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My new spellcrafting system has a different approach to XP: each spell *component* gradually levels up every time you cast a spell it's used in, and when all of a spell's components are leveled up, you can level-up the spell. I didn't design it that way up front, it was just a clean solution that presented itself during UI coding.

Maybe I'll do something similar for non-magical skills. For example, many melee weapon skills are synergistic with chopping wood, hammering nails, digging, etc. So instead of combat you could do a bunch of manual labor to raise your weapon skills.

For character XP I'm probably going with quests, exploration, successful vampirism, and... injuring/defeating opponents in combat. Killing is rarely the goal and it shouldn't be rewarded. We'll keep track of the body count of course, but players can choose to see it as a good or bad thing.

Someone asked during Café Guix whether we could use Hoot to run bits of Guix such as importers in the browser, which would nicely complement Guix Packager.

I suppose we’re still far from it because of C bindings these modules depend on, such as Guile-Gcrypt and POSIX sockets (for the HTTP client). But maybe someday these interfaces could be implemented in JS/wasm to allow for seamless integration?

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#Guix Packager 📦 supports a couple more languages and build systems as of… today!
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Kudos to Philippe Virouleau for the good hack.

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sfos.scarpino.dev is a #Hound code search instance focused on #SailfishOS UI applications (750 different repos ATM). Have fun!

If you're looking for a privacy focused system I just put a Lenovo desktop up for sale on Ebay. It's a nice system for basic use with a Pentium dual core E5300, 4GB RAM; 500GB SSD; 2TB HDD, a GTX 750 Ti, and with Trisquel 11.01 on it. I will donate 10% of my net profits to Trisquel. I have it set to ship to Canada and the United States.

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Ezra Levant hears from a pair of lawyers representing the Coutts Three, as the men accused of being the "leaders" behind the 2022 Coutts border blockade appeared at a pre-trial hearing in Lethbridge, Alberta.

FULL REPORT by Ezra Levant: https://rebelne.ws/49LRBYi
Disney, which now seems to own literally everything and be on a drive to turn it all into a conduit for THE MESSAGE, has decided to turn a character from the X-Men ‘nonbinary’ for an upcoming production.

https://modernity.news/2024/02/26/theyre-going-to-ruin-wolverine-disney-makes-x-men-character-nonbinary/
Trudeau promises another $3 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine

The Liberals continue to bleed taxpayers dry by sending Ukraine $3 billion more in foreign aid, an act garnering support from only 32% of Canadians, according to an internal Department of Finance poll.

https://rebelne.ws/4bSYcCc
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