though also horrified at quite how much I *do* use net very much as something to keep my hands busy while not stopping me thinking about harder stuff
Well, it might work better for you! I've seen you play Net, and I know you're a lot better at it than I am even now, let alone what I was like when I wrote that old post :-)
(If you're interested, that was more or less the genesis of my puzzle collection: the version of Net I describe having written there is not the one in the collection, but an earlier 'build one to throw away' first attempt written in Python. The next year I rewrote it from the ground up having worked out all the things that were wrong with that version, and that started the collection proper. You'd recognise the original version's graphics, though.)
And thank you also for contributing so thoroughly first time round in this discussion
You're welcome, and I'm glad it was helpful!
As you might have noticed, this is a subject on which I've done some thinking of my own in the past, so when you asked the question my reaction was less 'is there anything I can say?' but 'how can I turn my giant pile of past ponderings into something short and snappy enough to be useful?'. :-)
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Well, it might work better for you! I've seen you play Net, and I know you're a lot better at it than I am even now, let alone what I was like when I wrote that old post :-)
(If you're interested, that was more or less the genesis of my puzzle collection: the version of Net I describe having written there is not the one in the collection, but an earlier 'build one to throw away' first attempt written in Python. The next year I rewrote it from the ground up having worked out all the things that were wrong with that version, and that started the collection proper. You'd recognise the original version's graphics, though.)
And thank you also for contributing so thoroughly first time round in this discussion
You're welcome, and I'm glad it was helpful!
As you might have noticed, this is a subject on which I've done some thinking of my own in the past, so when you asked the question my reaction was less 'is there anything I can say?' but 'how can I turn my giant pile of past ponderings into something short and snappy enough to be useful?'. :-)