Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/many-developers-leave-gzdoom-due-to-leader-conflicts-and-fork-it-into-uzdoom/

#UZDoom #GZDoom

it’s frustrating because

• if you approach art from the perspective of wanting to get good enough to make good art, you’ll get discouraged early on because of how much time and effort it takes to get good (years and years)
• if you approach it from the perspective of wanting to enjoy making art even if it’s bad, you’ll still get discouraged because you’ll flounder until you put time and effort into learning how to do stuff. and floundering isn’t fun, and neither is putting effort into learning how to do {something that may or may not be fun after you’ve learned how to do it}

or this seems to be my experience anyway. I’m not sure if I can find a mentality to approach this from. I want to make things and express myself but at the same time I don’t want to waste spoons on something that I don’t enjoy

@ilobmirt thank you for the video! but yeah I think I’m going to give up for now tbh. I can’t really capture the things that I’m trying to trace. I enjoyed doing the pistol, even though a lot of parts looked terrible, but the P90 just isn’t fun. I feel out of my depth and I don’t want to spend the effort to learn when there are so many other things I could spend effort on instead - even ones where I feel in my element

I could find a pixel art tutorial but that sounds like work and this was supposed to be fun. fuck art tbh

I’m trying to make a pixel art version of a P90 next but aaaa shading is so hard T_T I’m inventing art techniques from first principles and I don’t think I’m enjoying it lol

i don't care if em-dashes are "characteristic of AI," that's not gonna make me stop using them. i've used them since high school, when i first had a computer that could easily type them. i'm not gonna stop just cause some folks make stupid assumptions based on windows not having an easy way to type them

now just imagine if the game could dynamically raise or lower your level based on your performance to find the ideal difficulty to challenge you at every point in the game. and de-emphasize level in the UI so you don’t feel like you’re being punished by having it lowered. I think that would be perfect

one of the things that I think RPGs flounder at is making the player feel as if they’re more powerful at level 20 than they were at level 1. if at first they were fighting level 1 tavern rats, but now they’re fighting identical-looking level 20 sewer rats, then are they really getting stronger? and why can’t they fight the identical sewer rats at level 1?

World of Warcraft avoids this entire problem and I think that’s a very good idea

World of Warcraft doesn’t treat the player character’s level as how strong or experienced they are. instead, it treats it as “where in the difficulty curve of the game is the player right now? how much should I challenge them?”. that means that characters actually get weaker the more they level up. when fighting the same enemies, the player character will have more trouble if they’re a higher level. PCs also unlock more abilities by leveling up, which makes them more complex and difficult to play

and I think that that’s a very interesting approach, and actually a very good one. and it’s strongly influenced my perspective on other RPGs because WoW is the RPG that I’ve connected most with out of anything (except maybe Skyrim, which does roughly the same thing). genuinely, I want to see more RPGs take this approach

I have a draft of a whole like 7-paragraph essay on this but I’m starting to think it’s not worth it lol so just have the 2-paragraph version instead

solarpunk is a valid aesthetic, and I’m just happy that some kind of utopian scifi still exists on the margins of 2025 pop culture, but it never felt quite right to me because of its emphasis on nature and plants. keep those things away from me

it seems like a lot of people equate nature with mental health, as if being near plants can cure depression or something

but just to be clear, I don’t want nature anywhere near me. nature is gross, full of parasites and other horrible things, and oh yeah it was created by a ruthless amoral survive-at-any-cost process known as evolution. it presents serious dangers to me everywhere I encounter it and I also just don’t like it

my ideal living environment is a massive neon-lit Eclipse-Phase-esque cyberpunk city built on (or inside of) an asteroid. that looks like Mirror’s Edge during the day and Blade Runner at night

(actually, I hope that eventually we can even save every animal on Earth from nature. and instead just upload their minds into simulations designed to meet all of their needs perfectly and always give them something new/fun to do. even animals don’t deserve nature)

I feel like we need some sort of explicit distinguisher between types of FOSS:

1. Corporate FOSS: projects that directly serve the interests of a single corporation and is governed by that corporation, but the source code is freely available
2. Public/Community FOSS: projects that are intended to be both governed and used by a wide variety of different people. Usually characterized by actively trying to promote the project to potential users in some way (including 'community evangelism'), and by actively trying to attract contributors of some kind.
3. Personal FOSS: people's own projects that are essentially fully controlled by them personally, and written for their personal use, just the source code is shared freely for others to use if they want to. Usually few contributors, or may not even accept contributors at all.

All of these have wildly different characteristics and governance structures, and users should have different expectations of them, so it seems reasonable that we should be treating them as different things, even if they are all nominally "FOSS"? And it would probably be helpful for projects to explicitly declare which of these they are, too, to set the right expectations.

#FOSS #OpenSource

Is a device that performs some computation, but that is limited to sub–Turing complete computation (e.g.: a four-function calculator, or a "pepper grinder" kind of adding machine) a computer?