Souls Like Strings

• When a service says they redact PII, trust but verify
• The 'check' half of 'guess & check' is very important
• Being able to replicate errors locally really makes all the difference when fixing them
• You can trigger Sentry errors in prod by editing the browser HTML to add a button which throws on click
  • e.g. <button onclick="throw new Error('test')">Test</button>
• CI for PRs and trunk should be exactly the same except for deploying, very annoying to merge a PR and have it fail CI

Doom's modern return is the best kind of power fantasy.

Why

• Very, very fun
• Weapon/enemy variety is great and perfectly staggered
• Frantic pace, all mechanics encourage you to constantly move
• Looks & runs great on Steam Deck

Why not

• Bosses can be a weak point
• You're squeamish
• You strongly dislike violence

Impressions

This is very different to the games I usually play. Some of my favourites are Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity Original Sin 2, Slay the Spire and obviously souls-likes. All fairly slow paced, deliberate games with excellent story telling and characters. Doom does...

A story-driven roguelike deckbuilder based on Arthurian legends.

Why

• Interesting lore, fully voiced
• Wide variety of playstyles and mechanics

Why not

• A little easy?
• Mechanics aren't explained well after first class
• Exacerbated by janky feeling UI

Impressions

This is a neat little game, and if I played it before Hades/Slay the Spire/with more free time I probably would've finished it. As someone with a full time job and hundreds of hours in two of the best roguelikes made though, nothing about this one stuck out enough to keep me playing.

I unlocked 4 or...

• enzyme is an alternative to React Testing Library which focuses on the React Tree rather than the DOM
• Jest can run individual tests or suites concurrently, and so can Vitest
• Running DOM-based tests concurrently writes all of them to the same DOM (at least by default)
• This can make it seem like RTL isn't cleaning up the DOM after each test like it should, potentially wasting hours of your time -__-
• eslint-plugin-jest-dom can tell you when you should be using RTL's custom matchers

Implementation Notes

• 'who should buy' matrix at start

Impressions

• Very frantic at the start, absolutely no idea what you should be doing if not prepared
• Can see a lot of people taking their time and ending up way underlevelled/not knowing why
• Very interested to see solo difficulty
  • lack of other people means less pressure to play 'optimally'
  • not ruining some else's run if you just explore/try stuff
• Upgrades are not exciting, at least at start
  • Have heard character-specific ones from story are better tho
  • they are, more interesting/stronger
• wall jumping can...