The Seven Voyages Of SteveOK time to really *really* learn how to use the Gameplay Ability System. Honest. Pinky swear. I will *not* get bored almost immediately, and put it off again in favour of hacking something temporary together. Come on brain, we can do this 🧠 🤛
My problem is that as soon as docs start talking excessively in the abstract, my brain immediately flies off out the window on something else. But that’s also inherently the nature of this kind of system. Most practical walkthroughs are now video, and even watching at 1.5x speed I can feel my attention wandering. I often just get bored and read the code instead but that can miss the “why” if not commented properly. I’d be much happier with a written walkthrough but no-one makes those anymore 😕
Well, actually someone does in this case, which is why I’m mainly planning on using this and not any of the official docs: https://github.com/tranek/GASDocumentation
I realise it's entirely possible that I have AD(H)D and always have; but no-one cared to diagnose those kinds of things when I was growing up, and it seems kind of pointless to find out for sure now. I can function perfectly well, so long as I can pick and choose my learning / working style, which I can so 🤷♂️ Brain is as brain does, works OK on balance 😛
Béla Bartha@sinbad That's clearly ADHD, I do have it. I don't care as long as I can find the methods for my brain to learn/adapt.
Giles Goat@sinbad "My problem is that as soon as docs start talking excessively in the abstract, my brain immediately flies off out the window on something else." I don't have big problems with that BUT there are certain concepts that "don't want to enter my brain at all". Sounds like me when I tried ( a few times ) to learn LISP/SCHEME .. it NEVER WORKS ( for me ) EVER ! My brain goes into shutdown mode around "chapter 3" .. I just can't grasp that "coding" style.
@gilesgoat I’ve always been like this; I dropped out of school because although I’d previously liked Maths & Physics my teachers insisted that at A level you had to start thinking in theoretical rather than applied terms and I just couldn’t do it. Unless I can use knowledge for something practical my brain just discards it. I have an aggressive garbage collector! 😂
@sinbad I've done math at UNI, I dropped at the 2nd year but I've done some exams ( Linear Algebra, Algebra, Numerical Calculus ) it is true "if you can't think more abstract you CAN NOT grasp 'higher math'. Math *CAN* be *ALMOST ALL* applied into something, but that's really "applied math" NOT "pure math". Math is all about "generalizing concepts at max" so when you talk about "sum" it's the "act of summing" it's NOT limited to numbers, sets, vectors and what it means is "valid for everything".
@sinbad well "for everything where you can define something called 'sum' " .. Math if you don't think really "more abstract" becomes very soon "totally incomprehensible for the mind" because you are really trying to visualize "stuff into our 3D world/concepts" that CAN NOT. But I repeat ALMOST ALL math CAN be applied ( and IS applied ) for "everyday real world tasks/problems" but everything is seen "from a more general perspective". "A vector is not an arrow" "a sphere is not a ball", etc.
@gilesgoat yeah long after I left I found several applications for the stuff I was being taught that the teacher refused to ground in applicability (apparently you're not doing it right unless you can think in pure terms, hated that guy), so I had to learn them again, but this time they stuck because I could *use* them
@gilesgoat I'm well aware I'm not built for higher math, I always zone out as soon as I've learned what I need to do "the thing", everything else slides off into the brain bin 😂
@sinbad It's a SAD fact of life "too many" "pure mathematicians" really SCORN "the ones applying math to the real world" like "we are scum because we put their super pure thing into reality". In the end of a day "you do what you want/need to do" if you can solve a problem that's good.
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann@sinbad don't worry, soon those will be autogenerated by LLMs.
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