Did a one shot in high school where to cast any spell you had to sing a relevant line from an extant song.

I don’t remember everyone’s picks, but one player pulled out a pretty enthusiastic Beatles’ “got to admit it’s getting better, getting better all the time” for a heal.

I assume it’s because a lot of people are only semi literate.

Python.

• It’s pretty easy to get going.
• the debugger is very good. Being able to put a breakpoint and interactively fuss with it is so much better than print statements and crying
• you can (and should) use type annotations, but they are optional
• it’s on most machines already, but you don’t want to fuck with the system install of it. On Linux and Mac you can use pyenv or similar if the system came with a version you can’t use. (Don’t teach anyone python 2.)
• the standard library is very good.

You could also do JavaScript, as that’ll work on any modern browser. However, JavaScript is a deeply cursed language. It’s really bad at like every level.

I don’t recommend it unless your top priority is “it is definitely available everywhere” and “these are future web developers”.

This almost makes me appreciate my current job, where most stuff has been in place for years and any changes take forever.

It’s kind of a bummer that it’s going to take like six months to add a linter, and they only started using git like last year.

I’m not going to watch this show and I think it’s stupid that, out of the entire world and timeline, they picked something that clashes with a game.

It’s rich kids getting extra time on tests.” Even as poor students with disabilities still struggle to get necessary provisions,

Sounds like an a problem of wealth inequality which should be addressed

And I don’t know, unless the test is time sensitive somehow I don’t think it matters much to give people more time if they want it. I don’t think most kids are taking bomb defusing classes.

I think making accommodations universal would avoid the income inequality problem, too.

Sorry, I meant, what is the article the student read and responded to. The one the student said is thought provoking in their 650 word response.

What was the essay the student was supposed to be responding to?

Mint is fine. I went with pop!_os because at the time mint didn’t play well with my hardware.

Make sure you test things from the install live disk before you commit. Internet access, displays, audio should all work.

My plan for if a job forced “return to office” on me was to start drinking a lot of milk, and turn it into a “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me.”. My friends said this is a terrible idea. I concede the coworkers mostly don’t deserve to suffer the catastrophic ass gas, but management and the bootlickers I say can suffer it.

There was a website where users could request something or other, like a PDF report. Users had a limited number of tokens per month.

The client would make a call to the backend and say how many tokens it was spending. The backend would then update their total, make the PDF, and send it.

Except this is stupid. First of all, if you told it you were spending -1 tokens, it would happily accept this and give you a free token along with your report.

Second of all, why is the client sending that at all? The client should just ask and the backend should figure out if they have enough credit or not.

Good. The more people switch, the more support there will be.

We see a lot of promise in AI browser features making your online experience smoother, more helpful, and free from the everyday disruptions that break your flow

I don’t really see AI and LLMs as a solution there. Things that disrupt are typically ads or other capitalist nonsense. What are they thinking and how will AI help?

Is there a name for this trope of cramming really wacky, difficult, high spotlight, stuff into a game like DND that doesn’t especially support it?

I usually feel bad because I want to encourage creativity, but I also don’t want this guy to have 80% of the table attention while Bob the Fighter and Joy the Rogue are playing by the numbers.

I think it’s the kind of thing new groups discover and then usually realize it sucks. So it’ll keep coming up as long as new players are entering the hobby.

Like every group has done the “what if we make characters based on ourselves??” trope.

As GM, I would ask the party for their standard operating procedure and then fast forward until something interesting happened. I really don’t like the “well you didn’t explicitly say you were checking this tile so you set off the trap” mode .

Whoever wrote that is a living turd.

I feel like a simple site with RSS, or a web forum if you really need interactivity, were all pretty much hammered out 20+ years ago.

I remember people were very skeptical of steam when it was new. But then they just kept making it better without charging the customer. Cloud backups. The steam overlay. Forums (ok they suck but that’s a separate issue). Chat. Remote play.

Meanwhile, Microsoft was busy jerking off to Xbox.

Kind of. You only get one extra attack for most classes (and most games, since a minority reach level 11 and also have a class with third attack).

It would be interesting if con only got you an HP bonus at first, fifth, and sometimes 11th level.