The4thCircle

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Unity (the game engine) is just really ruining my week. This program is crashing in a way that the actual Unity process (standalone exe or the Editor) just crashes, hard C crashes inside Unity's closed source code. I'm reduced to turning objects on and off and seeing the minimal set of objects to cause a crash, but I still have no idea what [my] C# code was doing before [Unity's] C++ code crashed!

I wish I could get, like… a trace of every unmanaged to managed transition. Every C# entry point.

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

The4thCircle, 2 months ago to random

New #pico8 tool on my website

TheFontCircle

Did you know pico8 can use a custom font? I only just found out because its deep in the manual and requires a lot of raw data encoding. So I made a gui to directly poke around in font memory and then export the changes as either a file you can load back into the app or as a snippet of pico8 code to initialise the font in your own application.

http://the4thcircle.co.uk/games/fontcircle

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Hey, here's a tip.

aeva, 3 months ago to random

fuck

glassbottommeg, 3 months ago to investing

Is there an #investing Masto?

Basically I glanced at CD rates, and, is this normal? I don't get why the return rate on 9 months is so high. Or why the yield actually drops on the longer CD terms. Or why the money market account is higher than all but the 9 month CD. Shouldn't the rates just like, go up the longer the term? And shouldn't the money market account be markedly lower than CDs?

Like, is the US economy just in a fucked up place right now, and the banks are going "yup shit's weird" and this is how it looks when they brace for a shakeup? Or something?

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Been getting this sense lately that the fediverse may be thinning out a bit, and in parallel getting a sense people I know are finally jumping to "bluesky" in numbers.

Trying to figure out exactly at what point I decide I'm willing to create a feed over there. My position has been "I'll post there when I don't have to use their servers to do it", but I continue to suspect this will literally never happen because their protocol is designed to look like federation without being ever federatable

mcc, 4 months ago to random

Film festival of Christopher Nolan films that have been re-edited to show all scenes in chronological order

TodePond, 5 months ago to random

its kinda funny how many people think im transitioning from man to woman and not the other way round

grumpygamer, 7 months ago to random

Two other things I bought at GeekGirlCon:

#GeekGirlCon

alienmelon, 7 months ago to GraphicsProgramming

along with other things, i got a procedural "unspecific fleshy organic meat material" done today.
it actually balances well between appalling and morbidly fascinating.
i'm proud of it!
yay for horror materials on 🥳 halloween month 💀

#GameArt #Shaders #Blender #B3d #IndieDev

  
  
[a screenshot of a fleshy looking material with lighter pieces bulging out of dark red areas. there are darker patches that look like veins running through the lighter areas. it looks unspecific and could also just be polished red rock. either way it's fittingly gross.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/180/828/240/308/310/original/7dff66a6131f8b6b.png)  
[another screenshot of a fleshy material. it looks very meaty.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/180/828/562/096/635/original/7151f387aff870b7.png)