Mozingo

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[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All works fine for me on firefox android. Works in private browsing mode too. Maybe you have a VPN on or something?

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

As someone who makes indie games professionally, I taught myself how to program by making video games. Maybe it's just my adhd, but I have a difficult time with organized learning, but I pick things up really quickly by doing. I wouldn't get too caught up in the "I need to learn it the right way before I make games" part, since the making games part is exactly what kept programming interesting and engaging enough to prevent me from getting bored.

Second I also wouldn't get too locked up trying to decide which programming language to use. Modern programming languages are all conceptually pretty similar. It's really only minor syntax differences. Learning a new programming language is mostly just a matter of "how do I write a for loop in this language again?" It doesn't take too long to adapt.

I use Unity and C# right now, and I'm in the middle of learning Godot to make the switch. I would generally agree with what other people have said. C# is a pretty good language to start with. Just low level enough to make sure you learn fundamentals without being so low level that you have to fiddle with memory addresses and pointers like c/c++.

As for codecademy, I tried it when I was first starting out like 10 years ago, so I can't vouch for it now, but it seemed to very much be "Learn how to type code" and not "learn how to actually program." Just explaining how to write if statements and for loops isn't really teaching programming. I still don't think there's really a good universal way to teach it, even after taking programming classes in college. Everyone sort of picks it up differently, at different paces, and enjoys different parts of it, so I still think picking a project you think sounds cool and finding and following along with YouTube tutorials and just trying stuff out until it works is a pretty good way to get started. You can always take the time to read a book or take a course after you've determined if programming is even something you're vaguely interested in.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

God I love pixel dungeon

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

That's the 19xx's the 20xx row is only bright up until about 2010. So it's people born in the 70s using their birthday.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yea, I was confused too. It's important in two ways. One is that EX pokémon normally can't be evolved, so this ability lets Evee EX evolve. You don't normally notice the rule since EX pokémon are typically fully evolved pokémon that can't evolve anyway.

The second part is that you can't typically run more than 2 of the same pokémon in a deck, and pokémon typically only evolve from one type of pokémon. So typically you could not evolve Evee EX into Jolteon, since Evee and Evee EX are two different species of pokémon and Jolteon only evolves from Evee. This ability however lets you do exactly that. Now you can run 2 Evee and 2 Evee EX in the same deck and have all 4 of them evolve into the same Jolteon, Flareon, etc.

Edit: Also, the line "if you play it from your hand onto this Pokémon" means that it won't work with some trainer cards, like those that allow you to pull an evolution card from the deck and play it directly onto the Evee EX.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Joe Pera Talks With You

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As someone who's never conducted an orchestra or driven a manual, this simile doesn't really help at all.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Something about this image looks like it was drawn by someone who wants to fuck Sylveon.

Edit: Lol I just read the laptop.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Cafe Leblanc's in persona 5 is super chill and good.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol his name is Gianmarco Soresi, not Gian Marcosoresi.

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this iCarly?

[–] Mozingo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

True, but the line comes from the Bible with the context being that you also shouldn't let it rot. If you're going to sow, that comes with the responsibility of reaping, and that you shouldn't try to escape reaping after you made the choice to sow those seeds in the first place.

 

Original piece by Arsenixc. This is just a pixel art recreation I did for practice.

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