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Five Decembers -- A Stumped Review
This book had me feeling like a crazy person. I had an awful time reading it, especially disliking its prose. What gets to me is that what partially convinced me to give the book a shot was that the prose was being praised in a lot of reviews I've seen about it.
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Noita, Learning in Games, and Tutorialization
I've been kind of neglecting this blog as of late. However, this is not due to me no longer writing; instead, I've spent more time writing reviews on Letterboxd, Backloggd, or Hardcover. It now occurs to me that I should probably also release those reviews on my blog, so I'll be migrating those here, starting with my "review" of Noita.
Introduction
As an avid fan of all kinds of roguelikes, I think Noita may be the best one I've played yet. At the very least, it's the most beautifully crafted, interesting, and memorable. However, it is definitely not for everyone.
The Struggle of Finding a Home for My Book Ratings
In the last year or so, I've started engaging with media very differently than how I used to; rather than being a passive consumer, I want to be an active participant in the art. A pretty important part of that, to me, is a good place to track, rate, and review said media.
Map Filter Reduce is not the Point -- Part 0, Introduction
For this series of blog posts, I want to clear up some common misconceptions I've seen people make whilst they are first learning about functional programming, and the "map, filter, reduce pattern" in particular. These basically boil down to "I can achieve the same thing with a for-loop / list-comprehension".