Lua scripting in MUDLET!!! #achaea #mud #lua #programming #mudlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Hmoy-TP0A

So much I wanna doooooo never enough tiiiiime

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]

Learned that in #achaea there is an everglade you can go to and REFLECT, then state I AM HE or I AM SHE or I AM FAE and it changes your pronouns, and it responds "of course you are". And me myself AND my in game character are very happy to now be nonbinary in the game.

You know, just reading this Teaching with AI book. Again. But the second edition this time. 🫩

Tonight's video-to-fall-asleep-to: Majuular's Janky Descent into the Two Worlds series. https://youtu.be/QAkO0xvCFL4

My students are really nice peeps, I really appreciate them. :) Student appreciation post

OK well in #achaea I expressed my frustration to some of the more senior people in town, and they assured me that I can reach out to them and that they wouldn't "let some asshole run you off". Actually super refreshing for an online community.

People in Achaea pissing me off today. Also two of the guys I talk to use GenAI. One writes his scripts with GenAI, the other generates images of the other players in the game using their descriptions in GenAI. Kinda pissing me off.

Presenting our schedule for this week. Watch along with us at https://twitch.tv/worldsofzzt/ for some fast cars and probably faster space ships! #stream_schedule #zzt

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

I'm sure this is accurate 🤔

I really love 404 Media

Tuesday: Discord invents their own massive footgun. Proprietary platforms will always enshittify.

lol I just got an email with a photo of someone's dog to be put into the Pupreciation game in my PlayDate game pack :) https://moosadee.itch.io/rachels-playdate-game-pack I'm gonna need more pet pics for a proper full update. <3 You can email me pet pics at [email protected] - I need the […]

I will now sing you the song of my people - NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP ---

I woke up early and DID ONE HOUR OF EMAILS that I had been putting off RAWRRRR 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🦖

I was thinking of the phrase "anything worth doing is worth doing right" but in the context of having to deal with the encroachment of GenAI in every facet of life. I might add this to my work email signature: Anything worth doing is worth doing with intentionality & thoughtfulness.

It's a shame that absolutely none of my coworkers on any given committee would understand this meme. (I'm erasing it, I just can't help but want to end a list with ???, profit).

#achaea #mud update, I've graduated to #mudlet instead of the Nexus client, and I've been writing Lua helper scripts. (All the purple windows, and the blurry chatbox, is mine!)

@Moosader you're probably the only teacher and #esperanto speaker I follow/am aware of on here. I just found out that someone translated the universal design for learnung graphic organizer into Esperanto (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/static/udldirektivoj_v3.0_epo-grafika-organizilo-.numerita.pdf)

I miss when age verification on the internet was just asking you a birth year and it just went along with it. Yes I was 12 and entering 1979 as my birth year. (I haven't had to lie about my birth year in a long time.)

Imagine being one of those people who hate working with spreadsheets. I mean how do you do tables-o-math all easy-like??

Mistigram: this fabulous coloured #ASCIIart / #ANSIart vignette from the fairy tale #JackAndTheBeanstalk was drawn by @ascii.mozz.us and included in the MIST-30 30th anniversary artpack collection released slightly over a year ago. (Another beanstalk scene was included in IMBIBE01!)

Ugh how do I even write an exam over MS Word? It's all just the most basic of basic vocabulary. Feels like a waste of time to ask people what the difference between text justifications are. But I guess that's just experience bias. IDK.

I'm angry about software again.

2 sleepy 4 lyfe

I guess I could start marketing all my games like this...

Amazon was thought it was cute to call their webservices "the mechanical Turk" after the fraudulent chess-playing robot with a person inside. But these revelations about Waymo, and also Amazon shops... the fact they they hide and must be forced to admit "what we claimed was software is just […]

Need to think of some easy projects for tomorrow. Been burnt out on programming. I bought a random-ass rare kids' game off ebay, could do the backup of that (though it'd be slow but also pretty short), or just play some more Vic-20 games, hmm...

Stayed up late to pre-prep a bunch of class stuff. Mostly just cleaning up and reformatting things from previous semesters. Hope it offloads some of my weekly work now. 😩

*shrivels up and dies* From a discussion board in my course:

YouTube keeps telling me I have +1 more comments than I actually do, so I don't know if it's just removing spam and not letting me see or what, but as someone who gets 0 - 2 comments usually, it makes me sad. :(

I present: the grimmest book cover I have ever seen.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116020421998738812 Lolz So they care about privacy now... Lol

Pondering breaking with tradition, where most of the #christmashorse games are contained in one exe, all written in C++/SFML, maybe I will be more productive if Horse6 we make with RenPy, and then maybe I can make Horse7 with my Omelet Engine. Something novel to keep me motivated. #gamedev […]

Ugh having to figure out breakfast when I have no appetite in the morning.

With all this AI being marketed as "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.", what if we pushed Free software in the same way. "PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE HAS LIMITED DAYS REMAINING. JOIN US. GNU IS INEVITABLE."

How do you express to others (non-tech people) that Software Usage is Political, and also can be Ethical or Unethical, without making people get offended and stop listening to you?

The problem with "tidying the livingroom" chore is that we keep blankets on sofas, if I fold those blankets we're just going to immediately unfold the blankets and use them again, so the living room is never gonna look totally neat and tidy. :P

Got home from groceries, Kabe and Korra are bonding. 💕

The new Tomodachi Life lets you make Nonbinary miis now. But the shared house is like 8 rooms, the apartment building in the DS game was much bigger, right?

Did I spend all of Friday simultaneously prepping my classes AND playing a MUD? Yes.

Since my Achaea character is an amphibious race, I've been having to look up like... Lizard, frog, and amphibian anthro art so I can figure out how to actually draw my character. Sorry I've been so bias towards mammals my entire life.

So this semester I've told students I'll be hopping between different code editors each class just to show that they can really code anywhere, and giving them various options in free/open source software. And I also had a zip file with windows installers for Vscodium, Geany, and emacs. Some of […]

Trying to play Achaea MUD but Pixel says no

Nice.

Me in 2005: Moore's Law means that computers will get super fast over a very short period of time! Me in 2026: my computer freezes up if I leave my browser open for too long

Drawing the sprites for the "baby" level of virtual pets for my courses. (I asked them to name their eggs at the start of the semester, and as they complete C++ coding assignments, I will change their pet to a new sprite to show it growing over time.) #education #gameart

This is such fucking bullshit, man. Even some web tool to try to get everyone's availability restricts you to "10 time slots" unless you "sign up for a pro plan" like go eat a thousand fire ants. And it's such a fucking pain to look all over the […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]