what if instead of bad things we had good things insetad

Strange Antiquities is Really Good if you happen to like solving puzzles, organizing things, dark spookiness, petting a kitty, and feeling like an occult practitioner. I definitely recommend it

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English speakers: japanese counter words are so weird and confusing
English speakers: that’s not a flock of crows it’s a murder of crows

genuinely one of my favorite things about Lisp-like languages is how variable names can include so many symbols. I love how, for example, all of my functions that return booleans can end in a question mark - and all of my functions that are called only for their side effects can end in an exclamation point. imagine having list.append() which returns a new list, and list.append!() which modifies the existing list, except that works for all methods

I’m almost tempted to write my Python code in a similar way - for example the _x suffix would mean “called for side effects only” and the _p suffix would mean “answers a question and returns a boolean”

it’s a really nice way to have both concision and clarity - both of which are important for good code IMO

@catgirl_so firmwear brought to mind living in a sterile white futuristic pod, filled with panels that slide away to reveal whatever I need. honestly not the worst fantasy - especially if it has full dive VR

what's the go-to recommendation for a distro for nontechnical creatures these days anyways?
pop_os? mint? telling your friends to "just follow the guide to install gentoo, it's super easy?"

@wizzwizz4 ooh thank you! I’ll probably give this a try the next time I’m playing. I know that it’s possible to pause with Esc but that opens the pause menu of course - which isn’t quite what I’d want, but does help give me time to think

I feel like pauseable-real-time is very underappreciated. it’s not just very satisfying to people like me, but it’s also a helpful accessibility tool for those with slow reaction times or anyone who needs time to think. I feel like it’s mostly associated with strategy games but I’d love to see more genres add it - especially tower defense games like BTD6 (which I’ve been obsessed with lately. it’s a Very Good Game)

to be honest I would probably overuse it in BTD6 but it would also help me manage the chaos of some of the later free play rounds. plus I could pause when I feel like things are going badly and take a moment to think about how to respond, which would actually help me engage even more deeply with the game’s systems (like abilities, which I mostly don’t touch)

they should invent HRT that gives you a chitinous exoskeleton

writing code in Python is

• 10% writing the code
• 80% figuring out why it won’t work
• 10% being suspicious of if it’s actually working this time

writing code in Rust is

• 10% writing the code
• 20% trying to decipher what the compiler is unhappy about
• 15% googling compiler errors and getting even more confused
• 30% forming and testing superstitions about the compiler
• 20% changing your code randomly in the hopes that you can brute-force a solution that will compile
• 5% giving up and writing it in Python instead

@ljrk ohh interesting! I guess that does make more sense. it would be weird to be in an American city in a video game and dial 112 - even if everyone is conveniently speaking German

random thought but I wonder if different localizations of GTA V change the number that you dial to get emergency services

in the US it’s 911 but I wonder if E.G. the German localization changes it to 112, or if it stays as 911 since the game is set in the US

Time to dissociate a bit

#np

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