samf

fraying, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Today I got my first community violation on TikTok. It was a video about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing that went on for minutes but failed to mention that McVeigh was a far right Republican white supremacist. That seemed like a pretty stark omission to me, so I left the fact as a comment. First, I was flooded by hateful responses. Then TikTok deleted the comment and issued me a “strike.” I appealed and was denied. I doubt a human ever reviewed it.

samf, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Moog’s new owner, inMusic, just laid off most of the Asheville team. Fucking hell.

[edit] this post has gone mildly viral so I’m going to update to note that the entire situation here is, in large part, Donald Trump’s fault. His tariffs on synth components shipped from China (chips, etc), but not whole synths assembled there, uniquely harmed US-based assembly like Moog was doing. Fuck inMusic, and as always, fuck Trump. https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2023/09/22/moog-music-downsizing-continues-with-layoffs-in-asheville/

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2023/09/22/world-renowned-instrument-maker-moog-slashes-jobs-at-asheville-factory/70934201007/

samf, 9 months ago to random

The fact that #lk99 is not already obviously debunked is VERY PROMISING. It doesn't require any fantastical elements. The barrier to entry for reproduction is, relatively, quite low. The steps from the original paper are wonky, but multiple labs in multiple countries are claiming partial success already—which is par for course with a novel material.

If this were a nothingburger, with so many eyes on the problem, we'd be seeing multiple hard failures. And…we're not. 👀 👀 👀

samf, 26 days ago to random

jesus fuckin christ, Rollerdrome was a fantastic, unique, and SUCCESSFUL game.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/kerbal-space-program-2-developer-intercept-games-may-be-closing-as-part-of-take-twos-big-layoff-plan/

samf, 1 month ago to random

Lerping is the foundation is game development and I strongly believe every data type in a game engine should be lerp'able with easing curves.

samf, 1 month ago to random

There is a SURPRISING amount of 3DS games.

godotengine, 23 days ago to godot

How about a #ScreenshotSaturday with a fun twist? 🍋🍸

Post one snapshot from your project without any additional context and let people in the comments guess what your game is about!

#godot #godotengine

aeva, 2 months ago to random

ok everyone! creative writing exercise time! please carefully consider this totally hypothetical scenario:

What text would you put on one of those ironic black tshirts with white text to make it ok to wear to an allegedly lowkey memorial service?

my wife vetoed my "this is my mourning shirt" idea

samf, 10 months ago to godot

No #screenshotsaturday to share (yet...) but I do have a fun (?) #godotengine tip o' the day:

If you're using a TileMap, and there's even the slightest chance you might want to animate one of the tiles at some point in the future ever, make sure to prep the tiles in your sprite sheet vertically. Unique tiles top to bottom, frames left to right. The out-of-the-box tile animation functionality only allows for a columnar layout. Which I discovered the hard way. 🙃

samf, 7 months ago to random

#ld54 #LDJam

samf, 1 month ago to random

Balatro: massive if/then block, “bad” code, huge success.

VVVVVV: massive switch statement, “bad” code, huge success.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm I’m starting to wonder if the “bad” code definition is, in fact, bad

beeoproblem, 22 days ago to random

But, seriously. About the memes.

Waaaay back when, I saw a bunch of My Little Pony reaction images. That led me to watching Friendship is Magic (the first few seasons anyway) and it was so much better than I was expecting out of a show made to sell toys.

Lately I've been seeing Pomni everywhere so I looked up the source... I was supposed to go to bed an hour ago. I've now binged most of The Amazing Digital Circus and it's so good. Can't wait for episode 3

thomasfuchs, 20 days ago to random

"The entire experience feels just like a MacBook"

Seriously what is the point then?

Why would anyone not just get the laptop that has a lot more apps for it and an operating system that doesn't suck for multitasking?

samf, 20 days ago to random

are you fuckin kidding me https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/psa-upgrading-apple-pencil/

samf, 18 days ago to random

In the year of our lord 2024, these are things I never want to see as a marketing hook ever again:

"solo developer”

"developed the game’s engine and editor from scratch while using it to make the game”

"Super Low latency”

"looks like it could have come from the Commodore 64 era” (it very much does not)

(https://blog.playstation.com/2022/07/20/how-animal-well-taps-into-ps5-hardware-to-elevate-2d-pixel-art-platforming/)

samf, 1 month ago to random

Hey @Gargron quick question, why is Biz Stone on the US non-profit board for Mastodon? He’s clearly still invested in Twitter and Instagram as platforms, posting at both places but only uses Mastodon to syndicate his Medium posts. I’m not seeing any action to indicate any passion or interest in the fediverse whatsoever.

It’s curious, is all.

YoSoyFreeman, 28 days ago to random

I'm physically well. I just don see much future. I can't make Godot work as i need, My pc takes almost an hour to open an unreal project and unity... is unity.

I use godot because is very light. My pc cant handle much more.

They denied my disability again this year, so in general futures seems very dark.

I been trying to be positive, but truth is that being poor and disable is almost a guarantee to keep being poor and disabled.

samf, 3 days ago to gamedev

At a certain point, if I want to make 2D games that aren’t bound to a specific closed-source engine (Construct, Defold) or proprietary language/GUI-based app (Godot), and can run on basically anything (including HTML5, consoles, Playdate)…

…I’m gonna have to learn C, aren’t I 🫠

#gamedev