I highly recommend going to your local board game shop and looking for logic games, like tile placement games or long-term-planning games. There is one called “railroad ink” that essentially has you roll dice that show different bends/paths to draw, trying to connect locations via rail and roadway. It teaches the basic logical concepts that you’ll build off of to teach programming. After playing a few different games, you can use the concepts learned to describe the tools available to them to build a program. I know a few tile placement games are designed to literally teach the concept of script-building, UI design, and resource management as it relates to programming.

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The trend has stopped for modern films, but tons of releases are retroactively showing how it could have been done. Games that capture the creative intent of great films really well like pretty much any of the Alien games from the last decade, those terminator and robocop ones, even Dead by Daylight directly invokes specific director’s visions on characters, scenes, and even campy acting.

All of which are not rushed and who’s scope have appropriately matched their budget.

Factorio feels way different even if it scratches the same itch. More structured with the grid system and lends itself to clean blueprint layouts for efficiency… Always more efficient… Always…

Idk if you’ve played Rimworld or Factorio but they scratch the same long-term-planning itch that Zomboid does.

The mission was overwatch and target identification. That much was obvious. The last 50min of the film was their plans not surviving contact with the enemy. Chaos, death, and clusterfuck are what separates war from every other human pasttime.

Edit: Excellent movie though. 10/10

This. More specifically, the environmental negative of such a small amount of plastic was dwarfed by the energy required to grow produce that went un-eaten, followed by the subsequent CO2 release from decomposition that would otherwise be trapped in… You know… People and animals as food. This film is just all the better for having none of the downsides of plastic waste.

That’s still tens of thousands of jobs that will retire without a train-to-replace pipeline. And escalation, by design, is not formulaic enough to be handled by AI. It exclusively includes all tickets outside the normal troubleshooting and maintenance standard.

We’ll see an aging escalation base untill the pressure forces a few into retirement, which adds to other pressure and snowballs until we have an entire nation of Tier 1 chatbots and overseas Pakistani call center escalation reps.

Note: These bots cannot, and likely will not, ba able to handle escalation items appropriately. There is a skill pipeline from junior tech to higher tiers and we’re going to see an aging skill demographic evaporate into thin air with no one to train the new bots on how to handle a constantly evolving tech base.

Source: MSP T2 Tech