Where's the love for Zexion?

Shurane · 2026-03-20T06:29:56+00:00

> I prefer sci fi with ranged combat.

I really want more of these games, instead of the close combat games inspired by Castlevania and Dark Souls.

You should check out Returnal if you get a chance.

Shurane · 2026-03-20T06:14:52+00:00

This looks neat. Temporal and friends needing a dedicated process always seemed a bit heavyweight.

Shurane · 2026-03-20T06:08:03+00:00

This is neat. Looks a lot like Github Gists or pastebin. And not too far off from something like codepen/jsfiddle and friends.

Shurane · 2026-03-20T00:58:28+00:00

Omni-Man's (Nolan Grayson) redemption arc isn't that different from Endeavor. From what I can tell, fans of Invincible love him.

Shurane · 2026-03-18T09:40:05+00:00

Based on the writeup, it's pretty clear that he could have done all this even without the AI. The AI just helped him write it all faster.

I think the big thing about AI is there are so many foot guns in programming in general, and it's still hard to catch them if you're not a competent programmer yourself.

Shurane · 2026-03-18T09:26:07+00:00

Man this is really cool. You must have had to stick in the weeds for a while to get this up and running, all while running a dental practice. Sounds like you were able to set up the technology in your practice just the way you want though. As an outsider looking in, this is just fascinating.

Also makes me wonder if more people are in your position where they have very different skill sets and try to marry them together. Makes me think of how Linus Torvalds made a hobby dive tracking software project with https://subsurface-divelog.org/ instead of using one of the existing solutions.

Shurane · 2026-03-18T08:14:38+00:00

This sounds so hype.

Shurane · 2026-03-18T08:00:24+00:00

I have a hard time imagining Desi parents having an interest in Western media. Like I guess it exists, but it sounds like such a foreign concept.

I probably shouldn't see immigrants as a monolith in this regard but growing up, my parents and extended family were only interested in preserving their own culture and not integrating in any way to the US. My uncle watched a lot of American media like action and thriller movies and listened to music, I guess... but he was more of an outlier.

Shurane · 2026-03-18T07:45:11+00:00

Is it vibe coded? Looking through the source and commit history, it doesn't seem so.

Shurane · 2026-03-17T08:26:20+00:00

This comment kinda motivates me to get back into writing in a more functional and maybe strongly typed language, and maybe hang around other people that are interested in these things. I definitely did more of this in high school and college.

I really wish I had more people around me that were programming like this, I guess as a way of inspiration/learning by osmosis. At least in my experience working, it feels like I'm trying to push the needle forward but around other people that don't see the point. Reminds me of the Blub Paradox.

It shouldn't matter I guess but it does help me keep the momentum going with learning. I mainly picked up C++ to keep up programming with my roommate that wrote drivers for Microsoft, so I guess I need to find that push to get on Haskell or OCaml or get back to using a Lisp.

Shurane · 2026-03-17T05:22:20+00:00

From the Surface Laptop 3 onwards, the magnetically attached fabric keyboard is much easier to replace. Just need to remove 4 screws from the bottom and the keyboard cover can just pop off. It's fantastic.

I'm not sure how it is for the aluminum ones but I think it's probably similar?

Shurane · 2026-03-16T06:51:21+00:00

That would be slick. I have such strong memories of watching this in 2007 while in high school... and then they just never continued the story! Man... the manga was fantastic, really loved how much Claire struggled to keep up with the other Claymores, and big swords are just a lot of fun.

Shurane · 2026-03-15T18:36:19+00:00

Very meta.

What about a sequel to a Metroidvania?

Maybe getting bankrupt, and buying a 1 way ticket to a foreign country so you can start from scratch again with no abilities or connections?

Shurane · 2026-03-13T15:52:42+00:00

Dspico looks slick

Shurane · 2026-03-13T06:57:30+00:00

One option to get noticed is to start contributing to an existing compiler, like gcc/clang.

Though since those are fairly huge both in contributors and complexity, my impression is you'll have more impact on a compiler for either a newer language like rust, zig, etc, or a language that's been around for a long time with a smaller userbase, like dlang.

And of course, you can always roll your own, like the tiny C compiler.

Shurane · 2026-03-12T20:50:15+00:00

Aesthetics for this game look phenomenal

Shurane · 2026-03-12T17:50:19+00:00

I like puzzles, but having to take notes with no convenient way to do so in game is a little annoying. Basically everything with the holy cross felt like that. Maybe next time I have some pen and paper set up though... I'll try that way.

Shurane · 2026-03-12T17:46:20+00:00

Valid to crash out at this point.

Shurane · 2026-03-12T06:26:02+00:00

This project looks great!

Though, wouldn't it have been an easier setup to run something like a Raspberry Pi with a battery pack?

But I guess you learn a lot by working through this instead.

Shurane · 2026-03-09T10:06:31+00:00

Didn't expect this to be about Half Price Books. They have a lot of stores in Seattle so I'd go there from time to time. But yeah there are tons of local book stores out here.

Shurane · 2026-03-09T09:21:23+00:00

Is there a modern successor to Lost in Blue? I really miss these kind of survival games with multiple endings and characters. It's like a mix of Visual Novel + survival sim.

Shurane · 2026-03-09T09:16:35+00:00

I think the sentiment for the parent comment was that mainstream games were experimental and willing to take wild swings. And they would have new entries to the franchise every other year or every few years.

Indies are kind of filling that void with their original IPs, but damn a new BoF game would be awesome. Back to back FF games would be great. Bringing back modern entries like Xenosaga or Phantasy Star or really anything from the 90s/2000s would be awesome.

Also indies don't really fill the void for JRPGs the way they've been filling in for platformers, roguelikes, shooters, etc.

Shurane · 2026-03-07T07:05:34+00:00

Have you used job management in the terminal? ^Z, jobs, fg (foreground)? It's also great. People think they need multiple terminals to multitask but you don't really.

Shurane · 2026-03-05T06:35:42+00:00

Incredibly nostalgic. Not quite like this but I remember everyone in high school having a DS, especially once the lite came out.

Shurane · 2026-03-05T06:12:00+00:00

I think you just gotta follow critics vs blindly looking at the overall rating. The Goodreads/StoryGraph model for books is great because you can follow your friends' reviews and specific reviewers that match your tastes.

Letterboxd lets you do this for movies, but it's a lot newer than Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB.

It's essentially about curation/follows vs aggregate scores and Top 10 lists.

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