4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This week, Alanah asks Mike an impossible question about programming, we talk a tiny bit about The Menu, and then jump into our reactions of HBO's The Last of Us episode 1.
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0:00.0 | Playwatch Listen is supported by Patreon, who actually got this episode unedited early and ad-free. |
0:04.6 | If you want to support the podcast, check the link in the description. |
0:07.6 | We are going to have Troy and Austin join us today when they can, but I actually had a question |
0:12.8 | that I had been meaning to ask you specifically that I was like, will I ever get to ask |
0:16.3 | this question? |
0:17.3 | You can never really plan anything for this show. |
0:20.6 | This is based on a Twitter thread from a friend who is a programmer. |
0:23.6 | I wanted to pose you the question. |
0:25.6 | Which do you think is harder? |
0:27.6 | Writing or programming? |
0:32.6 | It's an incredibly unfair question as someone who works with both writers and programmers. |
0:36.6 | That's why I'm asking you. |
0:38.3 | But it's not, no, I'm not asking you to judge it based on the people that you work with. |
0:44.3 | I'm asking you to base it on you yourself. |
0:46.3 | Because I do both. |
0:47.3 | Correct. |
0:48.3 | I think it's definitely different parts of the brain, Like, I think, which is what makes it hard. |
0:54.5 | It's not so much like, it's politically difficult to answer. |
0:57.1 | It's more like, which is harder going to the gym or cooking an amazing meal. |
1:02.9 | Like, they're kind of, it's so separate and so different, by the way, it's going to the gym. |
1:07.8 | It's so, it's so, like, because writing is, they're both creative, but I would say |
1:16.6 | writing is a world of no right answers, whereas programming is a world of rights answers. |
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