Notices by Yora (yora@mastodon.gamedev.place)

I just learned that #KDE Menu Editor is a thing and it makes adding new programms to your launcher so much easier than looking up the location where entries are stored and a blank template for how the entry files are structured.

(Also lets you easily remove launcher items you never want to use.)

Right click on the launcher icon in the task bar and pick "Edit applications..."

#Plasma6

@sinbad Github sounds like really shit these days.

@sinbad He keeps using that word...

@jzillw Talking shit about hater manbabies is one of the joys that makes the thought to create art so exciting these days.

@jzillw Are they loving it, or already complaining about too many opinionated girls in their power fantasy?

@sinbad @psychicparrot42

@SallyStrange For a good time, I was wondering how the Party of Reagan would have any sympathies for Trump.
But the more I learned about Reagan, he actually was a proto-Trump all along. Just not quite as stupid and more charismatic.

@sinbad There is also the possibility that they know exactly what they are doing and things are working out for them as intended.

@jzillw There are huge piles of videogames that I think would be so much better if you could access the rest of the game without having to grind through the combat.

@sinbad The passive cooler on my computer is so huge, it also came with a very long screwdriver so you could get at the screws at the base where a regular can't reach.

@jzillw Well, used to be that people dying in their 70s was normal. Dying before retirement wasn't that uncommon. Sometimes I see pictures from people in their mid-30s from the 80s, and think they look like they are in their late 50s.

Man people now live much longer, and stay "young" much longer as well. The numbers have been shifting significantly over the last 3 generations.

@jzillw I always got the impression that Young Adult fiction is for older kids.

Why can't #Mastodon let you mute hashtags like users?
Why always the extra step to go into the filter setting and add them manually?

One thing that's bothering me in every videogame where I see it:

Jumping forward makes you gain speed.

I'm pretty sure that's not how physics works. When you are running at full speed, you're legs are already throwing you forward with all the strength they have. Pushing the mass of your body up rather than forward would mean you actually start losing speed on your last step.

#videogames #gamedev #running

It's now been six weeks since I moved out of the city and it's now finally getting decently dark by the time I go to bed.

Clear sky tonight and wow, that's a lot of stars.

Really looking forward to winter now.

#astronomy

Having the perverse thought of making a game that gets released only for Linux.
Let the windows people figure out how to make an emulator for that.

#linuxgaming #gamedev

I was going to complain loudly why Discord takes up half a gigabyte of memory.

But much more importantly, why does Calendar Reminder take up half a gigabyte of memory?!

What the hell? I'm not even using a calendar program on this computer.

@Igigog @jzillw Oh yeah, 3D printing is actually new and it's now a thing.
The only thing it is disrupting is probably the toy soldier industry, but it does free a niche hobby from the grip of a few monopolists.

@jzillw The last revolutionary and disrupting tech I can remember that actually became established was BlueRay.

Which is exactly like DVD as users are concerned, and fully backwards compatible. Just doing an identical job more efficiently.

@jzillw Exactly. Fiction and gameplay have to form an interdependent system. The world should serve and support the gameplay, and the gameplay should have aspects that are specific to the world.
Which makes good worldbuilding for videogames possibly more complicated than for any other medium.

Yet apparently, everyone is just winging it with little exchange about what worked and what didn't.