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Right but the people I want to follow are mostly not there or haven't posted in months/years.

It'll change I'm sure.

Days since last wind order muckup: 255 I mean 0.

On top of it if you had the editor installed and ran a game created with it, the editor would embed in the game (thank you window handle!) and you got easy mod support. *if* that was wanted.

Man those were good days.

Going from black screen to cube to full editor- in an age before Unity - felt like god mode. I still prefer to work like this now.
We also included compatibility for another API (that I forget now) so people could switch to our 'engine' without much effort. I had scripting working in the end too.

FlowED Physics 3 YouTube video by Damien Sturdy

Myself and two others were working on an Ogre based editor right before Unity launched. It was progressing well and got me noticed in the industry.

(some videos here: youtu.be/KH50OH69X2A?...)

The team disbanded (life got in the way) but I'll always have fond memories of the team and Ogre.

Just logged back in to Mastodon to see, but it's pretty quiet. I'll go where the interesting devs are usually. Seems right now that's still here.

This is how I know I've officially moved into a new property; My BBC Advanced User Guide gets unpacked.

a man with tears running down his face says it was said that you would destroy the sith not join them ALT: a man with tears running down his face says it was said that you would destroy the sith not join them

How I'm feeling about bsky right now.

Oh noes you're at it again!

(Looks great!)

Decades ago I was hired to code "remote controlled devices" for this purpose.

Am I an OG Vibe coder?

Today is very Chuckie Egg related.

Yeah I remember my first time playing, I was barely an adult. I got absolutely wrecked in the first big fight in the hall. I got stuck there for hours, but then one day it just clicked and it became second nature, the game's been my fave ever since.

That's the link I should have posted!

What good timing!

Check this new variant out! bsky.app/profile/snug...

CHUCKULUS
BBC Micro Model B version just released !

github.com/Snuggsy187/C...

"Microsoft fucking teams"

No no, that's a whole new product for an entirely different industry.

I still love the games, I just get frustrated when I can't suddenly skip past the bit I've already seen to get straight into the juicy good bits!

This, and slightly related: No unskippaple cutscenes. IMO what's even worse is when *some* cutscenes are unskippable. Seems like extra code for no reason! Let us skip, I want to speedrun damnit.

Yeah, It became Assassin's Creed, and AC wouldn't have done anywhere near as well as it did without SoT at its roots.

Your "be aware" comment just sold the game to me. Noice.

Check Jake here successfully marketing games without trying!

Wait people thought SoT fighting was bad?

The only games I've played so far that got close were the Batman series. (Admittedly I've not played many that would fit)

You could get into an awesome rhythm in that game when fighting, it felt so smooth.

Canned animations provide superior control.

They don't want to give me £5.99, it's fine, I don't want to pay for their services.

I began my degooglification last year. Nearly complete now too!

I've kept my router as the gateway, including dhcp, dns and wireguard. I've had centralised archive since the 90s, back then just 4gb, now 4tb ha.

Probably is a good idea to keep local machines usable in an outage else my mrs might end me bahaha

Biggest issue is the files we need access to? 4tb of them, and there really is no need to "sync" these, so good olg nfs does the job if I keep user IDs consistent.

I've seen nextcloud, tempted to pop it next to immich, I've got a bash script syncing folders at the minute but was hoping to maintain one boot image and one user OS image, though not sold on that if it's more hassle than it's worth.

I'm thinking up all kinds of clever stuff like a minimalist boot USB dongle that chains into an image on the server, which itself then mounts home directories from the same server. Not sure how feasible this is really, or if it's worth the effort vs just maintaining 6 machines manually.

My home (4 of us) is now running entirely on Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04)

What's the best way to centralise everything? I'd prefer home directories to exist directly on my server too.

Currently manual with Checkpoint, there's a better way!

#linux #homelab #sysadmin

To add, I've also had Debian wreck itself during updates, so I'm not arguing it's perfect, just slightly less crap for me at this moment in time.