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▲ 18 r/ZiplyFiber

I have gotten six planned maintenance emails from Ziply Sept. 2 through Sept. 17 after not getting any since Nov. 2024. Why are there so many lately? I'm in 97008 / Beaverton, OR

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u/BrennusSokol — 28 days ago
▲ 4 r/WestsideMaskedMeetups

Idea for a masked meetup: visit a game store

Chronos Games and Gifts is very central, only a 5 minute walk from the Beaverton Transit Center. It’s a pretty big store with lots of stuff to browse

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u/BrennusSokol — 30 days ago
▲ 119 r/accelerate

OpenAI wants to offer a version of Astra that "runs forever" -- insider got preview and shares details

u/BrennusSokol — 2 months ago
▲ 11 r/AutomationGames

I pushed a fairly large 4.0 update for my train automation base-building tower defense web game

  • The big new feature is a building that lets you field an army of allies to go out and fight automatically for you.
  • I also did a HUGE amount of QoL, UI polish, performance passes, text improvement, etc. for a smoother experience

Play it here: https://aaronshaver.github.io/Hylaax-Planetary-Rail-Defense/

(be sure to do a hard cache refresh with CTRL-SHIFT-R or CMD-SHIFT-R if you have played the game before, so that you get the latest version without GitHub's annoying aggressive caching)

Right now I most want to hear about balance issues: what feels over-powered? under-powered? too expensive? too cheap?

u/BrennusSokol — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/BaseBuildingGames

I pushed a fairly large 4.0 update for my train automation base-building tower defense web game

  • The big new feature is a building that lets you field an army of allies to go out and fight automatically for you.
  • I also did a HUGE amount of QoL, UI polish, performance passes, text improvement, etc. for a smoother experience

Play it here: https://aaronshaver.github.io/Hylaax-Planetary-Rail-Defense/

(be sure to do a hard cache refresh with CTRL-SHIFT-R or CMD-SHIFT-R if you have played the game before, so that you get the latest version without GitHub's annoying aggressive caching)

Right now I most want to hear about balance issues: what feels over-powered? under-powered? too expensive? too cheap?

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u/BrennusSokol — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/aigamedev

I listened to user feedback and improved my train tower defense game: now with research system for longer term progression

New version! Changes:

  • New research system for long term progression mechanics and more power to fight the enemy (note this isn't balanced yet, so it may be over-powered or under-powered in some cases)
  • Once Research building is built, simply click the building to see the upgrades you can do
  • Softer, more pleasant shooting sound
  • Warning and explanation of how to fix for first time a Turret runs out of Energy
  • Base resources now always displayed in upper left instead of having to click the Base
  • Enemy hive expansion activity reduced -- a little more breathing room for the player

Get version 3.0 by doing a hard refresh (CTRL-SHIFT-R / CMD-SHIFT-R)

https://aaronshaver.github.io/Hylaax-Planetary-Rail-Defense/

u/BrennusSokol — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/OpenAI

Experiencing "something went wrong" for the audio transcription voice input on iOS ChatGPT app for the last couple days intermittently -- it's really annoying because I can lose minutes of spoken audio / speech-to-text. OpenAI, please fix.

Please fix

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u/BrennusSokol — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/aigamedev

I spent another day working on my "train autism" rail tower defense game... lots of new features like a tutorial, Artillery weapon, streamlined UI, etc.

I got serious and switched over from the Work tab in the browser to the Codex/ChatGPT desktop app. Got version control going properly. And I am now using Cloudflare Pages instead of GitHub Pages because the latter caches content too aggressively, which drove me nuts.

Ended up add usage credits since I ran out of my $20/mo Plus plan usage yesterday. I can see why people find agentic coding addicting! It was hard to tear myself away.

And it can get a little expensive. When I remembered to, I would use GPT-5.6 Terra Light for tiny changes, and Sol High for more complex asks.

There were still a couple times it made silly mistakes, like regressing/resurfacing an old fixed bug, or not understanding a visual bug. But overall these tools have come a lot way since I tried them a year ago.

Play it here: https://hylaax-planetary-rail-defense.aaronshaverpdx.workers.dev/

u/BrennusSokol — 2 months ago