Jorbit

@lego_my_eggo Sure thing! I looked at their curriculum and it looks good. They seem to be covering the most-used technologies in the space.

I would recommend reviewing jobs in your area (or the area you want to work in if you plan to move) and find out what technologies they are using. For example, I'm from the Kansas City area and most companies around here use Microsoft technologies (.NET server code, SQL database, and React/Angular for front-end UI). On the west coast you are probably more likely to find technologies like Ruby on Rails, Java, etc. So it would be good to familiarize yourself with what your area companies are looking for. This also is starting to matter less and less as a lot of companies are hiring remote workers.

It is also a good idea to get at least a basic understanding of one of the big 3 cloud providers: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. AWS is used the most, followed by Google and then Microsoft. It is worth noting, however, that all of these platforms are similar and if you learn 1 then it won't take long to learn the other. All three of them should have some free trials that let you play around with them and learn them.

Feel free to PM me with any questions or other advice as you are making progress. I'm happy to help. Also let me know if you want to do something on Github; companies love it when you can point to a github repo and say "I'm a big contributor of this project."

Metroid: Dread

I quit my job for a better job just a few months ago. I made the decision purely for my mental health. I even took a small pay-cut to do it. I haven't regretted it even for a second.

At the end of the day, our jobs are a huge part of our lives. If you can make your daily life better by leaving your job then I say do it.

Also if you ever consider changing careers to software dev, PM me and I can help. It's a good space to get into nowadays. That said, it's not unionized at all so you'd be leaving that behind. I bring it up because it's a common thing these days for people to career switch. EDIT: This offer is for anybody, I'm happy to help people switch careers into software dev.

RimWorld

Surprise surprise, there's a new Elite: Dangerous expansion coming in early 2021? Well it was a surprise to me - I downloaded ED to mess around for a few hours, and just stumbled across the trailer!

This expansion will be adding first-person combat, social hubs, etc. - which is sort of Star Citizen's M.O. Some of the confirmed features include (but are not limited to):

• Atmospheric Landings (currently you can just land on lifeless rocks and drive your rover around)
• Living creatures, distributed across the galaxy
• Similar to No Man's Sky, you can scan local flora/vegetation and sell the discoveries - your player name is permanently attached to the things you find.
• Social Hubs, aka walk around on the space stations and visit NPCs in-person
• Explore planets / moons in first-person
• First-person combat - with rifles, shotguns, pistols, rockets, etc.
• Lots more (here's a list here: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Wiki)

Not available at launch but said to be coming later is walking around your ship interior - kind of a bummer this isn't out at launch, but at least it's being worked on.

I have a love-hate relationship with ED. I simultaneously find it boring and compelling. I usually play it for a few days before uninstalling it and returning months later for a few more days. I wonder if this expansion will finally break the variety-barrier for me and give me more of a game to enjoy, and not just fly around and sight-see in.

I'm getting a "you need to be premium" error on the Roku app for the latest Resident Evil 2 playdate. Only for that video. I tried reinstalling the app and then relinking my account but still the same issue.

http://imgur.com/a/bO2mADi

I want to participate but man am I out of ideas. Lang Attack was fun to make last year, though. I was thinking about doing a Unity game this year but I'm so out of practice with that engine.

I am here to confess my crimes.

Over a year ago I created a twitter bot, for fun, which uses markov chains (http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/) to generate sentences. I wanted a bot which generated its own content - but that's impossible without source material for it to draw from.

At first I thought I'd just have it grab tweets randomly from the web and use those as its source for constructing new tweets. I tried this, but the bot ended up being boring. The sentences were just too random, and for some reason he'd often just tweet people's names... so I scrapped him.

I decided that what the bot lacked was a personality. Its tweets needed to come from a singular person, not hundreds of different people. So, as a test, I made a bot which only used Dan Ryckert's tweets as its source material. It was then, in June 2017, that Vlugen was born.

The tweets started making more sense (not completely) and definitely resembled the Dan we know:

There was a lot of metal gear and taco bell. I wanted more though. I didn't just want a Dan Ryckert bot, I wanted something unique.

I restructured the database to allow bots to have defined "personalities," which would use multiple user's tweets as its source material and combine them to truly get wild. Over the next few weeks I added and removed many users to Vlugen. Several weeks later I think I perfected the monstrosity. Vlugen's soul was now split into four: Dan Ryckert, Bakoon, Dril, and Casey Malone.

After this I just let him run. He logs in, makes a decision between tweeting, retweeting random people, following a trend, following a random user, or just doing nothing. He sleeps at 10pm every night and wakes up at 8am every morning. Sometimes he takes a long hiatus from twitter and comes back. He's been tweeting for months. He has followers, he gets confused direct messages every once in a while. Today he made fun of some kid's shitty pushups.

Here he is. I just needed to share.

I think this is the absolute best one to get into the series with. It's the first one with any real attempt at tutorials, and they seem to be doing a good job with it.

I've only played MH4U on the 3DS and only used the Insect Glaive because that's the only one I knew how to use. I could've looked up videos and found another one I liked, but I didn't want to. Like you said, it was all too obtuse. With the beta for this game, though, I've naturally tried out other weapons and picked them up pretty fast without needing to watch tutorial videos or look up a wiki. The game is just way better at introducing you to a weapon and letting you naturally figure out how best to use it.

With the exception of the horn. Had to video that one,

I noticed that the GBE Playdate: Life is Strange 12/11/2015 video is missing from the Playdate video category in the Roku app.

Also the "Choose Our Own Adventure" series isn't in there at all.