The recent slew of articles I've posted is btw just the result of closing the million tabs I have open on my phone.

I appreciate the work put into making these recordings available, but the pedant in me is unsatisfied how the release years aren't in titles.

I think these are related: valuing super unapproachable games has had a quite a bit of connection with worries about minorities getting into the pastime. Ergo, it's not a surprise to hear a tantrum like this after the failure of the title afterwards if the main problem was learn-to-swim-or-drown difficulty curve.

Fucking sexy, emma - thank you for posting.

Procrastination Valley

Purple ones are kinda cool.

Honestly it took me a while to figure out as well. But despite all, it's the best I've used.

I listened to the beginning of this while lunching yesterday and it truly is an episode. It is wild stuff and you get to hear game industry stuff that's usually insider baseball.

The curious thing is that I've never really seen functional language pseudo being written. But then again I'm not a serious programmer or a software engineer.

Tbh in that specific case I'd just use mathematics:

f(n+1) = f(n) * g(f(n))

which is almost an implementation in some functional languages. (Nb. it's very nice to be able to use n+1 or 2n style notation in parameters, it can clean up expressions a lot.) Obviously the base case ought to be treated somehow, but that's besides the point.

I would say that ad hoc usage of pseudocode seems innocuous to me - sometimes you have improvise and there's not an common agreed upon system to draw on. Perfect is the enemy of the good. But I think its virtues as a tool for planning and documentation aren't great. If you go forth and plan or prototype your project in pseudo before implementation, why?

I'm speculating here as I don't have access to any empirical research treating this topic.

Same, but honestly these best of the decade lists also show how out of the loop I am with arts and media. For example I'm currently playing through Fallout 2 (1998) and on the fourth season of King of the Hill (1999-2007). I don't regret it as it's fun to go back to old things that are out of the zeitgeist and see that they're good too, still.

I don't really know where to get introduced to good contemporary stuff in a way that doesn't bore or revolt me. Fannish hype of social media is a turn off, like I absolutely don't want to know anything Star Wars related unless Hbomberguy lands a video defending the prequels. I don't want to know about what MCU or Disney+ means for diversity/contemporary politics/whatever, not as a blanket dismissal of a topic, but I don't need to know about it. Criticism is an industry and has long been one, but now I can't be arsed to consume it.

I mostly post to unburden my mind of the things it's been bothered by, so let just this be the occasion to say out loud that I will ignore all podcast, streaming and TV recommendations next year and clear my to be read and watch later lists as well. I'll cultivate my Library of Stuff (because the decade taught me that physical media is occasionally very good) instead and go out to events more.

I respect sequels that do that.