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I just came across a ghazal that I wrote in 2015 and don't remember at all (about my board game friend-crushes). It has my mailing address on it as if I was submitting it somewhere, but it's not in my e-mail outbox, and I'm not sure where I would have uploaded/submitted it then.

I'd revise it if I was submitting it today, but some of it is not terrible?

-Love writing for submission calls with big length windows. Like..."I'm somewhere between 50% to 250% done with this piece!" :D
-From exchange chat discord:


-Also me:

Orange jacket guy shakes his head at intermediate Python documentation hyping up "object-oriented programming" by how you can define custom things like "classes" and "subclasses," so you can make Fido as a member of the class Dog which is a subclass of Animal. And you can assign variables to them like legs=4, and functions like woof() which prints "woof woof," because they feel very indirect and strange--like why would you use "self" as a dummy variable when it isn't doing anything?

Orange jacket guy also shakes his head at spreadsheet-based examples. Like if I wanted to make Joe as a member of the class Customer and have things like zip_code = 12345, bill=49.99, I would just use...a spreadsheet, or some other kind of array/matrix storage format, either in Python or something else.

Orange jacket guy, however, nods appreciatively at the idea of using Python classes to simulate complicated card games like Keyforge. To be clear, I am very very far from implementing any actual cards, but I can now see why you would want to have "power," "defense", "damage," "money captured" as variables assigned to Creatures, which is a subclass of Cards, and how you want to dynamically update them over time through functions like reap() (no input variable) and fight(creature in position X in opponent's battleline)!

I'm a nerd of many facets, and sometimes, I really like it.