I heard there is a volcano erupting right now, and I have a list of people I think should visit and take a really close look. I think it will be educational for them and jubilant for us.

This is why they need the Theft Machine That Tells Lies.

I'm struggling with the pixel art for this project, but I just want to point out: As bad as my pixel art is, AI is worse. (yeah yeah, it looks nicer, but AI can't be consistent, can't work within real constraints, and can't revise. Also it's unethical, destroys the environment, and harms people.)

Well.... post ageist BS, get an unfollow and a block.

No thank you, I do NOT want to upgrade to Synapse 4. Kindly go sit on a red hot iron spike, you absolute disgrace.

How bad is it if all my sprites are really bad?

"You shouldn't try to be a solo gamedev." Ok, I'll join a team and do 100% of the work on the project, and be a solo gamedev anyway, without trying to be. That's better, right?

When Hitler declared war on the universities there was an exodus of researchers. The American "century" benefited from the influx of great thinkers. Trump's war on American universities is the end of that century. Canada's century has begun. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/canadas-ce...

Now I have to actually draw all the things I've written the code for. This is the worst part.

The wire seems to have broken, causing this painting to fall, giving me a chance to get a better photo of it. Painting is of Twin Buttes in Grasslands Natl. Park, by Lise Perrault.

Ongoing criminal activities of a criminal regime. www.thestar.com/news/world/u...

So, when the player reaches the level exit, we want something to happen. So, we have a trigger if the player enters an area, let's call it player_entered. This is all great, until the code looks like exit.player_entered and you don't like it. This is why naming is hard.

I did the exercises for my shoulder today. One day is not enough. I'm not doing this regularly enough. It's been years, and I am still cautious for fear of re-injury. Do your dang exercises, self. Just do them. Every day, please.

This is all profoundly ungood. rsf.org/en/world-pre...

We need to come to terms with the fact that the USA is now an aggressive adversary. We are Ukraine to their Russia, and the invasion will come.

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music. Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use. www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

I hope we're keeping track of everyone with butthole Cheeto dust on their mouths... For later...

Too tired to work on the game. Can't sleep because I want to work on the game.

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

He's getting MRIs because they're trying to locate his brain.

It most likely won't happen today. But, it will happen.

Canada should be focused on nation-building. Instead we are getting sucked into a needless pipeline war to appease Moe and Danielle Smith. If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life. And he will lose.

Has anyone done 'distracted boyfriend' with Mamdani, Trump, and Putin yet?

Weird specific edge case features I wish GDScript had: A swizzle whereby I could go something like, vec2 = vec3.xz, to get the xz of the 3vector into the xy of the 2vector.

#pixel_dailies #WebringWidget

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Techbros are so insistent on inventing the Torment Nexus, I am now 100% sure we're going to get cloned dinosaurs at some point.

I just read a video comment, written both in and about Finnish, and understood it completely without assistance of any kind. This is a milestone. I still have a long way to go, but it's a milestone.

In today's #WellNoShit news... They ALL heard about the half a BILLION dollar startup the Trump administration offered #Alberta separatists. And they all still hope they can get a piece, because FUCK the will of 5,029,346 #Albertans who want to REMAIN #Canadian. #Traitors need to get paid...

Made some treats for later..

Oof these are good! ...and adorably packaged

New campaign ad for Dems just dropped.

So, those youtube doctor people said the reason you have one bad knee is that whether you know it or not, you put more strain on one knee than the other. Since knee injuries heal slowly and never fully, over time, you get one bad knee. I am now hyperaware of anything I do with my right leg.

He's not fooling anyone. We know he engraved the mustard packets with woke Marxist Antifa trans slogans such as, "Ay Caramba!" and "Do it, Lady!"

Don't worry about health care, he solved it. If Americans are starving AND freezing, they won't live long enough to get sick. Stable Genius!

Three years ago, I knew a dog. She was 16 years old, and I knew I would have to say goodbye, but it didn't happen the way I expected. Instead of wishing sweet forever dreams, circumstances forced me to leave. I had to go far away, and I never saw her again. I think of her every single day.

"Men will do anything instead of therapy!" Yeah, how stupid of them, refusing to be able to afford expensive things. Give people enough MONEY to get therapy, and suddenly a lot of them won't need it. People aren't sick, they're just poor.

I wonder how mad President On-The-List will be about these election results.

An uncomfortable reason why people are using chatgpt for therapy is that genai sounds like it's listening to you, and humans usually don't. Maybe they're in a crisis of simply feeling unheard.

Wow, an evening of arguing with virtue-signalling trolls, and now I find that I'm not allowed to own two chairs. Hell really is other people. (and no, I'm not using the quote incorrectly, just reach a little further)

I don't know who, if anyone, needs to hear this, but maybe someone does: It's okay to be ordinary.

It is a sick, jaded, and antisocial society that looks at a whole swath of social videogames that people are enjoying, and labels them "slop".

Thank you, television series, for helping me understand that this woman is a smart woman, by putting her in a lab coat. There is no other way I would understand this, and if she ever takes the coat off, I'll get confused for sure.

2025 has taught me that walking through the door is worth a shot.

I don't like porting shader code.

"Because I *want* to help people, and the 'fantasy fulfilment' part of this game helps with how unable I am to do that under normal conditions."

It's been a long time since I tried to learn a new trick.... <thinking about it>

The President of Murder.

"He can't do that!", they keep saying, as he does the very things they claim he cannot do.

Today, I had to open a soda can in front of other humans, and I did not have my special can-opening-tool. It was mildly embarrassing. What kind of tool? Oh, it's a Q-Tip. Yeah, I open soda cans with a cotton swab, and I have a special one set aside for just this purpose.