marlowe221

joined 2 years ago
[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Look, everyone knows you take your VISOR off before you get in bed.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Too bad the last release was a whole Ubuntu LTS ago…

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You might be confused. You seem to be taking about a similar game called “Chest”.

I think they were talking about Chess.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I was sent to the principals office several times in elementary school because my teachers thought I was trying to be a smart ass. Because I would do what they literally, exactly asked me to do, and not what they apparently meant.

I was always very confused because I honestly believed I was doing my best to follow instructions.

It didn’t help that I grew up in the American southeast, a region where patterns of speech are very indirect and lean heavily on idioms and metaphors.

I was in middle school before I figured out what was happening and did not get into trouble in that way anymore. I’m in my 40s now but I’m still a literal-first thinker. And yeah, I’m a programmer.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At this point… yeah, probably so.

I mean, assuming the env and dependencies aren’t totally fucked.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Regarding your point about C##…

It does seem like, in their effort to make the language less Java-y/enterprise-y, we now have multiple syntaxes for everything. I get the desire to maintain backwards compatibility but it does start to make the available range of syntax feel kind of messy.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I think that’s one of the reasons I like primary constructors - when you see one, it’s a signal that there’s nothing “special” happening with the parameters.

On the other hand… there are like 7 different ways to do constructors at this point (exaggerating a little…) and it’s a lot to keep track of.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The Daggerfall remake is more of a source port…. But it’s amazing.

Daggerfall needs a certain degree of modding but the source port makes it super easy to install mods for it.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah, Morrowind is my favorite game of all time.

These days I play it with higher res textures and a mod to make the wildlife less insanely hostile via the excellent OpenMW.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No argument there!

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

It has to be one the top 3 most unhinged episodes in Trek history, and that is saying a lot.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I was thinking that it resembles the mouth of the Doomsday Machine

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