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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116161382313971996

it's international woman's day and i am a very international woman so please buy my gay jumping game so i can pay rent thank you

@konstruct @det Akkoma has this under Settings -> Filtering -> Wordfilter

Fedi becomes noticeably more cheery once you start adding filters that automatically CW keywords like "Iran" and "Gaza" so you're not forced to read it all at first glance and you can pick your reads

"When I kissed her she tasted like strawberries" ...you only tasted her lip gloss. When I kissed her she tasted of agony and surrender, of submission and rage. She tasted of honeycomb fresh from the hive, still dripping venom.

You kissed her lips. I have tasted her soul.

@emberquill I hope you like it! I think it’s such a cool idea

the way that it works is basically:

• you start with an existing game randomizer mod
• you modify it to talk to Archipelago’s servers
• Archipelago tells the mod which items are where, and it also tells the mod when to give the player an item, and which player sent that item from their own game
• the mod tells Archipelago whenever the player gets an item in their own game, which the server sends off to the other player

What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.

#Linux

reminder that Archipelago exists and is absolutely incredible:

https://archipelago.gg/

it lets you create “multiplayer games” where you and your friend play two completely different singleplayer games and find items for each other in your games

for example I could be playing Doom ‘93 and instead of getting the super-shotgun and a soulsphere, I might find the PokeFlute and some rare candies for my friend playing Pokemon

and then they might be exploring a cave and find the BFG and the red key for E1M4

I can’t believe that something like this can exist. and there are a surprising number of supported games too

@zeichenreihe ooh I think I see what you’re saying! so if f(n) validates that n is odd and then creates an OddNumber(n), then you know that every OddNumber is in fact odd. so the type itself tells you something about the value it contains. which means that f is a function that proves something about n and then returns n wrapped in that proof

that’s a little bit like how I’ve been using structs in Racket actually - for example in my simple tic-tac-toe game I have a (coords x y) struct which validates that x and y are non-negative integers between 0 and 2 inclusive. which means that I can have functions which take a coords and not have to worry about validating those things about the x and y values

and thank you for the tips about searching for math symbols! mathlib4 and LaTeX might be great resources - although I tend to find Wikipedia descriptions of math things very hard to make sense of lol

@catgirl_so you know what? I am 100% on board

this unit's timeline appears to be frustrated by daylight saving time. it has a suggestion to solve this problem!

we must destroy the sun.

Y'know those mathematical packing problems where you try fo fit as many smaller cubes as possible inside a larger cube and for a lot of configurations, the result is beautiful and elegant and it makes it feel like there's some mathematical order built into the cosmos, then you add one more cube and the optimal packing structure is just this seemingly ad-hoc mess? That's basically tuning theory in a nutshell.

fucking daylight saving time

so I made a basic tic-tac-toe game in Racket (it even has a simple AI that you can play against!) and now I’m moving on to using its GUI modules to make a little clicker game!

unfortunately GUI stuff is always a clusterfuck so I’m currently trying to figure out how to decouple the game logic from the GUI code, while still being able to pass messages back-and-forth between them (there are lots of ugly ways to do this, but I’m trying to find a non-ugly way to do it)