{"id":4262,"date":"2022-03-18T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:05:35","slug":"the-jarbochov-weekly-roundup-march-18th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/the-jarbochov-weekly-roundup-march-18th-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jarbochov Weekly Roundup (March 18th, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello and welcome to another roundup. We\u2019re already rounding out March and I don\u2019t know what to think about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s get to the roundup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daylight Saving Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15\/\">U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent | Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate has approved a bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Which no matter which way you cut it, between standard or DST, the thing that we can agree on is that switching the clocks is dumb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I solved the DST debate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9KCud5Xdqo\">pic.twitter.com\/9KCud5Xdqo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; lumpyprol.bsky.social (@lumpyprol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lumpyprol\/status\/1504544616527597568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"797\" data-attachment-id=\"4265\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/the-jarbochov-weekly-roundup-march-18th-2022\/image-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png?fit=640%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,797\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png?fit=640%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png?resize=640%2C797&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image.png?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The usual time of eating dinner in Europe. I remember traveling to Spain as a young kid and my German 6pm meal had to wait until 10pm. It was weird. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0mDlNzFgkL\">https:\/\/t.co\/0mDlNzFgkL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kuApdoEF7J\">pic.twitter.com\/kuApdoEF7J<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simongerman600\/status\/1504202110749061131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unrelated, but interesting. I am an early dinner type of person around 6 PM as that\u2019s how I grew up. But I\u2019m flexible unless I\u2019m hangry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/tag\/neat\/\">#NEAT<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">About 1-in-13 people who have ever lived are alive today. <br><br>A.D. makes up only about 1% of human history but about half of all people have lived during it.<br><br>We live in an insane anomaly.<br><br>Visual by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OurWorldInData?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OurWorldInData<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pPgKbkwN1h\">pic.twitter.com\/pPgKbkwN1h<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waitbutwhy\/status\/1503787076164243461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scale of relative time and humanity yet we act like we know everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/03\/16\/google-docs-now-lets-you-draft-emails-with-others-and-export-them-to-gmail\/\">Google Docs now lets you draft emails with others and export them to Gmail<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collaborative emails\/communications? Finally in 2022? I&#8217;ve had people have to review emails before, and this one of those things that just makes sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/deepwell-dtx-mental-health-video-games-mike-wilson-203821891.html?src=rss\">DeepWell DTx is a therapy-focused game studio from the co-founder of Devolver | Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote jarboquote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAnd these game developers had cracked that code at a level that they were really hitting hard neurological reward centers in the brain, in a way that the availability to effectively change what people do and think in certain times of mental illness was vastly improved over anything I&#8217;d seen before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gz5HrrCMGc8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video games as therapy isn&#8217;t a new concept but that may still elude people that don&#8217;t understand that<sup><a id=\"ffn2\" href=\"#fn2\" class=\"footnote\">2<\/a><\/sup>. So I&#8217;m curious to see where this studio goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/22\/03\/a-taxonomy-of-video-game-difficulty?fbclid=IwAR0t26pTybhIODOJEC73UyihOMea0k0Ypkz4ud7nwMVWrJjlLfqKf6tcmCU\">A Taxonomy of Video Game Difficulty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote jarboquote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Comprehensive difficulty relates to understanding the rules of the game while executive difficulty is about physicality (e.g. fast reflexes, coordination). Strategic difficulty relates to how to use your understanding of the rules and your reflexes to best master the game, your opponent, or yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends have often asked me to become someone who recommends video games based on personal taste, however, one of the hardest things to assess is someone&#8217;s desire to face difficulty or skill. Often I have to use video games to help describe other video games. But this doesn&#8217;t help when introducing someone to something new. Video games have their own language that&#8217;s hard to put into words, and that&#8217;s what where the differentiator of good to great game design comes in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll leave the discussion of what is the correct game difficulty for a later day<sup><a id=\"ffn3\" href=\"#fn3\" class=\"footnote\">3<\/a><\/sup>. (Spoiler: it&#8217;s the one that you have the most fun with.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/historyofhyrule\/albums\/72157634681811319\">Katsuya Terada Zelda Art | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melora Hart has been collecting and scanning high quality prints of The Legend of Zelda art from official sources for quite some time. This collection of art from Katsuya Terada from Zelda&#8217;s earliest days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/3693\/9267817054_40bc83476a_h.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"This one I love.\"\/><figcaption>This one I love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Noclip has to change to survive. <br><br>The past two years were tough, so we&#39;re making changes to bring back the big in-person documentaries you love &#8211; and launching a new channel to flex our creative muscles.<br><br>But like everything &#8211; we need your help to do it.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ggCXRrd5ns\">https:\/\/t.co\/ggCXRrd5ns<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6JFuyW3SL1\">pic.twitter.com\/6JFuyW3SL1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; dannyodwyer (@dannyodwyer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannyodwyer\/status\/1504489647321190405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noclip which has produced some fantastic documentaries about video game production needs to move to a Patreon supported model to stay alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And now we have Elden Ring: all the presentation of a modern game, with 90% less of the cruft and handholding. It&#39;s the Radiant Silvergun of Open World games. It aims for elegance over friendliness, and there&#39;s apparently a 12 million-strong audience for it. 7\/n<\/p>&mdash; fluttermind.bsky.social (@Fluttermind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fluttermind\/status\/1504148256619597833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first reference of comparing <em>Elden Ring<\/em> to <em>Radiant Silvergun<\/em>. This thread is related to video game difficulty. There is a fine line where someone wants to explore how things work, to getting frustrated because they aren&#8217;t explicitly defined. That&#8217;s why you get the hand-holding tutorials<sup><a id=\"ffn4\" href=\"#fn4\" class=\"footnote\">4<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YouTube<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4EyKd7_VW4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something very wholesome about this interaction and audience isn\u2019t in on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSVGnuRuphg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has concluded your weekly roundup. Thank you for participating. You have been awarded a gold star. Tell your friends you\u2019re a gold star winner today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"footnotes wp-block-list\"><li id=\"fn1\">Even though my preference is to make DST permanent, that means solar noon and noon..noon will no longer be aligned, and that\u2019s generally the one constant of standard time is that noon is generally aligned and consistent.  <a href=\"#ffn1\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"fn2\">I\u2019d argue there\u2019s a difference from video games that just hit dopamine centers, compared to games that have environments to get absorbed in.  <a href=\"#ffn2\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"fn3\">If someone tells you the right way to play a game, tell them kindly to shut up.  <a href=\"#ffn3\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"fn4\">I feel this is where having tutorials accessible but optional is good. <a href=\"#ffn4\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I say &#8220;weekly&#8221; you say &#8220;roundup&#8221;. 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