#we can like... solve puzzles ;)

[quelsentiment]

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[sunlight-shunlight]

honestly i was always a bit... bewildered by bioware's business model, because i always thought (not to be a backseat game dev) it would not be hard to release supplementary vn/point and click/even twine game types of things of side content in between major releases? and that would probably provide both a mild income stream, and not need much of a budget or staff at all. something like the failbetter games collaboration they did, but more narrative focused and maybe tied more closely to the games rather than "here's a random town in orlais"

and people always say "ohhh the characters and romances are only appreciated by a small percentage of the players!!" with the implication that it's like a minority of female/queer players into it, but i really don't think that's true. the Average Man Player was also foaming at the mouth after dao because romanced morrigan mysteriously left the warden, haha. they were INVESTED. and there's the word of mouth effect too which i think is underrated - for every one person who's yapping away nonstop about Blorbo From RPGs, they have a decent chance of winning over other people who don't care about Blorbo, but just quietly like the combat or whatever regardless

and i recently read some bg3 developers saying that when they were doing EA testing, a huge portion of the players would poll as "i'm not interested in romance, only care about combat/plot" but then... they'd all pick a romance and play through it regardless. so there is really a market for that type of narrative/character focused content imo, it's sad that bioware kept remaking the entire engine and gameplay each time instead of being able to build successfully on a formula and add little side content pieces as a bonus.

[werewolfdog]

You know, I never really thought when we started working for the very first time in last November, I’d get to meet someone from work who cares about me a lot as they end up meaning so highly much to me.

[asordidbarwere]

having a background in biology is its own little curse because I'll be wiping down the shower wall and thinking "gee this is probably slime mold! which means it has Thoughts"

[vole-mon-amour]

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[dumbbullet]

had a nearly 2 hour long interview yesterday and when they asked "where do you see yourself in 5 years" i felt like crying

[bigcryptiddies]

Sometimes people will criticize a piece of media for things about it they don’t like and some bozo-on-the-internet’s advice will be “well if you expanded your horizons and interacted with media that fundamentally Does Not Interest you…”

[neon-danger]

my baldurs gate hyperfixation is getting bad enough that I’m thinking about bard!alex and rogue!jack on an illithid adventure

[darabeatha]

[watery-melon-baller]

every time i do my physics homework I put on super Mario 64 dire dire docks theme (extended 30 minutes) in the hopes that eventually i can pavolv myself into immediately switching into physics mode whenever I hear the music. and also because its a bop

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I'm watching Adventuring Academy and Brennan and Murph are talking about when you become a DM, be prepared to only DM and never get to be a player and then he said "If you want to DM for me, hit me up in the comments," Brennan I've never been a DM but its my dream to learn, you don't know the lengths I would go to to DM for you PLEASE

[platypusisnotonfire]

This is exactly what I want my future hypothetical family to be. This is what I will pass down to my children.

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

it's a beautiful bonding activity, but the "creative" fixes have turned our house into a quasihaunted escape room like contraption where everything works, but only in the wonkiest of ways. you need a huge block of iron to turn on the stove. the oven only works if a specific clock is plugged in. the bread machine has a huge wood block just stapled to it that has become foundational to its function. sometimes when you use the toaster the doorbell rings. and that's just the kitchen.

it's all fun and games until you have guests over and you have to lay out the rules of the house like it's a fucking board game. welcome to the beautiful guest room. don't pull out the couch yourself you need a screwdriver for that, and that metal rod makes the lamp work so don't move it. it also made me a terrifying roommate in college, because it makes me think i can fix anything with enough hubris and a drill. you want to call the landlord about a leaky faucet? as if. one time my dad made me install a new power socket because we ran our of extension cords

[allpromarlo]

they made up for the last event taking hours to complete by making this one take 20 minutes at most 💀

[tommy-h-bff]

an ex-hero fucked up my game tonight

it made me laugh then pissed me off

stressed the fuck out of my team and made them panic

and i dont make pizzas or prep

not even a cashier broh but i checked the till that listed this SUDDEN explosion of orders

my homie who was the cook was like, “-ANOTHER ONE? WHAT IS HAPPENING?”

hm. very fucking STRANGE.. how in a span of just twenty mins (slow right before)

theres over 20 orders back to back that are ONLY carry-out?

no fucking way that its just a coincidence so i investigated it while they were losing their shit.

dont FUCK with my people. ok i know there is a silver lining and i laughed because it WAS FUCKING CRAZY.

then i acknowledged that the team i work with consists mainly of underpaid workers who are stressing the fuck out WHY this is happening to them. the battered workers who do work hard to make customers happy at the bottom chain of corporate.

most of these orders were a whole ass pizza these customers didnt have to pay for.

$0.00 for a whole ass large hand-tossed pizza with toppings that averaged.. a little less than $30. free. free. free. some additions that they wanted that did have a charge.

they all filled the lobby and were waited impatiently and my team was like getting FUCKED

i defended them. thats not fair. i just.. asked because i laughed because it amazed me.

“hey everyone. your order is being made now. they’re doing their very best so please be patient. we’re just a small p̷̨͍̞̱̠̹̝̰̼͙̈́̊͆̅͊̃̉͝ì̶̢͕̐̅͛͂̓̂̍͌͑̕͝z̶̟̱̆̓̌̅̾̅̉̃̾̿z̸̛͓̏͂̏̀͐̿̐́́̾̈́͑̈́̚͝ą̴̯̳̪͇̣̹̅̇͂̋̿̌̂́̀͘̚͜͝ ̶̰͖̲̬̼̪̞̪̗̙̗͒͊́͂̔̂̉̈́̈͑̏̄̕̚͘ͅͅḥ̷̡̛̮̩̣̻̖̌͗̈̿͂̈́̔̾̅̎̂̕͠û̷̢̢̢̧͕̫̮̻͙̯̱̉͋̓͒͝t”

“by the way…. how did you do it? you all used this.. COUPON and so many of you.. dont? have to even pay at all.”

little devilish smiles. woman told me, ratted.. cant remember because it infuriated me that they set me up for failure.

ppl normally would get annoyed by a snitch who spills the beans because it could ruin the secret cheat others use to take shit for free from the system. idc about retaliating against a very smart hacker, but i DID let the pawns know how it actually is. because FUCK THAT BS, BROH??

started acting pushy and thinking it was okay to bully my team who keeps scrambling. oh motherfucker, i had to keep reassuring them that our SYSTEM? got rigged. let them be mad, because the customer is always right? no.

a HACKERRRRRRR used a CHEAT CODE :) ding ding ding ding ding

well i mean, provided it to these customers, um, i mean.. CHEATERRRRS

fucking smart. THATS WHY I LAUGHED.

that motherfucker used those bitches LIKE PAWNS, which some of them? dont get.

they wouldnt STOP. we ran out of dough, overloaded our order screen until it crashed, GLITCHED

my manager had to shut it down. welp! game over. you fucking freed us and STOLE MY GAME.

motherfucker? i SHARED MY TIPS with THOSE KIDS. MHM?

your little hack? USED REAL PEOPLE. you have to be?

MIIIIIIINDFUUUULL

lalalalalalala

get that?

do you? or is it just fucking funny, ya fucking TROLL

mhm? cute. real fucking cute, but you missed the core of the issue.

one of the core issues is THE WORKERS. who do the labor, work hard to make people happy,

and who are just FUCKING. CHILDREN. doing? slave labor.

yeah, you fucking bitch. you know what the fuck i told them after the smoke cleared?

you can thank a fucking hacker that you get to go home early. boom.

i did that? for YOOOU. what did YOU DO? made them suffer till the system crashed.

you let those kids SIZZLE in the god damn frying pan when you glitched the fucking system.

i? told your um.. zombies you hooked UP? nice fucking cheat code. you’re not right to get impatient with us.

we are workers suffering already. i didnt even DEAL with that labor. i fucking told the customers how it was.

period.

i read you, broh. youre acting like a puppet master with the idea you are fucking corporate.

no. youre fucking? slaves over. because you provided a cheat code to let players win. okay. i get it.

they came to the smallest fucking branch, broh. are you KIDDING?

tehehehehe :) free pizza yay

generally? i wouldnt give a fuck. but you fucked with not just my team by stressing them out,

but you led your pawns to believe they really could just take that so easily, and.. demand.

“well my app said it would be ready by 9:30???”

i’m sure it fucking did. you put your faith in that thing all the time, sweetheart? yikes.

dont add up and the numbers are suddenly… SOOOO FUCKED UP? ITS GLITCHED?

just remind yourself, darling.

it’s a glitch? in the system.

A MATRIX … OF NUMBERS. ALL AROUND YOU…. CONTROLLING YOU….

and you cant even see it. you dont know. thats why? im helping you understand.

✨you’re welcome✨

…

listen here, motherfucker.

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

import nltk

from nltk.corpus import words

nltk.download('words')

def get_permutations(string):

    if len(string) == 0:

        return ['']

    permutations = []

    for i in range(len(string)):

        first_char = string[i]

        remaining_chars = string[:i] + string[i+1:]

        sub_permutations = get_permutations(remaining_chars)

        for sub_permutation in sub_permutations:

            permutations.append(first_char + sub_permutation)

    return permutations

string = "LPEHEATN"

english_words = set(words.words())

result = get_permutations(string)

for x in result:

    if x.lower() in english_words:  

        print(x)