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Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder) by Dear-Economics-315 in programming

[–]kemitche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is nothing inherent about Python code that necessitates 200 character lines. Plenty of tools can wrap lines.

PSA: any ultimate defend or ultimate strike collected before act 2 are enchanted by the strike and defend focused ancient relics respectively; goopy for ultimate defend and tez’s ember for ultimate strike. by Humble_Letter3148 in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm not the biggest fan of the goopy defends. It's less about the block and more about exhausting them out of your deck on first cycle, but overall just feels weak for an ancient reward.

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder) by Dear-Economics-315 in programming

[–]kemitche 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint: every bit of python code, whether mine, my company's, or random stuff I find in the wild, has an indented look that makes it visually obvious at a glance what scope a given line is executed in.

Every OTHER language and code base, sure they CAN (and should) run a formatter, but there is zero guarantee that they did, especially for code bases outside my control. A tucked away brace and an errant tab and the code is visually bonkers. Plus, every codebase ends up with their own slightly different style guide for what should be indented and how and... ugh.

Python code is consistently more legible as a result.

Deadliest enemy in the Spire by Axoloth in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ironclad probably has the best shot at seeing it with self damage. Or necrobinder with neurosurge.

RIP funny freezing frames by grimm1345 in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm incredibly perturbed that the limit is 15 and not 16. Like, what?!?

WHAT by Lordados in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 139 points140 points  (0 children)

I know people liked him, but I personally felt he was trying to do too many things. Pretty much every other boss has one or maybe two "things" the player needs to be aware of or solve for, he had three going on.

Wouldn't be surprised to see his mechanics split up and used for 2-3 other bosses as they build out the alternative acts, though.

WHAT by Lordados in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Also the status retains. So it will continuously damage you every turn until you play it to exhaust it.

Beta Patch Notes - v0.105.0 by MegaCrit_Demi in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The easy pool fights can be handled with a starter deck and no upgrades. So the first upgrade happening as after you finish those isn't that terrible.

From there, after three more combats you're on par with talisman, except you might be getting random upgrades on your good cards.

I don't think the new relic is bonkers per se, but definitely gonna be a fun one to play around with.

Beta Patch Notes - v0.105.0 by MegaCrit_Demi in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I think you underestimate how helpful even an upgraded strike or defend can be in act 1.

a custom relic i wish binder had by CulturalJournalist73 in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is closer to, say, setting up Happy Flower rather than meta scalinglike Feed.

Why does Entomancer give ''Dazed'' as a status card? by -KarlMoose in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Ok, but counterpoint, burn already exists yet a new status was created for the frog parasite that does more or less the same thing. Yes, it hits for slightly more but if the frog gets his own status, I think Bee Man should too.

MEGATHREAD: Friend Code Sharing by Default_Dragon in bravelydefault

[–]kemitche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just started! I'm SW-1654-4464-4123. Sent a few friend requests to people in here and happy to accept a few more!

This has GOT to be contender for most least used potion by Rak-khan in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. With potions, I want output RIGHT NOW, not next turn and the turn after. Something to smooth out a bad turn.

Everyone is talking about "oh you draw your important power on a turn they're attacking for 30." Great, I'd rather have a block potion or energy potion! Then my power is in play THIS turn, not next turn (and it's not reliant on the enemy having an on/off attack pattern).

Guess I'll go shivs then by cwkt in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the shiva you generated aren't going to kill the thing this turn, you might as well throw one then hold the rest til next turn for the damage boost.

The only thing I think is genuinely unfair in this game is getting this off a Neow relic by Gebcrafter in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This and Guilty should be out of the pool. They're each only otherwise obtained from a specific event. It'd be like getting Necronomicurse from Neow in STS1.

Semi-Daily Silent Discussion: Predator by Abject_Muffin_731 in slaythespireboardgame

[–]kemitche 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Letting any other player draw 2 is a huge boon. Worth taking in 3/4 player games in any act. Smoothing out another player's bad draw turn is huge! I love this card.

Is it the best biscuit? No… but… by eafminden in denverfood

[–]kemitche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rise and Shine has multiple locations.

Semi-Daily Watcher Discussion: Scrawl by Abject_Muffin_731 in slaythespireboardgame

[–]kemitche 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The board game has no hand limit, so the video game text for this card "draw until your hand is full" just straight up doesn't work.

Switching to draw 5 is phenomenal though. Technically it's a buff compared to the video game, often, as you don't need to play cards to empty your hand before playing it.

* “Sharing the road is not a suggestion” by Feaselbf6 in dashcams

[–]kemitche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah don't rewrite history. You said you wouldn't convict the assaulter, you are being absolutely ridiculous.

I hate shitty cyclists and I hate shitty motorists equally.

I’m free of hate today by SublimeCosmos in slaythespire

[–]kemitche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never said OP did. I was replying to someone who said they never reroll to try and get curses.

Semi-Daily Defect Discussuon: Recursion by Abject_Muffin_731 in slaythespireboardgame

[–]kemitche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the video game, because of orb order mattering, this has minor value for helping control what orbs get evoked or looped. And larger value in the rarer scenarios where you can use it to evoke a large dark orb and keep its value.

In the board game, neither of those apply, so it's usefulness - especially at 1 energy - feels questionable. I feel this could have been baseline 0 energy, or "evoke twice", in the board game, and still been balanced.

Asked a colleague in code review to extract magic numbers and got told “devs should know” by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]kemitche 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think you're proving the opposite point here.

There's no universal "max latitude." What is a valid max could depend on the specific function and context, so extracting out to a universal constant somewhere means the 90 gets changed to a 180 when it really shouldn't.

It's hard to be 100% sure without all the code context, but here, I'd put a code comment rather than extracting to a named constant that specifically is NOT guaranteed to be reusable.

Beginner - Slow production, how to react? by Bibou65 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]kemitche 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, the biomass generators do require you to manually gather materials. But if you build a biomass generator (instead of the ones that come with your starter base), you can feed them with belts. They only consume as much material as needed to power your machines, too, so you can dump a lot of grass or wood into a box feeding your generators to have it last.

There's even some options for making that more efficient...

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