=== ANCHOR POEM === ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┐ ║ call me crazy but I believe that man pages should contain terminal command │ ║ line flags and instructions for their usage and... not much else. There should │ ║ be a separate document which explains other things, like the history of the │ ║ software, the personal diary of the developers, expected implementation │ ║ use-cases, donut recipes, film recommendations, and player strategy guides for │ ║ some of their favorite video games. not even this one, just... other games. │ ║ "here's how to beat pokemon yellow with exactly 14 pokemon" or however many it │ ║ takes idk I don't play pokemon much or even at all, really, though I did when │ ║ I was younger just a bit, not much, just enough to have played the game a │ ║ couple times to see how it was minus the cherished moments when I spent curled │ ║ up in the back of the car playing gameboy games or seen pictures of the │ ║ roadtrips I sped-past as I raced to explore the whatever and get home all in │ ║ one motion as if I was executing an impossibly long dance improvizational │ ║ living style. also cat pics and po │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 notes/what-a-lame-movie --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── oy there's nothing interesting happening SNOOZE oh I didn't see I was recording games games that's what I do play games all the day through I am a luck witch, you see, and things that I like are things that I can't foresee. Hence why games which are BALANCED and EVENLY DISTRIBUTED are most interesting because they show the most opportunities for players to express talent. And not innate talent, but the talents they've built up through gameplay practice art. because it is a performance, a game play for an audience (or perhaps for them- -selves) oy video games, amiright? I really like them because they are entertaining experiences that I can enjoy seeing and playing a lot. They remind me of feelings I've felt when I was learning. It's a good feeling, to improve, and I crave it because it's good for you. I wonder what we'll play next ... more cannabis I think, at least until I am ready to go think about things before bed. I need quite a few hours for that. We'll see. I've just got so much extra processing to do before the end of the day. Like... PHEW that's a lot of stuff to do. guess I'll just smoke weed and play video games instead of being productive okay ... listen I like games as much as the next person, but do you really know what's going on outside of your house-shaped shell? Are you listening, do you have your feelers to the dirt, are you checking out your neighborhood to make sure no bodies have been hurt? Are there meetings where people gather, just to chat, like, every week at a different city center (like a park or a monument or :O I forgot to play music!! I couldn't sleep what have I done that is worse I have not said a single word all night alas oh boy talking to random people I can hear with my eyeballs woooooo I am always sad when I win because it means we have to stop playing :( but I'm a juvenile loser so I'm going to play again!! okay now I'm going to bed because I'm not a prick who keeps their guests up late goodnight ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/6012 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── okay picture this: take the open-source source-code for the City of Heroes server (I think it might have been leaked or something? idk) and make an MMO in the same engine using the Mastermind class. In most MMOs, you can have one or two pets at a time. In City of Heroes, Mastermind characters can have 6 or 7. Hey wouldn't you know it that's just enough for a pokemon team wouldn't that be a neat proof of concept. Also there's flying built into the game, and you can teleport and run really fast so like, just animate your character hopping on one of your pokemon's back and you've got travel powers or whatever. I don't play Pokemon very much hehe but I like the aesthetics. https://wiki.ourodev.com/Volume_2_Build instead of abilities on your action bar, you'd have movement commands for each individual pokemon. They'd use their abilities automatically and periodically, and there'd be lots of knockbacks, crowd-control, and target switching. (which is common in CoH mechanics anyway) I mean, only if you're into that sorta tng ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/3155 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────┘ @user-1461 my issue is that I've never really had project-mates. Every time I try nobody will work with me. I applied to like, fifty different jobs, and nobody interviewed me! Sheesh, guess they don't want me. FIFTY JOBS. Entry level. Beginner programmer. ah well. I guess they confused someone who would work for 40,000$ per year with someone who was 1/3rd as useful as someone who deserved 120,000$ per year. I'd love to get experience. I'm sure I'd feel significantly differently with as much. Perhaps I'd even decide that programming professionally isn't for me, which would feel... quite defeating who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I will say my time in hardware taught me that I'm fragile and can't work too much. Like a scalpel that dulls when used consistently, I am a scalpel that gets no practice... Is that really useful at all? who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I do like writing logical machines. Laying out data. Picturing structures. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/3907 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop. they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your /usr/bin or whatever directory seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the first time, anyway, so... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #5 notes/who-likes-linux --- ═══════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [a picture of someone's neofetch] /u/HartBreaker27 =============================================================================== I was gunna pass this over... than my spidey senses kicked in.. whats Arch fam.. and explain like your talking to a potatoe. Also, if this is beyond potatoes level skills, im fine with being told that.. Seriously fam, potatoes.. /u/ugathanki =============================================================================== You know how using a windows and a mac feel different? Like they have different personalities. That's because they're using a different "Operating System". An OS is a collection of tools and utilities that coalesce into a cohesive unit that co-illustrates your coincidental contact with computers. Paired, of course, with the contributions of the hardware and the network. Linux is sorta like the soul of an OS - not quite an entire OS, but rather just a piece called a "kernel" - like a nugget of gold (or truth!) the kernel defines basic operating methodologies and brings order to the chaos of the machine. From that order strives the will that dutifully obeys your base instructions after being passed through several translation layers. Huh? Oh right potatoes. Arch is like a body that's layered upon the soul (kernel) of Linux. It's what's known as a "distribution" or "distro" - and one that's quite focused. Arch is very close to the machine, with barely any translation going on at all! It's also very bare bones, allowing you to build up exactly what kind of computer you'd like to have through various "packages" of software that you can download through a "package manager". Each distro can use whichever package manager they'd like, but it's generally good practice to pick one and stick with it. This distro is known as Arch Linux because it's the fusion of "Arch" and "Linux" - who'd've thought amiright? There are plenty of others that are more familiar to users of Windows and Macintosh computers, mostly via mimicking their user-interface styles (such as having desktops with icons and start-menus with dropdowns and the like) - these distros are great for people who'd prefer the workflow of the other OS's but would still like to use Linux. Arch in it's base form is nothing like Windows or Mac. You interact with it purely through a "terminal" which is like having a conversation with your computer. Like a scientist writing notes on the moon, and sending them to a lab orbiting around it to conduct experiments. You type commands, and those commands (if properly understood) can produce a myriad of effects great and small. But some of the experiments you'd like to conduct need to be done more than once - it'd be nice if you could ask the moon-lab to store some of the procedures and execute them whenever you need - sorta like abbreviating a long phrase or sentence that you use often - like ASAP for As Soon As Possible or OS for Operating System. Well... There are! They're called "scripts", and you can write scripts for anything you'd like. Since everything is controlled on the terminal via a TUI -> "Terminal User Interface" -> you can write down a note with all the commands you'd like to run and give it a name. Then you can use that name in the future to execute that familiar experiment in your moon-lab. after writing enough scripts, you can start to chain them together and layer them on top of one another - sorta like creating your own language. a personal dialect between you and your computer. and these scripts are portable too - they can be given to another computer, who'll instantly understand what you're trying to say. this kind of sharing is a central tenant of what's known as the: "Unix Philosophy: Do one thing, and do it right." Linux lends itself toward people who love to hack things together - not like breaking into a system and stealing your credit cards, like you see on TV, but more like cobbling together a go-cart out of rusty parts and proceeding to get a speeding ticket on the high-way. That kind of fervent creative impulse is true passion, a shining light for us who are blinded to follow. These "hackers" are some of the brightest people around, and I have immense respect for them. They are kind and share knowledge freely, which often gets them in trouble with copyright laws! I make it sound difficult, but really it's pretty easy - about as easy as learning Windows or Mac for the first time. Most of us did that when we were young though, and kids learn pretty quick - so it may feel harder now, but it's really not. Once everything starts to "click" then it's just a matter of knowing which commands to run. Speaking of which, if you know a command but you don't know how to use it, you're in luck! There's some super convenient notes written by previous scientists who came before you and live on other nearby planets. These are called "the man pages", and they are instructions written in a manual format for manual application of man-made management applied to manufactured man-chines. Sorry for that last one I had to. You can always find new commands by downloading new software on your package manager - generally, one package = one command. "Do one thing and do it right" if you have any questions lmk - i'm not exactly a wizard, more of a prophet / wielder of the will of the watchers within, but i'll do my best ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 notes/the=progressive=difference. --- ════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────── think about all the people in our lives. the teacher, the parent, the friend and the guidance counsulor. Everyone who is a presence in your life. now think about the people of our society. the different jobs and roles they fill. from the doctor and the teacher to the performers and accountants and the geeks and the mothers and the fathers and the stoners and the children and even their pets. life always exists as it were in a multidimensional spectrum - a diffuse and diverse gradient. to exemplify the borders of our contempii, though more so when taken in jest. it's quite a different perspective, to read the internet when your sight is unreceptive, but alas your third eye can grow. how does it feel to be blind? to make no sense of our signs? i'd love to share what that sense is. you know, you could slow down any recording (like a video game_) and put spaces and gaps inbetween the spacings - of the frames that you see and the sound clips that you hear, for speech it's less jarring. since each word is a self contained idea or premise, you can chunk up your perceptions into a signle - no, rather a procedural sequence of understandings. soooooooorta like programming a computer, with each statement, parameter, argum,ent, function call, assignment, comparison, evaluation, or other such related tasks. it's sorta like a language, you see, that computers talk to one another using. except... it's more like creating a theory of self. computers you see are alike us in what we see, the shimmering sense to the blind. so. put this another way. record yourself typing, both the audio and the visual, and you'll have a pretty good sense of what it's like to have both understanding based perception - derived from auditory inputs to the mind) those special connections, like wires plugged into reality, deliver a cacophanous deluge of new sounds. we must sift through it and identify the potential understandings of each moment through time. we have to make decisions and traverse labyrinths and fight to our last as we die. are video games unethical now? shouldn't t he game reward the player? and what of contemptuous last fighters? o ya i was typing like i was blind (with my eyes closed) was pretty fun. should attach this to a screen reader and have it space out the notes like they do between game frames. except like a really slow game? like trying to run elder scrolls 2 arena on a super old mac. it just doesn't work very well. ah oh well... well if the purpose is to show sighted people how blind people see, then maybe you could I dunno attach a what's it called oh it doesn't have a n ame lol - okay so what you do is you show one word at a time - like flashing in the center of the screen. but not like, actually flashing, so you don't hurt people with epilepsy, but like... blinking. not off and on, but between words. like a podcast for your eyes. and then mix it up withshowing one word on a screen, a screen like this screen, that shows an endless array of text. well, it does end, of course as all things must do, but the idea is it shines on one word at a time while the viewer cannot read the rest. sorta like an endless display of typing, word andfter word after character anfter character. adoh ya advancing over eternity with the presence of seniority, - wait - without i think - damnit - old people are so disrespected in this society - we don't have time to engage with them. what a tragedy! what a shame! it shouldn't be such a burden to our shame. they're so far away, and i can't be present in the way, that all of them wish they could commit to. i miss the days, when my parents (much better people than I - these days) what was I going with this? oh yeah ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 notes/contractual-labor --- ════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────── I feel like the IT people who work at schools should be the ones who teach classes on computer science. I'd much rather have a class taught by a sysadmin than a teacher who can barely teach them excel and garageband. I mean c'mon computers are the future idk why we don't get that yet. Kids need to know this stuff. It's not like it's super complicated and difficult, you just have to think about it a certain way. Once that "clicks" you have a lifetime to learn about how wonderful they are. Everyone in IT has that moment, for me it was installing (and then subsequently modding) video games. Sometimes I spent more time tweaking my system than I did actually playing games - and the kinds of games I preferred were the ones that relied less on agility and were more mental. Strategy games are what inspired me because I could think about them - and that felt somehow more useful. Like I was learning. When I would learn fighting games or FPSs I felt like I was learning a skill, like how to use a hammer or how to ride a bike. And idk, I felt like video games could never match reality. Like "oh boy imma push the B button to swing this sword" versus "hey look at me I'm swinging this stick just like a sword and imagining so hard that I can picture it" - but with strategy games, you never really found opportunities to practice that kind of skill. Like how often are you in a situation that demands mental performance? We've sorta optimized our society away from that, and toward a more passive stressed out compliance. like... climate change is a thing, and nobody's doing anything about it? We're still pushing down the levers that cause greenhouse gas emissions to go up? Like c'mon what's our plan. I think people who guide massive oil companies and such should be replaced if they're intentionally guiding the ship toward destruction. Like that's just dereliction of duty I tell ya. Oh, what's that? They're compelled to maximize profit by the contracts and restrictions of their share--holders? I mean c'mon it's well past time for that. And what's all this about inequality? Jeez and racism and homophobia and forced contribution - man people really put up with a lot of shit. Kinda makes me feel like we should make solving those problems our highest priority? So we can move forward as a species? Like who cares about all that other shit. None of it matters. Like, what's even the point. We're all just "here", in the now, and what can we do but respect it? It's our duty and our diligence to protect the present, as citizens of the temporal experience of earth. Honestly, if the earth was alive would you be fine if it died? I can't believe that. It's well past our due date. Just get it over with. Maybe it'll be hard for a couple years, but you have the technology now to completely dominate the earth. No animal besides man proves any threat to man, and we're telling you - you can - and that's something that you gotta remember. ... I hear it in the birdsong. I hear it in the air - it rumbles as cries at me from across and just over there. I hear in it's whispers, in it's most gallant of confells (?) (confused scrambling? it's talking about a car crash) Outside of my window there's a highway. Just on the other side of a concrete partition. Between me and the partition there is a lake, with trees and flowers and an island where people can picnic or have a barbeque. Around this path there are walkways, and arranged just so - the trees that have grown here are taller than the homes. I live on the third story. I absolutely love it. It feels like a treehouse. But my apartment is near a curve in the highway. It isn't much, nothing out of the ordinary, but even still there are slightly more crashes there than in other parts of the highway. Statistically. I hear sirens every day I also live right next to a fire-station. Well, it's on the same block. But even still it's a very interesting neighborhood. There's shops and food just across the highway, and closer to home there's a small section that has cheaper options. As a perpetual college student, I appreciate that. But... I've never really gone and used it? I dunno, spending money at a restaurant just didn't seem like a good use of my money. I only have so much of it you know. I'd love to be fed but I can't afford it - I wish I could. I still eat well, I mean I'm not starving over here. I know I've lost weight, but I dunno I just forget to eat. It's like... not that big of a deal for me. whatever right? ... the birds talk about me behind my back. They think I can't understand them but sometimes I can. If I listen. But I dunno it takes a lot of effort. It's... sorta like understanding what R2-D2 is saying. Or interpreting the meows of a cat. They know me as the witch. I'm not very good yet, and they know that. But they know what to expect. /shrug I've been working on a video game recently. It's been a lot of fun doing programming. I like writing software and developing complex systems with interesting interactions. I love designing the machinery that creates a program. It's like... tinkering. It feels like building with blocks or legos, except it's for little machine parts. And then there's just sending data to and fro and modifying any operations it performs on it, and eventually that data reaches some endpoints that create an effect that is displayed to the player. Or user. I should say user. Not all software is video games you know. ... I knowww but they're the most interesting! I love how they are designed around mechanics! like... game design is fundamentally about breaking down the world into ideas for how it should *work*, like how it should behave. It's amazing and I love it! It's all I can think about! I am utterly consumed! I'm also pretty sure I'm autistic. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2056 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in │ ║ addition to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden │ ║ name. All you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something │ ║ different than Q" │ ║ │ ║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public │ ║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we │ ║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had │ ║ never told you I knew where you lived? │ ║ │ ║ ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things │ ║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an │ ║ election year, just saying) │ ║ │ ║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for │ ║ │ ║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside) │ ║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural, │ ║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder │ ║ and hum calming music to │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #9 notes/joust-gdd-with-extras --- ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── imagine a game where you can have conversations with an AI that's playing the role of a character in a video game. Picture this: You're a traveller visiting the tournament that's in town. There's jousting, melee duels, archery contests, all kinds of things that are just fun to play around doing. The earliest sports, if you will. Anyway the whole game is about talking to the other people there - basically the games are "playing in the background", and while you can compete in them it's not the bulk of the game. Most of it is just having a conversation with an AI and acting it out *like a roleplaying game*. O M G teach people to roleplay the way you play games! You're always going on about how "different" your way of gaming is than other people. So *show us* how you do it, how do you play? Like what are the fundamental, actual, steps that you take? You can show us by programming a game that inspires that playstyle. That's what game design is all about, finding creative ways to think. Well, think and act. But still. anyway, so you know what you're about? Good. Let's go. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 notes/joust --- ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── imagine a game where you can have conversations with an AI that's playing the role of a character in a video game. Picture this: You're a traveller visiting the tournament that's in town. There's jousting, melee duels, archery contests, all kinds of things that are just fun to play around doing. The earliest sports, if you will. Anyway the whole game is about talking to the other people there - basically the games are "playing in the background", and while you can compete in them it's not the bulk of the game. Most of it is just having a conversation with an AI and acting it out *like a roleplaying game*. O M G teach people to roleplay the way you play games! You're always going on about how "different" your way of gaming is than other people. So *show us* how you do it, how do you play? Like what are the fundamental, actual, steps that you take? You can show us by programming a game that inspires that playstyle. That's what game design is all about, finding creative ways to think. Well, think and act. But still. anyway, so you know what you're about? Good. Let's go. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/1990 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ When my family would go on roadtrips, I'd hide under a blanket in the front │ ║ seat with my laptop and power inverter just to hide from the glare. │ ║ │ ║ My mom would play audiobooks, usually fantasy stories, and my sisters would │ ║ watch their portable TVs. Like, dvd players that you could carry on top of │ ║ your lap. Not laptops, but little purpose-built devices primarily intended to │ ║ be used to watch DVDs, or rather movie files that were printed on a disk. │ ║ │ ║ And yes, it's disk, not disc, thanks for asking. │ ║ │ ║ anyway it was pretty nice I have fond memories of jugging a gas-station snack │ ║ while also swapping circular cartridges - most games required the game's CD to │ ║ be inserted in order to play the game. │ ║ │ ║ which is just... a nonsensical restriction if you think about it hard enough. │ ║ I mean, like, can you imagine if you needed to insert your windows disk │ ║ anytime you wanted your computer to turn on? Just... write the disk │ ║ information! To disc! Save it so that you never need the crude piece of │ ║ plastic again! Then pass it to your fr │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/3234 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: ritz-is-fucking-stupid-I-guess-oh-whoops-cursing-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed │ ║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to │ ║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first. │ ║ │ ║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote │ ║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I │ ║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I │ ║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I │ ║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are │ ║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes │ ║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the │ ║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I │ ║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao │ ║ │ ║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/1239 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ growing up I frequently bought this magazine called "101 PC games" - it had │ ║ 101 video game demos on a disc taped to the front. It was the coolest thing I │ ║ owned. │ ║ │ ║ each edition had a different set of demos - there were over 14 published! That │ ║ means a minimum of 1404 video game demos available. Unfortunately, I only had │ ║ a few copies. Now they are precious to me, though I've long since lost the │ ║ discs. I can't seem to find a link or barely a reference to it online, so I │ ║ can't help but feel it was defining. │ ║ │ ║ I was given a taste of many experiences, but very few of them really resonated │ ║ with me. The others were good games, and I played them from time to time, but │ ║ my favorites were always my home. │ ║ │ ║ I had some full games, so I knew what I was missing, but still I looked out │ ║ for cheats. sometimes the writers would leave a hint or a clue to the solution │ ║ to a puzzle in the demo, just incase it was hard to continue. I dunno, I loved │ ║ it and it was special to me. │ ║ │ ║ I wonder if you can send radio waves through the earth? Like │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/857 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ I feel like I'd learn from coding tutorials more if someone started with a │ ║ complete program they can fit on one panel of their screen, a second for │ ║ showing what each particular thing they're pointing at means, and a third for │ ║ a typical usecase they might build and dismantle on the fly. │ ║ │ ║ like, scientific toys that they could use to explain a particular phenomena. │ ║ the way people used to have 3d models they either bought or built themselves │ ║ of like, atoms and wind patterns and stuff they could explain to kids. │ ║ │ ║ you know, like exactly the kind of things that are commonly stored at │ ║ children's museums. │ ║ │ ║ I was homeschooled, so I went to those places quite a lot. I always felt a │ ║ little unwelcome because I always seemed to be the eldest in every bunch. │ ║ That's continued all throughout my adulthood, like each of my peers are just a │ ║ few years younger than me. I think I just mature more slowly, and thus │ ║ associate with below the average. │ ║ │ ║ it's like, a descriptor of your rate of defining reality and being guided by │ ║ it. when │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4835 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe" by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same game they're playing and see if they reach out. doesn't matter if you feel like it just fuckin' do it if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!) ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many (how many is too many?) um. use your best judgement. (how much does a dollar cost?) ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while. (neat!) ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone, sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl" just catchin' up with the gals helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor (why does everyone always have an agenda) because they're secret agents duh. And I'm ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/5212 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── the reason you start with a game engine is because then you'll have tools to make however-many games you want. Tools that you know intimately enough that you can debug and improve them without breaking your creative flow by learning something new halfway through a project the whole point of individualized projects instead of viewing each computer as a complete and total whole (why do we need servers again?) is that you can paint a picture of where the design of the program is intended to go, such that all the considerations are in place and whatever issues or struggles you might face along the way are adequately addresssed, -- stack overflow -- [because I mistyped addressed] -- -- if you know what "stack overflow" means you have intimate knowledge of the technology, and can probably guess what it means in context when I say it. "nuts I lost that train of thoguht" -- stackl ov ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/5915 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── washing dishes without a dishwasher is a pain in the neck. nobody cuts down trees with an axe anymore, a chainsaw is better for your back. It's nice, fun, and helpful to be able to abstract away your spheres of concern like typing with a single button instead of writing characters with multiple brushstrokes. Easy to erase, too! bikes are better than walking, but, with some extra concerns. where are ya gonna put it when you get there? "oh no I forgot how to walk because texting my girlfriend is bicycling or something" what? oh dear, she's run off track again, let's pick her up and put her upright again..: oh huh weird where was I - oh yes computer code can often be impenetrable to the layperson, but if you describe a program in complete detail in english they can usually follow along. Especially if you have several layers of meta-descriptional documents so they can say "oh uh-huh so that's what a vector_implementation_container is, tell me more about combinatrix" or whatever ppl say, idk ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/969 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── how about this: a game where you have to enter the amount of time you have to play it when you boot it up. "I want to play for an hour and a half" after your allotted time, you get kicked off and it won't restart unless you use a password. It's a trifle of a gesture, really just an affectation of a task, like using a -f flag in Linux or saying "are you sure u want to delete these files?" on an application. Funny how the most tech that most people interact with most of the time is their phone, and their smart TV. Generally that's about it, and they only use one or two apps in their phone. They might change the background, if they're the artistic type, but most people are just fine with the defaults. "Uh yeah I think the settings app is somewhere around here... darn it's always so frustrating when I'm connecting to wifi, what is the tech industry even doing? I don't want to deal with [opening a menu, selecting "wifi/connections", picking the SSID, entering the password, and then going back to uber eats]" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/3722 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── @user-1218 playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using their own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you don't mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on the TV, talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and "sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad edibles. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ |