Notices by slembcke (slembcke@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@killyourfm Ah, we live within a few blocks of an A&W in MN. It’s an ok excuse to take a walk every other month or so on a lazy Saturday.

@killyourfm Aurgh! I’ve been meaning to get the physical discs before they vanish. Hopefully not to late now. Blegh.

@sinbad I have a pair of work boots just like those. The treads really help compared to slipping around in my socks and the felt toes protect against dangerous basement drafts.

@sinbad I did immediately recognize it as a dialect thing, but the image was already forming in the other half of my brain. Haha. “There’s lint in there! *lights heavy duty propane torch* Fwoosh!”

@sinbad I was not so successful on my last trip to the computer thrift store. Brought some parts to donate and can’t home with a PowerBook G4. >_<

@sinbad Years ago when we were selling Chipmunk 2D Pro, we also had a “Studio” version. It offered a bit more support promises, but mostly people seemed to pay for it because they loved what we did and wanted to support us back.

We also had an appropriately priced “enterprise” version. We even sold one! That was a good day. :)

@wezm Cursed behavior that has bit me many times: double click drag on Mac/Linux doesn’t select the whitespace after the final word, Windows does.

Grr. Every few months my automated Mac builds break because I get "A required agreement is missing or has expired. This request requires an in-effect agreement that has not been signed or has expired."

Gotta log into the developer.apple.com click agree to some stupid thing and then wait a few minutes until their notarization server gets the message. It's a little thing, but it's really frustrating cherry on top of the already frustrating codesigning sundae. -_-

@SonnyBonds I used to be the biggest OS X fan, but now I think this will be the last project I support Mac with. :( I don't want to buy their soldered together machines, I don't want the locked down ghost of OS X, and I don't want to give Tim Cook more money to donate to Trump! Good riddance.

@sinbad @vkc Sounds nice, but there’s a catch right? Like are they difficult to install or use proprietary standards for charging or storage media?

(Joking aside I’ve lived in my current city for 8 years, and never been to the local library. I really don’t have an excuse for that… hrm)

@sinbad Daww. My cats used to do this a lot.

@neilhenning @sinbad @molecularmusing Yeah, this happens regularly. After it does it doesn’t even go back into hibernate/sleep like it’s supposed to. Just sits on the login with my displays on all weekend sometimes. -_- Hard power switch it is!

@sinbad Yeah, I made a marketing account for my game. It’s got lots of followers quickly, but it’s a ghost town of interaction. Everyone just seems excited that “numbers go up”…

Oh for neat! An IDE for a whole bunch of different 8-bit machines. Complete with debugging and everything!
https://8bitworkshop.com/

@sinbad If you make something that's not-quite a game? Yeah... If we don't start making money sooner than later, this will be a nice albatross around our neck. -_-

To be clear, it's Industry that they are hiking the price of to $6200/year. Unity Pro is "only" increasing to $2200/year.

Squeeze squeeze squeeze.

Unity update #4(?): Well... they said the new "Industry" license applies retro-actively even to Unity 2021. It doesn't matter that our income is below the limit since we are working with organizations (that don't pay us yet) whose income counts against ours. Paid them just shy of $20k (per year) because otherwise they were going to cancel our (already quite expensive) Pro licenses.

LITERALLY the same day we get an email saying they will be hiking the license cost to over $6k/year in 2025. -_-

Drove by this pile of traffic barriers recently. I was mesmerized.

I feel like "don't reinvent the wheel" is overused, and people use it to mean "never make a wheel". Everyone already knows what a wheel is, and making one is *so* easy that sometimes it makes sense if it's a better fit.

"Reinvent" is the key word here. If you vaguely knew what a wheel was and spent a year researching circles, rolling, and axels instead of just looking it up... that's what it means.

You're still allowed to have fun learning something the hard way I guess.

@RL_Dane I recently compiled the Zed editor to submit a patch. 40 GBs of build artifacts, and I almost ran out of RAM to link it. O_o

@killyourfm Beets taste like dirt… but somehow really delicious dirt. :D Best vegetable ever.