I played this game just a few years ago and it rocked (in fact, it's a major inspiration behind my current project) but I didn't bother to play the sequel because I heard they changed it drastically. Is that true?
This is easily my favorite thing I've seen in picoCAD yet!
"The enemy of my enemy is... my enemy's enemy."
Which one is the worst? There are so many things to choose from, I can't tell what you mean.
It is an interesting point, but bsky.app/profile/gayl...
This bonus scene could've been an email.
I try not to bring the hammer down when male friends refer to "babysitting" their children, but I do correct them.
Don't worry, the thread responses were on point bsky.app/profile/tina...
yeah I remember (not fondly) trying to use TorqueScript for, well anything really. It was clearly meant for just a bit of scripting within Tribes, and not a language to make a new game with.
Also, this conversation is making me suddenly realize the way game engines are priced now is like free-to-play, with hit games as "whales". huh
I hesitate to shit on Torque because GarageGames was doing bold things, but man I had an argument with someone who used Torque to claim game engines were always cheap, and man seriously???
That's probably the motivation, yes, but even then you are much better off pricing higher and then holding a sale.
Seriously though, I wonder if people even realize how much game engines used to cost? It's like yeah there were cheap and/or free options even back in the day, but Genesis3D? 3D Game Studio? Blitz3D? whole different ball game
toby fox wrote great achievements for undertale
What do you think of Undertale's approach?
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
Literally every time I scroll up I laugh out loud. As in, I laughed, read a few comments, scrolled up to laugh again, read a few more comments, etc.
The concept of "drafts" while writing used to confuse me (still does, just less) because I feel like I write everything in one go, until I realized my "one go" is pretty much what other people would call like the third draft.
This point 2 is very similar to what I mean. I'm writing explanatory texts not dialogue, but that kind of thing is what my outlines look like. I literally write stuff like "Now make a new material and BLAH BLAH BLAH". bsky.app/profile/hown...
#2 is another tip that's similar to how I write my books/tutorials. I don't literally record myself, but I do imagine that I'm explaining out loud and jotting down what I would say.
This is why I like outlining when I'm writing. I basically look at outlines as a sparse first draft.
I'm someone who was fine with Covid isolation, and partly that's because I'm an extreme introvert, but partly that's because I have a backyard.
I didn't know that but not surprising. That kinda goes with what I was saying; already limited parks were shut down because they were going to be crowded. Like, I used to live in downtown Chicago so I know what city parks can be like, but I was fortunate to be in the suburbs for COVID.
That last part, about not sitting on a park bench, gets at a subtle related issue. Not everyone has enough access to outdoor spaces; there was never any issue with sitting on a park bench per se, but you needed to social distance which means there needed to be a lot of park.
No kings except this dog.
good, maybe this'll be like the jesus image to show people just how much he respects the troops
closely related tangent: game programmers who specialize in game AI have to keep specifying "no not that kind of AI"
(I just realized that, while I wasn't talking about AI, this is also about AI)
I was once advised at work to stop using qualifiers before statements (stuff like "I'm not 100% certain, but I think...") so that others would find my advice more impressive. Which, like, was probably true, but fuck if I'm going to start casually lying like that.
Seriously, this is the *slow* part?!?
I pretty much just started this series, so good! I'm purposely not getting 3 yet so I have something to read on the plane when I take a trip soon (although maybe I should just read the third book now and keep 4 for the plane)