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On the otherhand, nitpicking is fun. Good reviews tell you the good and bad so you go in eyes open. If a few flaws made something unenjoyable, we'd never enjoy anything since everything has flaws.

So for some reason it seems to be I get angry quicker and more intensely. Maybe people are just doing more things to piss me off in rapid succession. And since I have no idea how to handle intense anger, given that I've never really dealt with it, it's not pretty. I usually can recognise if I'm actually losing control and get myself away before I do anything more than raise my voice (shouting at someone is typically the thing that clues me in), but last friday...that didn't happen. Wound up punching someone in the face right before I gained enough control to then start walking away. Yeeeah.

Also been having these odd sad moments now and then when I'm alone. Like I've been about to cry but my brain just shuts down all emotion as soon as it detects that. I've even gone to cry once or twice when alone, face made the cry face and everything, only for it all to stop. Just, stop. Face goes back to null, and I just stop feeling anything at all. Why can't my brain also do that with anger? Would save the awkwardness of having to apologise for punching someone in the face when they were being a dick.

I miss when my only emotional states were "interested", "bored" and "wishing to avoid something that causes boredom". Only ones you really seem to need in life.

A big problem is I suck at recognising my own emotions. Dunno if you could call it alexithymia, but I typically either have to be clued in to my internal emotional state by my actions, or by others pointing it out to me. Like, I can't *know* what I'm feeling internally, can't put words to it or identify it or often even notice it. People have commented I seem stressed a lot more lately, so it could be I'm just running off a higher "baseline" lately.

Given I'm done with work and going back to university soon, hopefully the month off of "adult responsibility" will be enough to fix that.

Got given a £50 Steam token as a present. Pre-ordered this, bought "Sir, You Are Being Hunted!". Today I shall flee in terror from robots in tweed, tomorrow my reign of terror shall begin.

I'm usually not a fan of pre-orders but the £10 off, that it wasn't really "money I'd earned" and it was money I had to spend on a game anyway, and that I was deliberately looking for a game to buy kinda sealed the deal. That they've been very open about showing in-game footage and actual recorded plays of it helps. I'd definitely not pre-order if it was all CG-trailers.

It's my experience that in almost all circumstances, having to use dynamic_cast is just a symptom of a flaw in the overall design. It's a code smell, an indicated that aspects of the design need reconsidering because in all likelihood: There's a cleaner way.

Snazzy overloads and template metaprogramming to put them onto a CRTP base class. There are generic AndOperand, OrOperand and NotOperand functions that combine the "natural language assertion" constraints appropriately, with overloaded operators on the base class to call them. Also means brackets and such still work for operator precedence.

Kinda surprised it works, to be honest. But both VS2013 and GCC compile it. Overloading the boolean && and || operators does remove short-circuiting, but in the use cases here that's not really a concern. It's something I'd never do in "production" code, naturally, but for a testing library? Yes, I believe this is an acceptable allowance.

Basically the whole library is 90% template metaprogramming and 10% the actual fixture logic.

A basic test fixture looks like this: https://gist.github.com/MorleyDev/5362664
The functions needed to describe tests taking lambdas mean I don't need to do the macro hacks to setup a test like older unit testing libraries, such as CPPUnit, UnitTest++ and Google Test. The whole point of the library was more or less to prove C++11's capabilities for cleaner, less macro-heavy code and that proper testing is perfectly possible in C++.

And of course the tests for the library are examples of how to do more complex tests since they're all written using the library

It really depends what you want. If you want something to take to-and-from University for lectures, then a smaller laptop is better and you can sacrifice some performance. If you want something that can be ported to and from home and your university accommodation, but not really to lectures, then you could look at getting a bigger laptop that can act as a desktop replacement.

I went with an XPS 17 two years ago (which is definitely the latter, being a 17'' monstrosity) and it's still a very decent desktop replacement.

So watched an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air recently. Damnit, why'd it have to be the episode that ends with this? This scene always gets me, not enough to make me actually crack...but close. It hits me on an unconscious level, from a time before my memory. I barely remember my biological father. One or two scenes from when I was incredibly young, and a very awkward singular encounter in my teenage years that lasted a few minutes, not much more. An encounter he didn't plan on, and didn't want.

Sometimes I wonder. I know he had children after me, that I somewhere have a step-mother, half-brother and half-sister, cousins, aunts and uncles. None of whom I've met since I was too young to remember more than vague images and sensations about scenes scenes long lost from memory.

He knows where I am. He knows how he could get in touch with me. And I owe him nothing, I need nothing from him and I need nothing for him. As Will so elegantly put it, to hell with him.

But the others...brother, sister. I have a half-sister from my mother and step-father (whom I call Dad, who raised me from a young age and is as a true father in all but blood). I was raised alongside her, I watched her grow from a baby. She is my sister. I know what the sibling experience is like.

But I can't help but wonder, what are the unmet ones like? How does the other half of my blood live? Do they ever wonder about me? Do they even know they have an older brother? Would they even care? Why would they, if I was too young to remember more than that I did at one point see them, and they were even younger than me, how could they possibly remember? Or were they told of me?

Does it really matter? We were raised apart, all we share is the blood of a man that is a stranger to me. Nothing more.

Maybe I'm just in one of those moods.

I do think the Xenonauts X-Com-like came up with the best explanation for why the invasion builds up slowly. The very first thing you research is basically "Why are we not already dead?" and it's revealed the alien ships were built for interplanetary travel, not atmospheric combat, so the aliens are basically having to modify their own ships whilst in orbit to make them capable of actually invading effectively. Since the weaker scout and dog-fighter UFOs are smaller, they are easier to retrofit for atmospheric combat so they are the first ones you encounter.

Simple and it makes basic sense without the aliens having to be "going easy on you".