I was gonna say it couldn’t be Hunt Showdown, but it actually fits pretty well, minus the friendly NPC. Start game, collect clues, fight the boss, wait for the banish and try to defend, then take the boss token to the extract, all while trying not to die from enemy players. Of course the enemy players make it exciting, and I guess that’s why I’m not that into single player games.

How else can you create a good player experience while not alienating casual players though?

I’ve already left, but seeing them marching towards an IPO makes me even happier with my decision. I just fear that the mountains of helpful troubleshooting and advice on Reddit will be locked away forever soon, while the rest of the web falls to SEO and AI-generated nonsense text…

I use Vscode with markdown preview, with a git repo. The only downside is that Windows incessantly wants to group instances of an application, so it’s hard to keep my notes separate from my coding stuff.

Infinite Jest, especially the sections surrounding the boarding house. Its strange mix of exaggerated reality and absurdness really made me question and rebuild a lot of my ways of thinking.

My well-trained monkey brain scrolled right past your comment, then I did a double take because I realized Lemmy shouldn’t have ads. Thanks for that little scare, lol.

Working on a full stack app hosted in Azure for the last year or so, which has come with a lot of learning. Working on the legacy system next… wish me luck!

Out of curiosity, why not go off-the-shelf? I think you can buy ready made systems for that job.