Heya all. So, once more I feel the need to blog something but didn’t have any singular impactful event, so here’s a bunch of shit that happened to me recently. Feel free to skip around.

I’m almost done with my Masters Degree

which thank FUCK for. I started this degree thinking that there was something missing in game design literature that I’d find in academia, and have finished it, telling five different people to not do this degree and instead to stick to the books. One thing I did appreciate about this degree was the academic writing class, which actually really interested me and resulted in me still working on publishing a paper (hopefully one of these days I’ll be able to brag about it actually coming out, too). I got three deadlines in two days, so i’m praying for the best, but yknow.

I’m using AI as part of my job

So about two weeks ago my boss told me that AI usage moved from recommended to mandatory, and proceeded to pay me for a 100$ per month Claude subscription. He’s only paying me about 13$ an hour, but yknow, AI subscription.

I’ve now been using it to do some PRs. About as expected honestly - I feel 0 satisfaction from these PRs, and moreso I go “seriously?” when the AI tells me “oh yeah this fix was just moving a function from point A to point B, because point B was a function that just had a TODO comment in it and no actual functionality.” I understand the appeal for programmers at work using it now, because I do not want to be doing this work at all. It lets me say I did more while doing the exact same fuckall I was doing before.

But it also sorta ensures I won’t ever give a shit about this code. I didn’t build this. I don’t know how this looks. The AI built it. It can burn down tomorrow and I’ll roll my eyes at worst.

Honestly for the amount of respect I give this engine, that’s about fitting.

I’m in dating apps again

And… eh? I dunno, I’ve been going on dates and I just feel friendship at most towards these people, nothing beyond it. Do I just force it? Do I stop now? I should probably stop it at some point.

I’ve started making cocktails

I bought a cocktail making set a few weeks back and made a few cocktails at home. Made a few banger Basil Smash-es, but there’s only so many cocktails I can make for myself before I start shuffling into “alcoholic” territory.

Still, if anyone has recommendations for simple cocktails, I’d love to hear them.

I’m in a month-long slump

probably as a result of disliking my job and disliking my degree and kinda waiting for both to be over. Found my way back into a transitionary phase, I suppose, which sucks.

The one thing I have to look forward to is that me and a friend agreed we’re putting our entire pussies into making a game once we finish our respective degrees. We already know what game, we have a solid ruleset, I have a steam store account ready. Should be good.

I started learning Go

Like, the board game. I’ve been fascinated by it for years; only three rules and yet it’s been played for decades. I suck shit at it, but it’s a really interesting game to learn about. Hopefully I even play decently within the year.