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I wrote a heavily befootnoted blog post about Marathon (2026) and losing in video games https://nex-3.com/blog/marathon-and-the-thrill-of-losing/

House of Nettles • Marathon and the Thrill of Losing

I wasn't planning to play Marathon. Christa, a Bungie lover of the old school[1] and particular aficionada of the original Marathon trilogy, talked it up to me non-stop since the announcement. Undeterred by the decidedly underwhelming closed technical test, the delay that that test prompted, or the plagiarism scandal of the visual design[2], she kept excitedly sending me updates and videos. I read along interested enough, but it did little to make me want to pick up the game myself. I'm not much for shooters. That's not to say I haven't played or enjoyed them; I played through a couple James Bond games[4] and the Halo 2 campaign as a child, I played Splatoons 1 and 2 for a respectable number of hours, and I even cleared the original Destiny single-player content while recovering from surgery. But these games washed over me like waves; none of them inspired any particular…

LinkedIn connection request message: "[...] Tried you over email, but guess now is not the right time (or my scraper has bad data). [...]"

straight-up admitting they're using scrapers is a bold strategy, Cotton

PolyWolf 4d ago

Ana آنا 🐻‍❄️4d ago

Want to work with me, @skade , @jyn , and a bunch of other fun folks?

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ide-compiler-engineer-hiring/

IDE Compiler Engineer (all genders)

Ferrous Systems is looking to hire an IDE/Compiler Engineer to work with us on the overall development of our compiler and tooling infrastructure.

PolyWolf 6d ago

J. B. Crawford 6d ago

how it looms

PolyWolf Mar 14

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@PolyWolf/116225538596061585

Fruits of my labor: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/16751

Thisn's a tricky bugger, no idea how more people haven't run into this (surely my reproduction must be flawed in some way??), at least I have a workaround for now (set branch to master, fetch & build, reset back to main).

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abadidea Mar 14

the cover design isn't at all inappropriate; the original intended audience was not (as many modern people suppose) experienced, battle-hardened lords who wanted to refine their technique to perfection, but twelve-year-olds who were gonna inherit daddy's army one day and needed it hammered into their heads "look Junior, I know that food has always just magically appeared on your plate without you thinking about where it came from, but if you don't take care of the logistics of feeding your army they will literally kill you and bring the enemy your head as a peace offering"

PolyWolf Mar 14

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@PolyWolf/116219566008937589

yak shaving update: I am now attempting to debug Git Itself. I thought the problem was in the clone step but it might actually be in the fetch step, hunch from "just looking at" the object directory was right huh.

$ rm -rf /home/me/.cargo/git/checkouts/boa-f79591756e5629dc/21490ea && ../git/git-clone --local /home/me/github2/driver /home/me/.cargo/git/checkouts/boa-f79591756e5629dc/21490ea
Cloning into '/home/me/.cargo/git/checkouts/boa-f79591756e5629dc/21490ea'...
warning: templates not found in /home/me/share/git-core/templates
warning: haven't got remote refs yet
warning: get_refs_via_connect
warning: protocol_v2
warning: packet read status: 1
warning: processing line ef3a32ebd0864606596ff45d15d776546af0ffcd HEAD symref-target:refs/heads/main
warning: packet read status: 1
warning: processing line ef3a32ebd0864606596ff45d15d776546af0ffcd refs/heads/main
warning: packet read status: 1
warning: processing line 2935b77830f19d20dd83aaba6c393cbcafd81eae refs/heads/wat_test
warning: packet read status: 2
warning: I want peer refs
warning: i want head 🥴
warning: found head 🤩
warning: i aint a single branch foo
warning: got mapped_refs from wanted_peer_refs
done.

$ rm -rf /home/me/.cargo/git/checkouts/boa-f79591756e5629dc/21490ea && ../git/git-clone --local /home/me/.cargo/git/db/boa-f79591756e5629dc /home/me/.cargo/git/checkouts/boa-f79591756e5629dc/21490ea
Cloning into '/home/me/.cargo/git/checkouts/boa-f79591756e5629dc/21490ea'...
warning: templates not found in /home/me/share/git-core/templates
warning: haven't got remote refs yet
warning: get_refs_via_connect
warning: protocol_v2
warning: packet read status: 1
warning: processing line unborn HEAD symref-target:refs/heads/master
warning: packet read status: 2
warning: No refs (?) so i do not map them
warning: DID NOT get mapped_refs from wanted_peer_refs
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository LMAOOOOO.
done.

printf debugging my beloved <3

PolyWolf Mar 13

Jana Mar 13

Recently I had to kill some time in a rather ominous train station, these are the situations where it pays off carrying a camera everywhere. I took these on my old Fuji X-E2 and I love them!

#photography #janacore

PolyWolf Mar 13

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Andy Wingo Mar 13

"cannot tail-call: other reasons" this energy is sending meeeeee, the compiler has determined that it is friday

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