Notices by Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)

@botvolution Oh, wow, that's really concerning. It's immediately obvious this thing isn't me despite much of my input being pretty disjointed and random to begin with. (Admittedly this generator only strings together individual characters rather than whole words, but I'd worry about anyone whose tone could be replicated by anything this simple.)

Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard

@Rycaut @inthehands I just dug into this myself and found an article that suggests the backup option for doing this from the outside is...a different way of charging the battery?

The article also implies a guy who got stuck inside one is stupid for not spotting a manual release that Tesla seems to have made an effort to conceal, so I find it telling they have to present this as an obvious solution. https://www.carscoops.com/2023/08/man-gets-trapped-in-hot-tesla-after-battery-dies-as-he-wasnt-aware-of-manual-release/

@Rycaut @inthehands The instructions for manually opening the back doors without power are even wilder. Front of the car wedged somewhere following an accident? No problem! Just rip up the carpet in front of the back seat and find the emergency wire you have to pull in a specific direction. Oh, and BTW, there's a risk it'll break the windows when it opens so you probably don't want to give it a trial run at home. And it's different in other Teslas! Happy motoring! 🙃

@inthehands How old were you when you started?

@mattmcirvin @futurebird Pop culture seems a weird thing for them to blame given that we're about as far from the "Everyone is just consuming whatever the TV beams into their brains" complaints of the past as we could possibly be. Memes might not exactly be high art, but I feel as though there's a kind of literacy expected of kids these days that wasn't expected of people in the past, and that they're probably thinking more about much of what they engage with day-to-day.

A while back, I made a Bitsy Jam game about trying and not quite managing to make a watch that displays the time in Cistercian numerals: https://damonwakes.itch.io/hibernation-hassle

Almost two years on, I'm happy to say that I've finally done it! I'd still like to add a battery indicator (and if I'm feeling really fancy, numerals for the date and a step counter), but I'm quite happy with the minimalist look of this as-is.
#ESP33 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

@Molondrongo @futurebird @discoursology I find this even on GrapheneOS, which is generally great. When I open the Files app, there's a sidebar item called "Documents." Is that the "Documents" directory on my phone? Nope! Does it show me all my document-type files in one place? Also nope! How does it decide what should be in there? Nobody knows!

@HauntedOwlbear I was starting to lean towards my usual "rate five really short games for the sake of getting involved" approach, but this has nudged me to set aside two hours for LLLLLL at some point. (It was already one of the ones that had caught my attention through some great writing quoted in the forums.)

@HauntedOwlbear I was going to say "Somebody should..." but yeah. Yeah, they have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q95tM3OxxxY

@HauntedOwlbear Ah! I knew the animation reminded me of something other than Scooby-Doo. It's got a definite Wizards vibe to it too - especially the gas-masked horse people.

@HauntedOwlbear Haha! I'm listening to The Future Is A Foreign Land right now. Very different music video aesthetic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lz24W6CQ0HI

@HauntedOwlbear For a very tiny one, GDevelop may well be worth a look. It's extremely versatile and approachable so will probably be able to do exactly what you want without too much faff, though something more specialised such as AGS would almost certainly be the more efficient choice for a larger game.

This suggestion is almost certainly closer to "heavily modded Twine" than you'd like, but it's native on Linux and likely useful for quick jam games beyond adventure games specifically.

@HauntedOwlbear DOES she fits, though?

@gdeyke I might actually be able to make this.

@gdeyke Unfortunately I've just remembered that I also challenged myself not to put guns in games this year - but remind me in January!

Alternatively, it could involve shooting ~with a camera~ and the flash would be the reason you get a new frame.

@gdeyke I think it would be annoying and frustrating no matter what: the trick would be to make that a feature. Another concern would be having the optimum strategy involve playing blind at least some of the time, to avoid it simply being a regular FPS that requires the player to keep spamming the trigger button to see. Limited "ammo" might help there.

@gdeyke I think it might need a solid audio clue that creatures are nearby, combined with a solid "THUNK!" when you walk into an obstacle.

@HauntedOwlbear Vaporeon S. Kennedy

@HauntedOwlbear HOW WILL YOU FIND THE LIGHT SWITCH? YOU'RE IN A DARK ROOM. YOU NEED THE LIGHT SWITCH TO SEE. DO YOU SEE?