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Anaheim earned that offer sheet as karma for bringing Joel Quenneville back to the NHL. His second chance was not being in prison. He protected a known rapist and gave a positive performance review that allowed him to find another child victim. Disgusting to put a person like that in power again.

I know I needed to read this piece from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social. Sharing it because I know a lot of others can benefit from these ideas. There is a gift link if you scroll through comments. Watch soccer and try these hacks with your friends!!

Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · last mo.

7 local democracy hacks to not feel totally helpless in Doug Ford (& cipher-like Liberal MP caucus) Toronto. Finished on the throne of representative democracy for the people. My weekend @thestar.com column.

all the talking heads saying we need to show albertans that the rest of canada understands their concerns and make policy changes to prove it, when what they’re really saying is we need to give into an extreme right-wing minority in alberta by gutting climate policy to appease the oil industry

Godot 4.7 added visual control offsets which makes animating UI 1000x easier, so I spent the evening sprinkling it in on various screens.

A friend recently was reflecting that they felt art direction in games has gotten generally worse. I think it's a good use of our time & energy to celebrate the fact that while there are a lot of whiffs in the world today, the recent era has also seen some of the greatest of all time

South of MidnightMarathonSeason: A Letter to the FutureZelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Trying out a similar low-tech sprite light effect in Godot! It uses the alpha layer, offset pixel-by-pixel, to set whether the pixel should be bright or dark. I'd like to try a version that selects between a Light and Dark pixel color for every hue, to preserve the limited-color look I like.

Supper Mario Broth@mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite.

The rim lighting effect in Paper Mario is created in an extremely simple manner.
[the sprites are taken, copied, recolored black, then the black version is offset, made transparent, and trimmed to the original sprite]
Note how this coincidentally results in a realistic shadow of the cap on Mario's face because the shadow is just the brim recolored black
Source: info: YouTube user @JasperRLZ, youtube.com/watch?v=K3OrK0nvWCg; presentation by Supper Mario Broth

multiple things can be true at once: 1) there shouldn't be billionaires 2) since there ARE, it's interesting to see one spending money on being an ocean nerd in the name of science, instead of feeding us to machines and destroying democracy 3) valve's 30% cut of steam sales is too high

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3mo ago

Gabe Newell is out here turning a 304-foot-long luxury yacht into a 'support and research vessel': aftermath.site/gabe-newell-st...

Remember when Carney cultists insisted the MOA with Smith was just 4D chess that would never result I’m anything? This guy is fucking your future and you need to wake up and oppose him. Our entire economy is being butchered to dump public funds into industries with no future.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Prime Minister Mark Carney is throwing his support behind a new oil pipeline, with a goal of putting shovels in the ground by the fall of 2027.

Six months after speed cameras were banned, many Ontario municipalities are grappling with adding road safety measures. This year has seen a 235 per cent increase in the number of vehicles travelling 60+ km/h compared to the same period last year, according to new data. Read more:

Six months after speed cameras removed, Parkside Drive sees 235% increase in speeders

All of the speed cameras in the province were removed in Nov. 15, after Premier Doug Ford derided them as a “cash grab.”

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