Notices by azul (typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt)

last week, anti-trans laws were passed in Portugal.

parliament revoked the 2018 law that gave us self-determination of legal gender and change of name.

in addition they also passed UK-style censorship laws banning schools from talking about gender, and UK-style laws banning the prescription of puberty blockers and hormones to trans children.

this is the first time Portugal has taken away human rights since it became a democracy in the 1970s.

it's only a proton if it comes from the steam deck region of valve corporation, otherwise it's just a sparkling wine

semarket versioning (semantic versioning when marketing is in charge of the major version number).

the major number goes up, or down, when introducing major new features, whether or not they break backward compatibility. or other big changes like rebranding the company.

the minor number goes up when a backward incompatible change happens, and when a new feature is added that only the developers cared about.

the patch number goes up for bugfixes and/or backward compatible changes.

uh, wireless power already exists, it's called "the sun"

@clarity i think for mirth, we would convert the operand to higher precision and leave it that way. if you want a lower precision result you can cast afterwards `* f32` and if you want a lower precision operation as well you can cast the f64 operand down, `f32 *` or `dip:f32 *`

one thing i noticed playing souls games and zelda games recently is that when you use the right analog stick to control the camera you can't use the face buttons as well, because your right thumb is occupied. (unless you use "the claw" ... which is surely not recommended)

@clarity yeah all the weapons are made of twigs apparently

@clarity also i don't think they balanced the weapon-breaking very well in botw 😢 i was playing master mode and it's just impossible to defeat a group of four or five enemies without running out of weapons (including their weapons)

botw & totk spinoff where you go around collecting all the broken weapons and contraptions

ganon invented planned obsolescence

We have advanced to the triangle phase.

In 2026 we do not write C code, we invent a programming language that writes C code.

gender conceal party

thinking about hexadecimal exponent notation, because when you have a hex number with lots of trailing zeros it's not easy to see how many there are. e.g. 0x1000000000000 versus something like 0x1p12

the "p" is like decimal "e" notation except that "e" is a valid hexadecimal digit so we can't use "e" (and "p" stands for "power"). the number after the p is given in decimal notation? there are so many issues.

one day i found a book on the ground, i opened it but all the pages were blank, and to my surprise, it started writing itself:

https://gamedev.lgbt/@typeswitch/115674356729154413

give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day

teach a man how to fish and you'll feed one man for the rest of his working life

set up a fishing school and you'll feed many people for the rest of their working lives, or until the fish run out, and/or until corporations take over and squeeze out all the profit from this ecosystem

set up a fishing school and a socially owned fishing and fishery program and a refectory and you'll feed a community forever

who is this it that can't be helped

JP->EN translation cliches would lead you to believe that in Japanese folks are always talking about some "it" that can't be helped, but, "shikata ga nai" literally just means "a method does not exist" or "a way does not exist"...

"it can't be helped" might be the best translation in some cases but surely not always. i saw a sentence "it can't be helped that [my husband] cannot come visit me here" and i think that's a bad translation, though idk what the original sentence was.

@joe i read it as biblical percussive and i think it still fits

ʬ be not afraid ʬ