I really do not understand how it is not considered treason to give blatantly false testimony to lawmakers. Lawmakers, even the most upstanding and righteous ones, have to rely on the testimony of experts and if those experts can just make up whatever they want then democracy is not worth shit when it can be circumvented like that.

Thanks, I just read them and they are well-done.

Ouch, now I feel like a real asshole; I was reminded off all those purple gradient slop websites. Yeah, your reasoning makes perfect sense. I completely forgot about Nintendo's weird purple phase (GBC, GBA and GC all had purple as their main brand color) because I had a silver GameCube.

- Not a fan of the purple theme, it screams "AI-generated". It's not a deal breaker, you can keep it if you have more important concerns, but just something to point out

- It would be nice to have a "Chapter 0" for a primer on assembly syntax. Does not have to be interactive, a few toy examples I can work out on paper would be good enough

- Maybe I just haven't seen it, but it would be nice to have a reference of all the various instructions. Your lessens explain them well enough, but I would like to have a list of all of them at a glance so I can look up instructions from earlier chapters later.

- https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/swipe-library/-/blob/master...

- https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC...

I like to call those people "ventablackpilled". Being blackpilled is all about gloom and doom, but being ventablackpilled is beyond being blackpilled. It is when you actively want the world to be a worse place because you believe that that is how the world works.

As everyone knows, you are not a true lisper until you have written your own static site generator.

It gave me such a great high with how easy it was to add my own "templating engine" on top, implemented all using macros. The downside is that the crash came hard; there is so much more to a good static site generator such as optimizing the output, supporting scoped CSS, server-side rendering of SPA framework components, and of course integration with the Node ecosystem (for better or for worse there is just so much useful stuff). I have since moved over to Astro. It's still fascinating how far I was able to push my own SSG all by myself though.

The solution would be either for Plasma to do something like River did [1] and separate compositing from window management, or for Plasma to make it possible to use Plasma widgets in other compositors. As it stands now I either have to make do with Krohnkite or go down the ricing rabbit hole with with River and Quickshell.

[1] https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/

But as time went on I came to realize that it was a hot mess to the point where I had to force myself to finish it. The gameplay itself was fine, as with most Nintendo games, but the content was a hodgepodge of parts that did not fit together. The story was building up this grand mystery with an all new villain, but then none of it went anywhere and halfway through the game the developers just threw in the towel and went "lol, it's Ganondorf again, to save the princess".

The items were mostly just "keys" used for very specific situations and just server to overcome obstacles which were specifically crafted to give those items a purpose (the spinning top being the worst offender).

The wolf mechanic was not really worth using, it was just a worse gameplay experience, so the wolf form was something just to be used when it was forced upon the player. You enter an area, it's all twilight and you turn into a wolf, then you go and collect all the light bugs, turn the area back to normal, and then you can finally play the game proper.

The game was aiming for a more realistic and gritty style after the backlash from Wind Waker, which is what many people wanted. But then they put all those goofy disproportionate character models in the game. It's as if Nintendo really wanted to make a new Wind Waker, but then reskinned the models with realistic and gritty textures. The end result is worse than if they had just made another Wind Waker style game. (and I did not even mind Wind Waker personally, but I do get where people are coming from)

The almost-open world design looked cool the first time around, but the world was just empty. There was hardly anything interesting to do. The same for the dungeons. There are no real puzzles that make you think in the game either, it's just gimmicks and chores.

I think this was the last time I gaslighted myself into liking a game. I had paid 250€ plus 60 € for that game, so of course it had to be good. It wasn't, but it took time to admit it. Since then I have taken a more critical stance towards video games: if it's not fun there is no point in forcing myself through it, I'll just drop it and eat the loss. It's better to wast money than waste both time and money.

Is Twilight Princess a bad game? Not really, there are worse offenders. If you have nothing better it's serviceable, but it just makes me want to play another game. Is it the worst Zelda? No, at least not for me; that time goes to Spirit Tracks, the game that irreparably made me give up on future Zelda forever.