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154 points lowsun | 3 comments | 01 Sep 25 00:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.28s | source
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h1fra ◴[04 Sep 25 08:42 UTC] No.45125072[source]▶
Programming might be a roguelike game, you fail many times at a task, starting from scratch again and again, until you master the field
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1. lock1 ◴[04 Sep 25 10:20 UTC] No.45125604[source]▶
Real life might be a (hardcore) roguelike game too! ... except you can't restart on failure or reroll your starter kit
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2. tigerlily ◴[04 Sep 25 10:49 UTC] No.45125772[source]▶
And that's the trouble with death in rl, the permanence was never implied.
3. monsieurbanana ◴[04 Sep 25 11:53 UTC] No.45126246[source]▶
> except you can't restart on failure

The jury's still out in that one