Soiled it!

Also the name of one of the best sci fi novels ever written, which has references to the phenomenon

I wept.

My favorite feature is how currying is applied literally everywhere. You can take any function that accepts 2 args, pass in a single arg and return a new function that accepts one arg and produces the result. In Haskell, this is handled automatically. Once you wrap your head around using partially applied and fully saturated functions you can really start to see the power behind languages like Haskell

I’ve been learning Haskell, and now I won’t shut up about Haskell

“Our cousins lie about our family trees.”

Thank you for writing this up. Blindsight to me is exactly as good as it is hyped up to be. I think it crops up in all recommendations lists because regardless of what you’re looking for, it is something one should at least try to read. It’s one of the only books that I will actually reread every now and then. But I won’t pretend that Watts’ pros or character work is what brings me back. It’s purely the scope and delivery of his ideas that makes the book so fascinating and the atmosphere of the novel completely supports the abstract nature of his arguments.

The fact that Echopraxia is not as praised as Blindsight has always led me to believe that the book was missing the parts that made blindsight so great, and frankly without those parts blindsight would be a below average sci fi novel. I will move this up my TBR list based on your recommendation.

Piranesi??

Never seen this before. It’s incredible!

To each their own, but I am having fun. I definitely understand more about them than I have before now

Just picked it up for myself after bouncing off fighting games my entire life and this one finally feels like it bridges that gap of being incredibly accessible for absolute trash while maintaining an incredibly impenetrable upper echelon of performance. And it just looks so incredible

Kb+M is the way to go, even better if you can map shoulder fire to extra mouse buttons. PS4 version will be exactly the same as PS5 version minus graphical and performance improvements. Highly recommended game in my book

Then I could finally have a lightning McQueen mech

You’re really close to the hardest boss from the first two chapters!

So far it’s my 2nd favorite AC game after 4: Answer. Could easily surpass 4A if there are any AC fights as cool as White Glint fight or the final mission 5 v 2 nightmare.

Just finished chapter 2. The chapter bosses have been amazing and incredibly difficult so far.

Agreed, but I can tell I’m getting old because the frantic firing the shoulder weapons with q and e makes my hand ache

Single most disturbing scene from a movie that wasn’t rated R

It’s an endless cycle. You work hard to enforce your ideals, then when you have the power to make decisions you realize how dependent you are on others to facilitate action. And every one of those people wants something in exchange. Suddenly the ideals you sought to enforce become diluted by compromise, everyone is unhappy and there’s a giant bear called greed knocking on the door into your mind.