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I was gifted a doily the other day from a young park ranger.

Maybe they like you? Aw that sounds cute.

Minimax is how you solve chess. Pretty simple technique. The main difficulty for humans is maintaining a large working memory.

this has no business being this fun

EDIT: Although, it appears I have an encountered a bug. By the time I get a chungus army and try to fight another muck creature, it crashes, saying something like "You lost! Kobold has left your party. You won! Kobold has joined your party." Then I can't move at all, though I can look and talk. In the inspect element console, this error appears:

SCRIPT ERROR: Invalid get index '8' (on base: 'Array'). index.js:362:18
   at: _ready (res://goon_arena.gdc:22) - Invalid get index '8' (on base: 'Array').


Bruh I'm starting to wonder if I should be worrying about being shot if everybody else is.

Something fun I did with my younger brother in Unity is make a keyboard-controlled helicopter with realistic helicopter physics and spinning rotors. I would suggest something similar. It seems it would be more instructive and fun to start with something light on UI, instead making use of visual game objects and their interactions, which is what Unity greatly facilitates.

A 3D platformer could be a nice example.

The real concern is when you get on a streetcar with a bunch of angry hobos on it. There's only so much room.

Also I find it amusing so many people here have thoughts about San Francisco.

It’s presumably similar to the salt they use in water softeners, then?

I mean, I didn’t know of these things until recently either, and I’m older than you

Don't water softeners have an ion exchange resin? I doubt that would be in a powder form. Also most dish detergents nowadays are made to have soluble calcium salts which means they won't deposit limescale on your plates even if you have hard water.

The order doesn't matter as long as you understand what the symbols are doing to the numbers. Otherwise it's better to do them left to right.

5-2+3: you don't do 2+3 to get 5, making it 5-5. It's actually 5 + (-2) + 3. Once you have it like this, the order doesn't matter because it's all addition.

Same goes for multiplication and division. 5/2*3 is actually 5 * (1/2) * 3, not 5 / (2*3)

Well, if you convert it to all addition and multiplication left-to-right order doesn't matter, but looking at it linguistically "5/2*3" parses having the result of / being an argument to *.

It practical settings where you're computing the result of an expression (computer programming) you would expect most binary operators to have both precedence and left/right associativity. Simple arithmetic operators are generally assumed to be left-associative (evaluated left-to-right when of equal precedence) but other binary operators are typically defined as right-associative. A non-programming example is function composition, e.g. h ∘ g ∘ f is right-associative and evaluated right-to-left.

For composition left-to-right order doesn't matter, because it is associative. (h o g) o f = h o (g o f).