Tag: thoughts
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probability is hard to think about
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so i was working on a game. the game has haystacks sometimes. if you set fire to the haystack, there’s a one in six chance that when it burns away, it turns out to contain a treasure chest! you can get some loot i implement this. much later, QA reports a bug: the chance of…
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midichloriopathy
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some canon new Star Wars thing should address midichlorians by acknowledging them as a whole-cloth pseudoscience and gatekeeping device. qui-gon has the right kind of dadvibe to have honestly believed in it. if there’s a reestablished jedi order or whatever they should view midichlorians the way we view, like, physiognomy. the only people who still…
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helicobacter
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i had a gastroscopy recently and one of the milder things they were checking for just in case is a totally normal stomach bacteria called “helicobacter” which, when i looked it up, i found out he is a little guy with little flagella that he uses to dig into your stomach lining so he doesn’t…
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first game-on-shelf experience
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Recently had (finally) my first experience of “a game I made is physically on a shelf in front of me for sale in a shop”, with Weird West, which is physically out on PS5 now (it’s on other platforms too but not physically, I guess). For whatever reason, I didn’t really expect to feel anything…
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if you can get a levitator, then you can get some wasps
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in troubled times, it is comforting to reflect on this
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speaking of target audience (which i just was, somewhere else) when i was ~15 i had to interview someone for a school project so i emailed the questions to gabe newell and one of them was about target audience and he said “it’s hard enough making something good without trying to figure out how to…
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if you want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less, graphics tech advancements should please you
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it’s massively massively feasibler than ever before for one-person devs/tiny studios to rapidly iteratively make stuff, all kinds of stuff, from the fancy-graphic’d to the deliberately lo-fi, than it ever has been before, with fewer limitations, because of the same tech advancements that are mostly marketed via boring shit like a realistic building exploding or…
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frustration
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feels like my gamedev superpower is “not getting frustrated easily by tasks”. when something goes wrong frustration is hardly ever what i feel. when it is, it’s pretty hard to push through and often i just don’t. but it’s rare i always see someone hitting a concrete wall that for me (even if stumped) would…
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spiderman thoughts
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I want a Spiderman thing that recognises that there’s usually no reason for an investigating cop to think a guy webbed to a wall even did anything. Like wouldn’t that immediately turn into trying to prosecute Spiderman for randomly tying people up and running away Spiderman stops a mugging, suspends the guy from the power…
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i think the ai art thing is really about,
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people aren’t comfortable with their own disinterest in things. they don’t want to make art but they want to want to. they can’t make themselves want to. but that’s not ok with them. but they imagine it would feel good to have made art i think these people are in a real distressing crisis of…
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apple vision pro announcement thoughts
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the Apple Vision Pro (???) announcement video is vibeswise identical to every other Big Tech Announcement Video you ever get now – not only rancid, but so overwhelmingly rancid that it’s literally hard to talk about. it’s such a dense ball of interwoven awfulness that pointing out any individual strand of it feels like you’re…
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i dislike “official [region] [topic]” internet communities
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as in, “the melbourne writing community” or “the perth gamedev discord” or “the hylian ornithology forum”. all you have to do is use that format to name your website or forum or discord and everyone seems to go with it, as though all of a sudden there is a single canonical “Hylian Ornithology Community” or…
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one of the least pleasant parts of running a conspicuously lefty online community of some sort is when someone who’s ostensibly all about empathy and kindness comes in looking for a fight this happens in my discord a couple times a year. someone busts in and starts making garden variety political statements everyone agrees with,…
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You know what’s a good curse?
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Pirates Of The Caribbean 1 curse. Steal a coin, have a terrible time til it’s all returned. Solid curse. Real nobody-to-blame-but-yourself curse. Easy to lift unless you’ve really gone nuts with your spending, else potentially impossible. Good curse. You know what’s a lousy curse? Pirates 2 curse. Cursed with a spot on your hand that…