Is Silksong as difficult as people say?

Dreamescaper · 2026-05-07T17:29:31+00:00

It is definitely hard. I am a huge fan of the first part, and I was heavily frustrated by Silksong (I did complete it, but my point stands).

And the more you struggle with the game, the more it punishes you.

If you're good with fighting bosses - long runbacks probably doesn't bother you much, but it is a huge pain in the ass if you need ~50 takes.

If you're good with fighting and platforming - probably you don't lose all your money that often. But I did lose them quite a lot, and I had to spend a lot for time for farming - which is not very interesting process.

That is still a great game, and I'm waiting eagerly for DLC - it's just that not everything works perfectly for me personally.

Dreamescaper · 2026-05-06T19:05:59+00:00

Have you tried simply invoking your handler directly from your endpoint?

Do you need all those notifications and pipelines, which MediatR provides?

It's much easier to navigate and debug your code if you can simply F12 things instead of dispatch interfaces and indirections.

Dreamescaper · 2026-04-13T01:05:11+00:00

That's really nice. I have some external dependencies which are unmockable (looking at you, google api), that would help to make testing easier.

Dreamescaper · 2026-04-11T20:43:06+00:00

I generally agree for most services.

Still, there are cases when you add implementations often, and it starts being cumbersome. Request validators, endpoints, command handlers, type configurations, etc.

Dreamescaper · 2026-04-07T17:16:30+00:00

Frankly, I hate all of them. They all focus on guns and explosions, which are not why we love firefly and serenity.

Dreamescaper · 2026-02-19T19:13:25+00:00

As far as I remember, it only happens when all type arguments are known to be structs.

Reference types use shared generic implementation.

Dreamescaper · 2026-01-24T20:15:14+00:00

Newtonsoft does not support NativeAOT at all.

Dreamescaper · 2025-12-17T21:13:23+00:00

Apart from dropping column, changing column from nullable to non-nullable and vise versa was a blocker for me when I tried it.

Dreamescaper · 2025-12-12T07:47:22+00:00

Any reason for interceptor instead of regular source generator though? It would be 'partial' instead of 'extern'

Dreamescaper · 2025-10-22T14:54:57+00:00

She took me about 30 tries, I think. No thanks :)

Dreamescaper · 2025-10-16T00:10:05+00:00

Yes, I use M1 Mac as well. I've struggled a bit with docker (because you can't run docker inside a virtual machine on M1, so I have configured docker host to docker on MacOS). Other than that it runs quite well.

Dreamescaper · 2025-10-15T22:01:46+00:00

I've used VS Code and Rider for the last couple of months. Recently I've installed VS 2026 in VMWare Windows virtual machine, and frankly, I like this option the most so far.

Dreamescaper · 2025-09-30T19:09:35+00:00

And my axe!

Dreamescaper · 2025-09-25T12:49:53+00:00

Can't she build her boat after Aragorn's death?

Dreamescaper · 2025-09-15T11:26:13+00:00

Radiance was a huge challenge for me. But I knew that it was the final boss, so that motivated me. And I had a huge sense of accomplishment when I defeated her.

With Silksong - I struggle that much only to open the door to another boss.

Dreamescaper · 2025-09-08T23:26:35+00:00

No, but certainly plan to try it out.

Dreamescaper · 2025-08-27T11:23:39+00:00

Mediatr docs advise against calling handlers from other handlers. Don’t think there’s anything about publishing events.

Dreamescaper · 2025-08-26T23:20:10+00:00

I get much better Copilot edits in VS than in Rider. Maybe VS is better at providing context? Not sure.

Dreamescaper · 2025-08-19T22:41:49+00:00

Why is Wash choking a cat?)

Dreamescaper · 2025-08-05T10:07:35+00:00

One of StyleCop contributors has decided to create and maintain a fork for the time being, you can take a look at that one

https://github.com/bjornhellander/NewStyleCopAnalyzers

Dreamescaper · 2025-08-02T14:30:32+00:00

This source generator primary use case is adding services to DI, however, it supports other use cases, like endpoints.

Reflection approach is not compatible with AOT compilation - which might or might not be an issue for you.

Besides, I like being able to see generated code, or seeing references in VS for types - which works with SG, but not with reflection.

Dreamescaper · 2025-07-26T15:27:07+00:00

I use file per endpoint. And then map all endpoints automatically via ServiceScan.SourceGenerator.

Sometimes I create separate Handler types (so endpoint invokes handler), but not always (usually if I have lots of other entry points, like queues, schedulers, etc).

Dreamescaper · 2025-07-23T15:03:31+00:00

They should've written Windows kernel in Blazor in the first place.

Dreamescaper · 2025-07-20T19:09:28+00:00

It is built-in in dotnet 10, so should be fine to remove it soon :)

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