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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • How did you pick up coding?

    There was some free old book online by a guy who called “=” a “gozinta”, but I can’t find it anymore… I read that through, used a few Udemy courses, Brackeys, CodeMonkey the Unity Discord forums. Getting the basics down was easy, anything else was well tough.

    What was challenging?

    A few years into development, and Everhood came out. On first glance it looked just like Game Over, and I got pretty bummed out, like someone had beaten me to the chase. But when I actually played Everhood I saw it was a fairly different game (everhood you’re not playing to the rhythm), but it was a rough bit of time prior to getting to play and Everhood and learn that!

    Were you stumped by any major development issues?

    Oh my god the timing of the notes down the note lane. I swear I rewrote that code 10 times from scratch. Making sure they’re set to the audioSource.time property, but also accounting for pause behaviour, accounting for generating notes PRIOR to the music starting (and therefore audioSource.time = 0), making sure it doesn’t waver out of sync etc etc. But everytime I reworked it, it felt more robust, so it helped with confidence.

    I wonder if every developer feels as though their code is held together with tape, glue, and good thoughts…




  • Men want women like this because it eases their insecurities.

    Insecure men see women as a rare commodity (because they’re not confident in their abilities with women), and a clingy jealous gf is (in theory) less likely to leave them.

    It’s another reason why men want younger women, they’re more likely to look up to you than an equal, easier to ensure the commodity is secure.




  • Meat products are, per kilo, much more costly for their nutrient profiles compared with plant based alternatives. Any time meat is comparable, this is because of government subsidies. There’s a reason third world countries rely on plant based foods, because they’re objectively cheaper.

    There are many cultural practises that we’ve left in the past. Culture is not an excuse for doing objectively amoral things. I can’t say it’s my culture to sacrifice children, even if it is.

    I’d put convenience under the umbrella of pleasure. If we all lived our life based on convenience, people would drink drive, people wouldn’t care about consent, just because it’s easier doesn’t mean it’s right.

    If my morality was based on whether it cause friction with my family, what weak morals I would have? “In this house, we say the N word!”, “okay yes sorry mum, here I go saying the n word again!” Like, stick up for what’s right, don’t crumble because it might upset those who are objectively morally incorrect.

    Plant based food is objectively cheaper, culture doesn’t permit amoral acts, convenience isn’t a valid reason to do wrong, and if mild social pressure from family is enough to cause one to act immoral, then those morals were pretty flimsy to begin with.








  • Then do it better. Our Christmas tree is picked up by our council and turned into compost, petition your council to do the same. Like, go to your council’s website, find the contact link, and send a quick email.

    Every Christmas food leftover is just that - leftovers for the next few days.

    The music is trash, sure, but so is all music played in supermarkets.

    And if that doesn’t work, then maybe just go out into town and steal all of the Christmas presents of whoville, and store them in your twisty little mountain cave.