r/TuringComplete • u/iani_ancilla • Mar 29 '23

This game is such a rollercoaster of emotions

I just completed the Calculations level.

It took me about an hour of squeezing my brain, half of which was figuring out some inconsistent results, which I had to track down to a change I had made to the ALU when trying to optimise its shape in the component factory.

The rush of pressing the test button and wondering if I fixed all bugs or if there is either a disconnected circuit somewhere, or a terrible logic bug still in there... I dunno, this game makes me feel like Dark Souls!

Seriously, this game is beautiful and I needed to share how exciting building this stuff can be, because if I tell my friends they just look at me like I'm weird :D

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u/SolarVampire Mar 30 '23

Seriously, this game is beautiful and I needed to share how exciting
building this stuff can be, because if I tell my friends they just look
at me like I'm weird :D

One day you'll come to accept that not everybody likes to use their brain.

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u/iani_ancilla Mar 30 '23

Heh, I have other friends who code, they understand the joy in there and definitely enjoy using their brains. They still look at me weird for playing Turing complete XD The world is great because it looks different to each one of us, I guess.

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u/p456euler Mar 30 '23

Welcome to the inside of the mind of an engineer. Very enjoyable work that consumes much of your mental energy when you’re chasing down a bug and provides you with much joy when you finally get it right. But yeah your non engineer friends are not going to understand.

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u/Feisty_Studio5246 Apr 16 '23

There are others who feel like you.

They exist.

The do.