Yeah, “async is a niche requirement” has long seemed weird to me. Most programs with any degree of interactivity quickly come to a point where they want more than one thing to be happening at once, and they spend some time waiting on external inputs – whether those are network packets or USB events or timers.

Purely synchronous code only suffices for that narrow and most boring category of programs that know all their inputs up-front and don’t accept any other inputs or interactions at all.

The party has just arrived on Lynx Island with the Feline Finder – a divine artifact 📦 with the power to attract and contain a feline. The DM has come up with a devious series of tests to determine what success they will have in finding a cat to come home with them.

I found about it from the miniseries Blackwater DND is running for it: The Right Angle

It’s been a wonderful show! Tonight is the final episode of this three-part series, but they’re keen on doing more in the future!