Notices by olive (jovialthunder@xoxo.zone)

I put some time into cooking a squash mushroom pasta lunch and used good ingredients and it was delicious. I wonder why I don't live like this all the time.

Talents go spinny too. This is my new favorite way to show a list of things.

@annika that's horrifying

I would like to put forward the phrase "keep the pasta in Italy" as shorthand for "some spaghetti code is fine as long as it's compartmentalized in a single domain".

mechs go spinny

@clarity LOVE

Bear with me; let's talk about the elephant in the room. I was a fly on the wall and a little birdie told me that there's a snake in the grass. She's been a busy little bee weaving her web of lies, but you don't have to have eagle eyes to see that chameleon jackass is crying crocodile tears.
It's bullshit! You can't swing a cat on mastodon about it without stirring up a hornet's nest in your mentions from monkeys on typewriters. She's outfoxed everyone.

- texts from last night, Animorph edition

Just got a notification from Kickstarter that somebody finally filled out their crescent loom reward survey that I sent out in **2016**. What are you expecting to happen here, my man.

Just had my first brush with compressing and decompressing data in game dev. It's... shocking sexy to see your json files go from 100kb to 12kb 😳

Before & after. Breathtaking.

Sirens calling me wouldn't have to sing they could just loudly misunderstand something I posted.

Thinking about People Make Game's most recent video about wargaming & military funding for games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYaDXZ2MI-k

I wrote some thoughts about it here: https://wick.works/devlog/wargaming-and-serious-games

@clarity dang I should play

@clarity it's specifically your fault this made it in because of the joy in your voice as you were talking about how Tales of Symphonia does this 😄

I feel like I have two action figures and I'm hitting them against each other

I'll write about it more in the next #LancerTactics backer update, but I had a crisis of faith about doing the GBA fire emblem visual-novel style for conversations. The fact that all the characters are facing head-on made it look like an awkward zoom call.

So we threw it out and redesigned the whole thing as more of a free-form Tales of Symphonia/Gravity Rush/The World Ends With You-esque comic panel thing! I feel soooo much better about this than the old one.

@annika horrifying I love it

@clarity @annika @aratinga I feel similarly! I can think of a few times when I turned around and saw you and was like oh thank god and relaxed immediately

Went on a research bender last weekend and made this taxonomic tree of game dialogue UI (categorical, not chronological). Interesting to see the links between different groups and how they can morph into each other one change at a time. #gamedesign #gamedev #ui

@clarity are you trying to start a fight or