo chamber.

And I think that this has been going on for years; cue to "the Twitter MC of the day". It would predate Musk, but after Musk took over he actually encouraged the witch hunts for his own political goals.

By "textual info" I mean plain language, like we're using now. It's theoretically possible to encode it in khipu, not just for Quechua but for any other language; but doing it in a practical way is another can of worms.

Instead what I think that they used is what the video calls a "semasiographic system" - there are standardised codes for almost everything worth registering (from a bureaucratic PoV), and the officer/kamayuq is expected to be able to decode it.

For a silly example using English, it would be a lot like writing "Jn Smth in ptt 20 mze 35" and then reading it as "John Smith stored 20kg of potatoes and 35kg of maize here".

Ah, the khipu. The way that it represents numeric info is somewhat well understood already:

• it's all base 10, positional. The tens/hundreds/etc. of different strings in the same khipu are aligned.
• zero = no knot
• 1~9 in the tens, hundreds etc. are represented by 1~9 simple knots
• 1 in the units is represented by a figure 8 knot
• 2~9 in the units is represented by a long knot with 2~9 turns

This might sound complicated but it's really elegant, and representing the units in a different way allow you to cram multiple numbers into the same string.

So for example. Let's say that you want to record 234 and 506 into a string. You'd do the following:

• 2 simple knots
• 3 simple knots
• long knot with 4 turns
• 5 simple knots
• space
• long knot with 6 turns

In some cases there might be geographical info in the khipu too, with numbers representing localities. Kind of like postal codes. The material of the string and the colour likely encode some info too, but AFAIK nobody knows it any more.

I'm almost sure that it doesn't contain any sort of textual info, though. Like, something you can read. Classical Quechua had at least 17 consonants, this would be impractical to represent through knots, specially as Quechua tends towards large words.

My bet on both "paired" khipukuna is that one encodes income, another outcome. Kind of like double bookkeeping but for material.

I'm not sure if it's because of Christianity.

Calling a language "of the people" pops up often across different cultures. Quechua for example does the same; the native name of the language is "runa simi", it's basically "people's language".

And in the case of the Germanic languages it's so common that it was likely already in Proto-Germanic, thus probably older than the christianisation of those tribes.

"So, those guys generate positive advertisement for our games. How do we stop it, and make sure that public opinion shifts to «Nintendo is cringe and you're a loser if you play this shit»?"

Also, what the fuck is with Japanese law, criminalising modding?

Reworded rules for clarity:

1. Min required length must be 8 chars (obligatory), but it should be 15 chars (recommended).
2. Max length should allow at least 64 chars.
3. You should accept all ASCII plus space.
4. You should accept Unicode; if doing so, you must count each code as one char.
5. Don't demand composition rules (e.g. "u're password requires a comma! lol lmao haha" tier idiocy)
6. Don't bug users to change passwords periodically. Only do it if there's evidence of compromise.
7. Don't store password hints that others can guess.
8. Don't prompt the user to use knowledge-based authentication.
9. Don't truncate passwords for verification.

I was expecting idiotic rules screaming "bureaucratic muppets don't know what they're legislating on", but instead what I'm seeing is surprisingly sane and sensible.

Here's a link to the video.

I see this as a small victory for the Fediverse.

The sad part is that the idea behind DLCs (to develop further content for a game already released, in exchange for additional money) is reasonable. Or it would be, if shitty developers didn't abuse it to the point that it stopped being "downloadable content" to become "dumb and lazy cashgrab".

I also think that CA isn't just being benign with this statement, or his whole "let us not be arseholes" approach towards development. He's being smart; player trust might be hard to measure but it has direct impact on word-of-mouth advertisement and piracy, so it's basically the difference between "everybody knows it, plenty bought it" and "the few ones who know it pirated it".

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