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"Last Light" I drew this in paint(1) on #9front and it took me five days to complete.

if you write your software as a doom mod, it'll run on every computer ever created

oh, i spotted some heart warming #vandalism while out and about earlier today #neverslop

the post above immediately takes one damage and loses its turn

@cwebber@social.coop also software written on garbage tier hardware just runs better, it's a fact

i'm generally of the mind that programmers are too quick to throw away old things that work to replace them with worse things that take decades to reach approximate feature parity. in theory another group could maintain the old thing (and indeed, some try), but that runs into another problem which is that projects can grow to the point where they cannot be reasonably maintained by a few individuals without institutional support.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems C is of interest to me because Lua is trivial to port to most things for being compatible with ancient C compilers, and everything seems to speak it. I picked the trifecta of Lua, SDL3, and C++17 as the foundation for my current projects on the theory that would strike the best balance for portability. I'm now having doubts about the C++17 side for the fact that porting a C++ compiler sounds awful.

"paint(1) doesn't have layers" skill issue

frankly everyone who signed the "please can we just ban defecating in the pool" petition was completely out of line, none of you people ever participated in the pool's poker club, so i can't imagine where you all could have come from, but you should all be ashamed of yourselves. that massive rotting log resembling a fucked up corn cob with eyes is here to stay and we all need to be reasonable about it. you should be ashamed of yourselves.

I'm in the market for pre-2000s fantasy media recommendations. I'm probably looking for 80s stuff primarily, but I think better to cast a wide net here. Also surrounding subcultural context is useful too (e.g. what kind of music did you listen to while planning or playing your ad&d campaign, etc).

i feel like i'm taking crazy pills every time someone says that ai is inevitable in software development. like people say this even when they're denouncing it, and i don't understand what world they live in. this company has gone all in on this bullhockey and i've been staring at one of their flagship products and it's been at the very knife's edge of non-functional for at least a month now and i am completely beside myself how it is that anyone can pretend they have a real product anymore.

if you think about it i'm the real victim here

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems lua is friend-shaped

everything is exactly as i like it and~~get this~~i know exactly what it does, too. shocking, i know

birb?

anyways, I have to use another microsoft SAAS product at work, and for the last month or so every page on that more different service has a random chance of serving a persistent 500 error that goes away if I wait like 5 minutes. My hands don't even shake at how shit it all is anymore. I'm just completely baffled at how mind mindbogglingly beyond the pale shit it all is now.

i'm in need of examples of well-known ordered sets of five things, anyone know of any well-known ordered sets of five things? #OrderedSetsOfFiveThings

@evan@cosocial.ca after carefully considering the linked article, I'm firmly for it, in part because it would set up the presidence necessary for the funniest possible (albeit very improbable) future outcome: the united states of america joining the EU

like... windows millennium edition was a better, more reliable product than this. like, somehow they hit rock bottom and said you know what this isn't good enough! get out the drilling machine we gotta keep going

i got enough working that the game is technically playable now :D there's a bunch of polish stuff i want to do before i'll be putting it online though

I've been working on rebuilding my old Sigmar's Garden clone in SDL3 w/o Tangerine, which meant ripping out a ton of SDF magic that I made no significant effort to keep separate from the rest of the game's implementation. I got it to the point where it can run without crashing, but is it working? To my delight, the board generator seems to be working! Here's some debug visuals :)

Oh hey the game is online now! Check it out! https://willowx.itch.io/cyborg-bounty-hunter-vs-space-dracula It's a short metroidvania (it's not one or the other~~it's both!) made largely by my sister, and as mentioned in the thread above, I put together a sweet set of punchy sound effects for it and I'm really proud of what we built together in just a few days! The sound effects were made with #mollytime.

some of us have never escaped containment or committed any illegal cyber attacks just saying

the board generator definitely is still functioning :D here's another debug visual, but with the addition of color dots indicating what symbol is assigned to each tile

@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place @Ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place nya~

my linux sound problems in 2006: i can't have more than one program play sound at once, but i usually open xmms first so it's basically a non-issue idk why anyone would ever want anything better, my linux sound problems in 2026: sometimes, infrequently, midi playback speeds up slightly and it drives me up the fucking wall. i think it might only happen when my computer is plugged in, but i'm not sure. i will kill a hostage every hour, (disclaimer 4 spooks & losers: the hostage thing is joke)

Last I remember looking, codeberg's messaging describes small low impact projects are something that is merely "tolerated", so I'm keeping old github repositories around as backups, and only moving over stuff I'm actively working on. So far it's been *really* nice, and I hope they keep "tolerating" small low impact projects.

I gotta say, game jams are a lot more fun when you're just doing a few things for the project instead of all of it.

mr sun 🎶 sun 🎶 super nova sun 🎶 please don't 🎶 blow up 🎶 on meee 🎶

@alefunguju@mastodon.social simply pay attention to what you are doing and think carefully

the voyager twins are friend-shaped

this also meant that making a little forward progress with the implementation each night was enough to cross the threshold into a working game before I was expecting it to :) that is a cool feeling

@catsalad@infosec.exchange numerous photographs of clouds and lakes, cool people making lots of art and video games, dog shit air quality in the midwest

i put together a way to route mouse events and then modified the board generator slightly to change the tile shape when the piece is active and now I'm thinking I should have active pieces look in the direction of the mouse cursor xeyes style

@sterophonick@wetdry.world absolutely

@archiloque@felin.social @gsuberland@chaos.social senior falsehood programmer with 10 years of experience in B-leaf

the cool thing about my earlier version of this that I built in Tangerine is even though the presentation and interaction code was interlaced with the game logic, because I modeled it as a state machine it didn't really matter - I could just make a thing that called the click callback handler with the right data, and a thing to draw the current board state and that was enough. tons of random shit is just commented out and it all still works :D

@cwebber@social.coop it'll be awesome. finally we'll be able to just hang out again

@pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place @LunaFoxgirlVT@mastodon.gamedev.place 😎

imagine having access to the closest things we'll ever have to the sum and total of all human knowledge, and still having wrong opinions

@Sikorsky78@infosec.exchange where does one buy this pin

@Sikorsky78@infosec.exchange god big fucking mood

@gameboycamera@pocketpixels.club oh my gosh this is so cool :O

@CenturyAvocado@know.me.uk i call it "regular programming"