The King's Quest game from 2015 started out excellent with some great puzzles and felt like a modern King's Quest. Unfortunately the later chapters were much lighter in terms of puzzles.
For Quest of Glory, I'd recommend Hero U: Rogue to Redemption from the Coles, it has a similar feeling and is a load of fun. For me it's the best quest for glory clone since (better than Mage Initiation and Heroine's Quest).
There's been other games by Sierra alumni but they just don't have the same level of polish.
> “I began to suspect that I was either in a dream of my own construction or trapped in some kind of fake reality constructed by someone else,” he wrote in an essay in 2020. “Could I be in a coma or some afterlife limbo state?”
I've had similar thoughts while completely sober, wondering if the world was fake and I was just dreaming it. Usually when sleep deprived, after having just finishing a novel and coming out of the novel's world. Given that I'm susceptible to this kind of thinking, I've decided to steer clear of psychedelics because I can imagine that a bad trip is a real possibility. As a student, I was offered to try Salvia Divinorum and reading reports of bad trips on erowid (one person reported feeling like he was a brick on the wall for an endless amount of time) completely dissuaded me of trying it.
Anecdotally, my cousin has taken LSD repeatedly and has had psychosis episodes that she thinks might be triggered by that. She's diagnosed with Schizophrenia though and has a family history of Schizophrenia so psychedelics were probably not a great idea for her.
I had a series of dreams like this once. Each dream would start off like any other dream, some probably-objectively-improbable starting scenario extrapolated into a sequence of events, but then at some point I'd 'figure out the trick' and become aware of some glaring flaw in my subjective reality at which point the whole dream would collapse and reset, to be replaced by some new scenario. This repeated a bunch of times during the night (I think something like six but how would you tell?) and when I woke up for real it took quite a while to be certain I was back in 'baseline' reality.
"one person reported feeling like he was a brick on the wall for an endless amount of time"
I interpret these kinds of experiences as a form of dissociation as well, to me it seems the perception of time dissolves under certain forms of intoxication. I've had such experiences with cannabis, ketamine, salvia and a range of 5-HT2a-active substances. Mental exercises can bring about similar experiences too, like some forms of meditation and prayer.
To me personally they haven't been as unsettling as some people describe. It's an interesting phenomenon, similar to how some episodes of Star Trek manage to communicate how a character has lived a full life in half an hour stuck on some 'subtemporal' planet or so before they're rescued and brought back to the rest of the crew, one can have the experience of being a brick in a wall for eternity or having lived for centuries as a hermit in a desert cave.
It's a neat project and great that it's opensource. I'm not an expert though but when I compare this to Educational apps from my childhood like Adibou or Castle of Dr Brain, it seems the activities are not as fun with the exception of Scratch (but that's external).
I'm actually curious if there's research on how learning is impacting by the presentation of the material and how fun the activities are. Naively, I'd think those old educational software I've seen worked better because by being fun, they encouraged the child to try and solve puzzles, do activities longer.
I have a child who is soon going to be 3 and I'd like to let him play some educational software 30 minutes a week or so so I'm actually actively interested in figuring what is something that's good, fun and has the most positive impact. So if anyone has some relevant studies etc... I'm all ears
I don't have studies but we found that "teach your monster to read" was great and enjoyed. It's UK focussed, about learning to read phonetics. It's essentially a series of mini-games tying a story together, and it was very engaging for my son at a similar age.
Also it's a one off purchase. (Edit - on android, free online it seems)
If that's not as relevant for you where you are, it might give some jumping off points for finding more like it
Siblings and I were given Castle of Doctor Brain at too young an age to make much progress. It took a long time for us to figure out the puzzle on the door to get into the castle, but it must have had some strong appeal for us to keep coming back. We got stuck plenty of times after that too.!
My 4+ year-old doesn't seem to mind the amount of fun in these activities; the rather boring-looking Maze activity is a current favorite. That said, I do think that many of the activities in the catalogue have a user interface that I find alienating or somewhat ugly.
I loved LOGO as a kid, my father was a teacher and he had a robotic LOGO turtle mounted with a pen that could be used to trace on A3 paper. Lot's of fun but that was more around 6 years old or so.
Thanks for the Tux Paint suggestion, I played a lot with Kid Pix as a kid and it seems that Tux Paint is similar :)
Haven't looked at the PBS shows yet, right now our son has been rather obsessed in a BBC show called Maddie do you know? because it explains how things works and he's excited to see train tracks, helicopters etc... He also really liked Mickey Clubhouse which has the advantage of being translated in Cantonese (my wife's language).
Nice, I love Humongous so knew about PJ Sam (and plan to play Putt Putt together with him) but didn't know Zoombinis and Crystal Rainforest. Any other recommendations?
Of those, Foundation is the only one I wouldn't recommend at all. It might be middling if it was named something else but as a show that purports to be Foundation it's a complete insult to the books.
But the other shows, especially For All Mankind are really great.
For those who start For All Mankind, stick with it until the end of episode 2. I dropped out after episode 1 a while ago, thinking it was interesting but a little too slow and everyone was just moping around, but when I gave it a shot again by the end of episode 2 I was hooked and have binged all 4 seasons since.
I had a very similar experience, watched a bit of episode 1 and didn't really like it - went back and watched it again and really got into it and its probably my favourite long running show at the moment.
Yes, I really wish they hadn't done that Karen/Danny subplot. It was a cheap way of introducing tension between characters that didn't add anything to the show.
If it were most other show, this particularly subplot would have made me quit but this show is so good otherwise that I still follow it despite this.
It depends on the region you were born in. I was born in the country side of normandy where there's plenty of horse breeders. Some primary schools there will bring the kids once a week to do horse riding and seeing horses is somewhat common (plus there was always at least one kid whose parent bred horse in the class who'd invite his classmates to see the horses).
Outside of regions with horse culture, it's definitely a rich man's hobby.
My brother in law has a farm, and his daughters both ride horses. One a bit more fanatically than the other; she's in college now and I think she actually owns her own horse, which is a bit of a problem when you're living in student housing. They're not rich by any means, so I suspect it's a matter of priorities.
If we're talking about comparison of someone lets say making 5 dollars more an hour then minimum wage in pa, would you describe that person as "not rich by any means"?
9 months ago I early retired (I'm in my 40s)... I've just decided to find a new job because I'm bored. Opensource is fun and I did contribute somewhat but I find that working on an interesting problem in a team is just fun and I missed it.
My Dad actually had the same problem when he retired. Took him a few years to get out of it and find other things to do. It's weird because he was always stressed out when working. But the lack of stress made him believe he was worthless :/
Mine has been running fine for 4 years now. It's a PR1500ELCD so one step up from the CP1500PFCLCD. I also bought it directly from the official distributor in my country if that matters.
Unless I'm mistaken it's Verizon who decided to do the ban, then automattic bought it for much cheaper because it was a ghost town.
Don't get why Automattic doesn't reverse the ban though.
I haven't been so lucky with Netflix. Relatives who live in other cities have gotten a message that they can't use mine unless I do the thing to add a new user for $7.99 or however much it is. Occasionally it works for them but most times it does not.
If you rent for short term (6 months), monthly mansions don't need bank accounts or proof of residency. It costs about 50% more than you'd pay for long term but you don't have to pay reikin (key money you don't get back), shikikin (deposit for damages).
For Quest of Glory, I'd recommend Hero U: Rogue to Redemption from the Coles, it has a similar feeling and is a load of fun. For me it's the best quest for glory clone since (better than Mage Initiation and Heroine's Quest).
There's been other games by Sierra alumni but they just don't have the same level of polish.
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