You can set up a global exception handler in some frameworks. By having multiple (not a crazy amount) of exceptions, you can set up logic for how to handle that kind of error. Then you can just throw the exception instead of writing individual catch blocks.

This is especially helpful in things like a REST API where user input can cause all kinds of fun, let alone network issues, problems with your data source, etc.

This is like Dalinar and the fighting master from Stormlight Archive.

That’s why you set the alternate/exit cases as individual if statements before whatever was going to be inside the original if block.

To me too long to learn that.

If it’s not available as an Azure service it won’t be used (except for uptime kuma).

What Clive Barker movie do you live in?

Who didn’t?

Oh, it’s open source and you can run your own! Just pay the fee to be part of the centrally managed plan and therefore accessible.

I swear, sometime should fork their repo and retool it to be truly open.

I’d say it depends on the environment. TTRPG tends to attract analytical types and when there’s actual roleplay, is effectively an exercise in taking on the perspective of others. As well, classical RPG fare tends to come down hard on people who act in an oppressive way.

There are many video games that are exercises in empathy (That software company), looking at the bigger picture, and sorting through noise to figure out what’s going on (Torment, Disco Elysium). Additionally, mega corporations are so vilified as to be useable as comedy (Portal). Additionally, there are games which paint the government as morally gray (Control, and yes I know but still).

Then, of course, there’s Fallout.

Games like this are useful because they are narrative simulations; they let you try out different ideas by playing them out. As long as there is some critical thinking and/or media literacy skills present, engaging with these will challenge right wing thinking on different levels.

Yeah. Commits going right to prod makes my skin crawl.

Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.

https://angryflower.com/348.html

I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.

Let’s not put Descartes before the horse.

Ohhh, that touched a deep well of hatred. My first engineering job was full stack and we had a highly modified Bootstrap front end. I’d build the thing they wanted, and the designers would get looped in for QA and insist that various pieces had to look like their little wireframe down to the pixel. I mean look, it’s easy right?

I asked why they are insisting on constantly going against the standards that had been adopted company-wide. Did it stop? Why no! Did I get a suit down with my boss? Why yes!

He is/was a cool guy and saw my perspective but also gave me precious advice on how to survive.

Pfft 😂

Roko’s basilisk is The Game for futurists.

Here you go, enjoy. You win!

Also uses ableist language.

I experienced this and still get PTSD flashbacks 😢

This screams Dresden Files.

As an exmo, it is specifically a ban on coffee and tea (not herbal tea, caffeinated tea). Some are strict and extrapolate this to mean “caffeine” and some are literalists that chug Mountain Dew. It’s very weird. As an aside: one of the names of ephedra is “Mormon tea”.

I played and generally loved it. The art style, the magitek fantasy WWII vibe, and the Skies of Arcadia characters were all lovely.

What I didn’t like was that the missions had messed up scoring priorities: accomplish all goals with barely any health lost but took some time to do it? C or D. Bulldoze your way through? B or A. Then I looked up the tutorials for S Rank and that was behind ridiculous.

Doesn’t stop it from having a good spot in my gaming memories.

Honestly, I count using the four fingers for 1-4, close the fingers and extend thumb for five, then extend each finger again for 6-9.

The right hand counts tens and works the same way. Can count to 100, and it’s pretty intuitive. It’s like if positional notation was discovered way earlier.

Gotta maintain that school to prison pipeline, amirite?

Thanks for this resource!