Was kinda bummed out I wouldn't unlock Tainted Lost this run because I was rushing through the rooms in Ascent with Brimstone and didn't realize I'd swapped out the Cracked Key for a pill. However, the golden chest in the first room in home contained a Cracked Key. Assuming I didn't get that lucky, is there a guaranteed Cracked Key in there if you don't have the Tainted character? I wasn't able to find anything on the wiki etc.

(This post is about building C-projects, which is an important part of coding in C. I hope that counts as "on topic" :^) )

When I started coding small C and C++ programs in my free time, I either created imperfect makefiles by blindly copying Stackoverflow answers, or replaced make with other programs such as CMake because I thought make was inadequate.

Now I know a little about make, and find that it is perfectly adequate for small hobby projects, and probably for large ones as well, though I couldn't speak from experience there.

What should the makefile do?

1. Compile each translation unit if, and only if, it changed or one of the user-defined header files it depends on did
2. Combi

Since Day One is now fully published, I wondered what the word counts so far were. I wouldn't stake my reputation on these, but they should be fairly accurate. Not including epigraphs we arrive at:

Chapter         Word count

Prologue        7,221
1               2,184
2               2,630
3               2,477
4               3,793
5               2,840
6               3,496
7               2,687
8               1,446
9               2,631
10              2,027
11              2,682
12              2,637
13              4,290

Part            Word count

Prologue         7,221
Day One         35,820

A moment later the man in the suit is back, and he rolls his eyes and says, "As I was saying, welcome to hell."