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Challenge #04565-L181: Age Appropriate Knowledge Source

They are a writer, and they thought their talent would simply consign them to a few pages, writing the histories of others, while their own was eventually forgotten. Their talent, however, was more than noticed. After all their writings gave lessons, and those lessons were saving many lives. -- Anon Guest

History is a complicated beast. It's difficult to believe that the first wonders of the world were not only rising from the ground, but had been standing for centuries at the same time that others were still hunting megafauna on the steppes.

It's taught as a straight line of progress. From stone tools and bear skins to metal and clay, and then to buildings, cities, and all the other trappings of civilisation.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Monday, Backup Reads and Improvements

I didn't get to doing art assets yesterday, so I'll be doing those today. As well as the usual output of offerings for the temple of notes.

I'll be running the prototype efforts past the fam first and update when that's both hunky and dory. There's two ideas to do it - one: lighter backing behind the bird, and two, a 'halo' around their outline. And do the problem ducks first, then do something with the numbers as well.

With very good

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Challenge #04564-L180: To Stop the Smouldering

They say he who works hard will be wealthy. In the Alliance, your effort is actually rewarded. You're a hard worker, you deserve this apartment, and all that you have. Please do not deny yourself simply because of what you were so cruelly told in your past. -- Anon Guest

Where I grew up, you had to earn air, and pay back the debt you accrued when you were too young to work. You had to earn enough air to sleep, the

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Sunday, Supplies Needed

So. After the Archive finishes going through the stories, I am offski on a mission. Part 1 - getting my meds restocked. Part 2 - looking for a thing that Costco is aiming towards not stocking any more. If Costco still has it, I'm getting extra. If not... then screw them. I'm looking for alternate supplies on the interwebs.

Costco's giving me fewer and fewer reasons to keep coming back there.

Remember, businesses, enshittification is your enemy.

Further plans for Pseuducku include

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Challenge #04563-L179: History Returns

Zack woke up to the sound of the fat Gulgarren Korg dragging in an unknown spacecraft. “Zack, my people found this ancient hunk of junk floating near the outer colonies. After our scientists spot some human symbols I thought I could bring it to you to identify it.” The dish was smashed by space debris and the body eroded by solar winds. Zack place a hand on the only thing relatively intact; a golden record. “Man, this thing was supposed to find

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Saturday, Parkrun and Other Sundries

Adorable introduced me to a cute little game called Dragoncraft which definitely gives off Kickstarter game vibes. It's complicated and has a lot of pieces and needs a lot of setup. That's what Kickstarter games look like.

It was fun all the same. I was figuring out how to game the game long about halfway through the play session we had. Chaos joined in just after we started and stayed still for the entire sesh, so win for board games... but not

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Challenge #04562-L178: Under the Thumb of Justice

After a lifetime of flaunting and breaking the law, this rapscallion has reached the end of the line. But that doesn't mean there won't be one last fight... -- Anon Guest

Law should not be allowed to lay traps, strictly in my own, not so humble opinion. Citizens are definitely allowed to protect their treasures with locks and wards, that's just respect. Those who can afford greater security gain greater attention. That much risk is easily associated with fantastically great rewards.

I

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Friday, Whoops I'm in Beta

Yesterday's diary doodle covers an amazing leap forward for me. I thoroughly anticipated spending another fortnight arguing about Stage 3.

But no.

I got the sounds working in two goes. I refined the details of Stage 3 in a couple of hours.

I'm as shocked as you are.

But I'm not launching Beta until I get feedback from my target audience.

Today, I'm working on the menu system, and getting the popups to stay within the bounds of the game board if

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Challenge #04561-L177: The Ultimate Scam

Mr Bad Example lives a life of plunder and scams, impersonating people, ripping off his workers, and changing identities whenever the heat rises too much. -- Anon Guest

[AN: I've been informed that there's a song called Mr Bad Example by Warren Zevon, so I can't use exactly that name for this piece.]

Alan Nemor had a gift. Primarily, he had the gift of being nondescript, but with a lot of charisma. He could change his hat and his coat and become

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Thursday, Progress in Progress

Today, after I'm done with the daily offerings, I will be investigating building an improved version of Pseuducku while the Alpha version remains untouched on the website.

Fingers crossed, I can do that. Work locally and only push a version when I'm satisfied with how it's working.

I won't hit Beta until I get to Stage 3 working.

My agenda:

  1. Sounds. Buttons will click, ducks will quack victory for minor an total wins. There's also an "Uh oh" error sound for when
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Challenge #04560-L176: Sanguine Apocalypse

Vampires have overrun the world, so humanity lives on at the poles where the sun always shines, conducting a treacherous twice yearly migration. -- Anon Guest

The world has gone to shit, but not in the way you might think. On the other hand,the climate change and overpopulation issues are solved. Also... not how you might think.

The Earth got overrun by Vampires.

Personally? I blame the kind of people who -er- wanted to "be friendly" with made-up monsters. There's a

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Debugging

Finally got Pseuducku up and onto a host. Now I'm testing to make sure it functions properly. If all continues to be well, there will be a link appearing in this site.

Unriddling little glitches continues to be an issue, I guess.

Today's PLNs include another rant, possibly about the unavoidability of AI.

Update:

I just got it working. You can see it here.

My next step is figuring out how to edit locally until I'm satisfied with the next version.

I

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Challenge #04559-L175: Highly Dangerous Knowledge

Somewhere amongst the countless rows of musty tomes and ancient manuscripts lies a cruel secret, waiting to be unearthed. -- Anon Guest

Librarians do more than guard knowledge. They also teach, but that's on the surface. They also preserve. The best libraries keep knowledge alive. Even the kinds of knowledge that should also be in a museum.

Clay and stone tablets can endure, but if you really want knowledge to last, scribe it on parchment with iron gall ink, and have it

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Tuesday, Patreon, Experts, and Shopping

I may have been contacted by another scammer on Bluesky, but I'm recognising the pattern now.

Step 1: Alleged fellow author contacts me
Step 2: We talk shop for a bit
Step 3: They mention their amazing friend who's a marketing expert and will for sure help people notice my books
Step 4: They provide a contact detail for their amazing friend
Step 5: If pushed, they provide some proof of their prowess that might pass cursory inspection by someone who doesn't

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