it’s amazing how much ffxiv looks, plays, and feels like a real mmo despite being made entirely out of hot glue
"Independence" is the greatest tool the capitalists have at prying apart the workers. Kiss your homies goodnight and forge a bond that cannot be broken
my therapist sent me something called the DBT Nightmare Protocol and I’ve never been more excited to read about a therapy technique. we need more psychology terms that sound like SCP doomsday contingencies
there should be a term for a Chesterton’s fence that isn’t “why is this here?” but “why did they make this so complicated?” because I run into that constantly in the tech world
like “why do I have to learn about the concepts of entities and components in order to use Unity when you could represent the same data and behavior using an object that contains more objects inside of it?” or “why does this unit-testing framework need to run an entirely separate JavaScript runtime inside of Node in order to simply unit-test some code?” or “why is it such a complicated and frustrating task to literally just make a simple GUI with HTML/CSS?”
like I’m not saying that these things are pointlessly overcomplicated, because they probably aren’t. but from the outside they look pointlessly overcomplicated. and that’s frustrating because I don’t want to learn something that looks unnecessarily difficult to understand and use
I just pushed my experimental changes to production at 6am because I make bad decisions
but, everything seems to be working! #GAGSProject is now fully async. it doesn’t have lazy-loading yet but at least the whole server doesn’t grind to a halt while it’s waiting on the results of just one reddit API request
why does every singleplayer game with cute characters have to have a story mixed in with the gameplay? why can’t a game just have cute characters? I want to play as a hot and/or cute girl but I don’t need a whole traumadump about them :<
I am so bad at matching voices to names because I always think that someone’s name is the name that they say the most often
I always used to think that Lewis was called Simon and Simon was called Lewis because they say each other’s names a lot
the solution is obvious: everyone should say their own name constantly, like a Pokemon
kasdeya! kasdeya!
alright I now have an experimental version of #GAGSProject that uses FastAPI instead of Flask! every feature seems to work exactly the same, except now everything runs asynchronously (finally! T_T) and probably faster?
before I switch over to this version in production, though, I want to tweak one more thing: I want to lazy-load the results of people’s searches, instead of fetching all of the results at once. that way y’all can browse thousands of results if you want to - instead of being capped to just 100 - and that won’t slow the server down at all
after I’m done with this, I’m actually thinking about posting about GAGS on certain subreddits where I feel like people might appreciate the ability to search by gender (like r/GWASapphic and r/GoneWildAudioTrans)
wow I’m ngl FastAPI seems like an improvement over Flask in every way where it isn’t exactly the same:
frozenset[bool])idk why anybody even uses Flask lol this is so much better
I fucking love that you can just, put an entire JavaScript script, complete with comments, inside of an HTML <button> element and nothing will break. it will work exactly as you would expect and want it to
I’m trying to minimize JS as much as possible in #GAGSProject but I now have a button that lets you copy debug info from an error page to your clipboard to help me figure out if something is breaking, and I needed JS for that. and thankfully it was only a few lines
"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software.
Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority:
- sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon)
- sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from mcdonalds)
- sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt)
- sidelistening (to my own music instead of on spotify)
- sidechatting (irl instead of online)
the year is 2045. if you whisper the word “Pikachu” within a 100 yard radius of your Switch 4 all of your Nintendo® products will self-destruct and the Nintendo® Armored Riot Assault Force© will be dispatched to storm your house and deploy neurotoxic gas on you and your family for violating their IP rights
people are still excited to buy the new Nintendo® Pokemon®© Zeta Teal®™ and Upsilon Orange®™ though
omg I was thanked for a Wikipedia edit today! I didn’t even know that Wikipedia had a way to thank people for edits but that’s amazing. I love that there’s a way to have a positive interaction on that site - so it isn’t just that people who like your edit are invisible and people who dislike it are very loud and noticeable
opening comms again soon because I want the junji ito x hobonichi A6 notebook cover >.>
And also to be able to afford dojo dues next month. And phone bill.
the problem with jobs is that in order to get one you have to Convince a Neurotypical to Like You and that is basically impossible like who knows how their brains work
ah the familiar curse of having extremely limited social energy and extremely unlimited loneliness