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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Even in the capitalist hellscape of tech startups, we have like a frontend group that makes decisions about the front end code that’s separate from the entire engineering org. Likewise there’s one for the backend, for devops concerns, and so on.

    Some orgs are disorganized and require a lot of vertical approval steps, but that’s not an inherent nature of committee





  • Short and sweet is great!

    They’ve really shortened the game. Lair used to be 8 floors. Orc was 5. I think they shortened hell, too.

    The qol stuff has generally been pretty solid.

    The only change I actively dislike is the opportunity attacks you suffer when moving. I added a “blink the screen yellow when it happens” to my config to alert me, but I just think the mechanic isn’t fun.

    Ok, I do kind of miss the yellow wands (heal, haste). And being able to learn Controlled Blink as a spell. That stuff was nice.



  • Congrats. I play a lot of crawl, and have pretty regularly since v0.16 or so. There’s been a lot of changes (there used to be food! Spells made you hungry!) but the core of it remains very good.

    At one point I had a win with every species, but they added new ones and removed some since then.

    Minotaur Berserker was my first win. Can’t go wrong with screaming and headbutting, I say.

    Gargoyle Earth Elementalist was also fun. If you get Shatter online it can delete a lot of stuff outright. You just need another solution for flying stuff and jellies.

    I think it’s an Ice spell now, but the one that takes a couple turns and then just kills the nearest creature was amazing. Did the extended endgame with that. Blew up so many pandemonium lords.

    I don’t usually do the extended anymore. Hell is, appropriately, unpleasant. Pandemonium isn’t as bad, but there’s always the risk of popping in next to a very bad crowd.

    Also the tomb can get fucked.

    The ascent with the orb is usually pretty safe, with the occasional heart stopper. I’ve lost at least two dudes on the way up. One gargoyle ate a high damage spell from one of those hell sentinels. Should have blinked or fogged or something. One felid ate a pan lord’s chain lighting that was more than his max health.

    Hm I’m rambling. Great game. Highly recommend.


  • My dad said something like this a couple months back. He didn’t think workers could run a business. When I pointed out all the bad decisions I’ve seen my bosses make, especially the ones made over the injections objections of workers, he didn’t have much of a response.

    People believe things emotionally. (All of us are susceptible to this, sadly.)

    Edit: fix strange autocorrect of injections instead of objections