Good luck
AernaLingus
I know there's nothing special about the Battlefront II campaign, but I loved spending hours grinding out the awards in the tutorial level to Legendary level so that whenever I'd spawn in I would have a fuckin' supersoldier with the regen/defense/attack bonuses and upgraded primary and secondary weapons and all that good stuff
Off the top of my head, I remember the Naboo stage and the raid on the Jedi Temple being pretty frustrating. Maybe also the Kashyyyk level? I've played it like three separate times on Xbox, PSP, and PC, but the most recent playthrough was still years and years ago.
edit: also just camping out in the hangar of an enemy starship next to the ammo/health droids (ideally with an engineer to repair them) and just blowing away anyone who walks through the door
edit 2: holy fuck I only just noticed that my autocorrect changed "Jedi" to "Jewish"
My instant reaction was, "Damn, I wanna play this PC-98 game."
Finished the second volume of the light novel The Mimosa Confessions (which prominently features a trans character)
my thoughts through volume 2 (no actual spoilers)
My feelings were pretty mixed after the first volume, and now they're even more mixed. Idk, I guess it's fine as far as teen melodrama goes, but I guess I went into it thinking that the trans experience would be a more prominent part of the narrative. It doesn't help that the protagonist (a cis guy) is extremely redditor-coded and so we have to read pages and pages of his inner redditor monologue since this is a novel (to be clear, I don't think this is the translation team's fault--I think that's just typical light novel character stuff). If I do some self-reflection, I might find it especially off-putting because it's not too far from the way I thought as a 16 year old lmao.
There's one more volume available for the licensed English translation, so I may as well give it a read and see how it goes. After this, though, I'm probably better off finally reading Wandering Son.
I just liked pressing the degauss button
This is incredible
I have (unfortunately) heard of that particular case, but that statistic on autopsies is wild--do you have any recommended reading on the topic?
Serious question: I'm learning Rust right now (3/4 of the way through the Rust Book), and along with it I want to learn the basics of proper software engineering (i.e. API design, project hierarchy, modularity, etc.), but I'm unsure of where to start. Can you recommend any good resources for beginners?
Working on my first open source project has really gotten the creative juices flowing for me. I always wanted to do a personal project, but I could genuinely never think of anything to do so I never even tried. It's not that I've never written any code for myself, but they've always been scripts written to solve a hyperspecific problem and written with zero planning so they're complete spaghetti code. But I recently thought of not one, but two nice little projects I could do and immediately started writing out some basic design docs for them, which may not sound like much but is way further than I've ever gotten before.
One of the things I'm a little apprehensive about is how to create a clean and logical file/module hierarchy from scratch, but since neither project is too sprawling I figure I'll just read a few articles, do my best, and then do a post-mortem to see what I can do better. If anyone has any specific advice about a good beginner resource for project/code organization, though, I'd love to hear your recommendations!
Out of the two of them, I think I'll start with the one that only requires a CLI, since it should be simpler and also involves finite state automata which was one of my favorite topics in uni. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into that one!
I really need to go back and finish S2...it's one of those shows where I had stuff going on, wasn't able to keep up as it aired, and now I don't even know how to start again because I've completely forgotten how the tangled web of politics fits together. Maybe there's a good diagram explaining the state at the beginning of S2 and I can just start from there, because I really don't want to start over.
Looks like there's a light novel adaptation with one volume scanlated, so I might start there--should at least get me partway through S1. Really ought to up my Japanese vocabulary so I can start tackling raw novels.
Idk but I've been watching a playthrough of SA2B recently and the nostalgia hits sooooo good. Definitely a game I'd rather watch than play, though, because damn is that game janky as hell
Oof. Yeah, they definitely did not balance that level as well as they could have...glad you got through it in the end, though!