Side-rant:
I rarely write Python code. One reason for that is the lack of type safety.
Whenever I’m automating something and try to use some 3rd party Python library, it feels like there’s a good 50/50 chance that front and center in its API is some method that takes a dict of strings. What the fuck. I feel like there’s perhaps also something of a cultural difference between users of scripting languages and those of backend languages.

What you described sounds so much worse though holy shit.

Not a game dev either but my guess would be the main reason is server performance/compute cost.
Any checks that are done on the client run on the users’ hardware instead of the publisher having to pay for more/better servers and electricity.

I think the disconnect with most other types of developers stems from the respective goal hierarchies. In most fields of computing, correctness isn’t just a high-value goal - it’s a non-negotiable prerequisite. With online multiplayer games, one of your chief concerns is latency and it can make sense to trade some cheating for a decrease in lag. Especially if you have other ways of reducing cheating that don’t cost you any server processing power.

Also, aren’t many of the client side anti-cheat solutions reused in several games? If you’re mainly checking that the player is running exactly the same client that you published, I imagine the development cost for anti-cheat is lower.

TLDR: Money. It’s always money.

Not even going to engage with the “subservient man” charge as the start of your statement disqualifies it from reasonable discourse.

TIL

My keyboard is very keen on completing “it’s” regardless of context. I imagine this is the case for most people, since usually I see “it’s” when “its” would be correct.

I also think it’s difficult to know that “it’s” is wrong to use because it feels like it follows the common apostrophe for possession rule:
“Australia’s capital is Canberra” -> “Australia is the largest country in Oceania. It’s capital is Canberra.” (wrong, but intuitive)

This is a really good point.

I’ve also found myself messing up the run back but committing to the fight anyway with a few masks down. You can either heal back up by breaking the cocoon, or practice starting the fight low and keep the silk for later (one of the best changes from the first game IMO is making the cocoon an asset in contrast to the ghost that would harass you).

Another aspect is the run back itself. When you struggle a lot with a boss (as I often do), you will have to do the run back so many times that you passively start getting better at traversing the map. And even if the specific combos you used on the boss itself don’t necessarily translate to other bosses, the movement skills likely will keep being useful.

Didn’t personally watch the interview in question (or forgot by now) so I don’t know what they meant, but it definitely feels like lore wise Silksong can stand as an independent game with what I’ve discovered so far.

Regarding difficulty, Hollow Knight isn’t the only game that could have prepared you for Silksong I think.
I think what it helps a lot with is familiarity and mindset. The overall game loop is very similar.

That said, I think it’s wise to give HK a try before buying Silksong. It’s a cheaper game, worth playing through if you’re into these kinds of experiences and if you don’t enjoy it, chances are Silksong will not be much fun for you either.

Still enjoying the experience quite a bit. I’m guessing I probably have a couple more days in act 1.
Dying a lot, back tracking a lot. Flying enemies a menace as always.

The one thing that has frustrated me is the movement. While it is generally fun and engaging and I’m glad they added so many different possibilities, it does at times feel less responsive than HK.
I wish there was a way to turn off the dash-strike, as I’ve never wanted to use it, but it keeps throwing off my upwards attacks. This has been especially annoying in the “Soul Master” fight.
Also, when I’m running a lot in a fight and change direction often, it sometimes starts to feel like Hornet is skating on ice.

I’m not a huge fan of new areas being guarded by arena fights, but that’s probably because I suck at them.

People complain about rosary beads being too scarce and I agree (especially paid bench + beast station combos in areas with next to no enemies dropping beads), but they are so pretty! I love the sounds, too.

The quest system is convenient, though it does feel less immersive than the one Hollow Knight had. I’m loving the NPCs though, they feel like an upgrade.

Overall, Silksong is promising to be a worthy successor and I’m looking forward to the rest of my time playing it.

A general strategy that I used in HK and have repeated with SilkSong when I couldn’t defeat an enemy is first going into the fight with the only goal being survival. Learn their patterns, figure out how to dodge and avoid their attacks and don’t yet attempt to deal damage yourself. That way you’ll get a feel for their telegraphs and their reach, and you’ll build up some muscle memory for evading.

This boss specifically is a lot easier when you have the dash (sprint).
The main problem IMO is when it corners you. Depending on its attack you can either try to run through underneath it, or do a quick pogo+dash over its head.
If cornered on the left side (where there’s less vertical space) I have had some success with simply edging ever closer to the exit - the boss usually does the digging teleport at some point, allowing you to escape.

Yup.
Hollow Knight basically got me into gaming. I struggled plenty and had to redo sections an unreasonable number of times.
Silksong is faithfully recreating that experience, but with even more stunning visuals (I absolutely have to replay on PC), immersive sound and engaging movement. I also started getting lost almost immediately and had to invest in that most OP of all charms.

For what it’s worth, it sounded like they’re excited to keep adding content and really had to force themselves to stop development just so we could get a release so I think odds are pretty good that we’ll get DLC again.
Aaaand they go longer have an obligation to backers to add hornet, so who knows how much they’ll be able to add, or what other games they decide to work on after.
The future’s looking bright.

The comparison is somewhat awkward, because the rails example presumably produces a date, while the python one is referring to an interval of time.
Just from the meme it’s not obvious which was the actual intended use, so labeling either as inaccurate requires us to make assumptions.

Personally, the concept of “10 years ago” is a bit nebulous to me. If today is February 29th, is ten years ago March 1st? Doesn’t seem right. Or particularly useful.

What do you mean? For what purpose would you sort variables or functions?

The nastiest typos are autocompleted similarly named (and correctly typed) variables, functions, or types. Which is why it’s a good idea to avoid such name clashes in the first place. If this is impossible or not practical, at least put the part that differs at the start of the name.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I don’t really disagree with anything you laid out here.
I’ll just add that I think we don’t yet have the conceptual frameworks to fully describe (and by extension - understand) the problem in the first place.

Yes, strong emergence seems like magic, as does dualism. But if there is no magic, consciousness feels like the closest thing to it; so who knows?

I can see what points you’re making, but it’s unclear what you’re arguing for. It would be helpful if you made that explicit, too.

My best guess is that you don’t think that consciousness is emergent. What then, do you consider the nature of consciousness to be? Are you perhaps agnostic on the matter?

I agree that strong emergence sounds like magic and I’m therefore highly sceptical of its existence. I find consciousness one of the most intriguing and mysterious phenomena we know of - I don’t really think I understand it to a degree where I can make confident claims about its nature. But dualism sounds like magic too, so weak emergence seems to me the most reasonable and likely mechanism, not least because it’s one we actually observe in reality.

Yup, Reddit fucked us all after we gave them our knowledge for free.
Trick people into thinking they’re contributing to a commons, steal the contributions and run. Very understandable that many people decided to retaliate after the betrayal.
I really hope decentralized knowledge bases take off. Aggregating niche knowledge from experts and non-experts everywhere the internet touches is such a valuable proposition!

I had like one useful comment posted to Reddit. I’ve left it up, and once every few months I get a comment being appreciative for the info.
Reddit gets the traffic because of Google indexing the original post of a user with the problem. People are going to visit it regardless of whether they’ll find the answer or not. In fact, if they don’t find it, they’re more likely to keep browsing posts in the hope of finding something.

Unfortunately, the data used in that map don’t appear to be corrected for population size.
So the high numbers in China and India don’t really mean much without some additional context.

The map on Wikipedia is based on deaths per 100k inhabitants, which seems more useful for gauging overall road mortality rate.

Before they knew it, the search had turned into a wild goose chase.

You can’t just say “perchance”

Can only speak for myself, but bookmarks are not at all the thing I want.

There’s more cognitive effort needed when creating a bookmark (not to mention several clicks and key presses) - I need to classify, organize, assign a folder, think about relevant tags.

More importantly: while I expect to need the tab again in the near future, it is likely to be completely useless in a few days. Creating a bookmark for that is going to be wasteful clutter that I need to spend more mental energy cleaning up.
The parent comment expressed incredulity at being able to manage that many tabs. I’m not sure how converting them to bookmarks instead helps. It just seems like I’ll need more clicks to get to my site.

Also, I care about the state saved in my open tabs and don’t want to reload the page every time I visit it. Many websites are built in such a way that loading the URL again doesn’t even restore the same state, and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.

Bookmarks are useful, and I do use them, but they are not a workable replacement for tabs, at least to me.