Happened twice, both to my #1 games. Tried Chrono Trigger as a kid and didn’t like it, then came back and played it as a young adult and was like… damn… this is an actual treasure.

In 2015 I tried FFXI due to the XIV crossover event, and I could not get past the eccentric and clunky UI and the pacing of the combat. I tried again a couple of years later and committed to finishing all the stories. It became my new #1 and I think genuinely one of the best games ever made, in terms of revealing and pushing the artistic potential of online games, and games in general. Actual masterpiece and a massive innovation, and unlike Chrono Trigger I think the lessons are going to be a lot harder to learn and replicate.

this is the entire cycle that keeps undergrad computer science going

I get the feeling that “Techdirt” may be a bit biased.

nano for editing config files, emacs if I’m writing code… kwrite or joplin if I need a scratch pad or to share notes between devices respectively

Yeah, I only learned this by chance because of a builder in my Civ!

Planets actually have two kinds of pole. The magnetic poles at ±90 latitude on your scanner, and the geographic poles with short to no nights, which have to be found through trial and error.

There’s also a method using trigonometry that I’m going to have to sit down and learn.

The reason this works is because planets have no rotation about their axis. The time of day is completely determined by their orbit about the sun. That way the sun is always shining on the equator and you can make a more educated guess about where the poles are.