💻 I feel like a grandpa reading the Remix-docs remix.run/docs/en/v…
2022
🎮 I’m sure it prepares you for overcoming IRL challenges in a way. Maybe kids and youth does need that lesson, and if they learn it in a game, great. I can only speak for myself, and when I beat a boss after 5-50 tries, after the first “Yissss!” has faded I only see the coming bosses who are probably much harder and will take even more of my limited time.
🎮 I never understood the toxic and annoying fandom with Souls games. And how folks keep celebrating the overcoming of challenges that are thrown at the player. Did they ever, well, practise a thing? An instrument? Drawing? It’s all the same. But with a game, the acquired skill doesn’t really have lots of use AFK. Unless one is a streamer ofc.
🎮 Also since having kids, I got super-picky and annoyed with games that are wasting my time. Not being able to save a game when I want. Games that corrupt my savegame unrecoverably (Halo Inf. (12 hrs in), AC: Valhalla, Immortals Fenyx R. (14 hrs. in).
🎮 And ultimately the question is, why invest so much time and energy in something that may be fun sometimes, but in the end doesn’t have any benefits. Actual work is paid, at least.
🎮 Nowadays I have around 30-60 Minutes a day for gaming. Sometimes a bit more. Less on weekends. For ER there needs to be mental energy left, too, which is not always the case.
🎮 I like Elden Ring a lot, more than any other Soulsborne. On the other hand I would have to continue playing for months to get to a level where it gets fun, let alone finish it. Not sure if I’d rather play smaller games instead. So much good stuff coming out these days.
If you ever wonder how good the Tiktok-Algos are, open it in a new private Browser and scroll through that. Night and day.
“Java is a boilerplate-driven language for writing instant legacy-code” www.youtube.com/watch
On the other hand, when I do have a concrete idea, I prefer not to use any new tech, but prefer to use something I have experience in, to get it done/out quickly.
I often feel the urge to try out new languages, game-engines, frameworks etc. but the interest almost always wanes after getting a first idea of the thing, because I have no ideas for projects.
Is Meteor still a thing? Note to self: look up.
For full-stack I find it annoying to work on two projects, back- and front-end at the same time. Ofc there is the “classic” server-rendering, but I do feel like the ideal situation is to have one codebase and a permanent connection between browser and server. (The hypothetical use-case here is a side-project with me as only dev)
Asking around some more I came to the conclusion that one should stick to client-only-use with Next.js. I guess something like Elixir/Phoenix with LiveView is the closest thing to my preferred structure/architecture.
Next (hehehe) step will be to make a simple guess-the-number-game in Next.js.
Seems like the “api”-folder is the place for such things. Feels stateless on first look. Let’s see.
I guess the actual question is, whether it’s able to keep a state in sync with the front-end. Maybe I’m thinking too much in the direction of Phoenix and LiveView here.
Starting to look into Next.js and similar approaches. I wonder if it’s possible to do stuff on the (Node-)Server only, like game-logic that the client shouldn’t see. Or server-calls to counter CORS-issues. Or is it just for constructing DOM for that initial render…
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