@topaz oohh I love that omg. I really wish Python had a feature like that

@LunaDragofelis ooh is Kittyscript a Lisp that you’re working on?

the one thing I don’t like about Janet so far is that it doesn’t have anything like {JSDoc / LDoc / Python’s type annotations} that:

• provides a standardized way to document what types a function expects
• integrates with LSPs to do static type checking

but this might not be too big of a deal if you just write unit tests for your functions - which IMO is very good practice anyway. still makes me feel kinda uncomfy though

it also has really nice short-form lambda syntax omggg

https://janet-lang.org/docs/functions.html

I’m slowly falling in love with this language

omgg Janet lets you have docstrings for variables as well as functions! I love that so much

https://janet-lang.org/docs/bindings.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/115054349302146150

Because it's the time od the year when people start posting their yearly reading reviews - a reminder that "but how many of the xy books you've read do you really remember in detail?" only shows a deep misunderstanding of what reading (and learning) is about.

Paradise Killer is free on Epic Games!

this game is very well-written, has an interesting mystery that’s fun and challenging to investigate, has an extremely unique and fun vibe, and has some fascinatingly surreal and creative worldbuilding

I’d definitely recommend trying out it, but with the caveat that:

this game’s worldbuilding is full of over-the-top cruelty, on around the same level as Warhammer 40k. also all of the characters are over-the-top horrible people as well. if you can handle the Shin Megami Tensei series (or maybe the Nier series) then you can probably also handle this game, because they have similar levels of edgy grimdarkness, but just be warned

@foxysen oohh that’s amazing! I definitely want to try Mint once I have the energy to install it on my laptop - or once Arch annoys me enough that I install it anyway lol

I feel like a pretty decent metric for the user-friendliness of a Linux distro would be:

• can you install the distro from scratch and play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?
• after 6 months, can you update all of the software and still play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?

at least one of these tests would fail if any of my most common issues with Linux happened:

• display problems
• video card driver problems
• wifi problems
• audio problems
• problems during installation
• DE problems
• updates breaking things

@theking the way I think it works is that you press the button, and then the ball opens on a time delay

so you press the button, then throw the ball before it can open. but I’m not 100% sure if that’s how it works

@infonauten ooh thank you! it turns out that the mod I was thinking of is called Crossroads but I might give Oritech a try as well - it looks pretty cool

for reference

random thing that’s bothered me for like 15 years:

if you were holding a pokéball you wouldn’t hold it with the button facing away from you. you need to be able to press that button, so you’d hold it with the button over your thumb or index finger

@wyatt @Quasit yeah I’m ngl I have problems with authority and I’m not okay with having to defer to a DM or a rulebook to learn how I’m “allowed” to roleplay or what my character is “allowed” to do or be

for example during one game I had a clever solution to a problem that involved using a Bellringer’s knot and the DM said that my character wouldn’t know what that was because of her class, so I wasn’t allowed to tie it :/ the fact that the DM is allowed to make unilateral declarations like that without checking with any other player is IMO just gross

someone recommended a #Minecraft mod to me about a month(?) ago and it sounded so cool but now I can’t find it. I don’t think I saved it anywhere T_T

it was a tech mod that tried to avoid the “here’s a magic box that does exactly what you want” problem by making you build your own multi-block cooling systems and other things like that. it basically deliberately made it difficult to build tech things

it was a fairly modern mod too IIRC - like probably 1.19 or above

does anyone know what I’m talking about? I know it’s not a lot to go on but I feel like “it’s a tech mod but not a magic box tech mod” will at least rule out like 95% of tech mods lol

edit: the answer was Crossroads!

@Quasit yes omgg I honestly don’t understand why someone would want to mix their roleplaying with tactical turn-based heavily gamified RPG combat. like it’s totally valid that people do that and they seem to really enjoy it - but what I especially don’t understand is why that specific combination of things is so overwhelmingly popular that people have trouble mentally separating the roleplaying from the gamified combat rules

like imagine if everyone exclusively played a TTRPG called Budgets & Businesses, which was just Monopoly except with roleplaying. and if you tried to explain to them that you liked the roleplaying but not the Monopoly part they would look at you confused like you were saying you wanted to play B&B without the B&B

I told a normie that I don’t like D&D and they took that to mean that I don’t like any TTRPGs at all

please enshittify faster, Hasbro. I need your stranglehold over TTRPG culture to end