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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • similar game play to goose game, but your a penguin, trying to break into the research station and act like you belong for as long as possible. as you always wanted to be an academic.

    your penguin might do things like choose recordings from a tape recorder to convince your “colleuges” in a conversation (they sound like the peanuts teacher though) that you are one of them. wearing cute costumes to blend in (lab coat, twead sweater, glasses, etc). if you are caught doing penguin things (waddling, eating raw fish, etc) you are kicked out as the lab has a strict no penguins policy.

    if your duration in the lab exceeds the top x % on a weekly leader board you get accepted in to a school and the game moves to a school setting. except your penguin is competing with a mix of other penguins (other players) and actual students (npcs) to stay in the program. you can collect recordings in your recorder and change costumes. you can understand other peguins, but the actual students again sound garbled. if your likeability score gets low enough it is discovered youre a penguin and you get thrown out, as the school has a strict no peguin policy. you are released in the icy wasteland and you have to start your academic career over. if you last long enough in school you graduate the game gives you an nft which can be submitted on a website to verify, which you can brag about in the real world! you have an nft!

    if you log in after this your Penguin is stuck in an office with students saying garbled things, you play your recorder, they always accept what you say as you have tenure. you can look out the windows at children playing. raising the question did your penguin really want to get in to academia, to be accepted, or something else…




  • this is what i imagine if happening in those kinder coding classes.

    “today class, we will be delving into the wonderful world of ternary operations”

    “at my old school we never transformed ourselves into anthropamorphic logic gates”

    “carlos!”

    “/shrug”




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    25 days ago

    A Related family has 600k take home. their kids go to athletic camps with trainers from professional teams in the off season. then go back to school and expectedly run circles around their peers. the difference in skill is always attributed to their work ethic or genetics…




  • My problem is my coworkers always misinterpret my reasons for writing tests. they think i must want to make an artisimal work of art, or they think I’m challenging them in some way. in the PR they don’t take the scope of the project into account and start pitching to my boss edge cases i didn’t test for. is it an organizational problem, sure. but tests are not written into a proposal and are billed as engineering hours. get it working and ship it it’s our business model, making tests a niceity.

    /rant