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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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For a long time I've wanted to make a GPS gardening game (for health!) plant virtual plants in real locations & walk back later to harvest them. Basically "farmeville Go"

The big stumbling block? Farming games need a ton of little plant icons and I'm a slow and not very good graphic designer.

Could procedurally generated sprites be the answer to my laziness?

Maybe?

I like this, but I also think part of the fun of a farming game is the graphics...seeing what grows ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZfgKd5QeGc

futurebird,
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When I really about the game I realize it could be more educational if it used real plants, and if you had to take into account good planting locations...

Why not have the plants attract various insects...

Though, I'm just making excuses to avoid the suffering of getting the core gameplay working & finding out if it's fun or not.

The point is to make loot box loops work to get people exercising, not wasting money or doom-scrolling...

If games can be addictive can they be addictive for good?

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@guyjantic

I mean I do that already. It's not the same as game where the plants grow in 48 hours.

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@jeffc

I like it, but how do you create the 30min to 48 hour play cycle?

That was the genius of farmville, it had people coming back to see what changed making it very re-playable, even though you never played it very long.

Basically, just perfect for exercise.

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wicked mean delinquent children who are mean to their poor elderly teacher
:( “what’s a modem?”

“why would you need to go home to update a website?”

It never ends.

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3 dollars for helados? The upper east is wild ya’ll there best be a silver dollar in the bottom of this dixiecup…

i sound like an old lady telling my students how they used to cost a quarter. one rascal said “a quarter of what? ten bucks?”

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@barrygoldman1

It's not summer in NYC without them!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Math puzzle.

θ an angle in radians
b is a length associated with θ
there is a circle

What area is A=[θbb]/[8sin(θ/2)sin(θ/2)] ?

futurebird,
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@keithpjolley oh lmao

futurebird,
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@keithpjolley i’m not the english teacher for a reason

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Me: I’m standing here alone, the ship is waiting.
Chat GPT: All systems are go!
Me: Are you sure? Control is not convinced.
Chat GPT: I have the evidence, no need to abort.
the countdown starts

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I leg day, therefore I am

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@Kierkegaanks

No way that kind of beef could fit inside of a stove.

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@moira @falcennial

Forget descarts lets talk about desglutes

heysannidhi, to gardening
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Why you should let insects eat your plants

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240503-why-you-should-let-insects-eat-your-plants

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@heysannidhi

I'm always happy to see insects if they aren't invasive. If they are invasive they may get vacuumed up and fed to "the girls" the hunger of the girls knows no bounds.

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@heysannidhi

my ant colonies

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A new Milo video is out! It has AI art, and rants and squirrels and can we please buy this man a space heater?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqm6McJYbWE

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I wish the meter long beetles were real. Why can't I live in the world where they are?

:(

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"... averages 31 years, with the longest recorded lifespan reaching 51 years. This meter-sized beetle is native to Mexico and Central America, where it inhabits dry and arid environments...."

Meter sized?

METER SIZED?

I need to stop using google the first few results it shows for simple insect questions are always GPT garbage ... LORDY.

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The disturbing thing about ant technology is it's all ants.

The fridge? It's an ant.
Your tank? It's an ant.
Your boat? It's you, and other ants.
Your house? The walls are ants.
Your weed control for your garden? Tiny ants?
Your glue gun? It's an ant (a baby ant!)

So advanced high tech ants would have ant guns, and ant spaceships. Advanced ants would have ant computers for ants, made of ants. Advanced ants would have ants for storing data.

And ant bombs.

Wait! Those already exist!

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@joelvanderwerf

The cloud is someone's else's colony never trust that!

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Simply putting colored paint on a few ants has let me discover that individual ants have certain spots they like best — Tulip likes to be on the highest point of this branch. If I don’t see her there I get worried. She’s a little camera (light) shy so documenting how often I see her in the same spot has been a challenge. She has preferred this spot for at least a whole month. Here are a few times I caught here there.

Tulip peers around the edge of the branch. She’s a good looking ant.
blurry tulip runs because so turned the light on.
Another shot that at least clearly shows it’s her since all you see is a blurry pink gaster.

futurebird,
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@Heliograph

In this species the works live around 18 months, though Tulip is pushing two years by now I think. The queens can live for up to three decades, though 8 years is more typical. Their queen is 4 going on 5 this summer.

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@Heliograph

It's the summer generation of honeybees that have shockingly short lives, even for insects, but especially for such dynamic intelligent insects.

Ants have more typical insect lifespans... but also really push the upper limit with the queens. There was a queen of a Lasius Niger colony kept in the UK that was confirmed to be 38!

We don't really know how long the queens can live.

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@Heliograph

Worker ants live about 18 months. Queens about 8 years.

futurebird,
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@barrygoldman1 @Heliograph Sadly no. Someday…

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I put Breakout (aka Brick Breaker) inside Google Calendar! It lets you decline any meetings you shatter.

blog info + chrome extension link in thread!

video/mp4

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@eieio

The ideal is to be calmly playing this during a meeting when some asks you if you can also please help with the committee to do The Thing.

"mmm? oh? Hold on--"
tapping arrow keys, bouncing sounds
"uh... yeah... yeah I guess I could do that... what do you mean... 'nevermind' ?"

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