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A lot of the game was spent walking from puzzle to puzzle. I think prioritising graphics was a good choice, because one was forced to notice the landscape.

Mine are Rust and Go.

Rust: I simply don't like the syntax

Go: It just feels "wrong". There's something off about it. I feel as if it is an evolutionary dead end.

It's actually not that unconditional, and is something you have to work for. They will of course be happy that you come from work and show affection as they are social animals, but there are definitely different levels of affection even within a single household.

The reason people talk about the mouse is that it's one of the worst ideas they ever had.

At the time, I remember someone claimed that the reason was that they were afraid people could leave it plugged in for convenience. Apple thought that would lead to a worse experience because their mouse was designed to be used wirelessly. I think it was actually more related to aesthetic "icks" by the designers, because people would have disconnected the cable if it was in the way.

Postgres supports enum that would fit this use case well. You get the readability of text and the storage efficiency of an integer. Adding new values used to require a bit of work, but version 9.1 introduced support for it.

Is there enough information to show exact addresses? For example "221B Baker Street"

Are the names of cities/streets included in the tiles, or do they have to be placed from a different data source?

Are you planning to add persistent events as well, so that events are not lost due to crashes

I’ll take “just use Postgres” over “prematurely add three new systems” any day. Complexity has a cost too.

Using Postgres too long is probably less harmful than adding unnecessary complexity too early

> I sometimes wonder if this is what happens when people get older and happened to me early, or if it's just a personality trait.

It's a cliché but I (almost 50 years old) have found that when you get older, you notice patterns, Something "new" is often just an incremental improvement or two existing things combined.

Rust doesn't excite me much, and Go seems too boring to use for my side projects. Elixir + Phoenix LiveView is the only "new" thing that has excited me in the past decade, but I can't stand the Elixir syntax. Maybe it's because I have seen so much change during the years? If someone started out with React, a new version seems like a big deal, but to me it is just an incremental improvement.

When I was a kid, a new CPU or GPU had an extreme impact compared to the previous generations. We went from crappy Wolfenstein graphics to Quake in a few years. I have stopped following new releases now, because they don't really do much.

The same applies to mobile phones. The next iphone / samsung model doesn't really motivate me to replace my existing phone.

I think you are on to something.

My theory is that the brain is good at compressing memories, so if you do mostly the same things every day it's not stored as a separate memory.

I actually felt my 30s as one of the longest periods in my life, because of things that happened in my life