Congrats on dipping your toes into networking! Don’t let it suck you in too much or you’ll end up with a career change.

Plenty of resources out there to learn from, just pick a project and try to implement it. Or just play around with netcat (just ‘nc’ nowadays).

Look into the TCP/IP stack (or the OSI model, both cover the core concepts) for an overview of how applications talk to each other. This will also help you understand how LocalSend probably works (my guess is broadcasting to your network and seeing what devices are listening on a certain port. Some LAN-enabled games work like this, others aren’t as magical and ask you to provide an address and a port).

I break my butter sticks in half with my bare hands, fight me.

My roommate has been playing it for the past month. Seems alright, but I think Dying Light was more fun overall. This definitely has a much lighter vibe tho, big contrast with DL.

Schrödinger’s versioning: you don’t know if it’s stable or not until you observe something breaking.

Did y’all ever mention it to him or was it just a commonly accepted “Oh yeah, that’s just ‘Background Porn Brad’ haha” type thing?

Or a weird concept.