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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

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.

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

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)

I’m way too much of a people-pleaser for companions in games

“all of this sneaking around must be so boring for you. I’m sorry. I should have left you back at camp”

“oh no I didn’t protect you well enough! I’m so sorry about that. I shouldn’t have put you at risk at all. I could have done all of this myself anyway”

“I hope this quest is interesting to you. I know it’s not the kind of thing you’d usually do. if you’re not interested I could always leave you back at camp”

“hey can you hold onto this loot for me until I can sell it? oh that voice line makes it sound like it’s too heavy for you - I’m so sorry. I’ll take it back”

“oh no that voiceline makes it sound like you don’t like the sun! I’m really sorry about that - maybe I should have left you back at camp. you know we don’t have to adventure together at all if you don’t like it”

My opinion or advice: Don’t share bad news or toxic content from or about the toxic beings out there. Stay informed - yes, but don’t supply the doomscrolling machine for others. Don’t tell the world that everything is shit. If we start being fatalistic and let the toxic mind waste flow in our life everything will be shit. It’s what the toxic people out there want. Share action against that shit. Share people who do something. don’t promote the end of all things. Promote the fight for good.

If you think about it, fanfiction in big fandoms is just commedia dell'arte.