The difference between coding and programming is similar to the difference between geeks and nerds: difference without distinction. Programming is the act of giving a computer instructions and coding is the act of writing code. We give computers instructions by writing code, so no difference.

Godot is a great place to start. It is a free game engine with excellent documentation and a bunch of online content. It uses a programming language that is simpler/more abstracted then C/C#. It is also way more forgiving then C. The documentation has a couple of tutorials for you to follow as well. Godot also allows you to export your game to browser, android, or Steam.

If that is too much for you you can try RPGMaker MV (nade for nonprogrammers) or Scratch (made for kids).

Don’t focus on learning everything at once. Pick one thing to learn / focus on at a time.

There are tons of free game assets out there for you to use to help you focus. For example when you are learning programming don’t worry about the images and sounds, use premade ones.

You can always go back later and make your own assets for them when you decide to focus on that aspect.

Along the way you may find you really enjoy one particular aspect of it and zero in on that, but for a baseline.

Make tiny simple games so you can see progress and share. This one was/is the hardest one for me. I’ve long wanted to make games and had huge grandeous ideas for one and always itching to make it but I need to tackle things that are reasonable that I can finish.

For 2D assets you could use GIMP for free or Affinity. As a solo developer I don’t recommend Adobe.

For 3D assets Blender is the best way to go and is free.

Engineer here: mostly use i, but have seen j used plenty. First time I saw j used was by a maths professor.

Not sure the point of your comment. The article uses that word, or ither forms of it a bunch, they are not shying away from it. An immigrant is someone who moves TO a country. An emmigrant is someone who moves FROM a country. These are both permanent moves (or intended to be). An expat is someone who LIVES in another country. Formally it means temporarily but I’ve seen it colloquially used for both temp and permanent.

So “US expats in New Zealand” is precise and inclusive whereas “immigrant” means people from any country who moved permanently. Imprecise and non inclusive.

I disabled to use of emojis when I set up our companies internal wiki for SOP thinking that wasn’t appropriate for technical documentation, but my boss asked me to turn them back on because he wanted to use them. I begrudgingly obliged.

Turns out he didn’t want to use smileies, just the icons for quickly identifying bullet points like ⛔‼️✅❕or even 🌐🖨️

Mint, Pop!OS, or Unbuntu LTS

I do CAD and web dev - have been bombarded with “job offers” to get me to operate forklifts and or trucks for 10 years now. Even did an interview once where I didn’t even know that was the job until after the interview.

When you push something you push the atoms in the thing. This in turn pushes the adjacent atoms, when push the adjacent atoms all the way down the line. Very much like pushing water in the bathtub, it ripples down the line. The speed at which atoms propogate this ripple is the speed of sound. In air this is roughly 700mph, but as the substance gets harder* it gets faster. For example, aluminum and steel it is about 11,000mph. That’s why there’s a movie trope about putting your ear to the railroad line to hear the train.

If you are talking about something magically hard then I suppose the speed of sound in that material could approach the speed of light, but still not surpass it. Nothing with mass may travel the speed of light, not even an electron, let alone nuclei.

*generalizing

When can I run Steam OS on my phone? :)

When I was younger about 14 eggs a week. Now about 9.

Where I am eggs have only gone up about $0.20 in the last few months. Still under $6 per dozen for cage free eggs. Maybe $3.50 for caged eggs?

The best moments of my life have mostly been fleeting and mostly inconsequential. The worst moments have mostly had long term consequences.

I didn’t know they had inport taxes on desktops. Thanks for the heads up.

In my experience, typically import taxes are there to try and encourage buying local. Does New Zealand manufacturer their own electronics, or is this import tax just a way to levy money? Or is it to reduce environmental impact?

LEGO Avatar the Last Airbender

Yes, an rpg vector based video game to play in the browser. Actually trying to rearrange my life so I can make it :)

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Doing the same in a couple of months! Whangherei

I remember connecting to private World of Warcraft servers back in the day and even hosted one for just me and my partner. Anyone know if it would be technically possible do this for RuneScape?

I have a bit of an exhibitionist kink. If I thought I could make more money then I currently do, I totally would.

Floccus

When I went to malls as a teenager I would often get stopped and searched as if I was shoplifting. Was over 6’ at 16 and often wore hoodies. When I started getting into cross-dressing I was too ashamed to go through checkout with it. So I dressed in nicer clothes then hoodie and jeans, and shoplifted women’s clothing from every clothing store that ever stopped and searched me incorrectly previously. Part shame part revenge part kink.

Spending and consumning less could help more. Espicially gas and meat.