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This morning I had a dream that I'd overslept, but when I woke up, after a brief period of orientation, I realised that I hadn't.  Must have fallen asleep again after that as I dreamt again that I'd overslept.  Very confusing.  Hate it when that happens.

Astroloco?

[TheBitPriest]

Official testing has now started! Yee-har!

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank TheBitPriest, who has been absolutely amazing and the game would never have reached this stage without his tireless efforts, and the game is much better than it would have been as a result of his valuable advice on several occasions.

Now I will fret anxiously for a few days wondering what weirdness my testers will come up with...

Grats on the release to both of you!  Have only had a chance to play the opening few screens but definitely intriguing so far.

Actually I think the woman was the horse and the boyfriend was the chicken.

Now it all starts to make sense... or... does it?

Not familiar with his work Snarky but I think I've just decided I want to be!  Breathtaking stuff.  I wonder if any art galleries in the Midlands have any of his work?

This looks great and, truth be told, I've always wanted a cactus assistant!

Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive then perhaps?

Yay!  Grats on the release, sorry I wasn't able to help test it in the end.

Is this going to be one of those SEGA-CD games?

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Btw, CaptianD can you recommend a path into the crypto community you mention, at least a google clue.  Thanks

Apologies, I never noticed this before.

There's a good community at https://bitcointalk.org/.  Personally I'm more interested in the alts than Bitcoin itself but the discussions there are wide-ranging.  As with any forum you have to spend a while distinguishing which members actually know what they're talking about and which ones only think they do!

If you ever pop over there my username is TeamDisaster (since I joined up initially purely as a result of sponsorship of my game, I used our dev team name).

Mine is Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.  Looking at the images on a computer screen doesn't begin to capture the feeling but when you view his paintings for real, his landscapes are so vivid you can feel the wind on your face.  His character studies are very emotive, but I've not seen so many of them in real life as his landscapes.

Well you already know from another forum that I like the look of your game!

Hello there, I'm stuck. Could you please help me :

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I got the egg. My voice is not demonic enough to frighten the moose when I speak through the pipe.

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The difficulty was OK until now. I just had trouble with the limerick.

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You need to find a way to set the voice box to "evil"

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Morning in the outskirts of Lisbon airstrip,

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Hm... well from this I'm getting LIS within AM, so ALISM.

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before getting off without first aid. (9)

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Getting off = EXIT?  Or DEPART?  Not quite sure where the "without first aid" comes into this.

Presumably something... alism.  Can't connect the dots well enough to guess a full word.

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So Stupot is supposed to be putting a new question up, right?  If the lack of a question is a question in itself then I don't know what the answer is.

@Jack - on the energy usage side, modern ASICs and whatnot appear to be extremely energy efficient, although some alts can be mined with CPU/GPU, any serious miner uses specialised equipment.  It's an interesting question though - if hypothetically crytpo ever replaced fiat (can't see it happening myself), how would the energy costs of maintaining it compare to the energy costs of running a huge note / coin minting operation?  But yes, either way energy usage (especially on the massive farms China are said to have, though I'm sure they're not the only ones) is a very big concern either way.

Re: inflation - whilst Bitcoin and others seem to naturally work against too much inflation with halving and increasing difficulty of hashing, there are also several POS (Proof Of Stake) coins whose interest rates cause them to run on massive hyper-inflation - then again this is self-limiting as eventually these coins (for instance SPROUTS) lose all value and eventually cannot be traded even for one satoshi (0.00000001BTC, the [currently] smallest unit of Bitcoin exchange)

It surely should have reached / passed 99 by the time of this post (when Mandle gives us the scores)?

Basically, any form of digital currency.  The most famous is of course Bitcoin, not many "altcoins" are well known outside the Cryptocurrecy community, but the best-known are Litecoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum.

A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency. Cryptocurrencies are a subset of alternative currencies, or specifically of digital currencies.
Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency in 2009.
Since then, numerous cryptocurrencies have been created. These are frequently called altcoins, as a blend of bitcoin alternative.
Cryptocurrencies use decentralized control as opposed to centralized electronic money/centralized banking systems. The decentralized control is related to the use of bitcoin's blockchain transaction database in the role of a distributed ledger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

New currency is "mined" by using mathematical formulae (known as "hashing")

A cryptographic hash function is a special class of hash function that has certain properties which make it suitable for use in cryptography. It is a mathematical algorithm that maps data of arbitrary size to a bit string of a fixed size (a hash function) which is designed to also be a one-way function, that is, a function which is infeasible to invert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

(I have to admit that it's taken me quite a while to get my head around the terminology and come to a reasonable understanding of it all!)

I have to admit the whole thing passed me by somewhat until a dev of an altcoin (basically any crypto that is not Bitcoin) got in touch wanted to sponsor one of my games.  Since then I've become very interested in the whole thing, from trading crypto (obviously in very small amounts with stuff I've been given, I've not invested a penny of fiat currency into this and never will) to the use of cryptos in gaming (other than gambling, which is something very popular with crytpos but not something I involve myself with).

So... anyone dabbled in cryptocurrency?  Anyone mined some Bitcoin back when it was feasible to do so with an ordinary PC?  Anyone interested in the idea of decentralised currency and any thoughts on whether that's actually genuinely possible?