emily

glassbottommeg, 4 months ago to gamedev

I've seen a lot of articles about how many games are on Steam now, and how this presents a massive visibility challenge, buuuut

How about this view instead?

This excludes the games that have limited profile features. That is, this excludes the games that essentially no one saw/bought.

(it really doesn't take much push to clear the limited profile features)

#GameDev #IndieDev

buzzyrobin, 4 months ago to random

bought and picked up a second-hand T460 thinkpad yesterday; did some customisation today

emily, 4 months ago to random

I occasionally see people asking about induction stovetops. Here is a brief guide to cooking with induction:

• holds up vegetable this is food
• if you increase the temperature of food by 1°C, it is still food
• therefore holds up cooked vegetable this is food

jacqueline, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

i propose a positive correlation between enjoying baldur’s gate 3, and having no previous experience with larian’s divinity: original sin games (original or sequel)

buzzyrobin, 6 months ago to random

team, I’ve got good and bad news about why my Y endstop isn’t working:

emily, 7 months ago to random

Squatting domains that can only possibly be used for malware is some chaotic shit, I love it

(I cannot decide if it's chaotic good or chaotic evil)

emily, 7 months ago to random

oh... oh no

I requested access to all the zone files from ICANN because I was mildly curious about something, and got approved within minutes.

And they're sending me an email to let me know.

For each TLD.

All 1150 of them.

markusl, 7 months ago to random

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ifixcoinops, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Are you still recommending fedi to your real-life friends who aren't yet on fedi?

emily, 7 months ago to gardening

The Great Dehydration begins.
#gardening

emily, 7 months ago to random

One of my cats doesn't have a middle name and I should fix that so I can properly do the super serious displeased parent thing when I tell her to stop being a butt

esden, 7 months ago to random

Should we coin a dedicated hashtag for Glasgow - Digital Interface Explorer? What would it be #GlasgowDIE ? or #GlasgowEmbedded ? 🤔 suggestions? Hashtags are pretty important here on fediverse... so having a hashtag that does not collide with the city of Glasgow might be a good idea here.

emily, 7 months ago to random

I received a device today. It has an unnecessary password on its configuration.

The password is unchangeable. It is always 7. Just the number 7.

emily, 7 months ago to random

Me: I have an appointment in the morning and won't have a car for it so I guess I'll install lyft now so I have it ready to go tomorrow

Lyft: hahaha nope we made the only android app in existence that actually refuses to work without google services, instead of just comically showing "this won't work" warnings and then continuing to work just fine like most android apps

Me: okay fine I'll use your website

Lyft: hahaha nope we deleted our website and only support the app now

Me: ... you know what, I haven't gone for a bike ride in a while

And that's how Silicon Valley did its part to save the environment!

emily, 7 months ago to random

Finished making a Giant Bolt (lathe drawbar) tonight.

I need to just sit down with some scraps and get good at single point threading. Cutting M12 threads into steel by hand with a die is hard. I kind of just stopped halfway down, decided that was enough threads, and turned the remaining should've-been-threaded space down to fit inside the threaded hole.

#metalworking #theWorkshop #allMyProjectsAreToolsForMakingOtherProjects

emily, 7 months ago to random

Oh, hey. Just logged into my gmail account (which I haven't used in many years, since I got my own domain) and multiple real humans have sent me things there this year.

Probably should've forwarded that when I stopped using it. Oh well.

emily, 7 months ago to random

having two obscure celebrity names crossing each other is bad crossword puzzle design

ifixcoinops, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

I know, I know, I said I was done computerposting and I wanted to be done computerposting because computers are horrible woeboxen, but here we go. Mute me for a day or two, I'll post better stuff soon.

Anyway game devs, or really anyone with too many projects along many different areas of expertise and too much disk space, what do your home or documents folders look like? Say I've already done a raccoon game and I wanna do a bunny game, does my home folder look like

music/
-bun
-rac
sfx/
-bun
-rac
psd/
-sprites/
--bun/
--rac/
-bg/
--bun/
--rac/
notes/
-bun/
-rac/
code/
-bun
-rac

Or does it look more like

bun/
-music/
-sfx/
-psd/
--sprites/
--bg/
-notes/
-code/
rac/
-music/
-sfx/
-psd/
--sprites/
--bg/
-notes/
-code/

Or do you just have one folder full of files called bunSprite092finalusethisone.psd right next to raclevel1testnotes.txt

Generally How Do You Do Computer Hoard

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: I'm gonna set this crap up to backup/sync with Nextcloud, some of it's gonna go on my phone, there's no sense in me having bunsprite.psd on my phone but bunnote.txt would be handy to have on there

emily, 7 months ago to random

It occurs to me that I can't ever write a sudoku solver.

Not because I don't know how to (I can both write code and solve sudoku, combining these skills seems obviously possible), but because it would actively make my life worse to have one: I've discovered that doing sudoku in bed is just the right level of mentally engaging to make me sleepy quickly (a few fixed algorithms that take low but nonzero effort, not exciting enough to stay awake for more), and I also know that I can't bear to do something manually when I spent time automating that specific thing.

foone, 8 months ago to random

when you're installing a mouse driver into your DOS installation, do you do the lazy thing and stick MOUSE.EXE/CTMOUSE.EXE into C:\DOS? or do you keep things "clean" by putting it in C:\MOUSE and adjusting the PATH?