what's your result on
the north-o-meter (disclaimer: 2013 internet humor and quiz format)
48% which puts me in wolverhampton (*shudder*)
the real win here is that tom scott saved ed balls teaches typing:
https://www.tomscott.com/usvsth3m/edballs/
do you think pokemon is fundamentally bad or good as a competitive game? what about randbats in specific?
i think it has a lot to offer: its stochastic nature introduces an extra hurdle to build strategies around and the fact that you try to predict your opponent is something that i think more games should have. the rush of building a theory of mind about your opponent and testing it is great. (it should come as no surprise therefore that i like poker as well)
i play randbats because i cba with making teams, but you still get a lot of those aspects I mentioned. but instead of the teambuilding side you can now try to infer the rest of your opponent's team, which is no mean task as they're all random. One thing I've picked up on is that if your opponent has decided to leave in a grass type against a fire type for example, it's often because their team is equally fucked against fire and they're in damage limitation mode. That kinda of behaviour is something you don't see as often in competitive games. And sometimes the game is so stacked you're forced to go for some really bizarre strategies to give yourself even a 10% chance of winning.
do you have any favorite climbers?
the only one i know is alex honnold (el capitan fame).
you said python is your favorite language. do you care about the development of the language? did you care about all the stink that was raised when van rossum added the walrus operator?
haha did he really? My colleague is pretty outspoken over it too...I'm not a big programming language nerd - I generally see them from a very practical standpoint, but I think the walrus operator probably does more good than harm by saving time and lines writing code, against the extra rope it gives you to hang yourself with.
I don't care per se, but I find it interesting to see the slow convergence of popular languages over the years: each one is taking the best bits of the others. Java 8 introduced lambda functions back in like 2015, Python's brought in a bunch of asynchronous library support, and Javascript has become more "human readable" with things like the `let` keyword.
any standout thread/moment from v (known to ancient ones as vader)?
the morally questionable but hilarious posting of that photo of a dead grandpa with his family sitting around him. he did have a penchant for shock humour but he did it rather effectively.
do you think theres any way to spiritually revive the 'v likes this thread' thread tag?
replace it with shade. he needs it because he refuses to use reacts
beef supreme
frogs are stupid. they are an evolutionary dead end. Their skin is permeable to environmental toxins, and what they get in return? Being able to breathe through their skin? Lungs are far better at that. Any animal that has to use its eyeballs to swallow is a complete failure and proof that god was really phoning it in by the time he got to designing them
favorite frog in pop culture?
sir are you asking me if we have battletoads in stock
which of the prior questions were most garbage?
naw son don't put youself down like that
P.S. i caught you in the lie. you are not of European descent, you are
100% arab
ahhh fuck