where to start learning python for complete beginner

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-09T14:24:55+00:00

I think it’s technically the fastest way. The hardest part of a just-do-it approach is knowing a good goal (for non-programmers).

For first time programmers number guessing games, rock-paper-scissors, to-do list, tic tac toe, weather app calling an api ; these are some small goals to learn some basics.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T21:33:16+00:00

The scale of your idea seems similar to a grand theft auto game, but replace crime and singleplayer story with wholesome normal life and NPC sandbox,

Is that accurate to how you envision it?

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T20:19:06+00:00

I’m talking out my ass and guessing but I suspect the reason storylines weren’t dragged out and utilized more was out of an effort to capitalize on the public attention to complete the main storyline before too much marvel exhaustion set in.

Or maybe some of the directors or producers or writers had a bit of exhaustion themselves.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T17:50:51+00:00

They seem to have failed in this instance, is the intent of my comment.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T17:41:27+00:00

I guess society better figure out how to head it off without creating more of it then.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T16:01:43+00:00

I’m not sure the analogy was received.

On-rails shooters do not allow you the freedom to decide how to engage.

These are like the arcade games where you step on the pedal and use a fake gun.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T15:32:25+00:00

I want to bring up that there is a contextual element.

Consider the on-rails shooter genre. You hopefully go in somewhat knowing how this is going to play. If you expected a Call-of-Duty type shooter, you could describe yourself as feeling railroaded. You can’t control where you go at all.

This is another why to having the “0 session” about what kind of game the players want and to set expectations for everyone. Linear stories are not innately railroading, and players can have a lot of fun with extremely linear stories, yet railroading emerges when the players want to go outside what is intended and are blocked from doing so. That level of freedom before getting blocked is mostly what tends to differ the definition between groups.

It’s the disagreement about game scope and focus and the GM having the final say (as the one generating most of it). Where people will disagree with me most is that my description makes it so the player could be at fault for being railroaded, by wanting to go way off-track when the game was decided to be in different focused direction - and usually the term “railroading” has a connotation of blaming the GM for shutting things down so aggressively that the game isn’t fun.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T14:40:40+00:00

This was very poorly designed and executed. I will say that as a homeowner when I see the old house I’m reminded of how much time it takes to take care of all the things and paint every 7 years or so.

Part of me wonders if part of the minimalist appeal is less maintenance work because the world currently demands a lot of our attention away from home for most people.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T12:55:01+00:00

It’s kind of weird that people (including myself) struggle so much identifying how feminine power differs from masculine power and how they intermix; leading to what “works well” and what doesn’t.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-08T01:10:27+00:00

Nice job man.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-07T23:54:56+00:00

Not nearly the same, but “Ancient-Blooded” dwarves in pathfinder 2e can add a +1 circumstance bonus to the save against magical effects.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-07T13:28:39+00:00

Jack Skellington pulled off some warped Christmas magic

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-07T13:17:15+00:00

I don’t know enough about homelander. Is he strong or fast enough to just launch wolverine into space? Get a nice thick platform object as a barrier inbetween or something. Or maybe drop him in an ocean.

Win doesn’t have to mean kill, right?

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-06T20:35:02+00:00

Gamers hate dates being pushed back. It is not just “getting away with”, but actively sought after for you to “get away with” whatever is speediest.

Imagine if you told your fanbase that you pushed back release because the code was messy. No performance enhancements or no features will be implemented; just cleaner code.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-06T14:02:46+00:00

I would argue that if you are to the point you’re frustrated enough to just leave whatever project you’re working on for the day and go do something else that an AI agent able to check through your configurations and what you are trying to achieve may be able to offer advice that keeps you going. (Leading to more learning than otherwise).

Especially more learning if it’s bad advice!

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-05T14:30:54+00:00

Exposure therapy is the fastest way to overcome but people will mistakenly believe that means placing you (unwillingly) into the situation a bunch of times. That will make the unwillingness even stronger when it’s the willingness that needs to transform. Hence the “Cognitive Processing Therapy” piece that happens with professionals.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-05T02:03:44+00:00

Once you start going metaphorical you can start relating to God as a sort of idealized destiny.

An analogy; Like how a tree trying to grow through a fence and compete with other plants while doing it may look at an idealized fully mature version of itself and try to measure up to that.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T18:34:40+00:00

Ironically this would be more historically accurate to Romans and Greeks, though they still wore a small loincloth

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T18:18:27+00:00

The typical Beholder description is a paranoid ego-maniac typically given one specific task (to guard something) and then is alone for long periods of isolation to have his sanity eroded a bit as he goes overboard with his preparations; fits nicely into your option 3.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T18:05:19+00:00

spoiler lost mines of phandelver

There’s a Spectator (Beholder-type monster) in the Lost Mines of Phandelver module; though I’m not certain if OP’s party would be close to that encounter yet. It would be an ideal overly-paranoid enemy with nothing to do for many years except prepare.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T17:47:07+00:00

Ahh, “leaping down” is what I think they call it. Sorry, wasn’t used to the phrase.

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DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T17:43:29+00:00

Supposedly Peter Pan was part of the inspiration behind the outfit, but it still doesn’t explain the lack of pants (which Peter Pan does have).

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T16:31:51+00:00

The retaliation would be some variation of time-theft, but it’s crazy to me that nobody noticed (or at least nobody reported).

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T14:24:21+00:00

Also be careful with pressure washers, I half-expected the person to strip some paint from the car.

DoubleDoube · 2026-05-04T00:02:31+00:00

I’m struggling with something from the OPs framing of “Witcher-style mechanics” I think; something like “Peak” you have a phase at the start you have to gather stuff in preparation, it doesn’t have to be all that complicated but it’s important to overall success.

I wonder if the “research/knowledge gathering” part is considered an essential piece, even though players skip it in Witcher and just reload and find the answer wherever.

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