I didn't know that drs of psychology gave a shit about lootcrates tbh

I'm so glad that you're thinking about posting.

I pass

1. It's also called the number sign
2. Size of a mathematical set S or a group G or whatever is notated as #S or #G.
3. This gets abstracted out into collections of all sorts and the length of a list is equal to the elements it contains.

It's glass, btw.

I only saw this kid now (despite hearing about him allover the place) and let me say, he rules.

"i don't know how i want it to work before i write it;

What is specification, what is implementation, what is the difference, yada yada.

i know i should but it's a stream of consciousness."

The Greeks called this ataraxia, weakness of the will. Jesus. It's ok to be weak in the moment, but you probably could make a commitment to change and grow for the future.

Who the fuck is nostalgic for 90's game reviews? Besides, they're not coming back anymore, kids have moved on from the format and embrace other kinds of barely disguised advertising nowadays.

Also the attitude presented in the comic is such a thin skinned one. Honestly, it doesn't even look any kind of a devolution to me if it were an accurate depiction. I absolutely do find "Why X is Feminist/Not Feminist" pieces absolutely dreary to read most of the time, it feels such a reductive approach. But that hardly describes any major video game journalism outlet. Pieces like these tend come from barely read blogs and perhaps a few liberal feminist authors, but the latter seem more present in TV, film and music criticism.

But what is mindboggling is presenting cheerleading consumer's choice, what ever it is, as a good one. There's nothing bad in critiquing a work harshly and a review that does just that won't necessary be harsh in tone. Today, I read Pauline Kael's review of Superman (1978). It is a very negative review, but there's no bitter snark to be found or insinuation that the reader's values are wrong if they disagreed with Kael's perspective. But I found it perfectly charitable, a bit disappointed in fact that the kids didn't get an exciting film. She sees some merit in the source comics despite seeing the art form as a "slang form of simplified storytelling" which while questionable was probably the received opinion among film critics in the 70's. One of her problems with Lois Lane in the film is that Christopher Reeves as Superman "outclasses her" and that the audience isn't "given clue to what our hero sees in Lois Lane." Again, this critique works because it's charitable enough. Faults seem larger when contrasted with some more successful aspect.

Honestly a pretty refreshing take indeed. A lot of takes on the topic, pro or contra, assume that people not like them just don't have the information and are somehow deluding themselves. This veers a bit too much on the anti side too me, but hearing about real people's opinions and not one projected upon them from outside saviors is good.

I've basically given up using bleeding edge software for this reason. I don't have much of special interest in, say, text editors, web browsers and printers to justify transient administration work on monthly basis.