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Free will and self control are things that one has to exercise and train at all times

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self-control

Most of your daily actions are guided by your emotions and for good reason, you don't need to make a conscious choice to drink a glass of water in the morning, it just feels right and you just do it.

But as more of the actions in your daily life are guided by your emotions, the less your own will...

Using composition for programming an item system

game-development
programming
design-patterns

In video games, there's a lot of things that items can represent. The classic solution is to use inheritance, making subclasses, like this:

abstract class Item {}

class Weapon extends Item {
	int minDamage;
	int maxDamage; ...

Coming up with characters by purpose, not personality

writing
storytelling

Here is a technique for storytelling: come up with the characters not by who they are, but by what their purpose in the story is.

  1. The premise: Come up with a premise or situation.
  2. Characters: What characters naturally belong in this situation? Take all of the possible...
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Great wizards have moderation restraint

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magic
writing

I think that one of the coolest most important aspects of a good wizard is restraint. The great wizards in narratives usually always try to solve problems without using magic before escalating.

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While traveling by boat, a wizard could alter the...

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Sometimes we forget that literature’s role is not to comfort us, but to disturb us - meaningfully.

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Audiobooks are not “cheating”

I used to picture the “pure reader”: hand on hardcover, coffee nearby, rain outside. Listening to books felt lazy... No scent of paper, no turning pages. Just Spotify.

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