NikkiNikkiNikki

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

Because in some places it's the only way for the staff to make livable wages. If our store didn't allow tips I'd be missing 10 - 20% of the pay I get, and with the situation I'm in, everything helps.

And while I would love for tips to go away, and for our minimum wage to reflect the reality of our economy, that doesn't seem to be happening nearly fast enough, or in some places, at all.

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

I just doom scroll through image search and collect it all using PureRef, it's a neat little program

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

Recognize snale wherever I go

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

definitely VR. I have only ever used it twice but I can always vividly remember it. My buddy had a Vive in high school and the only time I visited his place I played Robo Recall and had a fucking blast

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

"Neat" is my most used word to describe anything

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

Here we go, this is the project I made to learn rust. Pardon the terrible quality and lag, that is all that my little laptop can muster. This demo is extremely memory heavy because it's a fully infinite 3 dimensional minecraft-esc thing with biome mixing, super structures, and terrible fancy graphics.

I set this one to the side because it was waaayy too hard to keep working on. Technical debt hit me fast. But it was a very valuable experience.

Without screen recording the world gen is much faster since it is multi-threaded and tries to queue up as many as it can for your cpu config, OBS took too much power!

Now I'm working on a Visual Novel, but all I have done at the moment is like 1/10th of the ideal editing tool I want and a little bit of the prologue script drafted out.

The real video file was too big for kbin... lemme upload to trash youtube account

https://youtu.be/ouiFMFw9-oQ

And here are some much much older projects I did, dating all the way back to high school
Again, this was all recorded on trash-teir hardware. The real performance was better, just not the recording itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hVb_zR6bxY >>> Old C++ game engine for a 2D platformer, it went through SOOO many revisions, but it was also the reason I completely gave up on C++, the fucking thing kept segfaulting for just the wildest reasons. At some point I gave up

https://youtu.be/LHOwXgw_pSM >>> In this one I'm comparing my emulator's bad APU to mednafens. It is a 6502 / NES emulator that is entirely run through javascript. It almost actually performed well, but pixel blitting absolutely nuked performance on any browser. This video was showing the godawful APU implementation. I also had a working assembler and iNES rom constructor baked into this thing, pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/LjuIIsqEsr4 >>> Here is an older version of my Javascript all-3-dimensions voxel thang. This one is completely limited to a small field, has no good graphics, and smells. The real one got a PBR implementation, infinite in all directions generation, and a much better UI. The issue is that it crashes every browser I try it on, it is just too heavy of a workload and it causes a ton of edge-case bugs. Funnily enough it's actually more stable in FireFox.

https://youtu.be/fx-0qaIU80U >>> This is my oldest surviving project. Don't be scared but, it's a voxel game, in a web browser. This one was programmed in a single file, was duct taped together, had the WORST logic ever. But it somehow still runs when I open it so hurrah?

That last project was developed on a chromebook and was made in my freshman year of high school. Yikes.

This only scratches the number of projects I have made and destroyed.
I have this insatiable lust for the 'new' and I express it by trying to perfect my skrillz.

Though I still make dogshit code at least I can do it quickly.

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

Here's some of the missing ones, I pryed open those old folders and gave 'em a spin again.

A bullet hell shooter type game, I was testing performance and let it rip
https://youtu.be/3-OQAvrn7k8

The better version of the voxel game I was talking about (This one actually has bad performance (I mean PBR in javascript? wtf was I thinking?))
https://youtu.be/L9qgfwqlFqs

The rest are lost to time unfortunately

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

Thanks! I've been practicing on making my hair more corporeal and less spaghetti

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

❤️

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

I'm hoping to get to a 'functional' prototype for at least one of my projects. I'm planning out a visual novel but I really dislike the stuff already out there (I'm terrible at memory management and python has never been my thing), so I started making a little program for it in rust, and then I got way into UI design and I keep getting side tracked with other little things.

There's a little more hope for this one cause I actually started world building and writing, as well as planning out how the game will function.

It's a long ways away, but I'll keep chipping at it until something recognizable comes out. Balancing my work life, these projects, and all the other stuff is definitely a feat, I should get more sleep though -.-

NikkiNikkiNikki, 11 months ago

Fried mushrooms are the bomb, I remember as a kid I thought if you ate an undercooked mushroom you would get a fungal infection and die

NikkiNikkiNikki, 1 year ago

Programming and Art have been my go-tos for a long time.

I have a very ad-hoc method of doing things and splitting my time is the only way to utilize my energy. Like my head hurts after programming for a few days, so I draw nonsense or cute stuff.

Lately I have been taking up mechanical stuff and trying to fix a junker car I bought, it's a nightmare, but I'm starting to understand it a little bit.

Some other hobbies I dabble in a lot but don't really have a lot of experience or skills are

• Making bags and sewing
• Playing the keyboard
• Learning DAWs
• Making synths from scratch (It's hard)

I literally would not have a life without hobbies and new things. I am so into productivity that I kinda lost interest in gaming and movies and other such forms of entertainment. It's not a great position to be in but it helps distract me from the crap in life, y'know?

NikkiNikkiNikki, 1 year ago

It's nice to have a place where everyone isn't constantly trying to kill each other