Notices by a stinky ox 🐂 (llamasoft_ox@toot.wales), page 2

Imagine how black your soul would have to be if you actually had to code up that stuff that does all that shitty crap on websites. The video window that follows you relentlessly. Dark patterns. Options that aren't options. Popup boxes demanding that the user make an account. Buttons for choices where the one advantageous to the company is large and inviting, and the one saying "no thanks" is done in a tiny ugly font called Discouragana and worded to make the user feel like a cunt for choosing it

I saw someone mentioning Bruce Lee just now and that reminded me of the old Bruce Lee game that everyone had back in the 8-bit days.

A good game, and me being me one of my favourite parts of it wasn't even an interactive part of the game, it was a big fat ox thing that sat atop decorative pillars in a few of the game levels.

Here's a little extra for anyone interested in the archive, a couple of things that didn't make it in:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6wcw286l75sh35rm3mvtm/Llamatron-WIP-disk-images.zip?rlkey=gzauhk71yvbxw9hnunzoo15ms&dl=0

These are a couple of disk images containing early WIP versions of Llamatron, containing some gameplay elements that didn't make it into the game. They are playable using the STEem Atari ST emulator.

You'll see things like a Baiter-style enemy that came in to hassle you at the end of a level, and also just how unrefined the gameplay was at that stage of development.

NOSE

Vet has been. Brambles has an abscess next to his knee which has been drained and cleaned, and he has received antibiotic and painkiller injections. I have to give him another injection tomorrow and then it's just keep the wound clean and hope that it all heals up in a week or two. 🐏

I believe I forgot to post yesterday's Sheep Time here so today you get two!

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgNAm8PlOrY

Morning Sheep Time

Grumpy donk, woolly huddle, Panda butted me in the knee :)

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGc3P-BOXus

I haven't posted a picture of sheep for a minute, so here's the boys at bucket time earlier this evening. 🐏

Brambles hard at work

Skippy and Brambles grazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEzKnC1gwoE

Fflwmp

The start of every sheep's day

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

Sheep are constantly being recuddled to check the integrity of their fluffiness after the winter.

Fluffiness abides.

Here is the wool you ordered.

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

The rivals.

The upturned face of where's-my-biscuit.

Cuddling a cloud.

The older I get the more I think that the obligations that are placed upon us - that we place upon ourselves - are often bullshit misdirections.

That the path always has to be "bigger, better, more" is unrealistic.

Surely it is better to strive for a comfortable equilibrium, a point in parameter space where things are optimal for you, your family, your friends, your community, your sheep, the environment.

Whereas capitalism tells us we must grow like a cancer and destroy all opposition.

I am in the curry house

First go of a large bison plushie a couple of years ago.

#plushies