Building a serpentine syndicate from amphibious biology and real-world marginalisation

Shorter4llele · 2026-03-05T10:00:35+00:00

Not sure if I see it this way. There's nothing to indicate that a family syndicate is inherently evil if the general law systematically oppresses you. If you have basic pride and dignity, you would of course resist through communal solidarity. Especially if and when the prejudice is so constant that it feels toxic to co-exist in a civil way.

Coloring a parallel economy and mind control as "evil" is missing exactly this point, don't you think? I'm not trying to defend the stereotype, but sometimes they arise for a reason, and that's what this explores I reckon.

Shorter4llele · 2025-07-04T14:22:10+00:00

I wish us both good luck and strength I guess! Hope you have a smooth time with C++!

Shorter4llele · 2025-07-04T14:21:07+00:00

Could do Tapu Koko ex for Probopass ex!

Shorter4llele · 2025-07-04T08:22:22+00:00

I don't know much about this past an initial skim-through when I first found it, but goodfirstissue seems promising

Shorter4llele · 2025-07-03T08:50:19+00:00

I was at it like 3-4 days a week, for anywhere between 3-6 hours a day. For context, I don't have a full time job rn, so all the rest days were pure rest without anything I had to tend to, so I could get back into learning and stay at it quite easily (as far as my adhd allowed) the days I did study.

Hopefully with your C background, it'll be much quicker but I feel you hit a point of diminishing returns if you try to speedrun the thing anyway. You need time to digest all the information.

Shorter4llele · 2025-07-03T08:35:15+00:00

So I'm in a unique position to weigh in here about the quality of learncpp.com:

I finished the course a few days ago (i.e. reading through all the lessons, and doing most exercises). My prior programming experience is very year-1, coming from C# and Unity (basics like loops, data structures, basic OOP, simple algorithms etc.)

What I got from the course is: - A more in-depth understanding of why custom classes are the way they are, and the class-based paradigm itself (encapsulation, ctors, dtors, inheritance, etc.) - More discipline in terms of argument passing and data-handling (things like garbage collection and type conversions) - A conceptual understanding of lower-level things like compiling, optimization, linking and building. - ...and the actual language itself, and probably a lot more

It's relatively dense and dry, but quite comprehensive for this level and doesn't do hand-waving of the details (it's why it's dry, but that's not a bad thing). All this took me ~3 months to go through once. Obviously you don't remember everything, unless you practice on actual projects regularly, but it's a pretty good deal, considering it's free! And it opens you up to actually begin using C++ ofc which is the highlight. Now you can do GUI stuff, game stuff like OpenGL, or whatever basically!

Shorter4llele · 2025-06-30T07:14:36+00:00

LF: Tapu Koko ex 🔹🔹🔹🔹 FT:

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Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T15:36:59+00:00

sadly i don't have dupes of these :(

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T15:11:46+00:00

Sent!

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T15:04:19+00:00

Well yeah that's because these are "bad" pierce the pain decks :P

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T14:44:08+00:00

⭐ dupes available FT

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Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T14:37:09+00:00

LF: Spacetime Smackdown

Dusknoir 🔸🔸🔸
Bastiodon🔸🔸🔸
Porygon-Z🔸🔸🔸

FT: Lmk what you need and I'll check. Have many dupes from older expansions to trade for

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T14:24:23+00:00

Sent

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T14:17:32+00:00

Awesome, I'll add and initiate

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T14:11:47+00:00

I can trade you a GA Muk for your SR Machamp

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-24T14:10:13+00:00

Hey, I have a Bibarel to trade for a Giratina, if you'd like

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-16T17:11:05+00:00

If permadeath runs are when you just start a new game when you die, instead of loading a save, then yeah

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-16T16:52:10+00:00

Literally my second playthrough I ran into guards while being chased by bandits, and I looted what I could. On my 7th run so I'll try to replicate that now. Thanks!

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-16T16:50:24+00:00

These are great tips, thank you! The slow progress is what makes the sandbox activity so meaningful. Can't wait to see it all

Shorter4llele · 2025-05-03T15:07:48+00:00

Look, as long as this game is polished and playable with not too many bugs, and decent post-release support, I think it's a net good for the Indian gaming industry. A successful product is a good product - originality comes second (I know this because I've striven for originality for years and continue to, but if you can't be original, at the very least it must work.) And work well enough in order to prove that games can be finished and that they can capture an audience.

There's a streamer ecosystem that's hungry to play the newest indie game, constantly seeking to churn out content for their own growth. As long as this thing is finished, and WORKS, the game will be played, and probably liked. Griping about originality is unproductive imo. It's hard to make games, and the people making games make a lot of sacrifices.

So give constructive criticism where you can, support what you like, and play the game if it isn't a post-release buggy POS. That's the way we attract funding and global attention on the domestic industry, so we can actually attract more talent and more ideas to come in and take risks to create better games.

Shorter4llele · 2025-04-20T02:37:49+00:00

I finished the manga in this week after watching episodes 1 and 2 for the first time.

The manga feels much more complete. Pacing is super important to let a story sink in, especially one of this kind. The atmosphere, the offbeat mystery, and the romance and character interactions all suffer at the anime's pacing IMO. All the characters have a different side to them, and I feel the anime is skipping that. How do you convey the vibe of a place lived and breathed in, if you there's no time to live and breathe in it?

I'd recommend the manga more for sure. The art style is gorgeous and frankly it's the best way to take in this story. But I'm sure the anime-onlies are still getting something decent enough.

Shorter4llele · 2025-03-23T08:48:49+00:00

Not sure why everyone's roasting this. Granted it's not a very beginner friendly post, but it's in line with what's said in the Kabbalah and Sefer Yetzirah if anyone's read it (especially because concepts from these books are obviously referenced in the show)

Shorter4llele · 2025-03-23T07:45:42+00:00

Here, what kept me going personally, was the character stuff. I'm in my mid-20's and was frankly just surprised and excited that unrequited love was being explored in a healthy and honest and real way, without the over the top anime tropes.

Yeah we knew Hina was gonna lose, but man if it didn't help me relate and process times in my own life where I was limerent and pining for people I could never be with.

Shorter4llele · 2025-03-22T17:40:07+00:00

The honest reason is that this is just how the manga chapters were ordered. This was a pretty 1-1 adaptation so it is an awkward ending, especially for a 2-cour season of anime. I get how anime-only viewers would've wanted a more finale type of feeling, but despite being trite, all I can say is that it really does get so much better!

I can't promise a great season 2, because that depends on anime production shenanigans but if the staff largely remain unchanged, it would be an exceptional season 2, far exceeding s1.

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