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    Python is Skyrim. It’s fucking everywhere, anyone can pick it up, there’s a kajillion mods, and that’s what makes it good. Some day, though, you wake up and ask yourself what you’re doing with your life.

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    That Haskell/D&D barb hurt me twice; can memes be sued for emotional damage?

    So many fun missing ones to joke about.

    Is Rust, Rust? Insert survival joke here.

    Ruby is Final Fantasy: Japanese and still around even though it peaked a decade ago.

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      That Haskell/D&D barb hurt me twice

      Just start playing.

      Forget about memorizing the rules. Just make shit up as you go. After you get some experience, look at the rules again, you’ll learn some cool new things.

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        I’ve been running various tabletop games for 25 years. The problem is not rules, system, imagination, or equipment. It’s getting 3 to 5 adults in their mid 30s to gather regularly in person to do anything that is the challenge.

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          The only people I know who want to play are my BILs, and one of them lives a bit more than 4 hours away. They also have changing work schedules.

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          I’ve only ever run games online with small groups. It inevitably turns into such a fiasco that the campaign fizzles out.

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    The Tetris design system:

    Write code, delete most of it, write more code, delete more of it, repeat until you have a towering abomination, ship to client.

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      Kind of an interesting take: if some parts of the codebase fit too well, delete all of them 🤔