Working on a project in #Godot, and does anyone else find themselves trying to type at the same speed as the tempo of the music they’re listening to?

In Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson, toward the end of the book Hiro and Raven are in the Metaverse having a motorcycle duel, but then back in the real world YT looks over and sees Raven wearing his goggles and is “hunched over a pair of imaginary handlebars” and man if that doesn’t just kill the vibe

Time to start hitting the “show less like this” button.

They don’t want you know this, but you can lay the can of Pringle’s down on its side to eat out of and literally no one can stop you.

He’s handsome and he knows it. #cats

I have a lot of respect for public school educators but man they make some weird decisions as an organization. Now, I was homeschooled, but I’ve got a kid in middle school and man what a draconian place. No talking in the hallway, walk in a line. No individuality whatsoever.

Tempted to set up a speech-recognition api on my computer so I can code on these long car rides.

Might not look like much, but this is a system test I'm working on that decouples the "simulation" object from the GameObject in the scene. Both cubes have their Sim Object updated each frame, but the second cube is only having its Game Object updated every 5 seconds. #IndieDev #GameDev

Had a dream last night about the absolutely coolest Ghibli-Inspired little space fighter / airplane. Woke up from the dream and just had to draw it. I should probably practice drawing more if I’m going to continue to come up with gems like this during my dreams: #drawing #scifi #ghibli

@portalrealm.bsky.social hey, I saw that you archive Star Trek blueprints and I was wondering if you’ve ever come across this set before. Found this like 10 years ago at a thrift store. It’s got 13 big blueprints covering every deck of the Enterprise from TNG.

I just watched a dragonfly try to doink his reflection on my car’s hood while I was eating breakfast, how’s your morning going?

I think my blocker when it comes to finishing a game is how unpracticed I am at art. I can get by with 2D but when it comes to 3D my brain just does not have the patience to learn it. I guess I need to pair up with an artist who feels the same way when they try to code. #gamedev #indiedev

Apparently I have to be massively sleep deprived in order to be able to write. The creative juice just doesn’t flow if I’m rested and taking care of myself, it seems.

Me at 1 am thinking about all I’ve gotta get done tomorrow

That frustrating dilemma where you feel creative but you can’t decide on if you want to be creative by writing, be creative by programming, or be creative by playing a game.

Hi, thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Today we’ll be discussing why #umamusume is a corporate dystopia.

Blessing and curse of being autistic: when a family member passes away you don’t have big feelings right away, so you can be the level-headed, logistical guy. On the plus side you feel useful for having less outward emotions. On the other hand you feel like an asshole for not showing grief.

You’d think, with the amount of Dystopian fiction we as a society consume, we’d have learned a thing or two. Anyway I’m spending some time working on my dystopian fiction novel tonight.

Idk who needs to hear this, but the US Postal Service lets you choose your On Hold Music. This timeline isn't all bad, then.

It happened again. At least I can tell my boss I’m busy pulling down the repo again?

“Unity has stopped responding” *force quit* *Nothing happens* Darn.

Instead of working on adding playable content to my JavaScript-based text adventure, I’ve spent the last week implementing and iterating on a mod loading system. And now I’ve got plug and play mods with dependency tracking Yay #gamedev #indiedev

How to tell you’ve strayed too far south:

After fooling around with various ideas and formats for text-based games over the years, I’m really pleased with my current html/javascript project. I’d kinda forgotten just how easy it is to make dynamic, easily editable content with that stack. #gamedev #indiedev

Sekiro is the one game I could just play over and over again

Good drivers keep an eye on their side-view mirrors. #catsofbluesky #gaming

It’s the cheaper variety of potatoes that are always the loudest. I guess it’s because they’re common taters.

Yeahhh….im gonna need 15 more minutes today…

Decided to dig into the backlog today. One more for the shelf. #modelkit

Wow, I’d sure hate to be a Square and a Sucker at the same time

So, NicPro makes some nice mechanical pencils that I love, but when you’ve used up one of the tip erasers, there’s still half the eraser left down inside the pencil that you have to extract. These nubs aren’t usable in the pencil because they’re too short, but too small to use without.

Started playing Infinity Nikki again, lord help me

Question for #booksky and #writingcommunity: What are you options if you’d like to try to publish some of your written works, but most everything you have is under 5k words? Soon I’ll have enough material to publish a collection in one volume, but wondering if there are good options for singles.

Oh, it looks like sports have discovered Bluesky

@scalzi.com I was sorting through some books on the coffee table when I saw that you had written the foreword to one of my favorite art books! I was a latecomer to sci-fi, but I’ve loved John Harris’ art ever since I saw the cover of Enders Game.

Wow I cannot believe we got Elder Scrolls 4 before we got Elder Scrolls 6

Keep your dog sitter on their toes by saying: “oh and he can watch 15 minutes of his favorite tv show before bedtime each night.” And then leave without any indication what the favorite show might be.

Absolutely no one: “…” Me: “First person dungeon crawling game design peaked with Kingsfield.” *ducks* #gamedev

@quest64official.bsky.social just saw your account and followed. You reminded me I still need to finish my staff-only playthrough 🥲

Me, learning Japanese: “Ahh yes, this “wa” thing makes perfect sense to me! Japanese is fun! Duolingo: “let’s move on yo sentences that are more than 4 words long.” Me: “…I’m so bad at this…”

I’m gonna play OG Kingsfield again. I’m ready to be hurt again.

If using CSV files to import data to your game, save a lot of bother by creating an enum with field names in the order they appear in the CSV Getting a cell is now line[FIELD_NAME] instead of line[14] If you change the CSV, update the enum to match. Much more maintainable. #gamedev #indiedev

Friendly reminder that you should never ever use a word document for data entry. In unrelated news I just wrote a python script to read a word document, assemble the data type, and export it to a spreadsheet.

Trying to think of how to do something interesting and novel with NPC conversations, but everything I come up with just keeps coming back around to node graphs. It’s just nodes all the way down, isn’t it? #gamedev

Me opening my phone after my time limit for social media apps has expired

The stats and mechanics aren't nailed down yet, but I must say I'm really liking how my combat interface in coming together. Definitely looking forward to running some number-crunching combat in this bad boy. #gamedev #indiegame #Godot

Well, shit. Fertilizer just got 25% more expensive.

Why is creating turn-based strategy game logic so hard? Trying to make it so the game could run autonomously in the background and it’s just stack overflow errors for days.

Okay, hear me out: Infinity Nikki, but with a customizable player character, and an ensemble cast that you can dress up. That’s the whole thing.