Notices by Harley 🐝🌿 (qxoko@mastodon.social)

@clarity oooh! what’s different about your idea? are existing systems missing things you want or do you think they’re going in the wrong direction?

@clarity I'm glad you're investigating Odin, it's my favourite of this new generation of C-adjacent languages

I like that it's the most C-like philosophically while also solving the actual problems with the C ecosystem instead of inventing fun new ones like Zig — the no build systems rule being my personal favourite

oh and because it was bump-started by the first Jai presentation, it also has good things from Blow's original concept without most of the weirder, esoteric choices

@clarity I finally picked up a copy of The Dispossessed last week as a big fan of Earthsea and enjoyer of The Word for World is Forest so I'm excited by this glowing review

I recently read Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle which is also 60-odd years old and doesn't feel like it's aged a day

@compfu @seanbala they're Ursula K. Le Guin's incredible novels and Goro Miyazaki absolutely butchered them 😔

I watched the film when I was young and thought it was fine. I watched it again as an adult after reading the novels and switched it off fifteen minutes in.

edit: I should say I almost never switch off a film

The thing the Unity Incident has highlighted for me is confirmation of the kind of brainrot @neauoire talks about: people are learning the tool, not the craft. I see people all over talking about how they can't just switch because they *know* Unity (ongoing/in-dev projects aside, of course).
"Game design" is a skill. Unity is not a skill, it's a tool. The ability to carry a skill to another tool is something that modern software companies are actively trying to stop you doing. Do not let them.