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  • marlowe221@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Node ModulesEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I write back end JS, when I’m not writing back end C#.

    It’s totally fine. In fact, Node makes it a great back end language. I find that the infamous quirks of JS fall into two categories - “common enough that you internalize the rules for them” and “edge cases that almost never come up in practice.”

    And when you write back ends in JS… you aren’t on the endless new framework treadmill!

  • marlowe221@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•I was a North American kid who grew up without an NES, and for this reason, I have a different perspective on retro video games.English
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    4 months ago

    I’m the same in that I was in elementary school when the NES was “the thing to have”… but I don’t think we could afford it at the time.

    When I asked my parents for an NES for my seventh birthday in 1989, I got a 2600 and 40-ish games instead. Years later my mom told me she bought the whole thing at a yard sale for about $40.

    It wasn’t the latest and greatest… but I didn’t care. I loved it. I had a great time exploring the cartridges, most of them had manuals to go with them, and playing with my dad.

    An uncle would later give us an old 386 PC and I played DOS games on it.

    I did get a SNES around 1992, so I did have my fair share of Nintendo as a kid. But I certainly didn’t start there and knew that there was more to video games than Nintendo.

    I was still playing my 2600 and SNES when I graduated from high school, along with playing CRPGs on the family computer too.

  • marlowe221@lemmy.worldtoStar Trek Social Club@startrek.website•The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the MovieEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Right, it’s Sisko’s “It’s easy to be an angel in paradise…” from season 1. That’s the main theme of the whole show - how do the Federation’s ideals hold up in significantly less than ideal conditions? What does it mean to be “the good guys” when all of the choices in front of you are varying degrees of bad?

    People always mention the later seasons, understandably so, but it carries through the entire series. In some ways, it’s even more prominent in the early seasons when DS9 is portrayed as being pretty remote, Federation back up is far away, the main cast is own their own, and the Cardassian fleet is always nearby.