sitting in a hotel lobby on my laptop while reading and taking notes on webgpu and waiting on my uber

Artist(s): mossacannibalis
Characters: dari (mossacannibalis), longshanks (warhammer 40k), t'au
Media: warhammer 40k

Danbooru link: https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/8387594
Source: https://twitter.com/mossacannibalis/status/1853399042950365397

@VileLasagna if i remember to take my adderall more frequently you will be getting a lot more of it (also you’re very very sweet )

sorry for being autistic on main about my passions, it will happen again

i think the frustration is because the game was so close to greatness for me. i can’t be too hard because they’re a small team and the end product is still a very good experience with a lot of high points and solid game feel

Bevy rendering improvements goin' wild.

https://bsky.app/profile/pcwalton.bsky.social/post/3lhwcpfv7ys2e #bevyengine

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

important announcement too important to be CW'd. remember that tomorrow is Creature Appreciation Day so give your local critters and gremlins a big bucket of loves and cherish all frens big and small, long-time or just met, for everyone and for all time (hey xenia, remind me to post this message every day )

i do want to check out Road 96 though, another thing that The Toxic Avenger worked on and has produced some amazing music for. i’m a bit scared that it’s another instance of the music outpacing the game but i’d really love to give it a chance. i was very pleasantly surprised by Neon White – the game and the music are incredible

Furi’s development studio (The Game Bakers) struck gold with that OST and gold leafed a hotdog with it

springtime avatar change

<- its thinking about Furi

@vivi aaa this seems perfect i’m not sure if you’re familiar much at all with C#, but it gives me the impression that methods are implemented kinda analogously to C#’s extension methods? where they’re actually static methods which are implicitly given the target object as the first parameter when called with dot notation? (the target is identified by the this Moss self part in my example below)

public static bool IsMoss(this Moss self) {
  return true;
}

var vivi = new Moss();
if (vivi.isMoss()) {
  vivi.hold(duration = PositiveInfinity);
}

@rowan yeah this is kinda what Kotlin value classes do. for instance like the example in the documentation i linked, you can create a wrapper value class Password(val backing: String) which wraps over a String, and you can define functions as members of the Password class like fun printObscured(withChar: Char = '•') = times(backing.length) { print(withChar) }.. in compiled code, except for cases where the value class is required dynamically (like in in-position of a function i.e. fun foo(takes: Password), Password does not technically exist at all and that printObscured function actually ends up just being compiled down to something like (non-member function) fun printObscured(string: String, withChar: Char = '•') = times(string.length) { print(withChar) } by the compiler, and calls to it (nor general constructor calls like val myPassword: Password = Password("password1234") do not literally create an instance of the Password class when instantiated, just the backing instance i.e. val myPassword: String = "password1234". "boxing" and "unboxing" so to speak, happen opaquely and without additional verbose burden on the programmer,,
Anyways it's really cool sorry for kotlin infodumping

angy about furi again

the most egregious example of this fumbling was the ending of the game when Make This Right is featured. i cannot tell you the fucking noises i made when i heard this song start playing in the game. unhinged is putting it lightly

but the problem is that the song cuts in and out three separate times as the game transitions from gameplay to cutscene, awkwardly stopping and starting the song. it completely kills all of the tension and build up that the song has. by the time the fighting actually happens, i was already completely frustrated with how often they’d staggered the pacing and interrupted the music. they could have literally cut 95% of the talking and all of the cutscenes in favor of something less intrusive and it would have been so much more emotional and impactful

like dont get me wrong, the game is fine. it’s fun, the aesthetic is cool, but there were just so many times when the music was backseated and fumbled in awkward ways for the sake of highlighting the story or some cutscene and it’s fucking tragic. i feel like if the game had handled the music with more care, that game could have gone from awkward but pretty fun to goty / fav of all time for me. all they had to do was really pay attention how strong the soundtrack was and use that to their advantage as much as they possibly could – even if that meant cutting cutscenes and dialogue

Furi’s development studio (The Game Bakers) struck gold with that OST and gold leafed a hotdog with it