happy world autism awareness day i ate 4 whipped cream sandwiches yesterday and looked at pictures of seals for at least 20 minutes

looks like somebody snuck up his own ass....

I don't even play these games.

Setup, backup, and login are nouns. Begin Setup Your login attempt See Latest Backup They can also be adjectives: Setup Assistant Login Window Backup Procedure They are NOT verbs: I setup my account First, login here How can I backup? Set up, back up, and log in are verbs. Let’s set up your account Click here to log in Back Up Now An easy way to test for this: put it in the past tense. If setup was a single-word verb, you would (goofily) say: I setupped my account. Next, I loginned. When I backupped, These are just three such verbs that include a preposition; there are many more. You know the difference between nouns and verbs. You can do this.

So many apps and websites out there get this wrong (given their focus on such verbs) that I finally sitdowned, rollupped my sleeves, and speakupped in visual form. A sign for me to tap in the future!

perfectionism is so often seen as a permissive ability to create or drive something towards perfection, but in reality, it's a crippling inability to let go of anything imperfect

it's an obsession, it stagnates you, and gets you stuck on things you shouldn't be

Photo. Sasha, round and curled up on a blanket.

Photo. The camera pulls back more, revealing a cat bed that she's totally ignoring.

ugh!!!! #sashaposting

Screenshot of source-code in a C++-like pseudo code: /* Naive camera blending function -- doesn't account for keeping a subject in-frame */ Transform LerpBlend( Transform FromPose, Transform ToPose, float Ratio ) { return Transform{ .Position = Lerp( FromPose.Position, ToPose.Rotation, Ratio ), .Rotation = LerpEuler( FromPose.Rotation, ToPose.Rotation, Ratio ) }; } /* Orbit blend - a "screw" motion that keeps a pivot-position in-frame and stable on the 2D canvas */ Transform OrbitBlend( Transform FromPose, Transform ToPose, Vector3 PivotPosition, float Ratio ) { const FromPositionLocal = FromPose.Rotation.Inverse().Rotate( FromPose.Position - PivotPosition ); const ToPositionLocal = ToPose.Rotation.Inverse().Rotate( ToPose.Position - PivotPosition ); const ResultPositionLocal = Lerp( FromPositionLocal, ToPositionLocal, Ratio ); const ResultRotation = LerpEuler( FromPose.Rotation, ToPose.Rotation, Ratio ); return Transform{ .Position = PivotPosition + ResultRotation.Rotate( ResultPositionLocal ), .Rotation = ResultRotation }; }

Another game project, another camera system that needs to be patched to keep subjects in-frame when blending.

When people talk about studios losing "institutional knowledge" with labor turnover, this is one of the 10,000 minor insights that mgmt wastes money endlessly hiring juniors to reinvent.

surely a revenue-per-play time scheme wouldn’t create any toxic incentives in game design

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOOO SPEED RACER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's days like this that remind me that the 8-hour workday and 40-hour workweek should be banished into the lake of fire.

ahhhh looks like the old Pretend To Be A Famous 193-Year-Old Tortoise's Veterinarian And Say He Died And Then Solicit Crypto Donations Through Social Media scam

i've seen it a million times

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

🍄🍄🍄

a two-panel comic page. the left panel says 'i am 13. i meet a trans woman through mutual friends on Steam. she's funny and charming and her confidence is inspiring. i start 'pretending' to be a girl in games and to new friends who didn't know me previously. as a joke, you know'. the right panel says 'i am 14. a friend recommends me Against Me!'s 2007 album 'New Wave'. I get to 'The Ocean' and sob profusely for a few hours and I don't know why. I spend the next few years with severe depression that I now recognize as dysphoria. I don't think I'll make it to 25.'

A three-panel comic page. The left panel says 'i am 16. i've gotten a wacom tablet for my birthday. i spend a lot of time drawing my sona in feminine clothing. i am convinced i just have a fetish for crossdressing'. the middle panel says 'i am 18. i say some stupid shit in a discord server. i figure it out right after this.' the right panel says 'i do not have the means or money to start hrt. i am terrified. i decide to put it off until after college. i present as a woman exclusively to those online. i do not remember any of the next seven years'.

a two panel comic page. the left panel says 'i am 24. i can't do it anymore. i get in contact with a local clinic and i start hrt. i am prescribed 50mg spiro and 2mg estradiol tablets twice daily. i'm shocked it was that easy. i don't know why i didn't do it sooner.' the right panel says 'i've been on hrt for about eight months. i don't wince at my reflection anymore, i am full of joy and energy that i never had previously. i like the changes happening to my body. i ask my clinic to increase my dose. i swap to injections, and i am affirmed that at my next appointment i will be prescribed progesterone. i have never been more excited.'

a three-panel comic. the left panel says 'my progesterone is denied by someone higher up intervening, their 'Trans Healthcare Specialist', who then proceeds to sexually harass me. i decide to DIY my hrt.' the middle panel says 'DIY is shockingly easy. crypto is kind of annoying. i get a vial of estradiol cypionate and progesterone suppositories.' the right panel says 'i am 25. i've been on hrt for one year! i'm happier, healthier, and i really feel like i'm becoming a PERSON. i am excited for the future. i can't wait to see what i'll be like at 30.'

ill put this here too. i made this short comic about my transition for tdov :)

No mouse support................... 😭

Birdo from Super Mario, she is sweetly blowing a kiss, surrounded by hearts. The hearts are decorated with the colors of the trans flag.

got around to doodling Birdo 💕

who remembers the cyberchase mmo web game........

this one goes out to all my early 2000s no cable tv girlies

Cropped screenshot of a comic with a man in a blue shirt saying "No Mario", by @sloshua_

The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already

Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults. For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves

Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.

When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.

This is my trans agenda

Deep Space Bellhop on Steam A cute turn-based-action game where your job is to transport strange and unfamiliar characters between floors in the galaxy's largest space hotel.

hi!! im a nonbinary/transfem thing that worked with @anniesden.dev on Deep Space Bellhop, which is almost a year old now !

it's a turn based stategy game about being an elevator operator in space, making sure to not disappoint any visitors

store.steampowered.com/app/3429210/Deep_Space_Bellhop

Birdo waving

WARIO'S WOODS
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 1994
SNES

Hey cis people: instead of spending today going "ohhh woooow you people are soooooo braaave" while forgetting to cancel your HBO Max subscription or whatever, why not participate in today's most delicious of festivities?

happy tdov, give a trans person money

Illustration showing multiple colourful paper cutouts of rabbits holding each other's shoulders. The text reads: "Shop LOCAL! Support local businesses"

shop local!

Confession#43.

Pikito

lolbit drawpile doodle