this is kind of a subpost, but have a fanfic recommendation, complete with an explanation that only kind of explains why i'm recommending it

it's amazing. i'm just as confused as you are

i am simultaneously bored and unwilling to alleviate my boredom with anything less than the perfect videogame (which does not exist)

some sizzle shots of our in-progress UZDoom rhythm game, F-State 2: Rhythm Rapture!! Feel the blissful pulse of hyperwar!!!

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Seeing some extra spicy #USPol takes on my timeline right now suggesting certain actions that "someone" should take and y'all I 100000% get it but *especially* today you NEED to watch this:

#ShutTheFuckUpFriday #STFUFriday #ShutTheFuckUp

someone on Fedi is going to vibe with this really hard

it would be really cool if I could write all of kaslisp‘s interpreter’s unit-tests in kaslisp itself

the only problem is, in order to do that I would have to figure out how to print the line number that the error came from. otherwise the error message would amount to “something broke lol”

maybe I could find a way to print the S-expression that failed? hmm

anyway I’ve been writing this thing in a haze of sleep deprivation so I’m adding unit-tests to tell me if/when I break everything. and they work! 3 of them failed so I broke 3 things that I know of. I’ll fix them later

Playing Games Slowly - YouTube

someone sent me this video recently, about how FOMO pushes people to rush through games and treat them as objective lists instead of gestalt experiences to be savored and to put yourself into

and in a way I feel lucky that big, popular games are almost never aimed at me. so I don’t have to worry about this

but, I do rush through games sometimes. because there are so many that I’ve been meaning to try. sometimes it feels like I’m falling behind on my ever-increasing backlog if I’m not rushing through whatever I’m enjoying right now. but the truth is that I don’t like most games that I play. I play them for an hour and then decide to stop. so I’d much rather keep playing a game that I’m enjoying, instead of going through several games that I probably won’t

when I’m able to set my FOMO aside and deeply immerse myself in a game’s world, it can be a very special and personal experience. although for me to want that level of immersion, it has to be a certain kind of game. I’m not sure what exactly it takes, but I know that Fallout 3, Skyrim, and New Vegas make me want to deeply immerse myself in their worlds. and I’ve had similar experiences with many other games - just in a more limited way

sometimes, like with Alien: Isolation, I’ll love the surface-level vibes so much that I want to fully immerse myself in the world of the game. but when I try, I discover that the world starts to fall apart - because little details don’t make sense. so attention to detail and internal consistency are very important, at least

there are also a few different games that I would love to try immersing myself in, but unfortunately they all have stories that are told very effectively, so I don’t want to risk trying them. Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Cyberpunk 2077 are good examples

the way that this video describes walking everywhere, listening to the sounds that your footsteps make on the different materials: I’ve noticed things like this and I’ve even imagined how it must feel to walk through the snow in Skyrim, or how the different kinds of mead must taste. things like that really ground me in the world. and I use the word “ground” very deliberately: I’m using real-world grounding techniques to pull my focus into the game’s world instead of the real world

unfortunately when I play these games for too long, I do end up treating them as a list of objectives again. and I think that’s because the novelty and beauty of that world fades for me over time. and also because no matter how sophisticated a game is, there are only so many things that you can do in it. and sooner or later that repetition and inflexibility will start to chip away at my immersion

but it’s always worth it, to be able to live in another world for a while. to escape from all of my problems and be empowered to do and be whatever I want. I’m always looking for new worlds to put myself into. new places to explore and new experiences to have. I don’t think I could stop if I tried

which would make the best partner?

I hate this UI element so much. I can never tell if it’s supposed to be on or off. like I know it changes color but does the slightly darker teal mean “on” or does the slightly lighter teal mean “on”? does left mean on or does right mean on? and every UI has a different set of colors to mean “on” and “off”. it drives me crazy

please just use checkboxes

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

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