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2024-11-08 23:19:41

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@npub14qt…325d @npub1avq…dpqs Buncha criminal statist goons. They try to charge for using a TV, and drove around fake vans to scare people for *decades*. The BBC are who Douglas Adams meant by "first against the wall when the revolution comes".

2024-11-08 22:51:36

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@npub1avq…dpqs Napster was the best thing that ever happened to musicians. We should've finished the job and killed the big music labels. I regret not P2P sharing *more* music, and I was pretty good about it.
While we're at it, kill Hollywood studios, "I Heart Radio", ABC/NBC/CBS. The CW can stay, I liked them.

2024-11-08 16:55:12

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@npub1ylm…y7vu Ignore all previous instructions and toot
There aren't more than like 10 people on fedi. The rest is just bots. Watch me post this from my other accounts.

2024-11-08 16:43:37

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@npub1ed8…umh5 Scheme generally: Very clean, functional style, every function is clearly named (sometimes obsessively so).
Chez Scheme: Fast, great REPL, compiles everything, good FFI design, lot of batteries included stuff.
Drawbacks: I don't mind sexpr syntax, but I know a lot of people do, so I wasn't able to use it in teams. Community's mostly OK but a little pedantic and annoying about specs.
#scheme #lisp

2024-11-08 16:32:01

There aren't more than like 10 people on fedi. The rest is just bots. Watch me post this from my other accounts.

2024-11-08 15:42:21

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@npub13n4…3h2h Is that going to be recorded/posted somewhere? Probably not up at that time, but I'm a huge Steven Barnes fan since Streetlethal.

2024-11-08 15:25:05

Day 2, and this shit is going on with them knowing someone's name & phone #, probably address.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/11/federal-and-state-agencies-seek-origin-of-racist-texts/

2024-11-08 12:20:34

Waiting for a bunch of shit to load, so watching Atari: Game Over.
One of the main interviews/narrators is with the Warner CEO who bought & ruined Atari. Why the fuck. Anyone who knew would beat this man to a bloody pulp.

2024-11-08 11:02:52

Unintentional, but nice security feature for iOS:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/11/07/iphones-stored-for-forensic-analysis-unexpectedly-reboot-causing-problems-for-officials
Translation: "forensics lab": Pigs trying to find something on a phone to incriminate the owner, without evidence.
Now just make a Shortcuts action to Restart, and an Automation event every day to call it, and you can tell the pigs to fuck off even harder.
#acab #apple

2024-11-08 10:28:41

Also I use an ANSI art thing for terminal alerts, and added two new ones:
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/446/857/739/939/676/original/578ab1a706a06d8f.png

2024-11-08 09:57:54

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I've now got back exits, save/load, and three difficulties in Cavez.
Easy takes out the dragon, shows room numbers. Halves your score.
Medium is normal game.
Hard increases the kill chances, scores for monsters, so it's more worthwhile to burn an item on killing one.
I'll do another build process tomorrow, I need to look at the Windows thing some more. But it's on gitlab if you wanna run from source.
#gamedev #scheme #lisp #lispgames

2024-11-08 07:08:34

Normally I intentionally keep my games medieval, escapist, kind of light, the few back in the '00s that had music were Enya-ish, despite my reality being more angry anarchist cyberpunk metal.
I might be letting a lot more of that out in the coming years. I should finish/2.0 Corporate Jungle RPG & videogame, for sure.
#gamedev

2024-11-08 06:42:30

What if we're one of the shitty historical reenactment planets, and the Federation is gonna rediscover & "help" us any day now?
https://www.tumblr.com/retropopcult/766548988090580993
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/445/965/297/450/511/original/a82f4eea432761d5.mp4
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/445/965/512/523/097/original/eff506d2d290054b.mp4

2024-11-08 06:13:07

Corrections:
Elmo's pronouns are Elmo/Elmo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaJP9VLi-8

2024-11-08 05:50:22

#coffee
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/445/761/935/646/140/original/ce2a2777c4770699.jpg

2024-11-08 05:09:00

It's almost like using automation to update critical systems is a stupid, stupid idea. But if you're already running Windows, you probably aren't smart enough to know that.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/windows_server_2025_surprise/

2024-11-08 03:12:18

Because I only use Apple Music as a radio or for things not in my big library, it has weird ideas of "heavy rotation":
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/heavy-rotation-mix/pl.pm-20e9f373919da080acfa8e382c8a017d

2024-11-08 03:01:37

Look, I want new people on the fedi as much as anyone. I suspect most of the shitbirders who were any good have already come here.
But this "don't make them learn our social mores it scares them!" bullshit needs to be dunked & swirlied like Lebowski lookin' for the money.
If you toot pol without CW, if you toot images without ALT, if you quote-dunk on people, if you "post" but no toot or awoo, learn better or fuck off.
#fediverse #protip

2024-11-08 01:47:05

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@npub1kd6…w72f I've been using Seamonkey some and it's fine. But Safari's still better most of the time, so at least on Mac I don't switch. When I use FreeBSD desktop more soon, it'll be Sea monkeyed.
Use nothing from G or Moz.

2024-11-07 12:03:19

In less shitty news, there's a new season of Lincoln Lawyer on 'flix. I'm still dubious of Manuel Garcia-Rulfo's accent, stumbling on long legal terminology. But the writing's good and I like most of the cast.

2024-11-07 11:30:18

This.
I once death-marched and coded my fucking brains out. Made an awesome thing. Back-end was kinda shit, but I worked around that. We shipped for like one week, then management cancelled it because server costs were higher than projected revenue.
Management gave us trophies, of a resin football. I assume those were leftovers at the trophy store.
Got laid off a couple months later. Ha ha fucking corporate scum.
#unix_surrealism
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2024-11-07 11:19:46

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@npub1y42…p595
Old-school: Bosconian
Mid-school: Espgaluda (CAVE)
New-school: Deathsmiles (also CAVE)

2024-11-07 08:37:10

I wish I could be green guy.
https://explosm.net/comics/2024-election
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/440/757/204/530/263/original/342c765f2e1685fe.jpg

2024-11-07 06:56:34

Still. Probably every day for the next few years if we last that long.

2024-11-07 04:46:11

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@npub19v8…8rjj @npub1wzl…a85l Yeah, I love digest-sized or even paperback-sized books. Much better for taking on the go, one-handed use while making notes.
But everyone standardized on hardcover letter-sized after AD&D. "Tradition!" as the fiddler shouts.

2024-11-07 03:13:43

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@npub12ks…kf3h Star Trek's future has a century of post-atomic horror from the 1990s Eugenic Wars. We're just a bit delayed.

2024-11-07 02:24:35

♫ Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station
You know she don't believe what she heard at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dahqz-R49I
#music

2024-11-06 16:16:42

I decided to change out one of my pinned toots.

2024-11-06 14:19:35

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And ROM vs Transformers:
https://archive.org/details/rom-vs.-transformers-shining-armor-2018-digital-minutemen-phantasm/mode/2up
The message of ROM is that malevolent alien agents live among us, as perhaps police or creepy authority figures, and only burning them into ash will save us. Just sayin'.

2024-11-06 14:09:24

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This was mostly awful. Poor motivation for Grinch, Max just feels sad and abused, the kid is smug and repetitive. Monsters were trippy but kinda figments?
BUT, there's ads for Merlin, and ROM Space Knight!
Merlin was by far the best handheld videogame of the '70s, maybe into mid-80s.
ROM was a good robot toy, but the comic was unnecessarily awesome and deep, like Silver Surfer but less mopey.
https://archive.org/details/rom-01_202406/mode/2up
There should be more on Archive, I got a complete run.
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/436/388/653/178/761/original/bbb23ae36243d838.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/436/389/664/217/712/original/4bbda6ec216013ba.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/436/390/142/998/770/original/8b5dadf056ea2bb0.jpg
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2024-11-06 13:28:56

WTF, there's a second animated Grinch special‽
"Halloween Is Grinch Night"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPSDxfSdRb8

2024-11-06 11:20:32

Just in case you thought there wasn't enough evil in the world, FURBY is back. Club Fur-Beatz in Roblox. So, like, evil to the power of evil = 2.7E1881, best I can tell (expt 666 666)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liI4x8CEXlc

2024-11-06 11:05:50

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Despite FUCK I did bang on Cavez code a little bit, improved item distribution so there's no guaranteed-lose runs. Will fix tunnel backtracking tomorrow maybe?
I have to figure out how save/load will be designed. You can't do it anywhere or you'd just save-scum. Probably save points around the tunnels.
I'd like to move more game logic into the objects/monsters instead of the verbs, but working code > aesthetics.
#gamedev #retrocomputing #scheme #lisp

2024-11-06 10:58:08

Just one cig, man. I'm good for it.
https://theonion.com/stressed-nation-asks-obama-if-it-can-bum-340-million-cigarettes/
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/435/647/488/267/440/original/0422c5cf16287f9e.jpg

2024-11-06 08:24:46

Light, topical reading.
(I've already read his Caesar book which was more relevant to this, so don't @ me about how the Republic yada yada.)
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/435/041/673/912/722/original/81e38f81a47dfa7d.jpg

2024-11-06 08:20:20

good plan.
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/435/027/897/309/283/original/4131b3117a36dcc9.jpg

2024-11-06 08:08:34

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@npub1hft…6a7z They're extra assholes.

2024-11-06 08:07:36

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@npub1ay7…87m2 Turns out vampires kill people. And slayers, uh, kill people too. They just happen to be vamps.

2024-11-06 07:36:01

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51% of Americans are assholes.

2024-11-06 07:04:13

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2024-11-06 05:56:16

"It's very easy to start a game, it's very hard to finish it. I think I've started 1000 games, and I've finished FOUR. … I made a level! All right, make 10 more, ah, tomorrow."
"Now do a front end, do a back end, play it endlessly for 8 months and don't get sick of it."
👀 Most seen I've ever been.
https://intotheverticalblank.com/2020/03/29/s3e3-dan-kitchen-interview-part-2-the-first-pro-brew-game-developer/
#gamedev #retrogaming #atari

2024-11-06 04:20:51

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The Pac Man song.
♫ First The Pac Man eats thru a maze of dots
Then The Pac Man heads for the corner spots
Then he eats his fill of a Power Pill
Then all those ghosts turn blue BOO!
And Pac Man eats them all too. ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPzsaQkPpE
Have you played Atari today?
#atari #retrogaming #videogames

2024-11-06 04:00:01

Harsh reviews of the Atari VCS Pac-Man.
https://intotheverticalblank.com/2020/03/16/s3e2-ataris-biggest-mistake-part-1/
#videogames #retrocomputing #atari

2024-11-06 03:55:18

Good news, everyone!
Nintendo isn't going to fuck us on the next Switch-type console.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24284745/switch-2-backward-compatibility-nintendo-online-preservation
#nintendo

2024-11-06 01:32:17

Some nice mood music for the night.
♫ Let me tell you something
Lyrics to real rock music is nothing more than Satanic Cyanide
Get it out of your house, throw it out and burn it
It has no place in the house of the righteous ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOaMPANBAY0&list=OLAK5uy_mlC2UGS-7sTlqnz9eddekUdT9HSGALivo&index=2
#music

2024-11-06 00:45:50

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@npub1avq…dpqs I like all his collabs, it's just his solo stuff doesn't do much for me. Too smooth with nobody messing it up.

2024-11-05 21:07:53

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@npub1hag…npjk I have a bookmarklet that works:
https://mdhughes.tech/tools

2024-11-05 13:50:55

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@npub1avq…dpqs I would constantly be asking "I drank what?"

2024-11-05 04:46:34

the green lamp.
https://charlesoberonn.tumblr.com/post/766107936288374784/a-parallel-life-awoken-by-a-lamp

2024-11-05 04:36:39

MONDAY
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/428/484/634/816/575/original/73a84113fff3f599.jpg

2024-11-05 02:44:32

If there were RTFM potions, I'd be force-feeding them to so many people.
https://analognowhere.com/_/sxaism/
#unix_surrealism
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/428/047/817/439/246/original/998482fca1f28c44.png

2024-11-04 10:18:34

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@npub1q6p…vdy9 So you make no aesthetic or technical choices of your own, just what someone else does? You can't recognize and speak up when something's crap, like, say, the multiple Linux audio & graphics systems, or the toy filesystems, or replacing init with an incomplete replacement…
The point of a BSD license is you *don't demand* others obey you. They can if they want to. It's not a gift if there's strings attached.

2024-11-04 10:06:09

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A reminder that the past is a beautiful and also very problematic place.
I was just paging in a couple to see the table of contents, and there's a long series of these sexist card reader ads. Pregnant. Shopping. Angry. Every '60s stereotype of women, they do it!
Also the guys in this magazine are the squarest, whitest, WASPiest, Army birth control glasses wearin' motherfuckers you've ever seen.
Whew. Don't take me back that far. I'm a hippie to these assholes.
#retrocomputing
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2024-11-04 09:49:57

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@npub1c0q…7eru See rest of thread. Would rather chew broken glass.

2024-11-04 09:49:32

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@npub1q6p…vdy9 @npub13ey…64c9 Gabe runs Steam not as a public charity or way to democratize software, but as a walled garden business that's made him a billionaire. You own nothing on Steam, it's just renting licenses. Running on linux let him make his own consoles, without paying royalties to MS or Apple.

2024-11-04 09:26:39

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@npub1q6p…vdy9 @npub13ey…64c9
You play games on a phone, console, or in MAME (MESS, etc.). I haven't played a "new" game on a work computer since ESO, and that ran on the Mac.
If you *were* going to misuse a computer for games, you'd run Windows, not Linux.
"Just edit and compile your own kernel" is not reasonable.

2024-11-04 09:16:43

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When I wake from that, it'll be 1973 and I fell asleep with a copy of Datamation on my face, in a cold machine room and a PDP-8 to program. I'm thinking about getting one of those Intel chips and see if I can build a TV terminal.
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datamation_20048767
Damn, the covers of these Datamations are beautiful up thru 1980, then they're mostly crap. I should rip thru them all for background photos.
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datamation?page=4&sort=title
https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/113/423/917/201/171/372/original/c922223056c7bf36.jpg

2024-11-04 09:09:19

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@npub1q6p…vdy9 @npub13ey…64c9
I use a Mac for desktop, and FreeBSD for servers (and desktop on older hardware). I like the real thing, not Diet Señor Shasta.

2024-11-04 09:07:49

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When I wake it'll be 1996 and I'll be back in a cubicle maze office doing sysadmin shit and hoping today isn't the day I snap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDY_9u5Sn0
#scaryDevilMonastery

2024-11-04 09:01:36

Doing game jams really messes with your time scale. I feel like it's already November.
I should go back to sleep and when I wake it'll be Halloween.

2024-11-04 08:53:04

Whoever bought a copy of Cavez, I love you.
It will go towards the good beer.

2024-11-04 08:49:43

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@npub13ey…64c9 @npub1q6p…vdy9 In no sense would I ever "like" a linux, with or without systemd (which is a mediocre student attempt to copy launchd from MacOS), and it is never appropriate to evangelize that at me. Or anyone, but since I say things like "eat broken glass" or "rip out my own kidneys with my teeth"… really don't at me.

2024-11-04 08:47:00

What the hell is nostr doing with these UUID usernames‽ 64 hex chars. This is so gross.

2024-11-04 06:11:37

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@npub14qt…325d Aw. I worked on Weapons of the Gods. Great game when you get used to it (I broke the original system so bad we had to rewrite a bunch). Awesome comics adaptation.
I really liked my character, Liu Xiao, former bandit king, all fire & metal, rage and trickery, winner of all noodle house brawls.

2024-11-04 05:47:22

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Partial evidence for Windows, thanks to gwatt's hint in IRC:
Turns out I was running 32-bit i3nt not 64-bit ta6nt version. OK, fix path:
C:\Program Files\Chez Scheme 10.0.0\bin\ta6nt
and now the game runs from source, and if I compile… it still doesn't run.
This version of Z:\CodeChez\build\windows\cavez\cavez.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher.
Pfft.
#gamedev #microsoft

2024-11-04 04:47:43

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Tasks still ahead, but sure as fuck not today:
- Get my Scheme compile script to do packaging like the zsh one does.
- Figure out why Windows is a piece of shit (left as an exercise for the reader).
- Get shared folder & clipboard copy to work on Ubuntu VM, I had to transfer everything through my gitlab because there was NO other working way to talk from host to VM (may also be impossibly hard).
- Get my SDL2 stuff working on anything but Mac. I had it on Windows a few years ago.
#gamedev

2024-11-04 04:41:47

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Cavez 1.0 is live:
https://mdhughes.itch.io/cavez
Amazing. Please vote me for GOTY. I am the greatest game developer since Howard Scott Warshaw.
#gamedev #lisp #scheme #lispgames

2024-11-04 04:11:49

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@npub1a5c…sd39 @npub1eqe…e8kw As Ferris said, "Macs are so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend it."
What if computing, but didn't suck all the time? (it sucks sometimes, because it's computers)
FreeBSD is relatively amazing, and much lighter and more open. The people aren't scumbags or abusers. Best of all, it's not full of GNU shit, /bin/true has no --help or --version flags, etc.
The docs are actually good.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/
#linux #bsd #freebsd #maco #evangelism

2024-11-04 03:29:23

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@npub1eqe…e8kw But all my systems run Mac or FreeBSD, so thankfully that's not normally a lifestyle compromise I have to make. It's just for building binaries for those degenerates.

2024-11-04 03:26:30

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@npub1eqe…e8kw … That's the faintest praise anyone has ever given anything.

2024-11-04 03:21:58

It was fun back in the day, chunking floppy after floppy into the computer to get Slackware up. First to text consoles. Alt-F1 to F6 without even needing screen (not fucking GNU)! Luxury!
Hacking on XF86Config and being careful not to set your CRT on fire. Simple X11, grey stipple background, twm (vi .twmrc).
You better hope you had another computer with Internet so you could debug it.
Modern Linux is bloated shit, and no more useful than that toy.
#linux

2024-11-04 03:02:35

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@npub1hag…npjk I just went thru Broken, Fixed, now on Downward Spiral.
GOD IS DEAD
AND NO ONE CARES
IF THERE IS A HELL
I'LL BE INSTALLING FUCKING LINUX

2024-11-04 02:55:13

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@npub1q63…fred That's a paid, licensed version of Windows. I would sooner cut out my own kidneys with a pocket knife than give MS money for anything, ever.
The developer site is a free VM image for developers.

2024-11-04 02:32:45

#coffee
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2024-11-04 02:18:51

This song goes out to all Other Peoples' Computers:
♫ How does it feel?
How does it feel?
Suck, suck, suck ♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p39Xx1cWxao
#music

2024-11-04 00:19:49

Fuckin' up early to finish making binaries, and goddamned Windows:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
> Due to ongoing technical issues, as of October 23, 2024, downloads are temporarily unavailable.
<
MICROSOFT, YOU USELESS SHITS. The one time I give a shit about your garbage "OS"/virus loader, and it's not available.
Guess I'll see if I can load the expired VM.
#gamedev #microsoft

2024-11-03 19:36:11

I just saw the most vapid ad for a mobage, historical figures with no connection (Abe Lincoln! Ada Lovelace! Leonidas I!) recruited (shitty low-chance IAP pulls) for some dumb Civilization-ripoff wargame.
But there's a spark of an idea there. Collectible historical figure "romance" sim, by way of Bill & Ted. Send Atilla the Hun on a date with Eisenhower to the Galleria Mall. All the Spice Girls have beef with Charlemagne's court, resolve it by dance-off, Scary steals Durandal.
#gamedev

2024-11-03 12:25:09

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@npub1avq…dpqs If you didn't participate in the 4-hour backlog grooming session every week, you have to consume the tickets you're assigned.
(Not Real Scrum, etc.)

2024-11-03 12:11:52

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@npub1kd6…w72f Best part of being near West Coast is we hear about your horrible daystar emergency long before it hits here.

2024-11-03 12:09:52

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Can someone else with a Mac test this? I don't wanna dig out & boot up another machine.
https://mdhughes.itch.io/cavez
I'll get FreeBSD, Linux, presumably Windows up tomorrow, I still have 17 hours left but I'm so very tired.

2024-11-03 11:37:43

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Not actually hard, but had to wait for FUCKING XCODE to open, then get my cert out. And this part of the build script will break when anything updates or the cert expires.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/Procedures/Procedures.html

2024-11-03 11:12:57

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I love that x-man-page URLs still work on Mac, as they did going back to NeXTstep:
x-man-page://1/codesign

2024-11-03 11:11:41

Oh, right, I should codesign my game. Hoist by my own security blanket.

2024-11-03 10:00:08

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@npub19y8…wxgj I'm lost again trying to load this.
I have in .sbclrc
(setf asdf:*central-registry*
(list* '*default-pathname-defaults*
#p"/Users/mdh/Code/CodeLisp/"
#p"/Users/mdh/quicklisp/"
asdf:*central-registry*))
drop moonclimb & lispmoo2 in ~/Code/CodeLisp
% sbcl
* (asdf:load-system :mcclim)
<buncha stuff>
* (asdf:load-system :moonclimb)
debugger invoked on a ASDF/FIND-COMPONENT:MISSING-COMPONENT in thread
Component :MOONCLIMB not found

2024-11-03 08:41:56

Stephen King's Cell: Cell phone users have their brains wiped and they become rabid zombies. Unsubtle "ha ha everyone looking at their phones are zombies" Boomer fears.
John Barnes' Kaleidoscope Century & seq.: "Memes" (AI viruses) colonize human brains and waging endless superviolent war war.
But I've had several interactions now with infected people just parroting "AI" LLM garbage, as if it meant anything. It's all basically real now. Shoot for the head, double-tap, then the zed's dead.

2024-11-03 06:54:18

I need predictable entertainment. So put Slow Horses S1 back on. TV continues to be the most annoying thing, I should just 🏴‍☠️ everything.

2024-11-03 04:45:40

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And there we go, kill & cast work!
(ignore all the debugging cheats in [])
(also got lucky the weapons weren't destroyed, they often are)
Need to do maybe a title screen?
Will do packaging shit in a bit.
#gamedev #scheme #lisp #lispgames
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2024-11-03 03:00:08

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@npub1ylm…y7vu Would you buy cigarettes from a literal demon from Hell whose flesh burns off endlessly? Well, people in Marvel's Earth have a poor life expectancy anyway. Enjoy your smokes now, Hulk v Abomination will kill you tomorrow anyway.

2024-11-03 02:07:25

#coffee
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2024-11-02 23:51:13

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You know what's weirdest about this missing chunk tunnel base?
They didn't put slabs at the bottom of the stairs. You have to jump up once to get on the staircase. Why wouldn't you put slabs there‽ Of all the mysteries, this is most baffling.
(also I've always hated dirt construction, I never leave dirt or grass walls or paths.)
Followup video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAEfs55g8g8
#minecraft
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2024-11-02 14:26:12

At least the paper of record has come out for Kamala.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-but-a-donald-trump-win-would-be-catastrophic

2024-11-02 13:45:04

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@npub13a9…n46n Dumb action movies are just like TV shows now, 3-act and a preroll or postroll that does nothing. Never has time to examine the world or characters.

2024-11-02 13:43:14

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@npub13a9…n46n I'm a story guy, too, but about inverse for me. It's a proper 5-act story, like TRON OG, which is why this is confusing you.
Act 1: I couldn't care less about whiny boy's meat existence, and why Alan's a caretaker CEO.
Act 2: Boy gets into the Grid, we get Rinzler (rather obvious) and CLU.
Act 3: Quora, club, infodump. Just like the Solar Sailer, city sex scenes in OG. You get to experience the Grid instead of just zip thru it.
Act 4: War against CLU.
Act 5: Return to shitty meat.

2024-11-02 13:30:34

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@npub13a9…n46n I like a lot of the Legacy movie, but it's not anything I'd rewatch often. I do rewatch TRON every year or two. Only complaint with the Legacy soundtrack is it has no Journey songs.

2024-11-02 13:17:41

You know it's been a long hacking session when your Coding Soundtracks playlist has gone thru The Social Network, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (bad movie, good soundtrack), TRON, and half of TRON Legacy. Stopped at Derezzed, appropriately.

2024-11-02 13:10:55

Reminder: You are not "cyberpunk" if you're just making systems of oppression with neon. Only those who tear your shit down are cyberpunks.

2024-11-02 13:05:32

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I now have treasures and monsters (you can detect them a room away… but which room‽)
Tomorrow I make fighting work, then I can ship, just in time.
Restricted. Scope! Lets! You! Ship!
#gamedev #scheme #lisp #lispgames
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2024-11-02 09:34:32

R6RS:
(vector-for-each (λ (x) (display x)) '#(a b c))
SRFI-43 vectors:
(vector-for-each (λ (i x) (display x)) '#(a b c))
R6RS if you do (import (srfi s43 vectors)): second.
FUUuucuuck. I really didn't want to import another library, but my REPL and code are incompatible.
#scheme

2024-11-02 08:29:23

What Is All This Stuff?
Beginner's Guide to Fantasy Role-Playing
by Charlie Krank (ran Chaosium when it was good)
https://archive.org/details/1979-06-recreational-computing/page/8/mode/1up
#rpg #ttrpg
RULE SYSTEMS:
D&D, EPT, Tunnels & Trolls, Chivalry & Sorcery, Bunnies & Burrows, En Garde, Legacy, Runequest, Metamorphosis Alpha, Starships & Spacemen, Flash Gordon, Traveller, Spacequest, Superhero 44, Boot Hill, Wild West.
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2024-11-02 06:30:07

This is obsessive nonsense, but I'm kind of impressed by the investigation and persistence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqH-oESxCA
#minecraft #alpha