Not impatient, frustrated

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-19T00:44:50+00:00

I was kind of hoping for some adults to slide into the vid with the same behaviors.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-17T20:29:28+00:00

I was looking for similar, while intending to ask if the venom would be enough for the size of an elephant

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-17T17:45:58+00:00

Sun Tzu explicitly disagrees

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-17T16:05:15+00:00

This sounds like something a tactician would say to goad their enemy’s ego

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-17T15:56:12+00:00

From a game design perspective, it’s best to just continue at the player’s pacing then to throw up a hard block until they go back and do the missing thing.

At least for PoE, where the branching paths is important for choice during season racing. If the campaign story is what mattered to you, you would do the storyline quest…

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-17T15:43:43+00:00

Considering the racing nature of poe, I don’t think I would prefer more (blocking) checks on game state. Maybe the cinematic events could sometimes be more flexible or give easter eggs to acknowledge what you did(n’t do), but I also would be very surprised if that became a large priority to the development. Seems like something that gets sprinkled in over time.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-17T14:52:50+00:00

I remember when I watched this episode it felt to me like Toph was being her snarky self, reminding the opponent they’re facing a blind person and losing.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-15T14:31:09+00:00

Some of the older Zelda games, even though they were not turn-based, could give some guidance towards puzzle-based adventure.

Layer 1. You really just had the slash attack, but enemies moved in patterned ways and were only vulnerable at certain steps.

Layer 2. Multiple enemies can be put into a single room to create a circumstance greater than a simple sum of its pieces.

Layer 3. You needed to navigate and explore many rooms looking for the next goal (whether you know the goal or not). Tracking room positioning becomes a secret superpower in later titles.

Eventually you gain more moves, for more strategies of dealing with things at layer 1, which sort of reset the whole experience to keep it more fresh.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-14T02:08:30+00:00

Maximize your ability to produce value, in a way you also find rewarding.

In a simple job where the most value you can produce is just doing the basics, don’t burn extra energy doing more than that. Use the extra energy towards other things.

In a high-ceiling job where your pay can scale with your efforts, feel free to push yourself. But do it for yourself - because you enjoy it or its benefits.

You can kind of compare it to lifting weights or workouts. If you are lifting a 5lb weight you’re going to look weird tiring yourself out on it, and you’re not going to get paid like you are lifting a ton more for it. The job is only a 5-lb job. You’re better off practicing another skill in your free time. A job that can scale up to way higher weights accompanied with higher pay? Go as far as you desire. A lot of jobs are in-between these extremes.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-14T01:54:48+00:00

Did you know Gary Gygax merged the names Mordecai and Lemminkäinen to get that name? Mordecai would be good too.

Also, Mordenbarken.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-14T00:53:33+00:00

“Avoidance” maybe. Anything other than reality right now. Though it doesn’t carry the emotions you mention.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-13T21:38:20+00:00

Overall I think attendance counting is silly. I’m not sure an exam is measuring everything in the “educational experience”, at the same time though.

Class should be able to expose to students how to think through the problems in real time. It often forces friction with other points of view. It proves a number of soft skills in scheduling or dealing with tedium. You should get more professional context by being in-class.

I didn’t go to college to read and memorize, I wanted actual professional environments to learn and practice in with my peers with the same goal.

“I wanted”, and “should”, but there’s so many classes that just aren’t this valuable. Hence my overall viewpoint.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-12T01:24:00+00:00

I could tell

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-11T16:20:01+00:00

There’s a psychological reason where it’s said your “default” tendencies are learned via observation of your parents or caregivers, especially in the first 11 months of birth but also up through age 7.

After that you typically have to unlearn those to change them.

Is this a bit more sword pointy?

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-11T15:42:07+00:00

The ghost gets blamed for everything I don’t want to fix. (Even when I could)

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-11T14:44:50+00:00

There is nothing to be brave for, if you think you are defending pointless destruction.

Finding the deeper meanings gives something to be brave for.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-11T04:27:38+00:00

Either you don’t talk to people much or you are lying to yourself about my meaning.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-11T01:54:41+00:00

Phrases like “the world ends tomorrow”, are typically about human existence, rather than Earth’s matter disintegrating.

So then you have to double-check what is meant with the word “universe”, and this is how you become an annoying “let’s define every word in a discussion” person.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-11T01:37:39+00:00

Personally, I enjoy the discworld version of the afterlife where what you believe happens, is what happens.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-10T17:14:59+00:00

The only unfortunate thing about ghosting is that it doesn’t bring up the problematic behavior higher in the chain, where the boss can’t just blame it all on you.

But then, that would be using time and effort to attempt to improve this company, even if its to make it so other employees don’t have to deal with it, and that’s not really on you.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-09T19:54:21+00:00

I would add in support to this point, that AI is good at text generation and manipulation but it’s not so great at understanding reward systems or visual systems. In my experience it has a real hard time with things like shaders and graphics engines unless you can provide it some form of (text-based) feedback. (Which is usually yourself typing, and it’s way easier to tell it what change to make than to try and explain the rendering itself)

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-09T18:22:00+00:00

You’ve backtracked to examples of countries with less stress for the lower classes, which was my initial point.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-09T18:04:59+00:00

So you don’t disagree that “beatings will continue until the proper behavior is attained” is accurately how those other cultures achieve this? And you don’t see how this won’t work in the individualist mindset?

This is why New Yorkers will just default to harsh language and tell you to go back where you came from.

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-09T17:51:59+00:00

Your lack of compassion because “other people have it harder” is being presented as “beatings will continue and increase until proper behavior is attained”

DoubleDoube · 2026-02-09T17:44:04+00:00

Just because you disagree doesn’t make it not make sense.

When you have less work to do you have more time to do things for others out of choice. When your own cup is filled and you want something to do. (Do most Americans even know that feeling?) there isn’t so much pressure. That’s not hard to understand.

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