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Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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dymk wrote: post #263
forgotpwd16 wrote: post #221

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It may not have a public* release but, over the last decade (starting pre-Zig/Odin), Blow has discussed it extensively in his videos[0], enough that even ~10y was possible for someone to make a toy independent implementation[1]. [0]: https://inductive.no/jai/ [1]: https://github.com/Sharir/jai *Although there has (always?) been a private alpha/beta release.

Still then, it's a stretch to say that Jai influenced other languages. How could it when only a handful of game-centered applications have been built by a handfull of devs? Rust and Zig developed features by cutting their teeth on large amounts of real software, not by following one guy's personal project that has no source, no library, no spec available.

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Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by jstimpfle »

KittenInABox wrote: post #422
jstimpfle wrote: post #296

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Is the opposite explained? I haven't read literature on the topic, and I'm by the way also somewhat of a sceptic of science on such topics, as a layman. But it seems super obvious that girls/women on average are not wanting to spend their teenage years in the basement programming geek stuff, like many boys/men do. In my experience, here in Germany, and you can probably extrapolate to the West in general, it's not lik…

> Men are, on average, just more willing to put in the hours of social neglect in order to become good at such things as programming, or also gaming, or whatever other fringe unsocial hobby. It is much easier to put in the hours of gaming when you're not repeatedly called for your rape or have someone trying to stalk you or similar aggressive behaviors towards people perceived as female in these spaces. I pretended t…

Point taken. I do think that it can be challenging to be a rare female amongst males (it would probably be similar the other way around). But the biggest contributing factor for such behaviours is certainly the anonymity of online gaming.

Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by magicalist »

jstimpfle wrote: post #459
onraglanroad wrote: post #412

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Well, no, you're the one that is "wrong, anti-science, or lying". The very first sentence of the article you linked to says, "Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood." So claiming that its for biological reasons is bullshit. You have no idea whether it is or not. And neither does Blow.

AFAIK there are differences established on many psychological axes that are more basic than "occupational choice", such as competitiveness, neuroticism, interest in things vs human relations, and others. I don't understand these deeply but you can research for yourself, so there is certainly no shortage of possible explanations based on those.

> AFAIK there are differences established

Well, you "haven't read literature on the topic"[1] so maybe leave the speculation at the door or go out and read some literature to cite rather than presenting "ideas [you]'ve picked up that [you] can agree with" as "established"?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315540

Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by wahnfrieden »

incrudible wrote: post #140
latexr wrote: post #66

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> these are not fringe opinions Neither was slavery. Was that OK too? And to clarify (though it’s worrying this point needs to be made), I mean morally. > throwing around certain bad words like fascist Fascism has a very clear definition. It describes a particular set of behaviours and actions, all of which you can compare to reality and determine if it’s happening or not. It’s an objective word. If anyone is trying…

> Neither was slavery. Was that OK too? And to clarify (though it’s worrying this point needs to be made), I mean morally. From the perspective of a pre-abolitionist society, it evidently was, but that's not a political issue you're gonna have to deal with in 2025. Consider yourself lucky. > Fascism has a very clear definition. First of all, that isn't true. Secondly, even if it was true, it wouldn't matter. You are…

Slavery is not only legal in 2025 USA, it is in greater numbers than back then. There are 40-50 million enslaved worldwide today.

Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by onraglanroad »

psyopsy wrote: post #454
onraglanroad wrote: post #412

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Well, no, you're the one that is "wrong, anti-science, or lying". The very first sentence of the article you linked to says, "Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood." So claiming that its for biological reasons is bullshit. You have no idea whether it is or not. And neither does Blow.

LOL. You're going to dismiss the study because of the justification for doing the study. Here, let me help you understand: "not fully understood" -> "so we studied it" -> "here's what we found" Besides that obvious point, the sentence you quoted says "not yet fully understood," not "we have no idea." Those aren't the same thing. We actually have substantial evidence pointing in a clear direction. - The most egalitari…

I didn't dismiss the study; I agree with it. Not fully understood.

Think harder kid.

Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by ghastt »

psyopsy wrote: post #454
onraglanroad wrote: post #412

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Well, no, you're the one that is "wrong, anti-science, or lying". The very first sentence of the article you linked to says, "Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood." So claiming that its for biological reasons is bullshit. You have no idea whether it is or not. And neither does Blow.

LOL. You're going to dismiss the study because of the justification for doing the study. Here, let me help you understand: "not fully understood" -> "so we studied it" -> "here's what we found" Besides that obvious point, the sentence you quoted says "not yet fully understood," not "we have no idea." Those aren't the same thing. We actually have substantial evidence pointing in a clear direction. - The most egalitari…

> Male and female monkeys show the same toy preferences we do. Nobody's socializing rhesus monkeys into gender roles.

You may believe that, but: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9898904/

Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by kragen »

swiftcoder wrote: post #451
kragen wrote: post #425

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It seems that the "covid trutherism" or "spreading covid misinformation" claim is unjustified. Here's Blow's original tweet: > If a state entity does an oopsie in a lab, then forces its citizens to undergo an experimental treatment because of the oopsie, while suppressing news of side effects, and also denying that the oopsie is anyone's fault ... that's just abusive? Unfortunately Blow was unwilling to come out and…

> because he criticizes the Chinese government I think you are taking a very charitable view here - the tweet immediately before the one you quote is clearly talking about the US vaccine mandate (not China).

The tweet immediately before this one says:

> There's a weird disconnect in this vaccine mandate debate: many are still pretending that Covid-19 is of natural origin, which gives such mandates a different feel than they otherwise have.

Contrary to your assertion, this is not clearly talking about vaccine mandates in any particular place. And the tweet I quoted previously is claiming (or hinting) that the same "state entity" had caused the pandemic and mandated the "experimental treatment". I'm not familiar with any versions of the lab-leak hypothesis that claimed that covid escaped from a US lab, so I don't think it's a reasonable inference that he's talking about the US vaccine mandate.

On the other hand, he seems to have worked pretty hard to avoid clearly stating any of his positions here, so who knows what he really thinks? Or thought?

Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

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Post by wahnfrieden »

sunrunner wrote: post #465
johnnyanmac wrote: post #440

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>Meanwhile the various accusations about Blow’s politics beliefs are mysteriously missing He sort of went mask off during COVID, so I believe it. I also believe Blow is a smart dude and would try to erase that history right before a PR rally for his game. I'm not even on Twitter but I hear about such events in the gamedev scene for years.

Also not on Twitter and try hard to avoid the easy source-less Internet drama, though I recall some comments about the vaccines being rushed out and not going through the standard trial processes and periods. It doesn’t seem untrue, though given the environment at the time justified, but that comment was extrapolated to “He’s a hard-right anti vaxxer”. No citations of my own though, so this is just memory. Either way…

You are picking a small comment among a mountain of them and giving the most charitable possible interpretation of it. Strange for you to join conversation to defend the guy as you admit you have no sources to cite.
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