Having a heated discussion about C++'s const, and how I think it's silly formalism and simply gets in the way of quickly implementing systems, and it's a bit,
@glassbottommeg having said that I do kinda like const for some things, right up until the things need to do some cacheing and then you’re throwing mutable around and ehhh
Anyone in their 20's and 30's going "I wonder when I'll stop silently humming the ABCs song any time I need to alphabetize something", I regret to inform you that I am in my 40's and still internally sing my ABCs when sorting my game's Credits document and such
Which is to say: teachers, you wield substantial power, please think before you add "and now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me" to the end of your mnemonic, because I STILL MENTALLY HAVE TO SING THAT PART TOO.
I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
EDIT: this is a gag, I know you don't have to follow this to use it, I just find it impossibly cringe (and not the bad-good kind of cringe) to find this sitting like a turd in the middle of my favorite solve for SQL DB problems.
Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance?
@lritter@glassbottommeg I switched to firefox 22 years ago, all this recent stuff though is pushing me even more to just saying "fk it" and going even further to just using lynx.... sooo many sites intentionally break if you have any sort of xss filtering now...
@glassbottommeg phil fish was kinda notorious, he got semi "famous" in the indie-dev scene before even releasing a single game (and receiving loads of outside funding and help for his ) then was basically just an up his own ass prick to everyone after that (when he wasn't ranting about his LSD/ketamine dreams or how much he hates anything japanese). This wasn't new to after the movie, he was like that in 2008.
@glassbottommeg blow wasn't nearly as bad, and didn't really hang around online like fish did, he was just kinda a jerk to everyone anytime someone had an interaction and put down anyone else's games he saw, and not constructively, so he was just kinda this snobby rich "ideas guy" well before the movie.
Don't think anyone has a problem with McMillen though, he's always seemed a pretty normal, nice guy who just happens to make really messed up games, not surprising he's the one still succeeding
@TomF@glassbottommeg it's the play.google.com tracker, it essentially phones home every few seconds using the http call to track what page you're currently viewing, how long you've been viewing it, if you're currently active, etc. Every single google service does this (as well as any site using google's services) in the background, it's how they build a targeted ad profile for you.
Has anyone in #IndieDev / #GameDev done a concise walkthrough on how to navigate Content ID with original music, so that 1.) scammers can't claim it themselves, but 2.) Streamers streaming your game don't get Content ID'd by you having claimed it?
And doing that WITHOUT telling YouTube "oh sure this is free music" and getting it added to their big free pool and eventually seeing it used in, I don't know, an alt-right podcast intro. It needs to be free for contextual use, not like, in a global free pool.
Last time, our musician used Distrokid I think? Or one of the equivalents. Because they wanted to sell it on Spotify/etc while being hands-off on YouTube/etc. Supposedly Distrokid handles that elegantly, but I feel like I saw they're a bad idea lately?
@glassbottommeg Unfortunately there is no way to enter music into Content ID and set the system not to claim it. Basically all music becomes "licensed music" the moment it's in CID and channels using the music must be whitelisted.
You can distribute it with CDBaby, Distrokid or similar, as long as you don't opt-in to any YouTube (or similar) monetization that the services may offer, that will submit the music to CID.
Right, ok, so in the year of our lord 2024, in Windows 10 (or 11 I guess), does anyone know
how the fuck you're supposed to type an emdash or a trademark symbol, without either using the emoji keyboard for a TM, or copy-pasting it in from elsewhere?
alt+ doesn't work anymore, it hasn't for years, aaaaaaaa (also I don't have 10key, who has the desk space for that anymore)
@justdaveisfine combat designer associate/friend had the same experience (and talking to him was when I went WHAT). This is the guy who did Aztez and wrote a ton of blogs on combat design etc, knew the space, went super hard, aaaaand
replaced it all with One Stupid Box, and playtest results went through the roof
He'd be standing in the back cringing all "ah they're gonna notice that should have missed it wasn't even close" and. Nothing. Not a peep from players.
Turns out this is what Godhand did too. One of the all time great fighters. I just didn't know! They've got a few fixed overlap shapes they just turn on. Like they don't just do forward box, they ALSO sometimes do "sphere a little above my pelvis" for up attacks. Lol.
At a certain point, design work is just staring at a split complementary and making up stories in your head that justify the colors. You slide Lightness and Saturation up and down while going "yes, and there's the blood, earth, sea and sky, these are the colors of The People".
I think it's where designers get the spiel they eventually sell clients with: deciding on colors, is in part, when you feel your story about them is good enough.