black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

What I don't like about BlueSky these days...

I type Pokopia into the search bar and it's a bunch of men name dropping the game and posting half-naked selfies. 🤢🤮

The planet won't die. But it will be uninhabitable for humans. Let's just hope our absence causes less pollution than our presence, because who knows what will happen when we cannot maintain nuclear power plants, oil refineries, or chemical processing plants?

I lost my t-key in grad school. I was a nighmare!

Don't talk to me or my son ever again.

One time my code stopped working in class A. I learned it was because the compiler had moved the code into the calling function LOCATED IN ANOTHER CLASS B, that did not have permission to access variables in class A.

I feel your pain.

It came to me in a dream

Once again, this site has a significant problem with people who cannot distinguish between "here is what the law is"/"here is what happened" and "I endorse that law/what happened."

a shot of Josh Brolin's first entrance as Msgr. Jefferson Wicks in _Wake Up Dead Man_ along with an excerpt of the screenplay: ## INT. CHURCH - DAY Jud enters, taking in the mystic aura of the place. On the stone wall behind the altar, a faded shape where a crucifix once hung. Huh. Then: up the aisle comes JEFFERSON WICKS, in his 60s but strong and broad shouldered, with piercing eyes. <highlight>You do not want to fuck with this priest.</highlight>

Thank you, @rianjohnson.bsky.social for making your screenplays available so I could sprinkle useful excerpts through my presentation.

Is that an iPod? Awesome!

It's what I've come to expect from these people, but it's disgusting how little pushback against this anti-black racism is heard from officials or news outlets.

I might have skipped ahead in #Pokopia and found out something a bit too early. I wish I could unsee that.

Don't blame me, I've sung it from the rafters since day 1!

It's nice when the problem is that obvious and straightforward, and the solution equally so. But that rarely happens in real life (unless you work on a manufacturing line, right?).

Whaaaaaaaaaat?

I think I want to re-learn GAS and the gameplay message subsystem... it'll help me with this new plugin AND it'll help me develop that third person controller I want to build.

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

DUDE THAT WATER STARTER IS A GEKKO?

I'm choosing the Gekko!

#PokemonWindsWaves

There are more updates I can make

* Camera shakes
* Post-processing
* Materials
* Popup text
* A parent class or interface for Actors generated by this plugin

There are now Niagara data channels now?

Finished the looping fx implementation. There are some bugs in it - no clue why the AnimNotifyState's Details window cuts off the first letter from the name.

Now I need to make a video, which means making a level with cool assets, possibly remembering how to implement Gameplay Effects.

Mike Johnson intentionally and willingly chooses not to enforce Congressional power because he doesn't have enough votes to guarantee Congress will approve Trump's actions.

It's absolute corruption.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

I had not heard of data channels in Niagara systems before now. It's experimental yes, but still cool. Hmm.

If I can successfully get looping effects to work, that's a huge challenge over and done with.

At some point I need to write functionality so effects can be triggered in code by collisions, too. And ones that are emitted by default, like on a weapon...

God this is getting so complex. Y.Y

Otherwise, I would have done it already!

So what's the solution?

💡

Delegates!

When an Actor is going to be destroyed, pass a function that destroys its Registry inside the subsystem's "Looping Effects" directory.

So back to the original problem... use UStructs.

#RubberDuckCoding

To maintain encapsulation, I can't just write an AActor subclass and expect all projects to rearrange their architecture. The plugin's component could keep track of looping effects... if that didn't create a circular dependency. The Subsystem would have to send looping effects back to the Component!

I just realized something...

If an Actor - that owns components emitting looping effects spawned by my plugin - is removed from the level, I'd have to update the Subsystem to remove that Actor from the Directory, and all its references. Seems inelegant?

The alternative is...

I'm frustrated that template errors and incompatible argument lists are causing this problem. That's such a junior-level problem! The only thing that's changed is I am not using ustructs or uclasses, just normal structs. I do not understand why that would be the problem, but whatever man...

However, the *other issue* remains. I created a bunch of structs like in my original post, but every time I implement them, some template error stopped the compilation.

I was hoping I could just use plain structs, but the more I think about it the less it makes sense, especially in Unreal C++