Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
-- Samuel Johnson
#Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Difficulty #HumanNature #Life
Recent searches
Search options
Administered by:
#difficulty
2 posts2 participants0 posts today
#Obsidian’s #JoshSawyer says it’s a mistake for #RPGs to abandon their crunchy, complex systems, the kind that attract so-called "sweaty" players, in favor of a "one size fits all" approach. And he’s right. You can still include easier #difficulty options without flattening the experience for everyone else.
Not every game needs to be for everyone. Some of us want deep builds, hard choices, and meaningful stats. Sacrificing depth for broad appeal just waters down what makes RPGs special.
Let players opt into the complexity. Don’t erase it.
PC Gamer · Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it's a 'mistake' for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy 'sweaty boy' systems in favour of a 'one size fits all' game, since easier difficulties aren't too hard to make
Oh no, I have a summons for jury service ! I'm panicking about the logistics of how I can possibly manage this. I've described all the difficulties and asked for an exemption but I understand that it's unlikely to be granted.
I have an elderly dog that wakes me up multiple times in the night. To be sure to arrive by nine I would have to leave at 7:45, possibly earlier depending on the walk from the car park. Though my daughter will watch my dog during the day I would need to get up, have breakfast, feed the dog and walk her before leaving so the latest I could get up would be 6. If I've been woken three times the night before I probably would not be able to stay awake though the court session. If I did stay awake I would be unsafe driving back. (Public transport would mean getting a 6:30 bus from a stop about 15 minutes walk away).
Also, as I have prosopagnosia (face blindness) I would probably be a hindrance in any case where visual identification matters, fit example CCTV evidence. I can see a situation where I could not make a judgement beyond reasonable doubt even if all the other jurors can.
Why didn't this happen in the decades when I lived close to a court‽
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once, into miry Sloughs, or stops our passage with craggy and inaccessible mountains. The free roving Songster of the forest, now rambles unconfin’d, and hopps from Spray to Spray but the next hour perhaps he alights to pick the scattered Grain and is entangled in the Snare. The Ship, which, wafted by a favourable gale, sails prosperously upon the peaceful Surface, by a sudden Change of weather may be tossed by the Tempest, and driven by furious, opposite winds, upon rocks or quicksands. In short nothing in this world enjoys a constant Series of Joy and prosperity.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1756-03-27)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/30195/
WIST Quotations · Diary (1756-03-27) - Adams, John | WIST QuotationsThe Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once,…
Replied in thread
@voxel like all #PoW #Cryptocurrency, #Monero too does #WastefulComputing.
- Unlike many others it automatically adapts #Difficulty based off total #hashrate as it enshures a constant block reward of 0,6 XMR + Tx Fees per block at a constant block time of 2mins per block.
That being said Monero was explicitly designed to not be #ASIC-able in a cost-efficient manner and be #GPU-unfriendly, so it's more #decentralized and doesn't cause harm by demanding custom hardware that can't be repurposed that causes 100% avoidable #eWaste!
- IOW: I's the 'least worst' option given it's PoW doesn't incentive or reward capital holders (beyond the ability to host and have power to mine)…
Good morning, friends. 
2 May 2025
A couple of days ago, my wife noticed that Ben's lymph nodes beneath his jaw were swollen. I took him to the veterinarian yesterday and, unfortunately, didn’t receive good news. There’s no definitive diagnosis yet—the vet sent samples to a pathologist, and I should hear something today. Ben is 16, and I fear the inevitable may be approaching. Still, he remains his calm, steady self. I think of him as a gentle giant, despite his small size. It takes a lot to ruffle him, except for my other dog, Charlie, who—every so often—manages to find that one nerve to step on. The dynamic at home is what I cherish most, and I struggle with the thought of change.
"A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad." — Robert Wagner
A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
I am uncomfortably reminded of the abiding truth of those classic words that never occurred to Horace: “Via ovicipitum dura est,” or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: “The way of the egghead is hard.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Lecture (1954-05-17), “A Troubled World,” Godkin Lectures, No. 1, Harvard University
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back
https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back
#HackerNews #America #Underestimates #the #Difficulty #of #Bringing #Manufacturing #Back
manufacturing #challenges #American #economy #manufacturing #revival #industry #insights #economic #policy
Molson HartAmerica Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back — Molson HartOn April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opp
#difficulty : that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve
- French: Difficulté
- German: die Schwierigkeit
- Italian: difficoltà
- Portuguese: dificuldade
- Spanish: dificultad
------------
Report an incorrect translation @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
wordofthehour.orgWe need your help!! Help us improve our translations. :)We rely on community members to help us improve our translations. If you are a native speaker in one of our supported languages, we strongly...
No gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1745 ed.)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/75…
Continued thread
Hades has really interesting system for adding challenges and rewarding for it. Some of them add health or speed for enemies, amount of enemies or limit player choices, but my favourite on the first one is "Desperate measures" which transforms the boss fights to more complex versions.
Which games do you think have interesting difficulty levels? Or at least try to do something else than just change damage and health values?
Like on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on very hard the enemies are finally allowed to gang up on you instead of waiting their turn, changing a lot of the flow of the fights. Unfortunately you need to first complete the game on hard to unlock it and the standard difficulty levels differ just on damage and health.
Or on Cassette Beasts there are two sliders where one adjusts level scaling, giving enemies also different and stronger moves in addition of bigger stats, and other one how the enemies choose their moves.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Message (1862-12-01) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2535…
WIST Quotations · Message (1862-12-01) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union) - Lincoln, Abraham | WIST QuotationsThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
A neighbour has a granddaughter with a #music scholarship. She can't read music and is dropping behind other #students. She also has #Synesthesia #synaesthesia. In her case she hears music as colours.
My neighbour asked me if I knew any #programmers who might be able to produce some #software that could visualise music as colours rather than a convention musical #stave, to help overcome her #difficulty.
Other solutions/ideas welcome!
Please boost!
#difficulty : that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve
- French: Difficulté
- German: die Schwierigkeit
- Italian: difficoltà
- Portuguese: dificuldade
- Spanish: dificultad
------------
Report an incorrect translation @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
wordofthehour.orgWe need your help!! Help us improve our translations. :)We rely on community members to help us improve our translations. If you are a native speaker in one of our supported languages, we strongly...
1/3 In an extract from her foreword to David Graeber’s new collection, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, Rebecca Solnit writes that Graeber:
‘wanted to put [ideas] in everyone’s hands … Which is part of why he worked hard at – and succeeded in – writing in a style that … was always as clear and accessible as possible, given the material. Egalitarianism is a prose style, too. … A sentence Lyndsey Stonebridge wrote about Hannah Arendt could apply equally well to him: “To fixate on her exceptional mind is to miss something that is important about her lessons in thinking: thinking is ordinary, she teaches; that is its secret power.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/david-graeber-optimistic-anarchist-rebecca-solnit
Yet isn’t this itself an example of not thinking, and instead of merely going along with received knowledge?
The Guardian · ‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
A quotation from Addison, Joseph:
«
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/addison-joseph/72769/
A quotation from Voltaire:
«
Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/voltaire/38094/
