David Sullins @davidsullins@mastodon.gamedev.place
youtube / blender drama : the complete story : https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
"You must sign," the demon gloated, "in your own blood."
"Fine," she said, "I'll summon you back in a week then."
"That's cheating!"
"Good."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
I blogged about why the compiler cannot optimize one of the examples from Matt Godbolt’s C++Now 2018 talk.
https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2018/06/on-example-from-what-else-has-my.html
When we reached the end of the universe, we found a peep hole labelled 'best of'.
I looked, and saw you.
Then you looked. "Hey, it's you!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Today's #gameidea: a racing/driving game where it's on an road trip sort of track, but randomly generated. Each driver has a urine meter and the higher it is the faster the car goes, but if it fills all the way up it damages the car (due to "leaking fluids"). You can unload the meter at gas station stops (takes time). You can also use objective points to purchase items like absorptive pads to pad out the meter. With the procedurally generative stops, you can't predict where the next stop will be
I searched for "sock subscription" and OMG who knew there were so many sock subscription services? Not me!
« I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of infomercials and then asked it to write an infomercial of its own. Here is the first page. https://t.co/4jDje0gjxk »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/KeatonPatti/status/1001906391987245067
The boy cried "Wolf!" and when the wolves came running to his aid, he laughed.
"One day," they said, "you'll cry for us, and we won't come."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Floof tree is coming back! Very Excited to plant this when I found out it's a remnant from the days of mastodons. It relied on MASTODONS!
It's a Kentucky coffeetree, currently native to a few swampy river drainage areas in the Midwest.
It's got super hard seed pods whose seeds don't germinate unless they're chomped open by megafauna.
Nowadays they only germinate if they fall in wetlands that can rot the pods open. That seriously restricted their range.
"You haven't decoded our message?" the alien said. "Your GalacUnion invitation, RSVP today?"
"Er..." said the human. "No."
"We only sent it once we knew you had enough computing capacity to do it."
"We didn't know!"
"What did you use those computers for then?"
"Mining bitcoin..."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
RT @Bill_Gross@twitter.com: The emotional journey of creating anything great requires crossing the dark swamp of despair..
Outsiders almost never see the crazy belief and persistence required to cross that chasm..
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Bill_Gross/status/1000211381109469184
Vim 8.1 is released: https://www.vim.org/vim-8.1-released.php
Vim 8.1 still can't open a file named 🐙.txt on Windows, in case you were wondering.
I have put in thousands of hours on my poetry generator over the past three years. Thousands. It gets rough, sometimes I feel like I should get rid of the whole thing and simply write poems on my own.
But every so often, the computer writes something for me that makes it all worthwhile. Like tonight, when it gave me this line:
Here’s me talking about how games can tell stories, why Twitter was bad for my creative process, and my hopes for the future https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qkLkZaYSSYU
@janellecshane I was going through your #Skyknit pattern collection and I realized that ditherbing makes a shape with hyperbolic #geometry
like potato chips, or like this http://crochetcoralreef.org/ (though these are #crochet and not #knitting because it's easier to deal with that many stitches in crochet)
this is a mathematical shape that was thought to be impossible to represent irl at arbitrarily large sizes before somebody crocheted it
#fiberarts
She summoned a demon. "Tell me a thing no human knows."
"The sky is shy."
"What?"
"You keep looking up. That keeps the sky from falling."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
if you use #UnrealEngine #UE4 and are on the code side, you should almost definitely have read this! A lot of the why, how and where, all turned inside out.
https://www.blaenkdenum.com/notes/unreal-engine/
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Pro tip for all NPCs: if you reply the same thing twice to a player, they will leave you alone.
So here's something I've been very, very bad at self-promoting: http://fractive.io/
Fractive is my open-source tool for writing hypertext games using Markdown!
It's a little bit like Twine, but for people who'd rather just write straight-ahead instead of fussing with the node graph.
