Text Adventure Game now has grown basic debug tools that are easy to disable at runtime. Fun times.

#GameDev #Godot #InteractiveFiction

A reminder that we all have terrible days, Charles Darwin too.

@morix Going back to my beloved majestouch with cherry blues is a bit of a shock for this reason. I'm just like "did this always sound so... hollow?"

I bought this smol 60% mechanical keyboard on a whim that does radio, bluetooth and wired, for travel/laptop/misc purposes.

It has Gateron Blue switches, which I hadn't really experienced before, having mostly been a Cherry enjoyer so far.

I normally don't go for flat low profile key caps either, but this looked attractive, and it felt like a good context in which to try them.

I've been trying it out and I'm kind of shocked at how good it feels AND SOUNDS. I think I'm opening a new door and discovering I _really_ like it.

It's giving me ASMR tingles while I type somehow. It's a good sound.

#keyboard

@asie Terminal.app is alright if you configure it a bit.

I've been trying ghostty recently due to One Specific Thing Terminal.app didn't support, and I mostly like it?

I generally am firmly in the "Don't talk to me, you are a machine and you have no right to address me directly in my holy tongue" camp when it comes to computers and things talking to you.

But I make ONE exception: my shitty chinese roomba clone, because it talks with a thick mandarin accent and I barely understand what it says most of the time, which is endearing.

@mos_8502 Aside from the fact that IRC just covers the text chat part and none of the zillion other features that people use, IRC as a protocol is not well suited to things like mobile use.

Like, yes you can get an IRC client for your phone, but the experience will be miserable, even with a bouncer. You need to be actively connected to receive anything, and then it will be a battery drain.

It's been the cause of the slow move from IRC to Other Things for group chat among my friends. We all started getting jobs or spending most time in higher education back then and it became more and more difficult to "check in on the boys" at random. We didn't move to discord ourselves, but the rationale is the same.

Discord is a lot of things to a lot of people, and unfortunately they're not all simply Solved Problems in this case

@tankgrrl Absolument, un vrai de vrai

@tankgrrl I did give him snacks, but he was wholefully uniniterested. He enjoyed looking out the window with me at the guy trying to get unstuck for like 20 minutes though, and then went back to sleep on my hip once he was sure The Events had concluded

I don’t read the documentation, I don’t troubleshoot, I copy and paste sudo commands from GitHub into terminal and if it doesn’t work I reinstall my VPS

@flesh Sure! Decentralized implies some amount of peer to peer with no central authority at all, federation implies one or many central authorities _that I can have control over_, or self-host, where I have control over the data. Where it lives, what's done with it, how it is backed up etc.

It basically moves the "authoritative node" one level up in the hierarchy, instead of keeping it at the individual level.

Basically, I am ok with one or more central servers being part of the equation, as long as it possible for me to be in control of one, more or less.

@xgranade

Woke up ~4am due to cat shouting at me and bapping my face to wake me up, with a novel sense of urgency and some panic

The walls were shaking and there was this horrifying noise and for a moment i thought "Holy shit the building is coming down I'm gonna die"

Then I look outside and there's a snow storm, and one of the snow blowers got stuck in the driveway to the apartment building and the (unsuccessful) maneuvers to unstuck it are the cause of it all.

WELP at least I know that if something new and horrifying happens while I sleep, my cat has my back

@GrantMeStrength As someone with adhd, the switch to open spaces over the last decade has been... difficult.

I never thought I'd miss shitty nightmarish corporate cubicles, but here we are

I think the one part that will prove to be most difficult to replace from Discord, IMO, will be the whole game streaming things.

Streaming a game to friends while shooting the shit, or everyone sees everyone's else POV during mulitiplayer games has been one of my core uses of Discord, more than the whole community stuff, honestly.

I mean, if all I want is voice, nothing prevents me from hosting a Mumble instance again and peer pressuring everyone into joining it, in spite of the whole key auth being a nightmare part, but that leaves a streaming shaped hole in my heart.

@xgranade A great example of this is DeltaChat being essentially ideal at replacing the "group chat with friends" part of the equation, while being delightfully straightforward to self-host and demanding almost no resources.

It doesn't fit the "big public rooms" part just as neatly, like IRC ou Discord would, however, and I think that's ok.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't really need "decentralized" I just need federated with a hearty dose of data sovereignty. If that happens to come from a handful of good things, I'm ok with that.

Hot take: looking for a single silver-bullet Discord replacement is solving the wrong problem. Corporate power has pushed us towards everything-apps, but it's OK for the tool you use to communicate with other users of an open source project to look different from the tool you use to text your spouse and the tool you use to run voice chats with your gaming guilds.

@protowlf I was not ready for the slow pan up

Got a burst of available spoons in the evening so I made myself a bunch of nice little tools within Godot for my text adventure game, and as always, tools are a joy to make always, especially if they visualize something you've built.

(please don't mind the actual contents, it's all test stuff, even though that is playable)

#godot #gamedev #InteractiveFiction

We never should have left IRC

(and honestly we never would have if it wasn't for the protocol being entirely ill suited to mobile usage)

i'm making a #QBasic game using mode 13h, 320x200 8bpp. i'm using the line doubling feature of the VGA card to make it 320x100 then manually doubling each pixel horizontally for 160x100

i realized i could use a palette with 3 bits red/green and 2 blue, and then do "subpixel" dither to generate the in between colors. i made a converter to test if that would look good, and it does

here's a thread of images showing what that looks like

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#PixelArt #QBasic #dos #RetroComputing #RetroDev