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arcade is evidence of deity's hatred for mankind

No else-if statements Find call is ordered backwards (legit wasted half the day on debugging when I was just accidentally reversing Find calls)  FeatureSetByName  forces you to hardcode strings , yet it doesn't even fail until you try to actually call the rule . Like it passes evaluation.  This language is a bastardization of computer science. Maybe I'm breaking my rule of "I love all things code", but again, I still enjoy the work I do in Arcade. I just think the language itself was poorly designed. 

improved moodboard -- more like a "me board"

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ok, back to work 

2-05-26

Here's a cultural thing I have been thinking about.  I love roller coasters. I also love Disney. But, they appear to be two totally separate communities. Here's why I notice this:  Disney adults (for lack of a better term) enjoy theming, immersive experiences, hardcore brand loyalty, food. They will do things like runDisney even if they are not runners, because they have to do everything that is Disney. Many are also animated film lovers. There is a subset that will also go to Universal or maybe Dollywood. Some may describe it as "cheating on Disney". Talk about Cedar Point and watch their eyes glaze over. If they show up at Six Flags at all (unlikely), they will be too scared to do most of the rides.  Roller coaster enthusiasts will count credits, travel across the country or even the world, understand science and physics and engineering (in some cases, like the IAAPA crowd) or just be there primarily for the social aspect but still be quite well-read about parks and...

A&A: what's next?

Turns out, keeping a theme park blog up to date with trip reports is actually pretty exhausting. I can do it, but I have to do the reports RIGHT AWAY, not piecewise. I haven't been, so I'm almost a year behind -- and probably will just fast forward to modern days.  But there's so much more to do with it. I want to write park guides. I want to discuss engineering, science, history, art. 

two things I need to be doing

I have realized something:  sometimes computer graphics gets skipped when low on time  sometimes game dev does too this is no longer going to happen. today I at least opened up the pages in addition to this, sometimes internet gets skipped and I don't play around with music production  enough, but the latter is fine to wait a little bit longer as I solidify my practice habits I'm doing Disney and Knott's starting tomorrow anyway so...gonna be thrown off 

essential DLR/DCA snacks

cozy cone mac and cheese  adorable snowman  dole whip  chicken tendies, be they crispy or from wendy's mickey pretzel (so you can be the childless tramp who takes the last one)  gotta get some pizza or maybe a hot dog  spicy mac: firetown mac and cheese bites at troubadour tavern churro, of course jack jack cookies  I've also heard that there are some good valentine's day exclusives and some good snacks in the star wars area Hmm also I need to figure out if I'm doing LTUE...

Made a moodboard that represents me

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Usually they're like super old timey and grainy for some reason? Yeah not mine