You could also just check if the lemming's countdown timer is nonzero, rather than a special state. This would also prevent assignment of a timebomber to a lemming who is counting down due to the nuke (but still allow it for one the nuke has not yet reached).

Mantha's server is specifically for "Drunkbox" sessions - ie: Jackbox with drinking encouraged and (almost) anything-goes as far as what content is allowed/encouraged, basically just no hate speech but anything else (including R18-type stuff) is fine. We only tend to play those a couple of times a year, although that does remind me that we're overdue for one.

Aside from that, we haven't really done Jackbox in a while in terms of actual LF sessions, and it's only really me and Mantha who still join Bleakcreep's ones from LF.

I'd certianly be keen to join one of your sessions if it's at a time when I can - that would be Saturday or Sunday your time zone, so that should work out alright (Sunday / Monday my timezone). I'm working full time nowdays so don't have the availability I used to, though.

I'm sure I remember coding a fallback for specifically this case; with the behavior being that it would get as close as it could. (ie: Let's say the last level played was a level in Tricky of Orig; if that level is now missing, it'll go to the first unsolved level, or maybe just the first level full stop, of Tricky; if the entire Tricky rank is missing or has no levels, it'll go to the first of Orig as a whole; and if the entire pack is gone, just to the first level you have in your levels folder)

It'd seem though, either I only thought about doing this, or it broke at some point.

From what I recall, showing only updated topics (rather than all individual posts) was a modification in the first place. No idea why it's having issues, though - I'd have to look into it. It may just be that we never noticed the cutoff date before. If this is all it is, it's also probably not hard to do something about.

The last SMF version update was in June 2021 (which probably means I need to update it again, actually). There are more-recent changes than this in the repo, but they relate to implementing reCAPTCHA and the dark theme, not to version upgrades.

Are you okay with this being moved to the public Site Discussion board?

If we were going down to two destructive skills, I'd say Miner and either Fencer or Laserer would be the way to go for maximum versatility.

Ah nice. I didn't think NeoLemmix worked on Linux but I haven't heard of the XFCE distro before

There's an app for Linux (and Intel-based Macs) called WINE, which is kind of like a Windows emulator (more accurately, it'd be called a compatibility layer, not an emulator). NeoLemmix runs very well in it, aside from some issues with Fullscreen mode on certian versions of Linux.

The one limitation is that due to how it works, it won't work on PCs that don't use an Intel or AMD CPU (so it won't work on, for example, the newer M1 Macs).

It's not just in fhe first 5 seconds of playing; it's the first 5 seconds of any lemming's existance / assignability. Including clones and (in the future) converted neutrals.

Then also consider that you'd have to apply it to Stoners too. When NL had timed bombers, Stoners were also timed.

You also wouldn't be able to reuse most of the nuke code for it, due to the very different mechanism of handling the countdown. You could reuse the code to display the digit above the lemming, but that's about it.