Yo Soy Freeman

Neurodivergent indie dev and artist from Spain who works mostly with Godot, Blender and Material Maker.

Linux user and open source enthusiast.

Core Contributor at @liblast

Fighting chronic depression.

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2024-08-19 10:38:51

Black myth be like:
Do' s: Have fun!
Don' ts: Human rights!
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2024-08-15 14:31:38

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@npub15nr…t8ej NICE!! I saw the fix proposal time ago but ididn't knew it made it to 4.3! That feels good! It was by far the worst deal breaker. Now we can remove the hacks to prevent it! Free gains! haha

2024-08-01 08:57:49

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@npub15nr…t8ej Thank you mate! 2 weeks with a yellow filter on was REALLY uncomfortable u_U

2024-07-31 10:27:50

I LEAVE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND YOU ALLOWED NEGATIONIST INTO MASTODON?
"Science? Actually no. And if so, just buy another house or whatever"
PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT PLACES ARE USED TO DIFFERENT CLIMATES. that's why people DIE Eluc.
Wtf
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2024-07-31 09:22:27

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Please can i be catalonian or basque i will behave very nicely, please, give me some of your non lethal weather

2024-07-31 09:21:11

I seriously need this heatwave to stop. There is not even air moving.
Look, i am on this heatwave photo! I'm in the literal dark spot there
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2024-07-29 10:54:58

Ok, s, i'm in a hole, which requires drastic measures.
BEHOLD THE CLEANSING 8X CONCENTRATED VINEGAR.
I used to use this when i was working at the bar long ago.
Let's start this round again.
Fear my OCD, Depression.
The duality of man.
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2024-07-29 09:28:13

This is a little town, and lately everyone says to me how pretty and thin i am. I always thanks a compliment, but i wonder if at any point, anyone is going to ask me if i'm OK instead.
I was at 83 Kg less than a month ago. I weight 74 now.
I'm the first one to encourage people when they MANIFEST that they are training or doing something beneficial for their health. But we must learn as a society to catch certain clues, because most "Wow, you look great now" have a trauma behind.

2024-07-28 11:28:25

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And now i go back to sleep.
I'm sorry mates, but it really hurts me how my faith is wielded as a weapon against people who only wish to live and to love.
The world is a pitiful place. Its our responsibility to make it better.
A hug to everyone of you, with my soul. Please, don't ever think those radical crazy madmans speak for me.

2024-07-28 11:16:13

I'm really focused right now on getting better and get out of this pit, so i'm not posting that much, but i feel like i have a responsibility here.
I enjoy the Olympic games. As you know, i'm also a christian.
I think the artistic performances were beautiful and I'm profoundly ashamed of the people pretending to be offended just to have another excuse to attack minorities.
Our faith is not only faith, is pop culture. It belongs to the people, whatever you like it or not.
Our task is to love.

2024-07-25 10:18:23

I just don't get exposed to sun. And there is a heatwave that has me vomiting every couple of hours. So is been like 2 months of no light at all in my room, because otherwise it gets to 44 degrees, which for me feels like i'm going to die.

2024-07-25 10:16:49

BTW, i have to take the sun because i lack Vitamin D, so i thought "I'll stream and walk, maybe that helps me out"
Then i remember youtube Just doesn't allow me to stream from my smartphone without reaching gods knows how many subs before.
Meh.

2024-07-25 10:07:46

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BUT that is the divine beast and a couple more. Most fights are more fair than the base game.
That said, base game works at 60 fps and dlc sometimes reach single digits fps. So not really sure how they messed that so much.
I'm pretty sure is all the particles.

2024-07-25 10:05:40

This may change in the future, but my opinion about elden ring DLC difficulty...
It is unfair, yes. It is also funny and spectacular.
But is CLEARLY designed as a show. You don't even have to participate that much in most of the unfair fights.
Summon ANYTHING and they just kill whatever way faster than on the base game.
My biggest complain right now is i have to choose between doing it solo and being not fun, and using summons and the fight doing itself.

2024-07-23 18:25:19

Glasses store woman said i have a cute face :D
I'll have my new day to day glasses in a week.
The ones i have now are cool for some time and nice events, but they are fragile and the glass is yellow. Eyesight gets tiring.

2024-07-23 10:15:41

gamedev.lgtb is looking for moderators to make the space even safer. If any of you are interested, here is the post:
https://gamedev.lgbt/@bram/112789562108189581

2024-07-23 10:11:42

It might be the fever i have but i decided Elden ring DLC is not canon. Yes, is autistic stuff, but i was hopping for a DLC with good lore and improvements over the base game, but it's just more base game.
Without spoilers, Elden ring went from having the second best narrative of a fromsoft game to a very, very bad movie.
And that's my rant. Now if you excuse me i need to go back to having 39 degrees of fever and hating everything, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

2024-07-21 20:08:34

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I'm really thrilled to get into the DLC! The story deserves a conclusion!
Really hopping they go back to their more polished style for their next games tho. Sekiro is old at this point and still looks, moves and works like a game a decade newer than Elden ring.
I don't think they can pull of something with the quality and size of sekiro again, but one can dream!

2024-07-21 20:05:13

I just completed Elden ring again before going to the DLC and got the same feeling than the first time: It is incredible that they managed to keep me entertained for 120 hours with what is by far the worst combat, enemies and bosses of FromSoftware history.
Not a single memorable moment about the game, but holy fuck the story is on another level.
Is still quite noticiable that they run out of money for the last half of the game, but if you forget that is pretty cool.

2024-07-21 11:38:26

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@npub17yr…845n
BTW, i think you haven't considered that, if the fish goes straight up or down perfectly there is no most upwards vector, and therefore we should not calculate nothing there to escape issues.

2024-07-21 11:30:18

Me: Yeah, let's go back to work with something simple.
Also me: Yeah, quaternions are cool, but how do i use multiple of the at the same time?
Funny enough, i didn't found a lot of info about quaternions for fish simulations...
But found one for damn rockets.
I have developed games for long enough to confidently say that a rocket is a fish.
Same AI.
You can not convince me otherwise.

2024-07-21 10:59:45

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2024-07-21 10:59:23

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@npub17yr…845n https://ewpratten.com/blog/quaternions/

2024-07-21 10:48:49

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@npub17yr…845n
Tomorrow, the next one as far you'll have some news from me.

2024-07-21 10:39:23

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@npub17yr…845n
Hi mate, didn't forgot about this. A friend of mine has Crohn and was a very hard week. I barely touched the computer. Sorry for the delay.

2024-07-20 08:40:49

Twitter just launched an ad to me about a SUICIDAL CULT and a person implying he is going to die.
I mean, really, wtf.
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2024-07-17 08:31:36

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@npub15nr…t8ej
Great idea! This looks really good!

2024-07-16 17:56:25

Warrior is not the one who wins but the one who fights.
I took a shower, eaten like a person, studied a bit.
Let's go for round 29!
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2024-07-11 16:24:22

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@npub1wqy…u2sf
It doesn't surprise me that my thoughts are undistinguished from an horror show xD
Gonna watch the episode when i keep gluing this!

2024-07-11 16:22:56

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@npub16z8…meyp
Thank you mate! I really hate how expensive glasses are. Like... You just go blind if you loose them, but they cost as a hobby or something

2024-07-11 10:30:43

Ok, 6 parts glued by now... Now this side has to curate. Then ill try to glue both sides.
Worst case i have no day to day glasses, Best case I'll look like an absolute idiot :)
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2024-07-11 07:53:12

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I have the other brittle ones, but yeah, quite a blow. I'm trying, but this shit is not fair.

2024-07-11 07:46:41

I took a time to focus on my health.
My glasses snapped in half.
I can't see :)

2024-07-04 08:20:34

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@npub1vpc…8cfj You are working on it. So it is already improving. Don't be harsh with yourself, keep the battle!
My best wishes, sincerely.

2024-07-04 08:13:20

Good morning!
Night was terrible in all senses. I'm physically exhausted and STILL i feel way lighter mentally.
How you doing?

2024-07-04 08:05:47

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@npub15nr…t8ej
Thank you for all the work you did to make it work on multiplayer Unfa. You did awesome.

2024-07-03 08:45:37

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@npub1rfc…76d8
Good morning! Show those paper's how's in charge! 💪

2024-07-03 07:30:14

Good morning! Hiw are you doing?

2024-07-02 08:29:19

Hi there!
By the moment there are no more sleeping pills. Been a long time with them and got to a point in which i couldn't sleep anyway, but i was tired and confused the whole day. I stopped on Saturday and I'm getting over the worst part of the withdraw.
Yesterday my Doctor told me he agrees is a good idea to let my body breath. Being physically tired for some time is better than being constantly mentally exhausted.
This days should be the worst part... We are on it 💪

2024-07-01 08:26:20

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@npub15nr…t8ej
The chat is down too :S

2024-07-01 08:01:32

Wish me luck with my doctor!
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2024-06-30 21:53:00

Man, even with all it's flaws Elden ring is a very good game. I enjoyed playing this weekend after all this time!
I started the game from scratch so it will take a while to get to the DLC, but playing it slowly is my intention.
If they someday pull a game this size with the quality of Sekiro it could be one of the best games ever made.
I LOVE elden ring, but is crazy how it feels 10 years older than Sekiro. Fair to say Sekiro is the best action game ever made... Not easy to match!

2024-06-30 18:32:22

Hi there! Everything is fine, i have doctors tomorrow and spend some time with family. rhythm will increase again!

2024-06-27 08:51:42

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@npub1rqe…ufvh thank you so much!!! I really appreciate it!!

2024-06-27 08:51:17

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@npub1wqy…u2sf thank you mate!!

2024-06-26 10:29:42

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@npub1gag…tna8 Thank you so much Rie!

2024-06-26 10:17:47

Hi! Today is my birthday! A wonderful person has donated me an RTX 2060 and RAM! Thanks Eno!
Sadly, my current computer is too old to handle this and i need the rest of the parts to be able to build a new machine.
Most of my current parts are from 2012.
If you can and wish to help me reach my goal, i could finally update my PC! Blender wouldn't take a day to render a noise image :)
https://ko-fi.com/yosoyfreeman/goal?g=0
I would gladly appreciate if you can boost this post.
Let's fight for this!

2024-06-25 12:59:26

I been gifted elden ring+expansion
You don't know how much i love this game!
Guess who's going to beat the game again with the most basic katana and zero defense clothing not because im good, but because my character looks cooler that way?
FashionSouls > skill

2024-06-25 09:08:45

Sorry for the little rant. But i really love the feeling of helping people learn. Help them see they are way more capable than they think they are.
You are not just teaching people. You are part of the start, or the end, of a possible hobby/career.
We constantly complain about people not knowing. But we are still in "UseFuckingGoogle.com".

2024-06-25 08:51:40

we have::to(end_forever)
.This
.Kind_of
.code_syntax
.forever.

2024-06-24 09:18:01

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@npub17yr…845n wow. Im so sorry to hear that. Are you safe now? I don't have any money right now but i can give you the next donations y get if you need them.

2024-06-24 09:00:11

In 3 days i will be 29. My birthday is a very traumatic event and this year it has come with lots of extra issues. No motorcycle, no car, no bike, dog has cancer again, I failed in my quest to improve Godot physics...
I'll be back to pretending not to understand the severity of my situation next week, once my birthday pass.
Every year i have to bonkers with something to get out of the well. Probably will be lifting and programming.

2024-06-23 08:26:47

My car just broken too. I no longer have a Way to move around.
I been trying to find... Some kind of hope to keep moving. But this existence is miserable.
I can not do this anymore
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2024-06-22 09:25:30

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@npub1wqy…u2sf i think so!

2024-06-21 12:11:11

Hi all. I wanted to apologize if i been kind of grumpy this past days. My Scooter fully died just 3 days after 2 years of slowly getting it into shape, so i'm back not not going out, i lost my scooter, and all the time and money invested on it.
It was an attempt of mine to get better. To fix things, quite literally.
So, it fully breaking on the middle of a hot day 30 km from home felt painful and ironic in a way that really hurt me.
I think i wasn't unkind, but, just i case, i'm sorry.

2024-06-21 11:58:57

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@npub1uem…zf38
So, she does not carry weapons in the new game, but sheik, her alter ego, does goes around using ninja stuff and knives stabbing people so yeah Zelda pretty much rules

2024-06-21 11:57:20

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@npub1uem…zf38
In order:
1- Yes, there is new game.
2 - No :(

2024-06-21 09:30:16

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Main zelda concern is not being good enough, with "Good enough" being literally achieving perfection on her kingdom.
This people that are supposedly fans of the Zelda games...
Have ever, ever, played a zelda game?

2024-06-21 09:27:22

There is people very angry that there is a zelda game with zelda as the main character because "Zelda would not be able to even draw a sword".
And i'm like, wait, are you talking about the same zelda that contained the end of the world, untrained, with her bare-hands, non stop for more than a hundred years?
And that's in her kind form
Sheik just goes around stabbing people in the chest xDDDDDDDDD

2024-06-20 21:28:57

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/discussions/9646

2024-06-20 08:50:43

I guess what the people that told me i was wrong about gLTF fundamentally misunderstanding what a 3D file is for think now that the format has done all the stupid shit you could think of.

2024-06-18 13:11:59

I will not be able to do the travel streams. Now google forces you to do 50 shorts before streaming from a smartphone.
This is ridiculously ridiculous.
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2024-06-17 19:10:27

I'm sorry i given myself a free day, got my scooter working and the circulation pass renovated, taken air, saw hazbin hotel in a seat, went to go around with the scooter again, saw some helluva boss, saw the sunset next to my scooter and came back home
i didn't programmed nothing today, neither i learned nothing
a full, full fleshed free day for me. First one in months.
So please, deal with the cartoon references for once, i'll be back to study physics and suffering soon xD

2024-06-17 19:04:11

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Alastor: My only love is evil
Internet: That's if i want to xD

2024-06-17 19:01:37

Hazbin hotel: Ey, here you have the coolest ever dude, manly as a chewing rocks, and we made it without using none of the tough guy tropes. In fact, he is aromatic and asexual! We wanted to show how your sexuality doesn't have to define you as a man!
Hazbin hotel fans: Yeah, let's pic the only famous eve ACE character and made tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of sexual content with it, often presented as a girl.
I'm just a cis guy but that has to be wrong in some way, right?

2024-06-16 14:48:40

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I was gifted IRON LUNG, one of the games i want to play more, by a stranger, LAST YEAR.
I still didn't played it. Because i want it to be "Iron lung day".
And i didn't allowed myself a full day in... months, or more.
Maybe learning low level skills actually requires you to not be mentally exhausted :D
I think i know how crunch feels now.

2024-06-16 14:45:51

Hi there, i'm a bit blocked today. Don't feel really capable. I'll probably try to stream some zomboid or something. I think i need to start taking weekends for me.
My current "Free day" is Sunday, and it means "I'll try to not do a lot of programming after lunch"
I honestly think i need to get my mind SOME space to just... process stuff. This self imposed torture is killing me. I deserve to play things.

2024-06-16 10:53:37

LOL, GOOGLE IMAGES DOES NOT SHOW IMAGES ANYMORE. you get like 25, and then common search results. Google is death.
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2024-06-15 22:52:33

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@npub1pxm…u5qs I use git because i work with godot, liblast, raylib... Its all git.
In my personal projects, i copy paste to a 5 tb hard drive.

2024-06-15 22:30:34

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Trying to take it with humor, but i'm really sad right now. Her birthday is on my wall. People like me don't remember birthdays so hers is ALWAYS hanging on a note on my wall.
She didn't deserved two fucking idiots almost getting to hands like we were 16 for gods know why

2024-06-15 22:20:16

Today it has been the birthday of my best she friend. one of the few moments in the year in which i try for real to be happy, handsome, funny. That girl is my family and sees in my a humanity i don't, so there is no amount of depression that can make me fail her on her day.
So, i took like 2 beers + one that a random girl invited me to. I was having fun.
But the friends of my friends started fighting.
++

2024-06-15 09:46:13

About if you need to know git as a software developer:
No. You don't. You will have to because this acquired taste called git has gained a legendary status.
But let me be clear: Using git is not a software developer skill, it should not be taught in schools and should stop being the default way of sharing source code.
The fact that is used in game development blows my mind.
It is a lesser evil we have to accept by now. I hope it does not last long.

2024-06-15 09:21:29

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@npub1qvl…6guw Wow mate, that is a lot of progress! Congrats!

2024-06-14 22:04:34

A random thought:
Could it be that the GJK based swept is filing not because the fractions are wrong, but because the p_cancel_slide is trying to do its thing, which is based on the penetration on the unsafe fraction
WHICH, if the sweep works... the penetration at the time of impact could be 0 or negative.
Which would explain why the thing seems to bounce...
Does this makes sense?
Somebody smarter than me?

2024-06-14 17:38:21

RAYLIB, I LOVE YOU, but i must be me.
So, i look at the raylib cheatsheet. Great cheatsheet, btw. I see no raycasting methods in core.
Okay, none there, is probably on Raymath, the dedicated module who contains the all kind of... math.
None.
"Damn, Raylib REALLY is for spartans"
So i been implementing then, badly, myself.
I descovered by accident that there are at least the basic ones...
In the models module.
LIKE WHAT
Glorioso raysan, te imploro el razonamiento!

2024-06-14 11:52:11

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@npub142n…gjcv
I can say that a a bevy project, in RUST usually compiles faster xD

2024-06-14 11:45:19

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@npub15gv…74v6
I'm not kidding, give me LSP support and i try that hahaha

2024-06-14 11:25:59

I opened godot after 3 weeks using only Neovim and i must say that Godot code editor is very nice, but compared to vim... I'm not 2x slower in godot haha

2024-06-14 10:21:27

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@npub1a9y…34ak It must be. But when i saw it yesterday after a long day fighting anxiety it just made me go bonkers.

2024-06-14 10:19:00

Good morning! How are you?
I'm going trough one of my "No rest" phases. I'm forcing myself to be in the bed at least 8 hours, but can't sleep more than 2 or 3 from which i barely get any rest. And that with my meds, which would take down an NBA player.
If this goes like this another 4 or 5 days i'll have to go to the doctor so they inject me something to sleep.
I'm starting to have micro-sleeps and its not helping u.u

2024-06-13 21:43:35

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Seems like the most complete series i can find
But does it have more shit like this? how knows!
I LOVE HORROR
when i'm playing horror games
damn, i can even accept it in an essay if it conveys an artistic meaning
but why you put one in a beginners series for C

2024-06-13 11:17:19

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@npub16am…scuf
If i ship this i would have to remove -programmer- from my skill list because from that point on i would be a legit wizard

2024-06-13 11:17:05

If i ship this i would have to remove -programmer- from my skill list because from that point on i would be a legit wizard

2024-06-13 11:12:37

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@npub1h4v…g7pk
We are, and a bunch more! Some of them may have changed instance thou, so you may have to re-follow some people.
Welcome back!

2024-06-13 11:11:43

Oh lord
I found 3 MAYOR breaking bugs in my collision code
Like, the kind of bugs that makes things go boom
BUT THE CODE WORKS.
a code that should work but doesn't is terrifying, but a code that SHOULDN'T work for 3 different reasons and still does...
No man is prepared for that.

2024-06-12 12:26:01

First steps in collision resolution
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2024-06-12 11:32:17

In hazbin hotel:
daughter: Dad, i like girls...
Dad: YOU LIKE GIRLS? ME TOO! WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON!
This show is gonna kill me xDDDDDD

2024-06-11 19:48:47

Smallest distance to a Tileset adapting the SD formula for a box. This will be the basis for CC collision of the character.
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2024-06-11 14:25:48

Official petition for a #Raylib official DoubleRayMath.h
I love this thing, but GIVE ME THOSE PRECIOUS DOUBLES

2024-06-11 11:23:20

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@npub18c3…mnn8
If you don't speak the language of the old Elves that's sounds like a skill problem BTW
You never gonna get the ring with that attitude, Siina.

2024-06-11 11:16:29

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@npub1ksn…nfd9
It's gonna take some time... i'm still choosing what kind of solutions i want to implement for physics and raycasting.
But fear not, we will get there 💪

2024-06-11 09:44:31

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@npub12y2…et54 Thank you Freya! You are such an inspiration!

2024-06-11 09:24:23

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@npub1ksn…nfd9 The duality of a man! hahaha
Thank you!

2024-06-11 09:24:03

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@npub17g7…ql79 Thank you Miguel! I appreciate it! Hope you have a nice day!

2024-06-11 08:37:50

I think i'm sick
I mean, i AM sick, but i mean ill

2024-06-10 09:44:43

Hi! Some of you would like to get in a private apex match and walk around the map and talk about level design, piece measures, tricks for the environmental pieces etc?
Most of it is modular but is very non noticeable. I think is a good think to get references from.

2024-06-09 17:19:44

Keyboard covers are crazy expensive but a microfiber cloth cost 80 cents.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/587/803/103/002/893/original/ef8e98cfa0f7958c.jpg

2024-06-09 08:58:18

"I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none"

2024-06-08 22:02:04

I have av pag and re pag 😭 I can actually move like a sane person in text files!

2024-06-08 20:55:35

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@npub1h7w…2yjh Thank you so much! I wasn't aware i was smiling this much. A "traditional wide smile" is something that i usually only do on purpose.
Thank you all. Really.