The fact that hotels have started hiring escape room designers to hide their light switches seems related to the fact that UI designers turned scrollbars into the world's shittiest video games/hand-eye coordination tests.

One of the weirder social phenomena I experienced where the intense anti-fedora sentiments of the 2010s that treated the hat as emblematic of Men's Rights activism and bad/sexist men in general.

It's still puzzling to me for a number of reasons:

1. It's just a hat.

2. It is an androgynous hat, not a specifically masculine one. (Kinda moved over time from being a tomboyish woman's hat to a foppish men's hat until it got associated with movie tough guys.)

3. Judging by the images, the headgear they where actually having an issue with was trilbies.

4. Knowing the difference between a fedora and a trilby was seen as suspicious in and of itself.

I used to use Macs, and then I looked at iOS 7 and Gatekeeper and thought "eventually, Apple will force something horrific onto my computer, and I won't be able to say no". So then I used Windows until I looked at Win11 and Copilot and thought "eventually MS will force something horrific on my computer, and I won't be able to say no". So now the mac users are miserable with Liquid Glass and the Windows users are miserable with Recall, and am I happy? No. I am using Linux. But I chose my miseries

esolang where the only data type is a struct representing a Pokemon. complete with nature, EVs, IVs, moveset, etc.

there are no arithmetic operators. the only way to do math is by making Pokemon battle and then reading data from the struct afterwards

block game's first crafting gameplay loop is in! \o/ break leaves to get sticks, combine with flamereeds to get torches, place torches to light up the darkness

no particle/emissive textures system yet so the torches look a bit club-like, sorry

starting a new dev thread to mark the occasion, previous posts can be found here: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/115418239486943047

#EniBlockGame #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen #PixelArt

ugh the power died and now I’m stuck in the dark with just my phone and nothing to do :/

I’m making my own Lisp implementation despite having a tenuous grasp of how Lisp works, because I read 40% of a math paper about Lisp. I’m not even referencing the math paper as I write it I am entirely just making shit up

https://gitlab.com/__kasdeya__/kaslisp/

this is a bad decision and no one can stop me from making it

Whenever anyone describes gender as a spectrum, or suggests that non-binary exists somewhere "in-between" between man and woman, we think of this video by non-binary trans fem content creator, author, and influencer Elle Deran

https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.deran/video/7443177846874328362

The transcript is as follows:

So gender isn't binary?
It's not.
It's a spectrum.
Not really.
Wait, I'm confused. I was taught that there was man and woman, and non-binary people fall somewhere in-between.
Well, you see how a spectrum still has two ends? So seeing gender in this linear fashion relies on binary thinking and positions man and woman as these sort of opposing opposites. Which they're not.
Well, then how am I supposed to see it?
Think of it like this. We culturally see the sun and the moon as these opposite entities, representing the light in the dark. And when we look at the sky, they might be all we can see. But the truth is that there are billions of other stars and moons in the universe. Our sun and moon aren't opposing opposite. They exist together at all times, along with billions and billions of planets and galaxies and other universal entities, all of which have overlapping similarities and differences. And as we evolve as humans, we learn more and more about the universe. So when we discover a new planet, we didn't just make it up. It didn't just come out of thin air or thin space.
Nah, haha.
It has been there all along. We have only brought it to light.
Right.
There are infinite ways to be a moon, infinite ways to be a star. And there is so much more to our universe than what we can see in the sky. There are infinite ways to be a woman, to be a man. To be non binary. Infinite ways to be a human. And at the end of the day, we are all just different expressions made up of the same stardust. So, you see, gender isn't binary. It's infinite.
Cool.
Yeah.

Thought some of y'all might find this interesting, whatever form your own gender has taken from the stardust 🫶🏻

#ElleDeran #trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #TransFem #WeAreAllJustDifferentExpressionsOfTheSameStardust #SoGenderIsntBinary #transition #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+

[Frodo]
Where am I, and what is the time?

[Gandalf]
In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o’clock in the morning. It is the morning of October the twenty fourth, if you want to know.

“Fighting the world as your authentic self is better than fighting yourself on behalf of the world.”

This quote inflicted on me a severe concussion of the identity, when I stumbled upon it in an unrelated article* back in January 2022.

It set off and guided a months-long outbreak of hyperfocused, ruthless self-examination, where I uncovered my own structural dissociation and eventually identified trauma, a process that quite abruptly led to the realisation, seemingly coming out of nowhere, that I'm trans.

*So what was that unrelated article about then? Being #trans. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I still have the link: https://www.self.com/story/before-transitioning

[repost from January 1st 2023 on my previous account]

One thing you get sometimes, especially in cartoon, science fiction/fantasy and children's entertainment spaces are people who have only encountered one good example of a particular genre and have come to the conclusion that it must have been miscategorized, cus they seem to think being bad/shallow is part of the genre definition?

I've seen this play out with Tolkien a lot, with people quibbling over whether or not he actually counts as a fantasy author, basically because his writing is good and his world-building is solid and like, that's just called being a good fantasy writer.

It occasionally shows up with children's media too and it's especially stark there because "children's media" isn't just a matter of genre, there are specific standards that apply to children's media, you can tell when something was made to be in that category by its vocabulary, reading level and what it can and can't show.

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

I just completed part 1 of Alien: Rogue Incursion and I really liked it. it feels like if Alien: Isolation was an action-horror FPS, but it also does a lot of things that I really wish Alien: Isolation had done:

• a lot more thought was put into the environments. like what is this room for? how does it fit into the overall layout of the area that you’re in? what is this division of the station for? etc.
• a lot more thought was also put into the objectives, like what kind of technology are you manipulating right now and to what end?
• there’s a lot of {manipulating physical objects in your environment} which I find very grounding. I especially love the rewiring minigame because it’s so seamless and feels like it’s just another part of the world that you’re interacting with
• overall the world just feels much more real and substantial than in Alien: Isolation. you can really take your time to appreciate little details and they will all make sense in context
• the intensity is never cranked up too high. I found the intensity of the second half of Alien: Isolation to be pretty exhausting - just being consistently high with no breaks
• the map is much smaller and more focused and there’s a lot of backtracking and Metroidvania-like exploration, so it’s possible to gain a sense of the layout of the station over time
• also, the story isn’t told especially well so I was able to not care about the characters and not be disturbed/upset by the parts that tried to hurt me, while still enjoying the lore and worldbuilding

so yeah I feel like 95% of players would find this game boring at best but I liked it so much that I’m replaying it on a harder difficulty, and I’m already finding new secrets that I missed on my first playthrough

“may your favorite language never break backwards compatibility”

- ancient curse

I find it funny how the meaning of “I beg your pardon” has drifted from “I am so sorry” to “what the fuck is wrong with you”

but also this is a great example of how politeness-phrases get diluted over time because people mindlessly parrot them (or deliberately use them to be rude with plausible deniability), and eventually have to be switched out for new ones