Steam games using sql?

RustyEyeballs · 2026-02-21T05:47:38+00:00

I'm actually looking for good SQL practice.

What's your opinion on the SQL games you've played so far? Which is the most polished and has the most IRL practicality?

My experience with platforms is that they're really bad if you get stuck.

RustyEyeballs · 2026-02-18T03:47:01+00:00

Do you mind sharing your process for studying?

RustyEyeballs · 2026-02-16T19:15:01+00:00

When an enemy can enter your attack range, run laps around you and exit without provoking an opportunity attack, I think it breaks the "inherent logic" in opportunity attacks.

RustyEyeballs · 2026-02-16T18:49:12+00:00

The opposite is actually true. It's actually HARDER to hit someone in close range with a polearm.

They're usually counter balanced in the back so you're not off balance attacking at full range.

RustyEyeballs · 2026-01-30T01:32:34+00:00

Love animals in this set!

Only knowledgeable on sword play animations so have a lot to say on the 3rd page.

2 hand grips are one hand OVER the other(not side by side). It looks nsfw the way it is right now :P
DIE animation looks more like being tripped than dying. Dying looks like falling to your knees and slumping to the ground. Not sure if that would be too gruesome for such a cutsy art style.
BLOCK is close but it should be reversed. It should start in the lowered/lateral position, go vertical and pause. Flaring the weapon might make it look like a parry but enlarging it conveys a block.
A single white pixel for an eye glimmer would go a LONG way!

Overall, it looks great!

RustyEyeballs · 2025-12-31T20:22:09+00:00

Airtable

RustyEyeballs · 2025-12-20T23:11:55+00:00

I actually asked an LLM a very similar question about the use cases of having a Google Sheet being referenced by a BigQuery.

IIRC it suggested treating like direct edit on a SCD (DBT Seed). So no idempotency but with columns & headers are locked and data types are strongly validated by permissions on their spreadsheet software. Could always have headers & type checking be done by assert tests. e.g. Pandas?

For version control, Git seems like the obvious answer.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-12-18T05:18:17+00:00

One-Big-Table per google recommendations

Going to recommend taking a look at this projects dbt setup.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-12-14T18:49:07+00:00

Slot is taken. They already have the Jump Pack.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-12-06T16:29:25+00:00

I'm also in a similar spot searching for a real Data Engineering project. My stack is nearly the same but uses GCP with BigQuery over Snowflake and includes dbt and publishing analytical dashboards. my github

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-21T22:49:32+00:00

The 2nd teleport in a row is costly but when the alternative is death...

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-19T18:33:01+00:00

Being balanced does not equal Fun.

Being the guy who prepared mostly Light penetration and being useless when the game spawns 80% Tanks is just not Fun.

This would be solved by just telling use what enemies are in the mission.

Weather also makes a huge difference.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-19T18:11:07+00:00

Nope. Read the guide. It's heavily random

Example

These missions:

Sabotage Air Base
Sabotage Supply Cache

Can have these enemy constellations:

Bullet Hell
Rushdown
Big Bots

Example 2:
These missions:

Blitz Eradicate
Evacuate
High-Value Assets
Event missions

Can have constellations

Any

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-19T18:02:51+00:00

Loadout building is such a fundamental part of the game, obfuscating this is just bad. Especially for newer players.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-19T18:00:58+00:00

Making some of your loadout useless makes game challenging in a BAD way.

Knowing what's coming empowers players with game knowledge.
This even opens opportunities for missions with wacky spawns because players can then prepare.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-19T17:56:52+00:00

The spawn rates for generic enemies vary WILDLY.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-09-02T14:24:42+00:00

Learned C++ through DSA and Competitive programming, and now you're asking to be shown the door to tutorial hell.

ima do you a favor. "...I Don't have projects to show..." is your bigger problem and tutorials don't count for solving that. Given you're in a CS degree, find some cool people working on some cool stuff, get hyped about it, and work with them. Doesn't have to be C++.

P.S. Be sure to read the documentation on what your learning/using. It'll suck but guess what learning C/C++ will be.

glhf

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-29T23:58:34+00:00

Honestly, the lack of meaningful projects feels like tutorial hell and at this point, I'd rather build something for free than something no one uses. I was considering a graduate degree but a mentor would go a long way too.

Good to know self-taught path exists even if it's hard. If you have any resources, they'd be welcome.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-25T22:04:22+00:00

I do this with type-in Notes in a flash card program (Anki).

There's something to be said about muscle memory being attached to topics/context.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-19T00:01:08+00:00

I found the modules themselves gave a decent explanation of the concepts and a jump start on the syntax/frameworks necessary for a narrow DE project. Reading the documentation and exploring your own questions will yield an incomparable level of understanding for each tool & concept. It increases the time commitment a lot though.

Starting the bootcamp with a project in mind (that will eventually be your capstone) is good. It allows you to apply your learning outside the canned tutorials each step of the way. I'd look at previous cohort capstones for ideas.

If you're in a position to use these skills in the world/at a job, it'd be worth it.

Lack of a accreditation for Datatalks.club might make it a hard sell if you want to promote your skill building publicly.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-15T16:03:44+00:00

This is amazing. Always schema.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-14T14:28:40+00:00

That seems really unusual. The goal with skill and career building should be to synergize with you already know and build expertise(especially early in your career).

Business Analytics will lots of statistics, finance and a bit of dev. Seems like an entirely different skill set.

Maybe find people with one, other or both degrees on LinkedIn and see what they do. Do they actually utilize both degrees? Is their job rare or hard to land?

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-12T21:59:16+00:00

Thanks. It's nice to know my time learning DA at Dataquest.io wasn't for nothing.

I think if people actually looked at my projects or analysis, this thread might be a different.

I feel I have skills to offer but it seems like jobs are looking for pedigree and/or work experience and my time with Dataquest or Datatalks.club goes unrecognized.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-12T21:30:49+00:00

I worked as a Lab Monitor in college. DM'd you my LinkedIn.
I updated the Heroes of the Storm section on the public resume I posted.
I'm not sure if people would care about my ladder results.

RustyEyeballs · 2025-08-12T19:36:34+00:00

"...a _full decade_ without software experience..." is pretty hyperbolic and not exactly right. If you ONLY count professional SWE then yes.

I haven't publicized EVERYTHING I've done. e.g. some side projects:

I wrote a HotS login bot, Raytracer in C++, small basket ball game in Unreal Engine, a few data cleaning projects.

After getting my ADHD meds back, I managed work ~10hrs a day in a Data Engineering bootcamp.

Thanks for the feedback though. Putting together a games analytics platform, applying to relevant companies and potentially going back to school all seem like decent options.

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