I told my students to go flux themselves today

They dull knives

“Downloading chrome will improve the performance of this site”

What the fuck is this 2009?

Sexism

There’s a saying some of our american comrads have: come and take it

“Free speech extremist”

Interesting idea to take “non-programmers (such as artists)” out of their normal professional workflows (e.g. adobe creative) and putting them in yours for the sake of productivity. What hardware are we talking about? Are you running a vm? That won’t work on apple silicon. (Which creative types overwhelmingly use)

Bonus question: You “want to develop a game” and are “considering collaborating with others”? What’s the scale and where are we at with making the game? Because worrying about your team’s workflow sounds a lot like having that $10 million idea and buying a domain name before writing a line of code.

That said, I’ve done this kind of thing before. Pick something. Anything. And write scripts to automate most of it. You will never get a 100% turn key solution, and everything has a tradeoff. Solve enough of the problem and go work on your game.

that’s a lot of arguments

When did Nirvana become classic rock?

Just wait until your first student dies

bleak

I hear this question being asked more frequently

Throw it away and start again

Yup. Also, writing is completely non-linear. It’s not like grade school, where you take a blue book and a pencil and “write an essay” from beginning to end in an hour.

Hopefully they don’t still teach writing the way I was taught in the 1930’s.

Your thinking is only as good as your writing

Whoever dismantles the pre-existing structure will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it. This is the entire reason they are doing it. Great if you share their vision. Not so much if you don’t.

If something is broadly applicable doesn’t that mean it can apply to several specific situations?

I never said anything about romance. Read it again.

There is only one solution to this problem, and you are going to hate it: small talk.

When you approach a group of people, start by asking, “May I join you?” Then, tell someone you like something about their hat or you know something about the logo on their shirt. Do you know who’s playing on the screen? How are they doing this season? I’m not a sports fan either. What are you drinking? Is that brewery around here? I heard they use twice the hops. A buncha bullshit like that. Doesn’t matter. Be friendly and talk about bullshit. Call it being a tactical introvert if that makes you feel better.

If you don’t know one of them, ask their name. Repeat it back to them. “Good to meet you, X”. You might forget. That’s fine or even good. Ask them again. They probably forgot yours too. I use this as an opportunity to make a joke “You forgot my name!” “You forgot mine too!” “At least I cared enough to ask!”. People care that you try. Especially if they have a difficult to pronounce name or aren’t from your country. Don’t give up like everyone else.

Join whatever actual conversation they are having or ask what they are talking about. Listen. Drop a one liner. Make small contributions. When presented the opportunity, ask the person you are interested in a question related to, tangent to, or even better about their contribution to the conversation. It is at this point where conversations split naturally anyway. Switch seats or go somewhere else to keep talking 1 on 1.

So like straight up several Dudley Do Rights?