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either way is a win

do you think they will name the boy protagonist scarlet or do you think they will name him violet

wonder how much of this decision was prompted by Gen VII being forcibly sunsetted with the close of the eShop

we don't even have HOME compatibility for the games we already have!!

i'm happy for a new pokémon game but i feel like they coulda waited a year

« I feel bad that I haven't shown Link doing many chores compared to Zelda, so this chapter fixes that a little. »

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i can't make someone fall in love with you because that's a major ethical violation, but i can help you lie and do crimes

people already solved this problem!!

it’s not like email got better in any way!! email has only gotten worse!

i really can’t imagine why people in the 2020s think email, a notoriously lacking format with a built‐in mechanism for being spammed with the inane thoughts of any passing stranger (or bot), is the best way to syndicate content now

and not, like, the significantly more modern and sophisticated technology of Having A Blog

you ever read an interesting blogpost and only after you reach the end realize it was designed to be distributed via email rather than atom|rss

« Disclaimer: There are no references to 'The Matrix' in this fic. »

« How was Link supposed to respond to his sister having a very public existential crisis over not being able to use celestial bodies as a fashion statement? »

ruby on rails on webassembly in browser

« Link, having little regard for the fragility of his mortal form, tried to smash it in with his clasped hands. »

uh, it's BCP 47, not 49, idk what i was on

example: i learned XML in high school because i wanted to create a custom conlang dictionary for the macOS (then OS X) Dictionary.app, which was XML-based. this is not the most pressing issue which needs solving in the world, but it was a real problem i cared about, and working on it exposed me to all kinds of problem spaces in document processing, information representation, data entry ergonomics, as well as internationalization concerns, IETF standards (BCP 49!), and automation workflows for handling large amounts of structured metadata. that's the sort of thing which happens when you work on a real problem. you get exposed to existing solutions; in trying to comprehend those solutions, you gain an understanding of the broader concerns they are trying to address; you develop and mature and grow as a person. i don't care about conlangs anymore but i do still care deeply about internationalization.

in contrast, i can't think of a single thing i learned in a math class which meaningfully developed me as a person or a professional. i went into college wanting to be a math major,

entire field of cool solutions with no problems attached

and i think about the function of coolness in this sense, for white kids, as a way of encouraging this sort of wasted energy to redirect them away from work which would actually force them to confront their privilege

all of the useful skills i have learned have been through the process of needing to do a thing and having to learn how to do it, and very very little of that was ever supported nay discussed in school

i wasted huge amounts of time early in college taking classes aligned with my “interests” that i had no actual interest in applying, instead of learning about systemic injustice and the problems in the world which i actually cared about getting solved