Jesus Christ, my health insurance is going up by over 700 dollars per month next year! What the fuck?! Who the hell can pay this? Are we all just planning to die if we get sick from now on?

We nuked the half-finished HLSL compiler from MojoShader. I'm a sentimental wuss, so I asked Ethan to pull the trigger for me. Pieces of it live on in the (still pending) SDL shader language work, though. github.com/icculus/mojo...

Rest in peace, Tom Stoppard, you absolute fucking legend.

...and now PhysicsFS and SDL_sound (and more to come) are bridged to the wiki! wiki.icculus.org

Rebecca Heineman passed today. She was a unique talent, to understate things. Anyone could see that in her long list of accomplishments. But we are not just our catalogs of retail products. She was a force of nature, a light in the darkness. This is an unimaginable sadness.

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

ICE is in Charlotte now. They were snatching people off the street today. Apparently they are calling it "Operation Charlotte's Web." This is appropriate, because whenever you look at one of these motherfuckers, you can think "that's definitely some pig."

Realest thing I've ever read on the internet, honestly.

This is turning out to be a rough month for Rebecca. She has a GoFundMe for the ongoing medical expenses, for those that can chip in: gofund.me/6850175a3

Feeling just an absolute ton of burnout trying to get this 3.4.0 release out the damned door. Every bug still in the milestone feels like an uphill battle.

Not a big RPG player here, but I'm sort of hoping this one has a boss fight mode where you can just do the dance battles.

Game Day is today! Come tune in and watch me play through several games today (and tomorrow) while raising money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. I start in about 90 minutes at 9am Pacific time, going until 9pm tonight. If you drop into the chat, say hi. :) twitch.tv/humaninteract

🫡 github.com/ioquake/ioq3...

Yes! Fuck yes!!

Venba was really good, btw.

every videogame should be one and a half hours long and should damage you irreparably

Just under the wire on this one, lol

NO!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

Okay, first off: hell yeah!

Saw a ton of movies while Olive was away at her school's fall camp: One Battle After Another (good!), The Smashing Machine (bad!), The Long Walk (okay), A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (loved more than I should have), and Good Boy (didn't love as much as I desperately wanted to).

Make Short Games That Are Really Good.

I keep seeing these videos, and it's people with masks on, trying to snatch someone, and when there's any pushback at all, they literally flee. Neither cops nor military operate like this. I guess I'm asking: is ICE actually this weak, or are these just dudes with masks trying to snatch people?

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Something I wanted in SDL3 for a long time just landed; you can make the SDL window just take up the whole browser window in Emscripten now. So instead of this: icculus.org/~icculus/ems... You can do this: icculus.org/~icculus/ems... Feels more friendly to browser games.

I probably encouraged The Algorithm to show me nothing but this by replying to DHH on Twitter, but afaict everyone over there is like "we're not gonna take it anymore, I'm renaming the git default branch to take the fight to those bastards," and I'm like

Come on y'all, I posted this on Bluesky instead of Twitter because I assumed all the homoerotic vampire fans migrated here. :P

So I reread Interview with the Vampire…my last reading was in 7th grade, and wow, I was clearly too young to understand the undertones in this book the first time around.

"I had been wanting to break out the graphics into something that a standalone app could use, in case people wanted all the Zorkiness but none of the RetroArchiness." www.patreon.com/posts/139604...

I’m becoming obsessed with articles written for an audience that sat still for 4 hours of TV and didn’t understand a moment of it. Can they actually read this article?

"What was your oddball childhood system that accidentally influenced the course of your life?" www.patreon.com/posts/projec...

I know this was totally unavoidable in these circumstances, but I keep wondering if @alexwinter.com resents doing serious work while constantly being compared to Bill and Ted.

Hey, @textfiles.com, Zork question! Was the MS-DOS version _always_ blue/grey, like archive.org/details/msdo... ? I could swear this was black/white when I was a kid. Any idea?

Just discovered electoral-vote.com is still alive, and Andrew Tanenbaum is _still_ working on it, and this overwhelming flood of nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks.

"...but more than that, I hope it is a joy to use. That's the actual thing all libraries should run towards. It's the only feature that matters, really." www.patreon.com/posts/projec...

i hate to hand it to 'em but "there is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos" goes hard

My game "Replicube": Code, Logic, and Math never looked so TASTY🍉 25% off on Steam right now to celebrate back to school! s.team/a/3401490

Thing that’s been bothering me: most of the media about Zohran Mamdani’s win that I’ve seen talks about his policies and all the money working against him, fine. Very little mentions that Cuomo had to resign the governor’s office for being a massive creep.

N-gage support has returned to SDL3!

This is like the biggest undersell of the year; Rebecca is basically legendary.

I finally caught up on tournament season on Jeopardy, and then accidentally clicked over to an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy, and let me tell you, I now recommend doing this, so you can start feeling smart again right away.

I've taken bugzilla.icculus.org off life support. It was time. But I wrote a little open source tool to turn a bugzilla instance into a static archive, so the most important links still live! That tool is at github.com/icculus/stat...

"Folks, we have climbed the mountain." www.patreon.com/posts/sdl3-i...

With David Lynch's passing, everyone is posting the "fix your hearts or die" quote, which I love so much it's written on my laptop...but this week, my mind is with Major Briggs.

Fucking legends.

Every single symbol in SDL3’s headers is now documented.

Every one on here complaining about BlueSky's handling of Jesse Singal like they don't understand they fled from Elon Musk's X, to find refuge in Jack Dorsey's Twitter.

A couple of SDL3 quickies, for some cool new features that just landed! www.patreon.com/posts/couple...

Very cool video about porting an SDL2 game to SDL3! Emscripten part starts at 1:18:50 You can see the game running in a browser at 1:25:53

It's that time of year! If you mail me a Christmas (or whatever) card, I'll mail one back to you! I even send them international! Address your card to: Ryan C. Gordon 4923 Quail Canyon Dr Charlotte, NC 28226 USA Yes, I know I'm posting my address on the internet. Everyone be cool, please. :)