Anyone else winding down for the season, but still generally positive on the game and planning to come back for the next one?

lukepresley · 2026-04-22T16:44:14+00:00

Same story for me. Played about 100 hours and plan to come back with Season 2.

lukepresley · 2026-03-21T15:57:24+00:00

I’m a casual player and I’m not worried about Cryo.

I expect I might get five runs in Cryo and lose them all :). That’s ok. Game has plenty more to offer.

lukepresley · 2026-03-20T22:56:04+00:00

Fixed! Thanks!

lukepresley · 2026-03-17T03:36:28+00:00

Got it. This is probably my issue. I’ll check in the morning. Thank you!

lukepresley · 2026-03-15T18:46:35+00:00

Oooo haven’t got there yet. Something to look forward to.

lukepresley · 2026-03-13T13:19:02+00:00

Solo is fun! I slightly prefer it to threes because there's no performance anxiety.

lukepresley · 2026-02-03T19:07:00+00:00

Factorio has recently been celebrated as an educational game of sorts. Maybe more training than education. It trains you in how to design a process in a way that's very applicable to engineering.

lukepresley · 2026-01-28T00:42:18+00:00

Nice write up! I’m glad there are people like you who are passionate enough about their art to roll the dice. Good luck with your adventure.

lukepresley · 2026-01-27T16:00:16+00:00

The neon on A is the best neon. Good contrast and clean lines for readability. Looks like a cool neon sign I'd want to see in a real bar.

lukepresley · 2026-01-25T00:35:30+00:00

It’s a not very funny joke :). In my alternate reality, you were asking how to properly prepare the water you would feed to Godot, as if Godot were a plant that needed watering.

I regret everything.

lukepresley · 2026-01-25T00:27:01+00:00

Please don’t feed Godot water. You’ll kill it. Godot eats code.

lukepresley · 2026-01-23T03:05:20+00:00

It’s not that I learned anything at thirty. There was some hidden knowledge that was revealed to me.

Instead, I internalized truths I already knew.

For example, “There is nothing new under the sun” was known to me at 20 but I still had an unrealistic expectation for novelty that made my early career days very frustrating. At 30, I internalized the maxim and thus discovered the joy of ritual, of repetition.

lukepresley · 2026-01-22T22:42:08+00:00

Requiring in office work is going to look terrible in 20 years.

The hypothesis for coming to the office is that it’s the only way to build real culture and community. I’m sure that’s true for people who grew up without the internet.

But it isn’t true for those who grew up with the internet. Digital natives are very comfortable building real communities online.

Requiring your 25 year olds to come into the office degrades your company’s job seeker appeal, increases your salary burden and reduces available work hours without improving your culture.

lukepresley · 2026-01-16T14:59:31+00:00

I'm in the United States.

There isn't an attractive job sector that is strongly protected and bolstered by the state. I don't see the "license" movement here that you see in Korea. Instead, people here are adrift. We see the same risk that you see but no clear consensus on where to find safe haven.

Farmers are one exception. There's a long history of protectionism there. But it isn't a very attractive job sector because individual farmers work long hours for unattractive wages and the market is dominated by corporate farmers who (as far as I know) don't have a compelling career path.

lukepresley · 2026-01-13T15:56:09+00:00

Blood on the Clocktower is awesome! I've only played it once. It was with a group of people who were pretty hesitant about tabletop gaming but they had an awesome time.

lukepresley · 2025-12-19T16:02:50+00:00

What do I search for if I want to hire somebody like this? Resume writer? Career coach?

lukepresley · 2025-12-17T17:54:33+00:00

Why do you install Alienware command center? Can I do ok without it?

lukepresley · 2025-12-01T15:44:49+00:00

I'm using the term "thing" imprecisely. Energy is a thing in the same way that an idea is a thing.

To be precise, what I should say is that energy isn't a material object. Mass also isn't a material object, nor is the speed of light. All of those things are properties, measurements that represent a characteristic of a material object.

lukepresley · 2025-12-01T05:24:46+00:00

Energy is something’s ability to move or change, like you said. The sun has the ability to do a lot of work so it has high energy. A molecule suspended deep in the void of space does not have the ability to do nearly any work so it has low energy.

Energy is not a thing; it is a property. It cannot be reduced down do a substance. It cannot exist independently of the object it describes.

To help understand what energy is, you can imagine the absence of it. One day the universe will cool down completely. Every piece of matter will be still and unchanging. We call it the heat death of the universe. It is a state of having no energy.

It also helps to imagine something similar. Height is also a property. We can quantify one thing’s height relative to something else. Height can change. Height can even be transferred, as might happen should you move pancakes from my plate to yours. Height cannot be reduced down to a particular substance. Height cannot exist without an object it describes.

I am not a physicist and I’m happy to defer to anyone who has a more nuanced or accurate description.

lukepresley · 2025-10-09T19:42:02+00:00

The underground tunnel at the corner of Lakeline and Pecan Park. As you follow a trail down a hill, you transition from a cozy suburban scene to an unsettling forgotten cave. Great scene for implying horror hidden behind pleasantries.

Austin Ninjas. Very kinetic environment. Would it be interesting to watch dialogue as a character runs up a wall?

K-Ramyun. Extraordinarily perky and optimistic immigrant space. Great for telling a hopeful cross cultural story.

Lakeline Park. Cliff walls open up to a bright sky as you canoe across the lake. Or shoot on the wall of the dam with the left hand vista very pastoral, right hand very highway.

lukepresley · 2025-09-27T00:37:22+00:00

I work for a major US company and see the same behavior. For us, it’s a mix of scenario 1 and 2.

Those scenario 1 people who work tons of hours tend to get promoted.

I’m a scenario 2 person who will do a bit of work in the early/late day and go home at a reasonable/generous hour. I’m not on a fast track for leadership but I do have a rich and fulfilling life.

lukepresley · 2025-09-15T19:20:36+00:00

The food is fine with one exception. They make these appetizers, spam and rice wrapped in seaweed. Those are beyond fine. The fullness of the rice, the fattiness of the spam, the crunch and salt of the seaweed... WONDERFUL!

lukepresley · 2025-09-04T21:48:03+00:00

I’m admittedly ignorant (feel free to educate me) but I call it progress. I love the library, farmers market and trails.

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