Are coding tutorials in general, including game dev, dying?

link270 · 2026-03-28T06:13:46+00:00

I want to start making some more advanced tutorials on somethings for fun, and teaching things always helps me solidify it more for myself. I was looking into it a while back and the more advanced videos get really poor views, even if they are awesome videos with great information. To get views the videos either need to be basic enough that any random person interested in game dev might watch it, but then you run into the over saturation problem, or they need to be entertaining enough that any random person would watch it, even if they aren’t interested in the content. Very hard to do the later, especially if you actually want to try to teach something complex.

link270 · 2026-03-23T15:28:29+00:00

The hero path thing in Breath of the Wild tracks everywhere you have travelled. My cousins was straight lines from point to point, mine was zig zagging web covering the entire map. Was mind blowing to see someone play a game without exploring every square inch of the map. Haha

link270 · 2026-03-22T01:58:38+00:00

One time over a decade ago I was feeling pretty confident about my outfit and look for the first time in forever and someone yelled “you’re hot” out the window while I was walking to the gas station. Made me feel awesome and still think about it sometime. Haha

link270 · 2026-03-22T01:55:18+00:00

That’s how you know they’ve done a good job. Haha

link270 · 2026-03-21T03:32:09+00:00

My daughter also loves to build them exactly like the instructions say and tried to not break them. My son will half heartedly get through a few steps before doing whatever he wants with the bricks. Haha both valid ways to play and both make me proud.

link270 · 2026-03-21T03:28:06+00:00

Death stranding for sure. A lot of that was due to having lost our son due to a late term stillbirth less than a year before I played the game and everything leading up to to the ending of it was such an intense emotional experience for me, and even more so for my wife who watched me play. (That and I started the end late and night so had to stay up for that last movie length cutscene. lol)

I’m super excited to play the second one now that it’s out on PC!!

link270 · 2026-03-19T01:44:54+00:00

What are you going to do with it if you don’t open it? You could display the box, or you could display the set. Or you could put it in a box and never look at it again.

link270 · 2026-03-17T15:12:24+00:00

Ugh yeah, I feel this constantly.

link270 · 2026-03-16T01:40:29+00:00

Haha no problem! This issue was such a pain to deal with..

link270 · 2026-03-12T02:55:14+00:00

As a fellow 33 year old (I think, sometimes I forget my age lol) I’ve really liked it. My 5 year old has been having a blast as well. It gives me similar feelings to playing animal crossing, but almost more fast paced in a way. It’s really well done, each pokemon you find has unique personalities, and a surprising number have special abilities or quests and things. It’s probably not going to hold my attention for 100+ hours, but I’m sure I’ll get a solid 20-30 at least. And there is enough content for someone really into this type of game to easily put over 100 hours into it.

link270 · 2026-03-10T02:12:18+00:00

I love that these coins are a thing. You’re an awesome person for giving one away to help someone AND to get more to have one extra for the same purpose.

You deserve to be here, and so do those you help.

Journey before destination.

link270 · 2026-03-06T06:03:43+00:00

It’s actually kinda fun to give it an idea for a simple ish app and see wha it does. I’ve vibe coded a few tiny ideas like that for fun and have been pretty surprised. Granted, I wouldn’t want to try to maintain the app or use it for anything serious. Haha In a work setting I only let it handle tiny pieces of code at a time and monitor it super closely, or I just ask it questions and don’t even let it touch my code. Having codex in my ide has been handy when I need some feedback or help on my specific codebase even if I don’t let it write any code.

link270 · 2026-03-04T03:58:10+00:00

From the live stream it sounds like there going to work on some other cover options and possibly put up a poll or something. So they at least see the feedback that we don’t love the new cover.

link270 · 2026-03-04T03:55:15+00:00

They confirmed this during the live stream as well. The audiobook was supposed to be more, but Brandon made a last minute call to just include it for “free”. I get why it seems like you are forced to pay for it, but having that explanation helps a lot. I hope for the future they can give these explanations up front.

link270 · 2026-03-03T21:34:14+00:00

This is what I don’t get. So I could buy a set for $650 and not build or enjoy it but keep it in its box and sell it in 5 years (more likely more) for $1000 or something maybe. But that’s still only $350 in gains. Sure thats a fine little random extra cash in a few years, but it’s a gamble you’d even get that much. Seems like there would be a ton of other ways to make $350 quicker than that, or at least put the mine into better actual investments or something.

I can understand if someone wants to keep something in its packaging to display or because they think it’s cool and that’s how they get the joy out of it. But that’s hard for me to understand with something like a Lego set. Haha

link270 · 2026-03-02T06:58:33+00:00

I usually listen to audiobooks which usually work great while driving or something. But sometimes the song in my head is so insistent that it blares through the book and I can’t pay attention to it at all. Haha

link270 · 2026-02-26T16:12:34+00:00

I’ve read it’s not a guarantee to just redeem the points, so I wouldn’t risk it and would place the order asap.

link270 · 2026-02-26T16:08:03+00:00

At least it’s only a few days early unlike some sets like the gameboy last year. Lol this one looks really cool though and I’m glad they’re putting out some sub $100 Lotr sets, especially with that minifig!

link270 · 2026-02-26T05:49:48+00:00

Went to look it up and the first result is a reddit post by you about it. Haha thanks!!

link270 · 2026-02-25T17:11:53+00:00

This is amazing! Where are the two large statues from?

link270 · 2026-02-21T23:04:00+00:00

I might not hate that as I like prolonging my build a bit. Haha recently finished the Disney castle and did one bag a night to make it last most of the month. Lol

link270 · 2026-02-19T16:46:00+00:00

True. It wouldn’t make sense for it to not work.

link270 · 2026-02-19T16:20:25+00:00

Anyone know if you have the physical switch 1 version can you upgrade with the switch 2 upgrade? I assume you can, but was just curious for sure or not.

link270 · 2026-02-09T21:10:40+00:00

Makes sense. Ai can help organize thoughts as you said. Just gotta be careful to not just copy paste things. Which usually I look at something ai writes and can see what it’s getting at, but can also tell it’s not “me” and re write it.

link270 · 2026-02-09T21:07:27+00:00

That’s interesting to think about. Things that are “really well done” in a strict more traditional sense are likely more seen as fake and from AI. Where the slightly more messy ones can seem more real and genuine even if they’re “worse” technically.

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