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LouisIngenthron

@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.

#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.

Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.

Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.

He/Him 🏳‍🌈

High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.

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LouisIngenthron, to random
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I don't understand these insane masochists who write back-end web code in javascript.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Man, fuuuuck SquareSpace. They have to buy out other systems to get customers and then they use every dark pattern in the book to try to keep them. Can't wait to migrate from this backwater piece of shit system.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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I will never understand people who enjoy grinding in video games.

What, your day job isn't monotonous enough?

LouisIngenthron, (edited ) to gaming
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A version of Calvinball that merges cards, dice, D&D, and other games with a frenetically dynamic rule system would be:

LouisIngenthron, to linux
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Okay, I'm doing it. I'm giving a fair shot for the first time in about a decade. You fediverse people convinced me.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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I don't understand how some of these people survive everyday life.

Do you really not understand how a checkout counter works, middle-aged-white-lady? Why are you putting your card in the reader before the cashier has even rung up all your items? Why are you taking your soda off the belt? Why, when you realize you didn't pay for your soda, did you then pay for it in cash and wait for your change? Have you literally never bought anything before, or are you incapable of considering how your actions might affect others, or are you incapable of thinking more than three seconds ahead of the current moment?

How do these people survive everyday life if they can't even manage basic social awareness in one of the most common retail settings on the planet?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the sound mixing in Chris Nolan movies is terrible. He tries so hard to make it grandiose with thumping base tones that half the time I can't understand what anyone is saying.

LouisIngenthron, to gamedev
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Do I have enough inventory slots?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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My god those dragonfly ships in Dune are stupid and impractical.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

Who the fuck is trying to catch flies?

LouisIngenthron, (edited ) to random
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I got an unexpected answer to this from a friend the other day, and now I'm wondering where everyone else falls:

If you had a choice between killing ten random innocent people with the press of a button (but you survive), or being killed yourself, what would you do?

LouisIngenthron, to accessibility
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I have an question for those who have difficulty with and use .

  1. What is the best way to offer you text-to-speech in my video game? Should I build it in myself? Or should I somehow make the text available to external screen reading plugins you already have installed?

  2. What is the best way to enable text-to-speech? I'm trying to imagine how a blind person would find the toggle in a settings menu they can't see. The only way I can think of around that would be to enable it by default and have an option for users who don't want it to disable it at the beginning, but that sounds cumbersome. Is there a better middle option? Is there a commonly-used keyboard shortcut I can enable or something?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Why is it that kids so often like bread with the crust cut off while adults so often love the crust to the point where we buy shit like french bread?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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There's a joke on MASH where Frank Burns is reading a medical journal and he says that the article he's reading claims that, for major surgery, a surgeon should charge 5% of the patient's annual salary.

Hawkeye and Trapper then threw magazines at him because he cared more about money than medicine.

But can you imagine a law that actually did limit major medical expenses to 5% of a person's annual salary? In today's world, that would be huge!

LouisIngenthron, (edited ) to ComputerScience
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question:

You need to replace references to the variable "terrainHeightValue" in your code with "terrainHeatValue". You know it's limited to one function, and there are 5-8 instances to be replaced.

What do you do?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Finally saw a cybertruck in the wild and got to laugh openly at its owner.

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Seriously, how is it that insurance companies can track every little infraction that civilian drivers commit, but police departments can't tell when their officers are blatantly breaking the law?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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UK residents go through almost 2kg of tea a year on average, but their government is busy legislating away a different addictive leaf 🤦‍♂️
QT: https://aus.social/@drrimmer/112296509935851395

LouisIngenthron, to random
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I want to give a big thanks to UPS for offering me a tracking website where I can watch the truck.

My medicine that's on that truck was supposed to arrive an hour ago, but watching the truck circle my house for 3 hours is just as good, right?

LouisIngenthron, to Aviation
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Just did my first cross country (120nm) #flight at night in #VFR! KORL to KOCF back to KORL.

Most important lesson I learned? Don't #fly at night under visual flight rules. I should wait until I get my instrument rating if I want to fly at night.

#pilot #aviation

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I love that companies now sell "extra-large" ink cartridges that are the same size as regular size ink cartridges and have a quarter the ink that cartridges in the '90s had.

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In the past two weeks, I drove over 2,000 miles (in two 15-hour marathons) across the southeastern United States.

Here are some notable things I saw:

LouisIngenthron, to random
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Glad to hear the gun show loophole is getting closed nationally, but I'm concerned about how the executive branch has the power to do that. Shouldn't it be the legislative's power?

LouisIngenthron, to random
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It's interesting how pretty much every proponent of UBI I know makes good money and is willing to have their salary decreased and their taxes raised to support UBI.

LouisIngenthron, to ai
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It's amazing how often telling "no, you're wrong" actually ends up producing the correct result on the second try.

It's almost like it's trained on people giving bad advice being warily corrected by more experienced people.

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