Where To?

Hello, loves! We’ll glance at Flooder, to see if it needs any improvement (it surely well), then improve it. (Brief oblique cut at LLMs, oligarchs, etc.) I am not ashamed to say that I’m pleased with how the change to Flooder went in. We had a fairly sophisticated condition for selection: select cells such that Dot could pass between them, which sounds simple until you realize that that condition comes down to the cells are in the same room, or they are in different rooms and there is a passage at that location. As things stood, Flooder’s select didn’t even have access to the parent cell, only the new possibility, but it all came down to just a few lines. When that happens, in the old days, we thought of it as the objects “helping us”. We were big on metaphor back in those days, and there was little harm in anthropomorphizing. Today, with the text-extruding machines being so glib, it’s rather dangerous to imagine that there is a person in there helping you. Spoiler: there isn’t a…