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How did you pick up coding? There was some free old book online by a guy who called "=" a "gozinta", but I can't find it anymore... I read that through, used a few Udemy courses, Brackeys, CodeMonkey the Unity Discord forums. Getting the basics down was easy, anything else was well tough.

What was challenging? A few years into development, and Everhood came out. On first glance it looked just like Game Over, and I got pretty bummed out, like someone had beaten me to the chase. But when I actually played Everhood I saw it was a fairly different game (everhood you're not playing to the rhythm), but it was a rough bit of time prior to getting to play and Everhood and learn that!

Were you stumped by any major development issues? Oh my god the timing of the notes down the note lane. I swear I rewrote that code 10 times from scratch. Making sure they're set to the audioSource.time property, but also accounting for pause behaviour, accounting for generating notes PRIOR to the music starting (and therefore audioSource.time = 0), making sure it doesn't waver out of sync etc etc. But everytime I reworked it, it felt more robust, so it helped with confidence.

I wonder if every developer feels as though their code is held together with tape, glue, and good thoughts...

Vote greens??

I mean, I agree wholeheartedly with everything. I'm putting greens 1 absolutely, but labour is obviously above the libs. My point, while labour is shit house, as far as centre left politics go, they're making gains towards net zero, unlike the libs who vote against both 2035 and 2050.

But just as an aside, are you vegan?

I'm pretty sure the current labour government took us from 28% renewables to 48%, with projections of mid 80s by 2030.

Current gas use was earmarked by the Liberal government in the mid 2010s, with locked in prices that caused gas to be sold at next to nothing until 2030-35. Expansion of gas in the interim was deemed necessary to stop the gas industry from imploding due to poor Liberal deal making.

Man the headline quote is "I told you so", but the quote from her is ACTUALLY "I'm not here to say I told you so".

Oh did everyone know that election funding is given ONLY to whoever you pick as first? Even when your vote trickles down to whoever wins, that $3-5(or so?) is only provided to your first choice?

I'll still be putting the Animal Justice Party number 1, but it's good to know.

Make hay, this year's harvest festival will be bountiful with the largest strawman we've ever seen!

Don't buy an electric car. Bike to work. Take the train. Don't eat animals products, they're destroying the planet. Use a Fair phone, buy second hand, install solar.

Us lefties are weak, dependant on creature comforts. Cheap plastic clothing, $3 beef burgers, voting for cheap petrol at the pump.

Your initial conceit of not affording consumers blame is a big driver of that weakness. Consumers wasting food IS a problem. Consumers buying food from big food wasters is a problem. But if you aren't living clean green, how can you hold some lady running a business to any account?

Inb4: "it's all too hard, everyone is too busy to be that ethical, capitalism has locked me into being a bad person". Be better, be ethical.

The other person says "you CAN'T buy your way out of problems caused by capitalism", I'm arguing you can, and that pretending you can't is a scapegoat for lazy consumers. They're destroying my planet for their own convenience, whilst taking the high ground of "but an oil company once tried to suggest consumers were to blame". Consumers literally buy the product.

And tone policing is cringe, who tf cares if I use capitals??

You're saying two different things. On one hand "I support people making better purchasing decisions", then on the other hand, "but it's meaningless".

God I can't stand people who argue for a systemic change of capitalism, but who are so defeatist to go "but my widdle purchasing power is meaningless uwu".

You LITERALLY CAN BUY YOUR WAY OUT OF CAPITALISM. What a moronic argument, if we all stop buying product A, companies have to stop selling product A. Except you're out here going "oh guys keep buying product A if you want, it's doesn't make a difference 😔"

"Blame shifting" feels like a way to offset consumer guilt and permit bad habits.

If everyone bought food from places that don't waste food products, the big chains that DO would go out of business.

If everyone drove electric, oil companies would hugely reduce oil extraction.

If everyone went vegan, 20% of the entire planets greenhouse gases would immediately cut.

YOU are the enabler of these companies. YOU have the power to stop them.

Men want women like this because it eases their insecurities.

Insecure men see women as a rare commodity (because they're not confident in their abilities with women), and a clingy jealous gf is (in theory) less likely to leave them.

It's another reason why men want younger women, they're more likely to look up to you than an equal, easier to ensure the commodity is secure.

Boy I wish this ire could be directed at the animal farming industry, who also take the babies from the mother (but this time to kill and eat the babies), whilst also keeping the mother perpetually pregnant to rinse and repeat the process.

All the while contributing 15-20% of the entire planets greenhouse gas emissions.

Boy I sure do wish.