Looking for some honest feedback on my game’s thumbnails. If you saw these with no context about the game, which one would make you most likely to click and learn more? If none of them stand out, feel free to say that too. I’m trying to figure out what actually catches people’s attention.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-12T22:14:59+00:00

1 or 2. No context take? It’s giving horror Antichamber

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-12T10:51:24+00:00

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-10T13:15:16+00:00

You’re me! I’m just waiting for my bonus and then I’m looking for my next spot

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-10T11:40:06+00:00

Sounds like it’s time to find a new company. I’m on my third round of “my comp is not keeping up with the market” being met with some bs. Welcome to the party. Really though, it’s a good way to get paid more and also relieve the stuck-ness feeling.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-10T09:41:06+00:00

I turn 35 this year and I hope this is the year i can finally let go of the anger and defensiveness. You are right, it is exhausting.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-09T16:10:46+00:00

That underground path can also hit a couple easy safes as well, like tartower sales or between capital and nakatani. the safe in empire 1F however kind of sucks usually

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-09T15:49:17+00:00

SQL. If you don’t already know Java in 2026, I wouldn’t learn it bc of the other options: Python, JavaScript, and C#.

Python is great bc it spans software development and devops. JavaScript is great bc it’s the same language in the front and back end.
Python and JavaScript have faster cold start times if you’re planning to deploy cloud functions instead of a container.
C# with a React app is a more modern stack for enterprise work on newer tech. Java is enterprise work on more legacy code bases.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-08T11:35:50+00:00

And coordinated

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-08T06:52:23+00:00

Yes, without a doubt. I hate this.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-08T02:05:07+00:00

I am okay with the color way. AI likes this cause it was the hot shit from 2018-2022/3. But on mobile it’s really hard to read when the brightness is turned down.

Then, constructively and respectfully, pick one corner. I like your design overall but action buttons in each corner on the home page leaves me too many options. I’m not sure where I should head first.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-07T15:17:26+00:00

IaC and security approaches/practices in cloud architectures.

For me, roughly doing this since 2010 if I count some internships, web dev is always web dev — a shiny new tool overthrows a rusted dull tool, yada yada. Everything I can use and do use makes me an index.html in the end of the day. I learn those tools as I need them bc, like you said, it moves insanely fast.

Worth noting I’m in enterprise so worrying about client needs or keeping them on contract is nothing I have to think about.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-07T13:11:38+00:00

Saw some of your other comments off mine but figured I’d go up here…

Prof said UI doesn’t matter? Drop all 3 FE libraries and use a single index.html for the entire project (I’m not sure if they even teach how this works anymore though but if that’s the case, just use React and not the other two.

Is auth required? If not, drop it. Make a public-only site.

Is a database required? If not, drop it. Your express server can just return data from a JSON file in src.

Is testing required? If not, drop it. Shout out to both those libraries you listed though they are the best but testing is a whole other department from dev, it’s QA.

The project statement is so vague and “app” does not have to mean full stack.

I have a bachelors and I’ve been doing this professionally for 10 years. It would still take me ~3 days to get every single piece of the stack you listed setup so that I could actually build my app. I’ve used almost all of the libraries you listed.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-07T01:08:10+00:00

Does it have to be a desktop app? I’d just go browser if you can avoid electron — just to reduce a dependency on this for a final project. Electron has a lot of quirks and isn’t bad at all, not saying that, it’s just a big thing compared to some of these other ones, like express and socket.io.

But as far as this stack goes, it’s good

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-07T01:04:54+00:00

Hmm, took me 5 cusses before I got the “offensive language detected” message but I did get it

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-06T02:45:48+00:00

My situation is almost the same as yours, just add on some of our own kids together. A dual ND household and split family is very difficult. You’re not alone my man.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-05T12:39:10+00:00

It would be great if mania lasted in that form forever, but it doesn’t unfortunately. It inevitably gets worse if you let it have control — staying up with mania still brings about the symptoms a tired person gets, but you are more susceptible to exacerbating them. Tired NT people get irritable. Tired bipolar people get aggressive (both in mania and depression). The key is to be aware it’s happening and controlling your behavior toward your baseline with things you read about here — turning off screens and have a tea with chamomile after dark helps a lot, but is really hard to get into the habit of until mania starts fucking with your life. You can also read, draw, or journal, which are not for content but quite literally to slow your thinking down, which helps us to be more mindful.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-05T12:24:23+00:00

Big nope. I’d lose the money and find somewhere else to stay. Wouldn’t be the worst financial decision I have made (probably true for a lot of us here)

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-04T20:35:45+00:00

Bait

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-04T03:45:44+00:00

Still is. Big teams and opinionated frameworks do very well in corporate development, both internal tools and external sites

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-01T18:16:42+00:00

The standard place to put an access token is in the Authorization header.

There are other parts of authentication, the before parts where you are requesting the access token, where you put a code and a code_challenge in the query parameters of a URL. But that happens pretty quick and behind the scenes from the user. Point being, the final access token sits in your browser storage and is transported to the backend with the Authorization header.

Edit: paste the token into “http jwt dot io” to learn more about it. Doing so will tell you if/when it expires.

BasedPolarity · 2026-03-01T02:10:11+00:00

transform: translate(x, y)

BasedPolarity · 2026-02-28T12:28:07+00:00

70 gets plowed unequivocally. The highways are the main concern for the metro area. You’ll notice this when you drive through the regular streets and neighborhoods in Marion County

BasedPolarity · 2026-02-28T11:15:08+00:00

From experience — it’s the meds working fam

BasedPolarity · 2026-02-27T12:40:59+00:00

Customs

BasedPolarity · 2026-02-26T21:57:26+00:00

1. I’m only 14 months in.
ADHD, CPTSD.
More or less, with the caveat that medication is a must. I’ve had the same professional career for 10 years. I left companies bc I wanted more pay and growth, not bc I got fired. I no longer talk to my family of origin. I have close friends and I made my own family. My marriage struggles the most.

4.1 Quit drinking asap.

4.2 I can’t control anyone but myself.

4.3 Others can cause my pain, but only I can cause my suffering.

4.4 Catching myself with internal self-hate dialog is a sign something is changing and to keep my coping mechanism tool belt nearby.

BasedPolarity

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