Crazy question about technology & crafting fiction

I'm going to cast another vote in favor of Python as an ideal platform for prototyping. Mainly to let OP know that there are several people here who know how that works and can point them in the right direction if they get stuck.

You want to know how to use at least two tools to use python ... "pip" and something to manage environments ("virtualenv" is the easiest, "anaconda" is for more data-heavy/machine learning, and "Docker" is industrial strength professional production ready). Pip is required. An environment manager you can get away without learning if you're not planning on keeping the computer for a long time.

Most languages have this problem, FWIW. You have to learn the package manager and all the tooling as well as the language. It sucks, and I hate that part, but what I hate more is not realizing I need those things until it's too late.
I just downloaded Python as well as the documentation. kind of need a break as I'm sitting on a short story +- 150 word pages (56k words) and I'm stuck on what to do next
 
Most languages have this problem, FWIW. You have to learn the package manager and all the tooling as well as the language.
Well, to be fair, Python is almost famously terrible in this regard. They’ve been trying to solve this stuff multiple times, and the many times the wheel was reinvented — including once when it got literally called wheels — have mostly just made the issue worse.

It’s basically the epitome of that “there are 15 competing standards” xkcd strip.
 
@TheLobster agreed!!! That's why I wanted to make that caveat.

With Python, one does not simply walk into Mordor, one must also pip install the one ring from a broken github repo maintained by a 500 year old hobbit.
If I went for something cheesy... like spinning the classic game of concentration. Under each tile was a body part of a woman (so of course this would require many women of literotica to submit pictures to improve the quality of the game). Can these versions of SQL handle JPG (I know of three workarounds if they can't)?

think I would call this game - if there's a will, there is a boob (game name needs help)
 
You may very well be able to find something similar to what you're looking for ( perhaps even free ) if you search for tabletop RPG tools. There are tools designed to keep track of characters, plot points, location descriptions, various items, etc.

I haven't touched Visual Basic since the very early 2000s. I started on TRSDOS Basic back in the day. LOL ( My school was confined to cheap 2nd or 3rd tier outdated options and one lonely Mac due to budget constraints. I'm not quite that old. )
so you had a TRASH-80 computer?
 
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