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02.07. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

What an utter disaster! @peterdrake had an exceptionally excellent game while I had an exceptionally abysmal game (143 vs 37). Yes, you’re reading that correctly, he beat me by more than 100 points!

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I read Tom Benner's very short book "Naming Things: The Hardest Problems in Software Engineering". Experienced software developers will, I think, already be familiar with most of this material, but it could be valuable for new programmers.

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02.06. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

A decisive victory over @peterdrake (84 vs 72), but I fear that investments he made during this game may more than compensate him in future.

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now that’s the attention to detail you want to see in your neebles

Up and at 'em, people! These solars aren't going to punk themselves!

The terrorism is getting decreasingly stochastic.

BBC.com: New Mexico: Failed election candidate paid me to shoot officials, gunman says
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

Hemos implementado las mecánicas principales minijuego de los castellers VR :D

En el próximo directo montaremos el entorno y refinaremos algunos detalles.

¿Alguien tiene un modelo lowpoly de alguna plaza típica de Catalunya?
#gamedev #godotengine #hechocongodot #madewithgodot #godot

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#2889 Greenhouse Effect 

Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).
xkcd.com/2889/

I read the rules to the critically acclaimed The Quiet Year and ... it seems extremely vague.

You're not supposed to use words on the map, but no particular alternative is provided. I know the game is supposed to be an exercise in working together when communication is limited, but what if player's aren't on the same page about what something on the map literally means?

Early in the book it says "we don't embody specific characters", but later you can discard a Contempt token "to act selfishly". What does that mean if you don't have a self?

There may be an amazing game / experience hiding in here, but I don't feel that the rulebook communicates it.

Up and at 'em, people! These whiteys aren't going to tighten themselves!

Next fall, one of the undergraduate classes I'm teaching is Perspectives in Computer Science, a "CS 0" course for non-majors.

I plan to do it in Python and emphasize game development.

What's your favorite BEGINNER-FRIENDLY tool/library for developing games in Python?

Textbook suggestions also welcome.

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”

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02.05. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West

Before we realized just how epic January's ice storm and power outage would become, we managed a very chilly play in the fading afternoon light. Even though I scored a personal best, @peterdrake still squeaked out the victory (73 vs 70).

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I approve of the LEGO ornithopter, but this woman looks like she's had a little too much spice, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

What happened to this plant and can it be saved?

(Due to a recent ice storm, it was subjected to a few days of near-freezing temperatures.)

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