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A Dark Room

A Dark Room

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A Dark Room was one of the first really fun browser games I found (outside the amazing Kingdom of Loathing). It was mysterious and took me a long time to beat.

Turns out, there’s an easier way to get to the end than grinding all the resource gathering.

  1. Right-click on the page and ‘Inspect’
  2. In the panel, select Console
  3. Type the following and it will give you 100,000 units of whatever you have.
$.each(State.stores, function(e,i) { State.stores[e] = 100000; })

You will need to re-enter this command line any time you get access to another resource type to fill it up, but it makes a very long game into one that can be beaten in about an hour.

Overdose deaths increase 3x since legalization

Overdose deaths increase 3x since legalization

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Liz McCarthy, an Oregon Health Authority epidemiologist, released the finalized overdose data for 2023 and it shows a tripling death rate since legalization and harm reduction efforts were passed. Even worse – the rate is increasing dramatically with a doubling rate of almost every 2 years.

Even worse, most of the rest of the country are seeing a dramatic DECLINE in overdose deaths – so this is clearly a local/policy problem.

The newest numbers show 1,833 people died in Oregon from a drug overdose last year, compared to 1,383 in 2022, 1,189 in 2021, 824 in 2020 and 626 in 2019

This increase mirrors the same timeframe of drug decriminalization and hundreds of millions spent on harm reduction efforts in Oregon. The tripling of the overdose death rate in the same time is yet one more data point that proves that legalization and supposed harm reduction efforts do the very opposite.

Dramatically more people are dying now than even arrest and jail time. Jail was actually saving more lives than legalization and harm reduction.

Anyone that has compassion for the plight of drug addicts should demand change of policy. The sad reality is that many Oregonians continue to support these ideological policies when it’s clear they’re killing hundreds more people every year.

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Song of the Lark

Song of the Lark

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Jules Breton’s “Song of the Lark” was deemed the most popular painting in America in a poll conducted in 1934. A young peasant woman stands silently in the flat fields of the artist’s native Normandy as the sun rises, listening to the song of a distant lark. It currently hangs in the Art Institute in Chicago, one of my favorite museums.

The painting was Eleanor Roosevelt’s favorite work of art; it also inspired Bill Murray to try again while he was struggling actor in Chicago.

Oregon has highest rate of homeless families

Oregon has highest rate of homeless families

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Despite record spending of up to $500 million per year ($531 million in 2023 alone), Oregon’s homelessness is becoming even worse. In fact, it’s the worst in the nation. Oregon is now #1 in rate of homeless families.

Axios reports that Oregon’s rate of unsheltered homelessness among children is 19.9 for every 10,000 kids, according to the report, which relied on point-in-time survey data, a census count conducted on one night.
The second-ranked state, Hawaii, had a rate less than half that of Oregon, with 7.2 of every 10,000 kids experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The national average was just 1.4.

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Zooming in

Zooming in

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Jesse Martin does an extreme zoomin on his art (I’m betting there’s some splicing, but it’s a great zoom-in). He also has a ‘making of’ video how he used ProCreate to do it.

Reminds me of the ‘Powers of 10’ video from 1977

Making a game in Assembly

Making a game in Assembly

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When teaching myself to program as a kid, my first language was type-in BASIC programs. After that, I made the very un-orthodox choice to learn assembly. I wrote a small database, a TSR (Terminate and stay resident program), and a couple other small creations.

Looks like GreatCorn did one better by writing his own game in x86 assembly.