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oldschoolpixels

@oldschoolpixels@mastodon.gamedev.place

#gamedev dad, game logic programmer, passionate about game design

currently working on Dustgrave: A Sandbox RPG at http://www.innervoid.net/web/

tinkering with many things in my (very limited) spare time (:monogame:, C#, C++, C, SDL2)

⚠️: sometimes I also post pictures of my cats, but always hashtagged so you can mute

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psychicparrot42, to random
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Browsing through backups of my own projects (not freelance!) I have a lot of games that I've started making, spent several weeks or months on and not finished. I mean, I do finish at least one game a year, so that's something, but I think the ratio of unfinished to finished is probs about 4:1. feel like this isn't the best use of my time as a 'making money' person but is probably the best use of my time as a 'making games' person. It's all learning and I may go back to some of these one day..

oldschoolpixels,
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@psychicparrot42 I don't think the game you manage to finish every year (that's a big achievement, to me) could exist without the other unfinished ones... 🤷‍♂️

sinbad, to random
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A persistent muffled miaow behind me indicates that Pippin has brought me one of his toys as a gift (it was in his mouth). He won’t stop until you acknowledge his gift 😄

He does this all the time, he has lots of little wool toys Marie made for him and he carries them around the house, sometimes in the middle of the night (and telling us all about it) 🙄

oldschoolpixels,
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@sinbad I have this conversation every single time I talk to people that never lived with cats.

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    oldschoolpixels,
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    @psychicparrot42 they always seem to have the best angle

    oldschoolpixels, to animals
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    Living in a haunted house 👻😺

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    oldschoolpixels, (edited )
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    @psychicparrot42 I see my friends (same experience or even less) working in other branches of programming and earning two or three times what I earn and I wonder why am I still doing this.

    Then they tell me about their day to day work life and I think that, in their place, I would go completely bonkers in less than a month.

    🤷‍♂️

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    oldschoolpixels,
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    @aetataureate in Italian, cats say "miao", dogs say "bau" and ducks say "qua qua" 😬

    Nifflas, to random
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    Jesus Christ, I'm in a situation where Unity's fake null check causes havoc.

    I can't wait to switch to an engine that doesn't override the null equality check. I hate that thing so much :(

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @Nifflas one of the worst design decisions in unity, IMO.

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @Nifflas yeah, it would be very breaking. To be honest, I don't even know how easy it would be to change implementation, because (I don't know if you're aware) it stems from Unity's architecture itself.

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @Nifflas ok, I stand corrected 😬 It wouldn't be that hard.

    cryptomator, to Cryptomator
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    🎉 Happy Birthday, !

    Celebrating Cryptomator 1.0, 8 years of easy-to-use encryption for cloud storage & 10 years since our first commit to Cryptomator!
    🚀 A decade of championing privacy and security.

    Here's to continuing our mission of protecting your cloud files 💚

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @cryptomator come on guys, I love your software but maybe hire a real artist instead of using generative models to make your promotional art...

    djlink, to random
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    I love how these just line up perfectly, even though different types but just happen to be 4 chars.

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @djlink just needs a little byte to be perfect

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    oldschoolpixels,
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    @psychicparrot42 The only people who can enforce the survivor bias are people who were once delusional and believed the survivor bias...

    Maybe the secret lies in being delusional without being reckless? shrug

    oldschoolpixels, to mastodon
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    I have a netiquette question: in alt-texting an image that contains some code, does it make sense to transcribe the code itself into the description? Do folks who use screen readers even need that or do they prefer a broad description of what the code does?

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @SirLich Thanks. I was just wondering if having a screen reader reading a bunch of code was obnoxious, but then again there are a lot of programmers using screen readers around here. So it was a silly question after all. 😅

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    @aetataureate "statistical generative models", a bit wordy but covers both text large language models and stable diffusion image/video models, I believe

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    @aetataureate No, thank you for caring about the language issue: it's a personal battle of mine to niptick about not calling these things "AIs", because the name is just marketing and VERY misleading.

    djlink, to random
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    well this is unexpected, I recently switched to Firefox to escape this shift to AI in the other browsers and will you look at that, Firefox is scaling back on VPN and Relay and investing into AI on the browser. Oh well https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @djlink oh no!

    lorenschmidt, to random
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    i am thinking about roguelike resource flow. it's interesting that a lot of the classic games have resting to restore health as a mechanic. it's a tiered system:

    larger: (food clock -> health)
    mid: micro decisions which reduce health loss

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @lorenschmidt ok, what if it's some kind cyberspace thing and you can regain life energy by absorbing almost everything in the game: a key, a weapon, en exit button...?

    could be difficult to balance, I think

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    @psychicparrot42
    It took me some 30 seconds to realize this was a real bug and not a metaphor for a problem in your game you suddenly discovered while sipping your tea... I need a break.

    djlink, (edited ) to random
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    been trying to convert my wordpress blog to static content and after a bunch of time I gave up on jekyll, the dependencies alone are a nightmare to get running, had issues in Linux and Mac, I think this will be a problem to maintain in the long run, even if I make a stable VM (...)

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    @djlink
    I had a good, although somewhat hacky, experience with Zola: https://www.oldschoolpixels.com/blog/site-building/

    Anyway, I think I'll never go back to a cms again: my site is like ten times faster now.

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @djlink Hugo and Zola are quiet similar. I chose the latter mostly because of a personal preference towards their templating syntax.

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    @psychicparrot42
    Debug.Log("MAVAFFANCULO")

    Italian debug swears FTW

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @psychicparrot42 😬 and the rest is better left inside my code

    aeva, (edited ) to random
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    #poll do you have lucid dreams

    oldschoolpixels,
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    @aeva I never have them, but I have a friend who trained themselves to trigger them and I am very jealous.

    They use a notebook on the bedstand to immediately write down the content of their dreams when they wake up. I don't know exactly how, but they tell me this helps learning how to trigger them.

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    oldschoolpixels,
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    @psychicparrot42 Good luck!

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