Sorry, fallen order / survivor, not outcast. That’s what I get for going by memory.

That said, sequels to outcast and x-wing would be pretty awesome.

Games I’m looking forward to:

• Skyrim sequel
• Jedi outcast sequel
• Half-life 3 (lol)

Games I’m enraged there will be no sequel to:

• Days Gone

Games I used to love that were ruined beyond hope and I never want to play a new iteration of:

• Everything made by Blizzard

Games that I’ll consider once it’s on sale for $30 on Steam:

• This
• Whatever the team behind Baldur’s Gate 3 is doing next
• Whatever the team that did No Man’s Sky is doing next

That’s pretty much everything.

That’s one of the reasons I swear all the fucking time. That and I just have a potty mouth I don’t bother censoring when I’m anonymous.

That said, autocorrect fucks me over often enough, if I could wire in an LLM to poke me on the shoulder when I say something completely unintelligible, I would. But as long as I have to copy and paste my shit, that’s too much work, so I’ll proofread after I hit post as god intended.

Frankly, I wish the conversation would focus on the Epstein files. Obviously they don’t exist in a vacuum, this administration does too many awful things on a daily basis to never examine them, but if there is one thing we could do to induce cardiac stress, it would be to hammer him with being a pedophile. Every. Single. Day.

The reflecting pool is emblematic of his failures. As is the Iran war. These are all things he can and does blame on others and attack them for. Being a disgusting child abuser is the one thing he fucking owns. I wish he wouldn’t experience a single day for the rest of his life without someone questioning that to his face.

I think you vastly overestimate the chance this isn’t a scam.

He should ask AI what to do.

without any explanations about the world or comforts to be held

Says who? There are plenty of explanations. Gravity. Chemistry. Biology. Physics. There are tons of explanations of things.

Being told that there is nothing after death or that no one really knows, would have send me spiraling.

I don’t find the prospect of an afterlife comforting. We are supposed to end. That’s what gives our brief time scope and meaning. I’m 51. Already I can only remember highlights of my childhood. What would even exist of me after 300 years? 1000? 1 million? I only have a short time to leave this world a better place than I found, which makes that time and those efforts precious. If I lasted a billion years why bother? None of any of this matters in the context of infinite time.

i cant imagine there being no resentment or conflicted feeling

Why? I mean I might feel like I’d let my kids down if they needed a religion, but I wouldn’t resent it. I don’t own them. They have and will make choices I don’t agree with. That’s why I wanted children. They are my continuation after death. The lessons I teach them about life and how to approach it and how to be good people are the thing that will outlive me. And through their relationships my influence on this world endures long after my name is forgotten. But they will be their own people and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

You can still build components and assemble them once each individual piece works. It’s easier to start with something that works and add to it than start with a “fully realized” script none of which actually works.

Asking folks to review hundreds of lines of vibe-coded slop (anything, really, but especially vibe coded slop) is a big ask. I sincerely wish you luck, though. We all started somewhere and maybe as you work to fix this you’ll become something of a coder yourself.

For being not a coder, this is fairly ambitious. I’ve been coding software for thirty years and I’m not sure I can offer anything technical. Personally, I’d probably try to do this in Python rather than shell script. Shell script is fine if you have tools you’re just trying to stitch together, but this is far beyond that.

That being said, I get it. The first coding I ever did was making a character sheet for roleplaying by sending raw commands to my dot matrix printer from my Commodore 64. You have a vision in your head and a computer at your fingertips and you have to bring it all together.

I respect that and if part of your goal is to achieve this using only bash, then god speed. Otherwise I might look at a language that gives you library support and modularity and unit testing. I write Python scripts all the time, and the truth is I don’t know Python at all, so I know it can be done. Define a unit of functionality and build that piece. When that piece works build another component. Then build a parent program that calls those two things. Then build more components. Define functions that can be reused when you have code that needs to do similar things.

The key is to build standalone functionality — what is the smallest useful thing you can do? Build it. Now you can invoke that every time you need to do the thing. Construct your program out of components you create.

This is kinda like if I told AI to build me a web service but keep everything in a single Java class. It would be a wild and unreadable, untestable mess.

Is he suggesting that playing in the streets was something he used to do before the advent of cars? Like there were all that roads everywhere with kids just playing on them willy nilly, until one day Henry Ford met General Motor and said, “You know what we oughta do with all these fuckin’ roads?” And ever since then, kids haven’t been able to play on them any more?

Is that the version of history we’re pedaling here?