Day 9 - Favorite Antagonist

This one is Higgs from Death Stranding. He’s a threat throughout both games, he’s got one of the best voice actors, and has an interesting story and unpredictable behavior. Excellent character.

Runners-up: Ganon, Dracula (Castlevania), and Sephiroth.

Day 8 - Favorite Protagonist

Samus Aran. There are other contenders: Solid Snake, Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Sam Porter Bridges, but Samus has captured me since the very first Metroid game. The first badass protagonist I played and remains a badass through every entry.

Day 7 - Favorite multiplayer or mmo

This is a tough one. Thinking back through the years the highlights are Phantasy Star Online, GoldenEye, Gears of War, Resident Evil 5 (if co-op counts), but Left 4 Dead 2 stands out to me as the most fun I’ve had in multi player.

Day 6 - Best world building

Bioshock pulled me into its world like no other game. The eerie setting starts off extremely uncomfortable but as time goes on I got attached to the setting. It’s one of those games you are sad to finish because you miss exploring Rapture.

Day 5 - Game that deserves a remake

Vigilante 8 was always my favorite of the vehicular combat games, and I’ve always thought it would be cool with all of the capabilities of modern systems if the proper effort was put into it.

Day 4 - Currently playing

The last month or so I haven’t had much time for games, but when I do I’ve been focusing on Demonschool. It’s an excellent game and the story-telling and combat are perfect for intentionally slowing down and enjoying a game for relaxation.

Day 3 - Hardest boss fight

Probably dumb, but I’m going with the final boss in Infinite Wealth. The whole game has a steady pace but if you aren’t the right level and jobs for the last boss, he’s impossible. And I didn’t want to load an old save and grind so I bailed. Love the game though.

Day 2 - Most hours in a game

I’m pretty sure this one is GTA 5 because I have the actual logged hours on PS4 plus all the hours I put into it on the 360, but Halo 3 is likely up there too.

Day 4 - Hardest boss fight

Probably dumb, but I’m going with the final boss in Infinite Wealth. The game is pretty easy the whole time, but if you get to the boss without the right setup he’s impossible. I didn’t want to grind and have to redo the final stint leading up to him so I bailed.

Day 1 - First Video Game

Super Mario Bros. This was the first game I played, and I played it a ton as it was the only game a had for a while.

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It almost makes it embarrassing to use FP/immutable styles in C#. I was found myself thinking “the team is going to hate this code,” even though it’s literally how the code must be written.

Rubio is a wasteful diversity move.

Cheers to that! 🍻

Forgot to tag @dzoukr.cz since the post calls out the excellent Dapper.Fsharp library.

That’s cool to hear. It’s nice to know other people are in your shoes; it can feel like you’re on an island sometimes.

Are y’all going to try to cut out the C# eventually or will you keep the 50/50 split?

Nice!

This post does a better job at explaining kind of how we do translations if you are interested. It’s probably too barbaric for your situation though lol.

We rely heavily on Microsoft.FsharLu.JSON which has this compact serialization technique built in.

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Yup! It’s the | operator, but you just add a tag (in the screenshot, it’s “state”). As long as the tag is in each type and is a literal value, the TS compiler is smart enough to know what keys are on the object. It goes pretty far for making the domain explicit on the FE.

This basically makes F# the point of truth though, I suppose. The other systems have conventions that give deference to the F# system (which works well in our situation).