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680I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible
I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post
I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time
I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
Janet lets you write number literals in an arbitrary base lol I love that. that’s so extra and yet I bet it wasn’t that much extra work to implement
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also, so far it even seems like it’s documented in a similar way to how my ideal language would be documented: starting from the most basic building blocks and expanding from there in carefully-chosen layers
in this case they even went a step further than what I had considered, by starting with just an explanation of what the parser does, and what data structures it can create
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kasdeya
kasdeyaomg I’m reading about the Janet language and loving what I’m seeing so far. this feels like exactly what I would want a Lisp to be - maybe even moreso than Fennel, just because Fennel is dependent on Lua
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kasdeya
kasdeya@ity unfortunately I’ve had similar experiences. nobody wants to hire me because they don’t believe that I actually know anything that I’ve said I know. it’s either that or because I’m trans, or because I don’t have a degree. it’s honestly impossible to say but I hate it
you sound plenty qualified to be doing all kinds of work. I hope you can find something at some point - if it’s still something that you want
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but this doesn’t just make it hard to understand What Anything Is. it also makes it way harder to configure anything because like
in the Hammer editor if I select a func_door_rotating I see a neat little menu that lets me configure which direction the door rotates, whether it’s locked, what noises it makes when opening or closing, etc.
but if I open the Unity equivalent of a func_door_rotating I would probably see:
- a mesh renderer with a ton of complicated settings that I will never need (hidden among them are settings that I do want)
- a mesh with a ton of complicated settings that I will never need (hidden among them are settings that I do want)
- a collider with a ton of complicated settings that I will never need
- maybe like a noise-maker component? I don’t even know
- a C# script with some of the settings that I need
- another C# script with some of the settings that I need
- a sub-entity for the doorknob with even more components
- maybe even more sub-entities and I’d have to look through them too for more of the settings that I need in order to configure this stupid door
like all of the stuff that I actually want gets buried under so much noise and there’s no way to filter out the noise. I don’t even think there’s any way to write a note to myself to be like “here’s where to find the settings that you want”?
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kasdeya
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one thing that frustrates me a lot about Unity, as someone whose only other experience with game engines is the Source engine, is how complicated and un-abstractable the components are
like instead of telling Unity “I want to make a prop_physice“ I have to tell it
“hi Unity I would like [an entity that contains a mesh and a mesh renderer and a collider and a material for the mesh renderer and a rigidbody]”
or instead of telling Unity “I want a func_door_rotating“ I have to tell it
“I want [an entity that contains a mesh and a mesh renderer and a collider and a material for the mesh renderer and also I’m going to write custom C# code to tell you how to rotate that door when the player presses use on it and also I’m going to write custom C# code to tell you what a player is and also I’m going to write custom C# code to tell you what it means to press use on something]”
like you have to explain everything to Unity from scratch and even after you’ve explained everything to Unity you can’t just abstract that into a neat little box like func_door or trigger_brush you have to specifically open the entity and be like “okay so this has a mesh and a mesh renderer and a collider and a material for the mesh renderer and it has some custom C# code so I think this is probably a func_door?” every single time. infuriating
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I like writing code a lot. in fact writing code is my favorite hobby - even more than video games
visual editors, operating systems, server software, GUI frameworks, IDEs, package managers, APIs - these all get filed in my brain under Stupid Bullshit I Have To Fucking Learn Before I Can Write Code Goddamnit
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kasdeya
kasdeyaI feel weird using neocat emojis lol I feel like folks are going to think I’m a catgirl or something
when will they add neosuccubi? (never :/)
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making software
learning how to use software for making software
kasdeya
kasdeyaI should not have to learn Unity and C# to (possibly) get paid. I should be paid to write everything from scratch in Python
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@Minionflo @ity anyone whose blog includes a CVE code is good at computers
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