Last night I turned down a #gamedev opportunity to work with an artist. He let it slip early that he was transphobic, and wouldn't put up with any discussion about it. Probably a good call on my part, but... could really use an artist to work with.

NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

I saged my house today People don't get how & especially why one would sage a house How: Find a branch with a lot of leaves & a long stem. Cut it & slide it along the edges & corners of your ceiling. Why: It cleans the cobwebs! Leaves are good at collecting them. You can toss the stick when done ->

First results of my heightmap system for my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords. It's... umm, a bit much. Guess there's lots more work to do, even from this point

I'm still working to get height mapping working in my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords. But I've just realized something: this won't work for swamp biomes, or ocean biomes. Guess I'll worry about that later. I'll finish getting this heightmap system working. Players can deal with swamps on hills

At last, I finally have heightmap data generating in my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords. Now I need to apply it to the actual game. Which is going to be hard. Right now, a player's position is decided before the map is generated. I'll have to generate the map before I can place the player now

I'm seeing #teachers with kids who have never learned how to read, or they struggle with math; and I think I know why. Hooked on Phonics was such a big success with schools, and businesses found an opportunity to sell new curriculum to school administrators for big bucks. All you had to do was ->

There's no reason to believe that Epstein's operation isn't still going on

Mr. Savile Row@mrsavilerow.bsky.social · last mo.

A global criminal organization like Epstein's doesn't just end because they killed him.

Doing #gamedev to try & get heightmaps in my game Settlers & Warlords. This is using a Diamond-Square algorithm. It's not associated with my game, but with this much working, I can apply it to my game

This week in #gamedev I've been working on a structure that lets players to dig through rocks. Now that it's outputting items, I need to add a wooden crane, to get the boulders out (they'll be too big to move by hand). I gotta decide if a pivot point can be made out of sticks... or just go with it

We're cooking meats,now! This is from my #gamedev project Settlers & Warlords, a game similar to both Factorio and Dwarf Fortress. Players start out with 4 workers, a bunch of land, and nothing else, climbing a robust tech tree and interacting with a fantasy world. Hunting allows access to ->

Oh, of course Trump would pay for this by cutting aids to poor families. Trump doesn't understand what people do when they have no legal options to feed themselves

How You Like Me Now?...@1bigbullshitbill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've had a copy of Doom II for ages, but I've only recently got a chance to play The Plutonia Experiment (it can be played as a mod, with the help of UZ Doom). Plutonia just... hits different than Doom II. Levels are built to place monsters where they cause the most pain, while preventing you ->

It's the 7th of July, but our outside thermostat says it's negative 40 outside (it does that when it needs a new battery)

Ouch... So, in my #gamedev of Settlers & Warlords, I'm trying to set up a Hunting Post, so workers can take a spear and hike into the wilderness & try to catch something to eat. Here is what the post looks like. The plan is to pick a point 100 tiles away from the building, plot a path there, ->

I think there are far too many people who don't understand this part (#2). You can whine & complain all day about businesses raising prices and lowering quality in their product. But IF YOU STILL BUY IT, your complaints mean nothing because they're still making money off you. #corporategreed

Sverre Auestad 📎@sverre-auestad.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two things: 1: I agree. They should offer a physical copy. 2: Will you actually be principled enough to *not* buy the game if they don't? Or will you complain and then buy it anyway, thus encouraging the company to continue this shitty practice since they're not losing money because of it?

I think I've realized something: I'm trying to take over the world. But I can't take over this world, it's too hard. Instead, I'm making my own world in a game, with as much detail as I can muster - and then I'll take it over. In #gamedev you can do that

Seriously; all it would take is for Trump to actually listen to someone who's an expert on the subject. But no. That's too much for Trump. It would make him look weak to follow someone else's advice. So now he's guaranteed to look weak by having no way to fix the Reflecting Pool, a mess he caused

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3mo ago

The Reflecting Pool should be left in shambles as a reminder of his failed presidency. He should never be allowed to touch anything else in DC again. Let the next president fix it properly.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY THIS HERE,WAS,FOR MANY OF US, THE CELEBRATION WE NEEDED,AND A REMINDER, NOT TO GIVE UP HOPE ! THANK YOU, MICHELLE, AND PRESIDENT OBAMA...🎊🎉✨️ 👇👇👇

I'm starting to think the whole purpose of the Iran war was to drain America's Strategic Oil Reserves. Trump couldn't get his hands on it directly, so he had to force us to use it

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo ago

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

At last, I can finally dry clay bricks under a Thatch Roof! Now we can... umm.. well, maybe work on hunting? That's not related to clay, tho. I need mining, so I need to dig through dirt... and mapping out ores is hard, so I'm still avoiding it. But... Guess this is what happens in #gamedev

Well, that was an easy fix. Turns out I had already planned to manage structure IDs, I even had a field in the database for it. I just hadn't... applied it yet. #gamedev bsky.app/profile/mind...

mindstorm8191@mindstorm8191.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm making good #gamedev progress with my Settlers & Warlords game. But I have been waiting for my workers to send items to a new structure, but they never do. The game even gives me a reason: the structure doesn't need any items to work. But that's not right. It's also referencing the wrong ->

I'm making good #gamedev progress with my Settlers & Warlords game. But I have been waiting for my workers to send items to a new structure, but they never do. The game even gives me a reason: the structure doesn't need any items to work. But that's not right. It's also referencing the wrong ->

I was listening to a song today (A Lifetime Rolls By by annasara Rework - give it a listen if you can), and got thinking: In this country we've had millions of people go thru college, invest their time and savings to get a degree. Only to graduate and discover the job markets they're skilled in ->

This post on Imgur sums up a lot of reasons why it looks like nobody is protesting in the US. imgur.com/gallery/top-...

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I think the biggest issue we had as a country was that once politicians got into office, we had no way to remove them until the next election cycle. They can go 4 to 6 years working against every promise they made when campaigning, lining their own pockets, and all we can do is vote in someone new.

Mark T. Sneed@marktsneed.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

I finally fixed my Blender issues late last night & was looking forward to getting home & do more #gamedev on my Settlers & Warlords. I only had to export the model to .gltf format so I can use it in Javascript. Simple... but it doesn't work. All I can determine is my Blender version needs ->

I've been doing #gamedev on my Settlers & Warlords game, and it's come to the point where I need a new 3D model. Having switched from Windows to Linux in October, I hadn't installed Blender yet; I didn't expect any issues. But after trying to use it, it started lagging bad & then closing itself. ->

I'm trying to continue doing the #gamedev of my Settlers & Warlords game. But now I suddenly need to figure out how to manage online verses offline players. And I don't know what best to do. I could use some input from others on this